final cut pro studio 2 upgrade

[Sergio Deustua]

I upgraded yesterday and haven

[Walter Biscardi]

[901_david] ”
I am about to upgrade to final cut pro studio 2 and I want to just make sure since I am in the middle of about 5 major projects right now, that these projects will come through unaffected by the upgrade. Anyone know anything about this?”

I would not do this, especially if they are HD projects. I had about 8 projects all in mid stream when Studio 2 arrived, but I waited until they were all completed before upgrading. Since then I’ve opened up most of those projects and all of them had their field order reversed.

We held off on all three of our systems until they hit a point where all projects were completed. FCP 6 has been solid with all new projects, but I’m not happy with what I’m seeing from the older HD projects that are upgrading.

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[Sergio Deustua]

[walter biscardi] “but I’m not happy with what I’m seeing from the older HD projects that are upgrading”

what are you seeing walter?

[Walter Biscardi]

[langosta] “what are you seeing walter?”

Field orders reversed resulting in stuttery playback and each shot has to be manually reset to the correct field order. Even there it seems to have created some sort of issue that I’m tracking down. As I said, it does not affect us because we held off upgrading for this very reason, but it still should not happen.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[901_david]

so tose issues only seemed to occur in your HD projects? Or in both Hd and SD? (field reversal)

[Jim Martin]

Is there absolutely a specific reason you need to do the upgrade now?
With 5 major projects underway, I’d need a unbelievably compelling reason to upgrade. Wait if you can.
My .02

Jim

[Devin Crane]

All my Motion overlays opacities have changed. Had to go through all of them and change them so that they looked right. Also have had some File Error messages come up. Other than that Motion Renders seem a little faster. I would wait if you are working on so many projects on a tight deadline. If it’s not so tight and you can go back and fix some issues go for it.

[Warren Eig]

So I upgraded to FCS 2 from FCS1. I edited a film last year in FCP 5.1.4 and never heard from the client again. I did get paid so the project sat on my hard drive. It was shot with Sony F900 and delivered to me as DVCAM QuickTimes (each tape was a large QT file not individual takes). The edit went smoothly.

FCP2 came out. All other projects were completed so I upgraded (not before making a Clone with SuperDuper! to a FW drive with OS X 10.4.8 and FCS 1).

Then I hear from this client. They want to do a title sequence and finish the film. I make a back up of the project file in the event I need to go back to FCP 5.1.4 because I know FCP 6 will update it. FCP 6 updates the project and now every cut is off. Everything is out of sync I see slates where they shouldn’t be it is a total mess.

Boot from my clone and open the project and all is well so I export an XML. Boot into current drive with OS X 10.4.9.1.0 and import the XML into FCP 6. It is still all offset.

I don’t have a capture card as I cut narrative and 9 time out of 10 I don’t have to digitize. So it is not a driver issue.

Any ideas why the whole cut would be off? Apple tech support doesn’t know and had no answers– said they only heard about this maybe 3 times.

But if this is an issue, how does one say cut in FCP 5.1.4 and finish somewhere else in FCP 6 and send to Color? If the cut gets all mucked up?

Any suggestions?

Warren

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[Mike Mendoza]

Also you should know that in some cases opening older projects in FCP 6 causes weird problems with pre-existing speed changes in your clips. I opened a project that was fine in 5.1.4 with plenty of clips that had slow mo’s, and speed ramps… now in FCP 6 some are there, some not. A few folks have posted here with same experience.

Wonder if FCP 6.0.1 addresses any of the speed issues?

[Chris Lund]

I have opened a few FCP5 projects in FCP6 (from FC Studio 2 Academic) without problems. I did get a warning the file would need to be updated, then making it unusable by FCP5, which I did not mind doing but I would probably save the new project file separately just in case.

Chris Lund
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Wenatchee Free Methodist Church