[David Bogie]

Who makes you camera?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

THese are not good symptoms.
I’d suggest you clone your drive and then reinstall FCP. I’ve heard it can be installed right over the exising version but, frankly, I haven’t tried a reinstall.
I’m suggesting you clone your drive just so you’ll have a back up of everything.
I’m suddenly VERY interested in having clones of my system drives.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

> won’t read it…because I am assuming that the software version that I created it with(my more recent version of DvdStudio Pro) is no longer there.< Not likely, but how have you arrived at that conclusion? Is your software actually gone? bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

You might try the Tiger boards over on apple.com or the linux/unix free boards. But ican tell you from personal experience that our IT Unix geeks love our Tiger Macintoshes.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Defragging rarely accomplishes anything beneficial these days, drives are just too darned big. No justifiable reason to optimize.

Make a clone of your drive to an external FW drive using Carbon Copy Cloner but be sure to read how to do it properly. Reinstall the operating system using the Archive and Install option.
When you’re done, use the Migration Assistant to bring over your stuff form the FW drive. Easy, just takes several hours.

Post back.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Unstable fan controller in the G% can be a really bad sign. In our case, the graphics card had blown and was sending the controller “I’m hot!” signals.
I’ve heard of high speed fans indicating major motherboard issues, too.
Please post back if you ever get this fixed.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Over on apple.com Patrick Sheffield has been using Compressor to create intermediate fields for what he calls “superb” slow motion. Compressor’s rendering apparently tracks pixel position. It’s nothing like Twixtor’s system of vectoring but the results are, he says, remarkable.

The pathway to perfection is a bit confusing:
https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@172.V6MjaH5ATKj.999039@.68b3d36f

> Based on something Cap’n Mench posted in another thread, I decided to try Compressor 2’s optical flow technology to perform a slow-mo in a music video I’m finishing.
As you may have noticed when you slow down footage in FCP and use smoothing, it goes a bit “soft”. This is because in order to make the “in-between” frames it contructs an average of the previous and following frames. Compressor 2 actually does an analysis of the pixel movement and constructs an inbetween frame that is sort of the equivalent of motion tracking each pixel. This is the same kind of stuff that the Twixtor plugin does.
Here are the results: A still from my 75% slow-mo from Final Cut and from Compressor. Note the difference in detail…
In order to use Compressor, I had to do some monkey motion. I exported my clip from FCP as a self contained Quicktime. Because the video was shot on film and transfered with a 3:2 pulldown, I used Shake to remove the pulldown. You could also use Cinema Tools to do the same thing.
After that a little math is required. I wanted to run the footage at 75% or 3/4 speed. That means I need 4/3rds the number of frames. Multiply that by 24 fps (my original footage speed w/o pulldown) and I get 32 fps (if my footage had been at 30, I’d be using 40 fps).
Knowing that, I plugged my clip into Compressor 2, selected a codec (probably the same as you are feeding into it), set the frame rate to 32 (calculated above) in the codec options, selected the Frame Controls panel, turned Frame Controls to Custom – now here’s the key: Set Rate Conversion to Best (High Quality motion compensated). I then saved this setting as 75% Slowdown for future use.
Submit the batch and wait a while. When it completed, I used Shake to set the frame rate to 24 and insert a pulldown, but again, you can use Cinema Tools to resolve the frame rate.
Brought that clip back into FCP and Voil

[David Bogie]

I, too, am a member of good standing in the “Doh! Club.”

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

I have respectable information that mouse activity interferes with FCP5. This is apparently built into the user interface for FCP5. Depending on your configuration, you may experience long and tedious waits. It’s disturbing. Is it disgusting? It’s annoying as hell.
Not a damn thing we can do about it except complain.
Encourage you to drop by the apple.com support/discussion area for fcp5 and drop a note in the Feedback folder. Lot of freakin’ good it will do any of us but it might make you feel better.

This is one of those things that makes you look at Apple and wonder who is in charge/

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

It’s been a mystery since FCP2. If you open Terminal and force a list of currently modified files tyou still can’t tell what’s being rendered.
Last rumor I heard was it was the audio mixdown. Doesn’t matter how many times you do it, it never re-uses the same file so the audio gets rendered each time. It’s inexplicably silly.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”