[Bill Willins]

try trashing your preferences

https://www.lafcpug.org/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

bwbeta>library>preferencse>Final Cut Pro User Data>FCP 4.0 Preferences

1. Quite FCP.
2. Open your Hard Drive.
3. Set to Column View.
4. Follow the path: Users > Name > Library > Preferences.
5. In the Preferences Pane look for “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist”, shown below in Yellow. Drag the FCP plist to the Trash.
6. In the same Preference Pane, look for the Final cut Pro User Data Folder.
7. For FCP 3, drag both “Final Cut Pro 3 Preferences” and “Final Cut Pro MOA Cache”, shown below in Green, to the Trash.
8. For FCP 4 , drag both “Final Cut Pro 4 Preferences” and “Final Cut Pro POA Cache”, shown below in Red, to the Trash.
9. Do NOT empty the Trash.
10. Launch FCP and check all your settings. All FCP setting will have reverted to default. Don’t forget to reset your Scratch Disk settings.
11. Once FCP is up and running, empty the Trash.

[Bill Willins]

Hey Apple … do you know just how many of us are reading these posts and “holding off” on upgrading to Tiger…… countless thousands. Don’t get me wrong …. as an Avid transplant … I love all the cool things Apple is doing …and I love FCP … but as a professional editors we cannot accept this amount of serious bugs in our primary editing program.

[Bill Willins]

just for the heck of it .. try setting your video to 50% in the window and see what happens

[Bill Willins]

Congrats Bret . You’ve been nominated for the “shortest succint response” award here on the COW . Keep an eye out for the prize patrol.

[Bill Willins]

Is there a way to set the defualt so that the Effects Bin always opens each time you open a project ? I know I always want it..assume most others do as well. BW

[Bill Willins]

drop photo image on timeline – dbl click to open in Viewer – have scale in motion tab read 120 – park playhead on first frame of clip in timeline -click on motion tab – click on small diamond next to scale ( this adds a keyframe) – now click playhead in timeline to last frame of video clip, then go back one frame (use back space arrow on keyboard) – click to add another keyframe here up in your Motion tab – now change the scale value to 100 – up in motion tab right click on GREEN triangles …select smooth. congrats , you just did a photo zoom in.

you want to import photos at 72 dpi , 900 pixels wide … so you have a little room to work with them. If you start getting pixelation trying applying a small .5 Gaussian Blur from your effects and also use Flicker Filter under Video tab in Effects.

[Bill Willins]

So Charlie….. you made the move , Tiger, FCP 5 .. if you had it to do all over again…would you install now, or wait a bit. We’d all love to hear your stories from the trenches. BW

[Bill Willins]

check out this recent thread. I found this using the “search” feature, typing in Ikegami 🙂
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111840481673981&forumid=8

[Bill Willins]

This APC unit for $550 looks like the ticket. https://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SUA1500

[Bill Willins]

Thanks guys. So which specific unit do you recommend for a standard edit bay ?