[Barry O’brien]

I’ll answer my own question. Dawn at AJA support was both very responsive and very helpful.
For OS 10.6 and FCP 7, I needed the 10.1 Kona Driver, which I had.

For OS 10.7.6 and FCP X [10.0.6]I needed to load the 10.4.2 Kona Driver. Once I did that, and made sure that the A/V output of FCP X was checked, all was good.

Thanks,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you, Bill. That would have never occurred to me, and it’s not in the manual. I presume that turning off the Fireware is another menu-driven switch somewhere in the same area?

I will say, that on further testing, I discovered that I was getting component out with the setting switched to SD.

I try your advice tonight. My best to the great state of Texas!

Regards,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

I just copied you comments, made a .doc in big type, printed it out and put it up in our editing suite. Very good advice. Thank you.

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

I am a couple of hours of editing in, and the problem is completely gone. It was a large 300 dpi .tiff file that was causing the problem. I re-made the graphics in Photoshop at 72 dpi, and the problem is gone.

still…?

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thanks for your comment. I am wondering what you mean by “wiped clean?” Was the drive re-formatted and the OS and all the software re-installed, or something less draconian?

Meanwhile, last night, I read a lot of other posts on Creative Cow, and started to look for graphic element in the sequence that might be part of the problem.

I found one, and after I removed it, I could at least render, which allowed me to continue to edit.

The machine (this is the MAC dual core 2.66 Intel tower) still seems sluggish. Remember I never had a problem like this before and I edit regularly.

What I don’t understand is the repeated statements elsewhere that FCP 7x only can use 3GB of RAM. Why would Apple restrict the use of more RAM if it’s there? This machine has 9 GB.

Any other thoughts on this?

Thank you,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Jason,

Thanks. I’m going to save your suggestion and share it with my IT guy, because I believe that if I had had more time, I could have avoided a re-install.

My IT guy did a clean reinstall of Compressor this morning, and the problem is solved. It took him about an hour. It would have taken me half a day!

The clean install process for Compressor is clearly described on the Apple support website, so what do you think that tells you!

Thank you to you, Jason and to everybody for all your help. I find this group invaluable.

I declare this issue solved.

Regards to all,

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Jason,

I’m a little dense, ad overnight, I finally realized what you were saying. Let me restate it and see if I’m right: the probelm lies in either Q Master or Compressor 3.5 might have been upgraded, creating different versions levels – and they are supposed to be the same version.

Or in upgrading, the location of Q Maser has moved and the link between Compressor 3.5 and Q Master is broken – specifically the link or hand off between where the compression is done and Q Master which regulates operations.

You are suggesting that tt may be possible ro resololve this without a clean reinstall of Compressor and Q Master. I think I get it.

Now how do I investigate this? is there anyone out there cab help me with explaining how these two applications work together, and where the Qmaster files folder should be located? Is there a preference window where the links are established?

Thanks for your help. I’m sorry that I was slow to understand what you were suggesting.

Barry

Anyne know anything about that?

[Barry O’brien]

Got it. Wow, what’s happened to Apple? That used to be the advantage of MAC OS over the PC.

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you. I have not moved on to FCPX because there seemed to be so much outrage around it.

I come from an early AVID background and CMX before that. I switched to FCP in 2000 when AVID was in trouble.

I’m used to simple, keystroke editing systems, and would rather not “drag and drop.”

Barry

[Barry O’brien]

Thank you, Jason. As I replied to Brad, I have a bunch of videos that have to be posted by tomorrow night, so I opted to have my computer guy do a clean install of Compressor. This is not something that I am comfortable doing.

I printed out and gave him Apple’s suggested install process. I am going to print out your and Brad’s comments and leave them at his shop in the morning.

Thank you for your advice!

Regards,

Barry