[John Fishback]

I’ve read in a number of forums that Ventura 13.3 broke FCP. It often hangs while loading Audio Units plugins. 13.3.1 has been released, but I haven’t heard if it fixes the FCP issue. If you upgraded to 13.3, try going back to 13.2.1.

[John Fishback]

I’ve used Topaz labs’ Video AI that will de-interlace and much more. There’s a fully-functional trial on their site.

[John Fishback]

Another option for upscaling up to 6X is Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel. There’s a free trial.

[John Fishback]

This would be a bit of a pain, but you could rename each slo-mo clip with SM01…SMxx. Then you’d see them all in the timeline index.

[John Fishback]

In addition, to see it play fullscreen on click Shift+CMD+F.

[John Fishback]

I don’t see the images for some reason. My thought is there may be hidden keyframes further down the clip. Try stretching the right edge of the clip to the right. You may find keyframes, especially, if the clip, or a later portion of the clip, was used elsewhere in your project.

[John Fishback]

There’s an app for Final Cut Pro called Captionator on the App Store, which I believe uses a local library. It’s a bit of a pain to format the captions, but its accuracy is pretty good.

[John Fishback]

Try searching online for keyable footage of dust motes. I think that’s what you’d see in a spotlight beam. I’ve seen that somewhere, but can’t think of the vendor.

[John Fishback]

I agree with Ben. Topaz Labs’ Video AI does a great job uprez-ing. It’s on sale for Cyber Monday.

[John Fishback]

The still programs like Gigapixel AI work as plugins in Photoshop (and maybe others) as well as standalone. AFAIK, Video AI only works as standalone.