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HDV douse not play back through firewire.

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once the OS is installed on each partition, all you have to do is hold down the option key when you turn the computer on and you can pick which one to boot into.

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“I tried disk utility, but it wouldn’t allow me to repair permissions.”

Were you trying to repair disc permissions on your external drive? You can only repair disc permissions on a drive that has OS X installed. However you can run a repair disc on any drive.

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Post this on the jobs board.

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What happens if you output to a quicktime with default settings?

From what I gather from your post you seen to be editing from your main system drive. IT IS NEVER RECOMMENDED TO EDIT FROM THE SYSTEM DRIVE. It is already working at running the OS and FCP, making it work even harder by also having to access your video can cause bad performance during editing like dropped frames.

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Shane I never said DVC PRO HD was uncompressed I said ” FCP HD only can work with DVC PRO HD or uncompressed HD”

And yes you are right FCP 5.0 douse support HDV however because Apple only sells the current version I said to get 5.1 because you cant purchase 5.0.

Thanks for the info on the short gop, that I did not know.

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Oh and if you are planing on working in HD or HDV do your self a big favor and learn all you can about the for many formats, there are some big differences.

In the last issue of the creative cow magazine there was a great article about HDV, since you are shooting in HDV, READ IT.

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Not all HD is the same. HDV uses a long gop format that was not introduced until after FCP HD was released. FCP HD only can work with DVC PRO HD or uncompressed HD, HDV is a compressed format. it use HDV in FCP you need FCP 5.1 it supports HDV.

Get the crossgrade, you are lucky they extended the deadline, you can send in your old FCP HD discs and get the full Final Cut Studio for $200.

https://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/

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reinstall FCP

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“the displays came up showing all digital hits and tiling on them”

not sure what you mean by this, please be moor clear or post a link to a picture.