Eric Johnson
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You should be fine with the Fire Wire set up, I was doing the same 5 years ago on my 17″ 1.33gHz G4 laptop, so the Intel breed should have no issues.
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If you don’t have one already, you’ll need a capture card (AJA or Blackmagic) to get a good signal out of the machine. There are other alternatives but the cards are the best long term option.
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Is this an HD project? Or and SD one?
Because if it’s 480 then it won’t look good on an HD TV.
Also, are you doing anything in FCP other than butting the 4 pieces together? Because if you go out of AE using Animation, pretty much the best quality you can get, and bring those 4 pieces into DVD SP, you can put them together there.
You could also try adjusting your final compression settings.
How are you getting to DVD?
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Do you have any 3rd party FX packages installed?
I’ve been having a bunch of problems with BCC 5, on the systems at work. Pretty much any timeline with Boris in it is prone to random crashes, especially while scrubbing and rendering.
Just a thought.
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The following should mostly work as long as the two systems in question have the same version of QT.
Select your FCP sequence in the browser and export a version 3 XML (FCP 6 has an option for XML v4, this is not supported by earlier verisons of FCP). It will as if you want to save with the current metadata, say yes, name the file, save it. That’s it.
In your FCP 5 system, import the XML and everything should reconnect and be groovy.
Where this will start to fall apart is if you have third party effects in the FCP 6 timeline that you either don’t have or don’t have the correct version of on the FCP 5 machine.
Otherwise this works.
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If you change your DVDSP project to a 16:9 project, then it should work as is, assuming I’m understanding you correctly.
For future exports, you would export using QT conversion, and set the size to 720×480, check the “maintain aspect ratio” box and set to letterbox.
That should fix it.
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It does help, and it explained why it’s never worked in the past, I was on a 720p23.98 when I was trying to get this to work.
Those are the only two formats that this function doesn’t work on? Am I understanding that correctly?
I appreciate the input.
Thanks
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That’s as good a place to start as any.
I primarily am just wondering about the function in general, in the past I’ve never gotten anything out of it. And I had been told that it didn’t work by others, so I never gave to much thought. Now I’m reading on the forum here that it indeed works.
I guess I’m wondering if there are circumstances in which it works and others in which it doesn’t?
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After you uninstall, do a spotlight for “finalcut” and remove everything that has a “pkg” extension or”plist” extension.
That should get you pretty much taken care of. After that, check the Root and home directories Library under Preferences and Application Support for anything “Final Cut Pro” pr “ProApp” after dumping that and emptying the trash you should have to enter a S/N.
You can also search Apples website for Manual Uninstall directions for FCP 5, this will point you to any hidden items you might need to eliminate.
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You might want to try Flip 4 Mac. I’m pretty sure they cover AVI