[George Snow]

Thanks. If I’m stuck with this computer I might try that. Thanks.

[George Snow]

After creating this post I went to the Apple Store and played with X. I checked it out on my own for about 15 minutes before the employee who was familiar with the program came over.

It is completely different in it’s appearance and accomplishing the basic tasks. But, it’s not so revolutionary different that it couldn’t be learned fairly quick. It would probably take me one sitting to learn everything I did in 6.

Some of the features look neat like the effects that show you what the effects look like before you choose them. The thumbnails would be great for finding CU,Med, Wide shots easity. All in all it’s the same(supposedly better) software with a new look.

With that said: I’m happy with FCP 6 for my work. I didn’t plan on spending $300 for software. So, I’m supposedly getting a return from Apple for the iMac. Customer service says they’ll take it back, returns say they won’t.

Thanks for all the responses.

[George Snow]

Thank You! This kind of makes me feel better. Who wouldn’t want to do months worth of work over again?

Thanks!

[George Snow]

Thank You! Any ideas on the Pro Res footage that’s on my external HD? Will I be able to import them?

Thanks again.

[George Snow]

Thank You, I’ll look it up.

[George Snow]

Thanks!

[George Snow]

It turned out to be my Quick Time Player. I updated to the newest version I could, and now Pro Res 422 LT plays very nicely on my Final Cut 6.0.6. Weird is all I can say.

[George Snow]

I have FCP 6.0.6 and according to what I’ve read Final Cut Pro 7 won’t work on a PowerPC.

Somehow I was using LT with my 6.0.6.

Any other suggestions?

[George Snow]

At the moment I’m unemployed and broke. I’m also in the middle of shooting a movie. So, space is at a premium. I have a firewire drive I’m using to store the footage I’m using and a USB drive I’m storing everything on.

There’s no problems playing the footage on the firewire drive, but it’s old and only holds 250gigs. But, if I try to play the footage from the USB drive (new 1 tb) it stops every two seconds with dropped frames.

So,I need the space, and it’s working like a charm. I’ve freed up over 100 gigs so far. And I still have about another 100 once I complete the sound from the original files.

It makes sense from a poor man’s perspective.

[George Snow]

Thank You!