Bob Forward
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Thanks to everyone who responded. The upgrade to Final Cut Studio 3 solved the issue and I am looking forward to exploring FCP 7.
I did get a USB 2 camera cable but can’t seem to get the machine to see the camera via that port — the Firewire works fine, though. Just wish my iMac had more than one firewire port, because I also have an external hard drive using that, but it’s not a big hassle to switch.
Bob
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Yes, when I saw the price I ordered the upgrade. SHould have it Wednesday. In the meantime I have temporarily revived the old G5 to serve solely as a ‘capture machine.” Here’s hoping!
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My mistake! Sorry — a careful search of the camera revealed a previously undetected USB 2.0 socket hidden behind a black cover.
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I have tried offloading the contents of the P2 card to a folder, but the same problem happens.
BTW, as far as I know, the HVX200 does not have a USB connector.
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Well, that didn’t work. iMovie does not seem to recognize the HVX at all.
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Appreciate the responses thus far.
Yes, I have used FCP and the HVX200 for several years on my g5 with no trouble. I just got the iMac, and also a MacBook Pro. Migrated FCP over on both, and they both have exactly the same problem.
My FCP version is a fairly old one, I believe: 5.1.4
My iMac is a 3.06 intel core 2 duo.
As I said, I can connect the camera, and begin the import from the P2 card. I can see the clips on the card, trim them, make selections — but when I click “Add To Queue” in order to import the footage to FCP, the little indictor whirls like it is working, but the progress bar is blank. When the indicator stops whirling, there is no clip in the bin and the queued clip is still sitting in the queue with a red “Alert!” sign beside it.
I’m suspecting it may be that my FCP version is having problems with the Snow Leopard/intel platform?
I’m about to try importing the footage with iMovie be a new experience) just to see if that works, at least.
Bob
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Hunh. I never had a problem before over the past couple of years. And I did a lot of footage. Maybe I’d just been lucky for some reason? Nonetheless, it was an awful nice way to work. Sure would like it to continue.
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Well, at least I don’t feel alone. I *can* say that in every instance the layer giving trouble was one that I had, at some point, done some cleaning up in AE, usually hand-painting. But as stated, this does not happen every single time with such layers in composite.
By using a combination of Sorenson Squeeze and Toast I can get a DVD that works; but I’m really puzzled. Here’s how weird it is. From FCP, I actually EXPORTED THE FRAMES AS INDIVIDUAL BMPS, all of which looked fine, dragged them back in, reassembled them as single frames in the timeline, rerendered, output as DV NTSC video, burned it to a DVD — AND IT GLITCHED AGAIN.
Man, I’m ready to bellive there’s something to holistic remedies after all. 🙂 Somehow the glitch manages to infuse the very essence of the image, even when all the data has been changed to different formats.
Bob
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You audiophiles. 🙂 Personally, I never noticed the difference, but you are probably right. Since I was only using it as temp score anyway it didn’t matter for me. And I doubt if there are any legal issues in my using it as such; that’s like saying “You can listen, but you MAY NOT DANCE!”
Love cutting action sequences to Rob Zombie music…
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I use music purchased from iTunes all the time as temp tracks. It helps to have a beat to edit to. The temp music is not used in the final product. Just use iTunes to burn an audio disk of the music, then use Finder to open the audio disk. Copy the AIFF file therein to your desktop or a music file, and this can be imported into FC.