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Alan Fisher
February 18, 2016 at 5:35 pm in reply to: Will stability disrupt our workflow?

I’ll offer a different point of view: We switched to Premiere CC 2015 from FCP7 for our current TV season, and have found Premiere to be comparatively unstable and unreliable. It will certainly save the time you once spent transcoding, but in our experience, projects now load slowly, crash frequently, and basic functions sometimes work and sometimes don’t. This instability is consistent among multiple users and across all our Macs, including those completely free of plug-ins. Our slowest computers are late 2013 iMacs with 16 gigs of RAM and our Mac Pro has similar problems….. So we’re still looking for Final Cut 8 🙁
Alan Fisher
April 21, 2015 at 11:32 pm in reply to: GY-HM700 ‘Invalid Media in Slot [X]’ Warnings Frequent

We have regularly experienced “invalid media” errors with Kingston brand cards… SanDisk brand cards have rarely produced an error. Earlier batches of Kingston cards also worked well, but we finally discovered the Kingston cards with starfish logos and circles on them seemed to give us all the errors. Not all class 6 or class 10 cards are equal, so if you’re having regular troubles, switch brands!
Alan Fisher
June 1, 2010 at 11:22 pm in reply to: illegal luma levels on render

I’m afraid we’re not doing any compositing, just cuts and dissolves, and we’re definitely doing the color correction and/or broadcast safe applying as the last filters…it just doesn’t show the adjusted levels after a render, as if it was never applied. Frustrating!

Searching around I’ve seen some references to this being a bug, maybe particularly with 10 bit footage, but so far we haven’t gotten any of the workarounds (nesting and applying the filter, or exporting and re-importing) to help. Would Color work where Final Cut is failing us? We’ll try bringing the whites down to 95 until we can convince it to work right….

I appreciate the ideas,
Alan
Alan Fisher
May 7, 2009 at 4:40 pm in reply to: FCP crashing on iMac

I seem to be just talking to myself here, but if anyone’s curious, our problem appears to have been bad RAM. It’s been working like a champ since I put the old sticks back in….
Alan Fisher
May 4, 2009 at 7:03 pm in reply to: FCP crashing on iMac

Still crashing. This last time I was just playing a source clip in the viewer–then the freeze with screaming digital white noise in my eardrums. Any thoughts anyone? I’ll put back the old RAM and see if that helps.
Alan Fisher
May 1, 2009 at 8:44 pm in reply to: FCP crashing on iMac

Thanks for the idea. Yeah, all media and render files are kept on external FW800 drive. I’ve trashed the render files (there weren’t very many) and trashed my preferences, so we’ll see if that helps….
It’s definitely a full-volume shriek that it makes…a hatchet (or maybe a circular saw?) cutting through the audio cicuitry is about right!