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What The Heck Is Going On With 5.1 (Universal)?????
OK… I have been using the “universal” version on both my new intel imac and my regular ‘ol G5 and there’s nothing but bugs. Here are some of the issues:
1. On the G5, FCP crashes ALL THE TIME. Very annoying. Sometimes when I copy a sequence that’s fully rendered into a new sequence, it shows up as being unrendered in the new one. Agh!! Even when I drag the sequence from the browser it does this at times
2. On the Intel Imac, The same copying/pasting of rendered sequences happens ALL THE TIME (after pasting, they show up as being unrendered), as well as other weird stuff happening like the following example: I have 2 clips on top of each other (the top is a clip that has a widescreen filter, and the bottom is just a white matte). The top clip already has a dissolve out, but when I add a dissolve out to the bottom clip, I render it and the change doesn’t show up in the canvas… it looks like the dissolve isn’t even there, although IT IS and IT IS FULLY RENDERED!
I believe I have it updated to the most recent vesions on both machines. What gives? I want to go back to the regular FCP!
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16 Replies
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BTW… read the thread below about FCP quitting, and I don’t have any other compenents installed besides the apple ones.
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Are you using a fresh new 5.1.2 project or did you update an existing one? You’re using 5.1.2?
Wow, I wasn’t even aware that copying and pasting preserved render files from sequence to sequence. I work mostly in RT, so I never came across that, and older versions didn’t do that, from what I remember. You always had to Nest.
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[scalvidgal] “1. On the G5, FCP crashes ALL THE TIME. Very annoying. Sometimes when I copy a sequence that’s fully rendered into a new sequence, it shows up as being unrendered in the new one. Agh!! Even when I drag the sequence from the browser it does this at times”
I don’t think it’s supposed to show up as rendered when you copy and paste to a new sequence. I don’t recall it working here, generally you move a clip to a new timeline, it will need to re-render because you’re in a new timeline. Renders stay with the timeline, not the clip.
We’re running FCP Universal on two G5 Dual 2.0’s, G5 Quad, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro and not experiencing any crashes whatsoever. Been running solid since the day they were installed on all of them.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I don’t have universal, but with 5.0.4, I usually will build portions in seperate sequences. Then on the master, I will copy over the rendered timelines from the other sequences with no problems, including the render files. That way I have the “master” backups of the section. The render files do copy over.
Tim
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Yes, everything we’re working on so far is updated projects. I do mostly wedding videos so most of the footage has slow-motion applied, many filters, and then I make one giant sequence with all of the other sequences of each event. Every version up till now preserved the render files upon copy & paste. URGH!!
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[walter biscardi] ” don’t think it’s supposed to show up as rendered when you copy and paste to a new sequence.”
Sure it does.
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5.1.2 is problem free here, however, I did recently do a fresh, from the ground-up, install. That does make a differece. You probably need to trash your renders and re-render. After that you will probably be just fine.
DRW
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I don’t have a problem with universal on our g5’s but on our intels it is unbearable, and our clients are new having the same issues, (crashes in/out of FCP). this seems to be a new definition of “universal.” aka, problems becoming universal… though I kid, it doesn’t necessarily seem to be FCP related.
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Jeremy,
Doesn’t it tick you off to think that those two 512mb DIMMs that come with every MAC are pretty much toast if you want to follow the FCP RAM optimization guidelines. I mean it seems to me that either you toss them, or you buy two more like them as it says clearly that, “pairs should be installed evenly on both risers.” You probably lose in either case, because the cost to match them is probably pretty high and the cost to toss them is that you most will likely need to replace them.
DRW
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