David Roche
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Check out this from GoPro’s website – Importing & Exporting GoPro Video in Final Cut Pro 7.0:
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Trashing preferences fixed it. In case you read this later and want to know how to trash your preferences, here you go:
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1846
Delete the User Preferences
You can resolve many issues by restoring Final Cut Pro back to its original settings. This will not impact your project files, but you should verify your Scratch Disk location setting after doing this. To reset your Final Cut Pro user preference settings to their original state, do the following:
1. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences—the tilde (~) represents your Home folder.
2. Remove the “com.apple.finalcutpro.plist” file from the Preferences folder.
3. Remove the “Final Cut Pro User Data” folder from the Preferences folder. -
I know this is really late, but it needs to be added for “future generations”.
There is a “gotcha” that can cause this – make sure your Log and Capture window isn’t open somewhere and hidden in the background. As long as the L&C window is open, audio output from FCP is muted. Found this one after searching for 2 hours one day… 🙁
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Hey Andy, I found that software right after making this post. Sorry that I didn’t thank you for responding before now. That was terribly bad form! Have a good one.
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Thanks Tom and Nicole. I’m glad it’s so straightforward! 🙂
Nicole, Command T is the best feature for me so far! Thanks for pointing it out to us. The programs that I produce have a ton of lower third graphics. This ought to considerably speed up my editing.
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To be more accurate, the mp3 files I created had audio left and TC on the right. As long as the audio and TC are separated – not mixed together – then TC should be easily readable by anything that has a TC input.
You could playback your mp3 on an iPod plugged into any professional tape machine, TC reader, editor, or caption encoder and the timecode would be properly decoded and displayed.
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Funny you should post this. I’ve been going through this same garbage for about 3 months. My machine, with specs identical to yours, has continued to run slower and slower. Just accessing folders in Finder can take up to a minute while I get to watch the fun little beach ball twirling. I’ve had many explicable crashes with FCP and Motion. To top it off, the computer decided on its own that I added a third monitor between the two that I really have. Of course all new windows opened in the phantom monitor which was a real treat.
So today, after many calls and hours on the phone to Apple, a trip to the Apple store which resulted in an overwrite reinstall of OSX and based on the recommendations of the Apple techs, I’ve taken a drastic measure familiar to all PC users. I’ve erased the Mac hard drive and reinstalled OSX. I am now enduring the painfully slow process of reinstalling Final Cut Studio.
Think this will fix the problems? I’m skeptical.
I think Mr. “I’m a Mac” and Mr.”I’m a PC” are interchangeable.
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I used the mp3 process for several years with a captioning company and it worked very well. They created a proprietary file for use with their captioning software and used a timecode reader to decode the “noise” from my mp3.
As long as you create the file using the specs of the transcription service, it should work fine and you can let them worry about how to make it work from there.
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“I now just get mad at the PC vs. Mac ads. Is there really any difference?”
Amen to that brother! I’m an old Avid editor (PC), new to the Mac and FCP world. So far, I’ve experienced even more crashes and reboots on my MacPro than I’ve ever had on the old Avid running on Win2K.
Get rid of the marketing and when it comes down to it, they’re all computers.
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Thank you Michael! That’s what I was trying to find. A little clunky, but much better than trying to us a mouse and the heads up display! Thanks again.