[Elise London]

PS — my timeline is xdcam hd422 1080i60 50mb/s

[Elise London]

I have been going crazy with this problem too. And I think I found an ANSWER. Well, not an answer but definitely a FIX.

Apparently for me it was a problem with my mac user account.
I created a new ‘test’ user account from scratch (System Prefs…Accounts…)
Tried opening FCP in this new user account and VOILA. No crash.

Hooray.

[Elise London]

I figured out my problem – maybe it will help someone:

Switching over to the tower worked like a charm. Guess the MBP just can’t handle it.

[Elise London]

I am having a similar problem running FCP 7 from my MBP. I am running a dv sequence via firewire through a dv deck, and out to a monitor via S Video. Audio is out through the dv deck and into the speakers.

2 problems:

1. Audio is drifting out of sync with video. Given a couple minutes, the material will play out of sync. When I hit ‘stop’ and ‘play’ again, it’s back in sync … until … it drifts out of sync again.
2. Every now and then, I get a brief (1 sec) aberration in the video signal, like a patch of gray that goes across the screen, and then the video resumes again.

What’s going on? A friend of mine suggested that this is normal when playing off of a Macbook Pro because the processing power is not sufficient (like a tower would be) and that the only solution is to be watching the material at a lower resolution under the ‘RT’ dropdown menu.

Does that sound right?

[Elise London]

Could this be because my new macbook pro might not have enough processing power to play out this video? And that using a tower would work?

[Elise London]

I am having a similar problem running FCP 7 from my MBP. I am running a dv sequence via firewire through a dv deck, and out to a monitor via S Video. Audio is out through the dv deck and into the speakers.

2 problems:

1. Audio is drifting out of sync with video. Given a couple minutes, the material will play out of sync. When I hit ‘stop’ and ‘play’ again, it’s back in sync … until … it drifts out of sync again.
2. Every now and then, I get a brief (1 sec) aberration in the video signal, like a patch of gray that goes across the screen, and then the video resumes again.

What’s going on? A friend of mine suggested that this is normal when playing off of a Macbook Pro because the processing power is not sufficient (like a tower would be) and that the only solution is to be watching the material at a lower resolution under the ‘RT’ dropdown menu.

Does that sound right?

[Elise London]

I am having a similar problem running FCP 7 from my MBP. I am running a dv sequence through firewire through a dv deck, and out to a tv monitor via S Video. Audio is going out to the speakers from the dv deck.

2 problems:

1. Audio is drifting out of sync with video. Given a couple minutes, the material will play out of sync. When I hit ‘stop’ and ‘play’ again, it’s back in sync … until … it drifts out of sync again.
2. Every now and then, I get a brief (1 sec) aberration in the video signal, like a patch of gray that goes across the screen, and then the video resumes again.

What’s going on? A friend of mine suggested that this is normal when playing off of a Macbook Pro because the processing power is not sufficient (like a tower would be) and that the only solution is to be watching the material at a lower resolution under the ‘RT’ dropdown menu.

Does that sound right?

[Elise London]

Thanks, Kevin.
There is no drift in the canvas so yes – I suspect that it is an issue that lies in the signal out of the computer. Perhaps it is the deck! Is there any ‘video out’ setting within final cut that I should be aware of that may be causing the problem though?

[Elise London]

No, all video was captured at once from mini dv tapes….

[Elise London]

This project is meant for a bluray DVD delivery. We were planning on using prores proxy because of the low data rate and the fact that we are working on a MBP, not a tower, and are not sure if there would be enought processing power. Ideally we would work in prores proxy and then be able to use the media manager to go back to the original full-res files. Does this make sense?
We would be working on FC 7 so I suppose I need to figure out if that supports realtime editing with Motion JPEG.

Does that answer your questions?