Laura, the .dmg is 3.5 GB. How to send it to you?

Dennis

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Davide, try this:

Matotea, try this: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zromv2f8vvpmz1l/VINI+20+ANS.xml/file

I myself have no Macs newer than 2012. Such Macs can be bought very cheaply now — I bought a beautiful Mac Pro 5,1 for €311 — to run Sierra, thus Final Cut Pro 7. According to macworld.com/article/673697 Sierra runs on various 2013-2017 Macs, but none newer. You do not have to consider whether FCP7 will run on Sierra on this or that M…

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I can’t see why that wouldn’t work. You might have to set the system clock back several years while installing. Be sure to pre-install QuickTime 7.6.

I agree with Devrim. Example: when Retroactive is used to install FCP 7 on High Sierra and above, Compressor 3.5 does not get installed. But FCP 7 must connect with Compressor 3.5 in order to make Blu-rays.

I’m not sure Dixon needs to obtain another Mac. If the firmware on his present Mac isn’t too high he can boot it from an external hard drive…

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WeTransfer, or Grosfichiers (free to 10 GB). Send me your email address.

My email is obtainable by googling “optimal fluorescent colors”, going to the Wiley page, and clicking on the blue envelope icon at my name.

I still use FCP 7.0.3 almost exclusively. What can’t it do? Recently it disappointed by its inability to reognize that a .mov file…

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Dave:

It’s unclear what you need. Do you already have FCP 7.0 installed and need PROAPPLICATIONSUPDATE2010-02 which updates it to FCP 7.0.3. I can send you that .dmg (324.8 MB).

Dennis

Stéphane

Yes, everyone should have the fun of installing FCP7 on High Sierra using Retroactive. Contact me for the .dmg.

DC

OK Stéphane, let’s “connect” over this. (Creative Cow member connection is something I can’t figure out.)
For the record, however, FCP7 works best in the earlier operating systems. And the software it needs to work with works best in the earlier operating systems. For example, FCP7 must communicate with Compressor 3.5 in order to make a Blu-ray.…

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Hello Stéphane,

I installed FCP7 in a High Sierra volume last week for curiosity’s sake, since I’m happy to still run it in a Mountain Lion volume. I used Retroactive version 2.1(91) and a Final Cut Studio install.dmg. Installation worked, but strangely. Retroactive insisted on downloading its own ProApplicationsUpdate2010-02, from somewhere,…

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Dave,
I have the FCP7 and the time to do it, but perhaps not the knowledge. If your FCP7 project file consists of many sequences I’d suggest exporting a separate .xml for each. In my tiny experience of FCP7–>Resolve (version 14) I’ve only imported .xml’s for single FCP7 sequences into the latter.
Dennis Couzin
Berlin, Germany

For the 1955 Einstein letter see M.H. Pirenne, “Optics, Painting and Photography”, pages 99-100.

Why substitute? QT Edit is up-to-date OS-wise. It’s a component of Pro Media Tools, the latest version of which requires High Sierra or higher: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/promedia/ . If it’s freeware you seek, there’s JES Extensifier https://macdownload.informer.com/jes-extensifier/ which might serve your needs.

Are you talking about powerful graphics cards for the Mac Pro 5,1? We here use a flashed AMD Radeon HD 7950 (Sapphire) which has DVI-D, HDMI Standard, and mini DisplayPort outputs. 1080 60p, bah! With Mavericks, we watch 1080 144p with QuickTime via the HDMI port. (Our purpose is not frame rate per se, but emulation of film projector…

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You seem to have two versions of the same 720×576 video (with unsquare pixels), differing only in their metadata. The metadata says what shape the unsquare pixels have, but metadata can easily go wrong as the file passes through programs that “interpret” it idiosyncratically. And metadata is easily corrected. I alter pixel aspect ratio in .mov…

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Rob Gutermuth wrote: “I’m running the last OS that will run [FCP7] on a Mac Pro 5,1”

There are OS that will run FCP7, and there are OS that will run FCP7 well. We here have a volume with OSX Lion that runs FCP7 well on our Mac Pro 5,1. FCP7 has no problem at all with ProRes HQ clips 1920×1080 60p resident on good quality HDDs with eSATA…

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A proper method would entail alpha channels, which I, and probably you, know nothing about. If you can make a clip which is perfectly black where you speak of masking, and perfectly white everywhere else, then that clip can be your “mask”. In an FCP7 sequence, the “mask” will be one track and your movie scan will be the other track. Apply color…

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So you need a 30p and a 60i, because those are allowed DVD formats.

With any monitor other than a CRT, the 60i DVD gets deinterlaced. Often this is “double deinterlacing” so one sees pseudo 60p video, which looks damned good. With luck, the 30p DVD looks like 30p.

If you shoot 60i and then deinterlace it to make pseudo 30p there will invariably be…

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FCP7 sequence settings state the video codec, but not the audio codec, for FCP7 offers no choice. FCP7 is liberal about accepting audio codecs, but it always converts them to uncompressed. If you bring, for example, mp3 compressed audio into the timeline, there will be a red render bar and no playback. Conceivably you had such audio in your…

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Oh, your red render bar is for the audio, not the picture.

30.02 fps is weird. 29.76 fps is weird. No camera shoots at those rates. They are the result of some downstream time transformation. You should have conformed the weird clips all to 29.97 before commencing the edit. Apple’s Cinema Tools can do this, but I prefer QT Edit from Jon
Chappell (Digital Rebellion).

If you happen to drop a weird fps…

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FCP7 sequences must have one of 8 frame rates: 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60.

When a clip with any other frame rate is brought into a new sequence FCP7 does not give the standard warning: “Attention — This clip does not match the sequence’s settings or any of your sequence presets … “, or any other warning. The sequence simply…

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It could as well be a corruption in your FCP7. Reinstalling FCP7 can be time consuming if you have plugins, etc. (I recommend the Digital Rebellion’s program Preference Manager for maintaining FCP7.)

Do try letting LiveType do the render, and then importing the .mov file to FCP7. In that way LiveType is compatible with many editing applications,…

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BH: I can’t reproduce your difficulty (running both LiveType v.2.1.4 and FCP7 in Sierra 10.12.6).

If the rendering is done in LiveType it produces a .mov file in Apple Animation codec which has to import smoothly into the FCP7 sequence, whatever its codec.

But also an unrendered .ipr file coming out of LiveType is importable into the FCP7 sequence…

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Gary,

You don’t reduce the number of compressions by sending directly from FCP to Compressor. There are two ways you could imagine that to happen. Either (1) FCP could send all clips in the timeline to Compressor in their original codecs, or (2) FCP could send all clips to Compressor uncompressed. Neither of these things happen. Simple…

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Sorry I can’t interpret the Crash Report but the early references to ‘FCPAudioUnits’ smell like bug.

In general, export from FCP to Compressor is more buggy than taking 2 steps: export from FCP to .mov file; stick .mov file into Compressor. For the first step full render is advised because it will signal if there’s a particular trouble spot.

For…

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To your first question: open “Tools”; check “Background Processes”.

But this should have happened automatically when you applied the SmoothCam filter to an unanalyzed clip. In what operating system are you running FCP7? Best provide that information in hope of seeing your second question answered.

@Michael. VLC player could play the .mov file with a guessed frame rate, guessed gamma, guessed pixel aspect ratio, etc. It’s kicky that there’s free software that ekes SOMETHING from a corrupted file — many players just get SOMETHING from an uncorrupted file! Unfortunately the free VLC File>Convert solution, and likewise Handbrake, involves…

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Hi Michael. Why did you post your question in this strand? Is your .mov file in DV codec?

Which program created your .mov file? (Where did it come from?)
Which operating systems are running your two MBPs?
Which QuickTime player doesn’t play the file: QuickTime 7 which always accompanies FCP7 or QuickTime 10 supplied with the operating system?…

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Raul, FCP 7 can directly open even FCP 4 project files. That’s as far back as I go.

During the opening, FCP7 announces: “The file format of the project is from an earlier version. Would you like to update this project file?” Click: Yes.

Concerning operating systems for FCP 7, I still use Lion 10.7.5 because with my MacPro system there’s imperfect…

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The suggestion to make your computer dual bootable, now with both an OS 10.9 partition and an OS 10.15 partition, probably won’t work, for two reasons. (Space on drive isn’t a reason, since you can install a larger one.) First, when you updated to 10.15 you likely updated your firmware too. The new firmware probably won’t allow your computer to…

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