Jerry Alto
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Rob- Quit out of FCP>plug in your deck with the 400/800 cable>power up deck>go to Apple icon>about this Mac>more info>firewire. Can you see the deck? Do not proceed until your iMac sees the deck. Once the iMac sees the deck its all about getting your FCP settings right.
HTH,
JerryMacPro 2.93 Quad
FCP7
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Will- We do a lot of export to tape (HDV). My guess is that clip has a corrupted media file. You may need to redigitize and export again.
HTH,
JerryMacPro 2.93 Quad
FCP7
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Rafael- The guy who makes good hammers is a magician too.
Excellent point!
Jerry
MacPro 2.93 Quad
FCP7
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Elizabeth- To add to Dave’s comment the DV export IS compressed. The DV codec compresses about 5:1.
JerryMacPro 2.93 Quad
FCP7
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Eron- System preferences>displays>arrangement> swap displays. Or FCP>view menu>cinema display>toggle between Main and other until you have it right.
hth
JerryMacPro 2.93 Quad
FCP7
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Christopher- Well, to update on my situation. My boot-up situation was getting more and more tenuous. Finally nothing but gray screen and spinning ball which would continue to spin until it timed out and the slash icon showed. Tried everything. Resetting ram. Pulling PCIX cards. Trying to boot from start up disk, etc. etc. Nothing worked. Hauled it to the Apple store genius bar and they worked on in for 2 hrs. Their conclusion; bad motherboard or bad processor(s) or both. I finally shifted out of the denial stage and am ordering a MacPro. 6 1/2 years is pretty darn good for a computer. Luckily I had just completed and delivered two big projects. I’ve borrowed a G-5 from a video buddy who had gone MacPro 8 months ago and his old G-5 was gathering dust. I slapped in my MacHD and internal drive and am now transfering stuff getting ready for the new gear. Just by booting up with my old MacHD I think proves my issue was HARDWARE related.
The thing that gets me is that the FCP timeline RT setting instantly shows no HIGH quality option. FCP KNOWS there is a problem. Why can’t it give you a dialogue box that tells you what the problem might be and a list of SOLUTIONS to resolve the problem. Hope this gives you some info.
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Christopher- I am having the exact problem! Have you figured it out yet? I had a major crash working in FCP 6.0.5 with my G-5 2.0. It is driving me crazy. ‘High’ quality playback is gone (greyed out). I’ve tested my external monitor and my Kona LH and they are working fine. Just no HD high quality out of FCP. Are you in Vancouver USA or Canada? I’m in Portland. Maybe with both of us working on it we can figure it out.
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Joe- As a test right click on one of those clips and choose ‘Get Info’ and change the extension to .mov (you can always change it back). Then choose ‘Open With’ Quicktime. If it works then just drag them into a FCP HDV project. Its worked for us and is a whole lot faster than transcoding. It’s worth a shot.
HTH,
JerryG5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Clint- Final Cut HDV files have a .mov extension. I believe the Vegas file extension is .m2t. It might be worth a shot to change the file extension to .mov on one of the clips and see if FCP sees it. If it works you could then change all the file extensions on the clips you need. Would save re-digitizing.
HTH,
JerryG5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Edward- A couple that work for me…. the up and down arrows to jump through edit points in the timeline. Customize your own keystroke for zooming in and out on the CTI.
HTH,
JerryG5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700