Debe
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Trashing Prefs is really just a fast way to solve many issues without troubleshooting.
But what ends up happening is that some very simple fixes end up going by unknown because trashing prefs is sort of a ultra wide problem solving technique that doesn’t tell you what’s really wrong.
I trash prefs if there’s a client in the room when something goes wonky on FCP because the client isn’t paying me to troubleshoot my system, They’re paying me to edit. I rarely do it when I’m unsupervised because I want and need to know what I did to make FCP act up. I’ve gone months and months and months without trashing prefs.
But, sometimes, I can’t find the problem, and I do trash my preferences. I’ve rebuilt my Avid User Prefs file several times over the years as well. Any computer file can get corrupted, especially one that is accessed as much as a Preferences file.
debe
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Sorry to leave you hanging, Thomas. I’ve been having troubles with Creative Cow occasionally where it won’t load. I get access to other parts of the internet, and when I finally can get back in to the Cow, there are lots of new posts, so it’s not that the site was down…it’s just for some reason I can’t get in.
Anyway, have you tried trashing preferences and repairing permissions? Repairing permissions is especially important after installing/uninstalling software.
Repairing permissions is done in Disk Utility usually located in [main hard drive]>Applications>Utilities.
For info on trashing prefs, look at this site…
https://www.lafcpug.org/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
The following is a nifty little program that stores and trashes prefs for you. Just be careful backing up the first time. Make sure you’re backing up clean prefs.
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
debe
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Not intending to start one of those debates, but isn’t getting them to sign a waiver proving that one knew it was illegal and did it anyway, therefore making one culpable?
I’ve heard several back and forth arguments on both sides. Getting them to agree to take responsibility doesn’t necessarily absolve the editor or whomever from actually being the one who breaks the law.
I just want to understand. It comes up occasionally in my business, too.
debe
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You need to remove QT 7. It doesn’t work with FCP 4.5.
Reinstalling the OS or FCP won’t necessarily overwrite QT7
https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652reinstallerforquicktime70.html
or
https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652reinstallerforquicktime701.html
depending on which version of QT 7 was installed.
debe
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What do you mean by “play it back like a wav file”?
Actually, FCP doesn’t really like mp3s, anyway. You need to convert it to a 48KHz aiff in iTunes or QuickTime Pro, first.
If you need to see the waveform, if that’s what you mean by “play it back like a wav”, there is a little carat (triangle) on the lower left hand side of the timeline. Click and hold on that and choose “show waveform”.
debe
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It depends on how much your time is worth to you.
For $330, if this WERE something you were making money on, it’s obviously a no-brainer. Spend the money!
Now consider your free time, and what OTHER things you like to do with your free time. If being able to spend more time doing these other things is important to you, then ‘d say spring for the additional $330. Really, if you look at it, it’s 12-13% more. In the grand scheme of the $2662 vs $2992, it’s practically nothing!
If this IS what you like to do with your free time, then save the $330 and render render render!!
(Did I mention RENDER?!?!!?)
😉
debe
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From the Help doc:
(I searched for “curve”)
1 Open a new project, and enter some text onto the track.
2 Left-justify the text on the track.
3 Move the track up toward the top of the Canvas.
4 Add a control point in the middle of the track by holding down the Control key and
clicking the track line in the Canvas. Control-click the control point to choose Curve
Out.
You want to leave the left half of the track more or less in the same position, and create
a curved path arcing down and around clockwise from that point. Only a couple of
additional control points are needed. See Chapter 4, -
That’s pretty much what Cocktail, MacJanitor and Yasu (I think) do, but with a more “pleasant user interface”.
If it’s worth it to you to just be able to launch a program and push a button or two, consider purchasing one of the above utilities.
If you’re more hardcore and get a little jolt outta working in Unix, then by all means, it IS cheaper!
🙂
debe
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DVDSP=DVD Studio Pro.
It’s an Apple product. It’s part of the FCP Studio, or you can buy it as a standalone app.
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/
debe
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Yes, I really think upping the RAM will help. At least to 2 gigs for FCP alone, 3 GB or 4 GB if you plan on having Motion, LiveType, Soundtrack and/or Photoshop open at the same time.
If you can keep the photos to only as large as they need to be to accomplish your effects, that will help as well.
And play around with the different playback options in the Render Control tab of the Sequence Settings. Until you have your timings set, you’ll save a lot of time rendering in a lower resolution.
debe