[Andy Mees]

Hi Frederico

It seems clear from your post that you are woking in a Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) 1280×720 sequence, but its not clear if your source clips match that format.
What are your sources for this project and where did they come from.

If your sources are 16:9 and you just want everything to conform to your 720p sequence then you can select everything in the sequence and choose Modify menu > Conform to Sequence. To reduce the render demands you should click the RT button at top left of the timeline window and switch the setting to “Unlimited RT” … but beyond that, unless your source footage matches your sequence codec and settings then you will certainly have some rendering ahead of you (but this would be the case regardless of your FCP version).

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

You might want to grab Jon Chappell’s FCS Maintenance Pack demo (at his Digital Rebellion website) and use his Crash Analyser took to have a look at those crash logs to see if the problem is the codec or something more easily addressed.

If it is the codec then you are in god company. Lot of folks have reported stability problems with XDCAM and MacPro’s in the past, whilst others seemingly get away with it scot free … assuming you don’t have the option of transcoding your media to less computationally intensive all I-frame codec (like Apple ProRes 422.) then you could try just switching your timeline compressor to that codec instead and see if that improves the situation (or not).

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Yes, same for FCP 6.

Best
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hi Jared

Using the “Apply Normalization Gain” function in FCP 7 adds the “Gain” filter to the selected audio clips. If you want to remove any of this normalization then just remove those filters. If you have also adjusted levels manually in the timeline and want to remove those adjustments then you can use the “Remove Attributes” method … select the clips you want to return to their original state and choose Edit menu > Remove Attributes and then tick the “Levels” checkbox under the Audio Attributes section in the consequent dialog. If wanted (and useful if you have no other audio filters applied) you can use the same Remove Attributes method to remove the Gain filter from all your clips in one fell swoop … just tick the “Filters” checkbox in the same section. (Note that it will remove all audio filters from the selected clips if you so this, not just the Gain filter).

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

[George Seven] “I’m about to buy a Mac Pro.
The new dual 6-core is really expensive and you can’t edit real time without a video accelerator so I was thinking to buy a Matrox Mxo 2 instead of the new 6-core.
I’m editing canon 5d or 7d projects.
Do you thing it’s the right choice?”

I’m a happy MXO2 user George, but as has been noted, the MXO2 has nothing to do with accelerating your editing … it’s an I/O device, not a “video accelerator” and it’ll offer you no special advantage as such. Yes, the MAX version is super useful for lightning fast H264 encoding, but that is an output/export task, not an edit task. You need the computer AND the I/O device, not either or.

[George Seven] “Also, they say the new Premiere CS5 is better than Final Cut 7 for editing Canon 7d or 5d footage. What do you think?”

If you’re not a Mac Only kind of guy then I think you should maybe be having a look at a possible PC and EDIUS 6 solution.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

[Daniel Ludwig] “The audio-input of your VO-tool is hooked to audio input 2, so if your input is on channel 1 of your audio-hardware it wont be recored.”

Where are you getting this Daniel? Although I certainly can’t speak with experience of every audio device that might be used with FCP’s Voice Over Tool, the least I can do in light of your post is attest to the fact that it is categorically untrue of any device I have used with the VO Tool … and indeed, to quote the FCP manual, when working with dual channel devices it is effectively audio input 2 that is ignored :

When recording, the Voice Over tool works with the Sound Manager to record in mono mode. When you choose the audio interface input for a stereo input device, the Voice Over tool uses only the left input channel (channel 1) of a stereo input device when recording; the right channel is ignored.

With this in mind Beau, you might want to check your settings … if your device is dual channel then make sure you are not using and/or have not panned your device output to channel 2, else the VO Tool won’t pick it up.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

HI Jennifer

No. USB 2.0 is not recommended for editing as the protocol doesn’t allow a high enough sustained data transfer rate needed, something that is very much needed for smooth editing performance. When you are working with single streams of low data rate formats then you might get away with it … and its also worth noting that Apple have very much improved their USB 2.0 support relatively recently which helps enormously … but as your data transfer demands increase then you’ll find yourself in big trouble with USB2.0

Hope that helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

You want to use MPEG Streamclip, not wonderbread ideo convertor, and convert it to a proper (suitable) edit codec … DV50 would probably suffice.
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[Andy Mees]

Yes, you should move them, however regardless of how they came to be there they do not belong in the application bundle. Move them into the /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins folder.

[Andy Mees]

Within Final Cut Pro there is Smoothcam for taking the wobble out of shots … personally I find ProDAD’s “Mercali” solution to be far more capable, and it includes optimizations for dealing with taking the wobble out of pans:
https://www.prodad.com/home/products/videostabilizing/300391667,l-us.xhtml

You can have a look at Lock and Load too (I have no experience with it so can’t say how good its pan stabilization is:
https://www.coremelt.com/products/lock-and-load/lock-and-load.html