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John Roberts
May 22, 2013 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Creating a Timer/Clock!

That’s great – thanks so much!
John Roberts
February 11, 2011 at 4:01 pm in reply to: FCP 7 won’t launch

Also – there is a great software called Spotless that lets you disable Spotlight, my problems were solved once I did it through the software as well. Very weird issue…
John Roberts
February 11, 2011 at 3:11 pm in reply to: FCP 7 won’t launch

Hey everyone – I wanted to let you know that after much messing around I found the problem… And it’s very weird! It was an issue with the Spotlight indexing. When I disabled Spotlight in Terminal and by closing it out in the Activity Monitor all of my problems vanished and everything worked absolutely perfectly. I don’t do much in Terminal but you can research how to disable Spotlight and stop the indexing in the background. Anyway, my computer runs much faster and all FCPS applications work better then ever (less bugs, less load time). Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know my solution.

John
John Roberts
February 2, 2011 at 5:11 pm in reply to: FCP 7 won’t launch

Both machines are Mac Pros using 2 dual-core intel xeon processors and both have at least 6 gigs of ram on a startup drive of 1TB (with at least 500 gigs free).
John Roberts
February 2, 2011 at 5:02 pm in reply to: FCP 7 won’t launch

I’ve tried that as well and had the same issue. The computer needs a full restart in order to launch FCP but if I try and launch another software like Compressor or Soundtracks it just won’t do it at all.
John Roberts
February 2, 2011 at 4:57 pm in reply to: FCP 7 won’t launch

Yes you’re right – when I installed the update I did it on top of the older version of FCP. I have since uninstalled everything (I used the FCS Remover) and then re-installed but to no avail…
John Roberts
July 14, 2009 at 1:50 pm in reply to: redirect RAM

Might seem like a silly post but make sure to quit out of everything when you’re working in FCP with that low amount of RAM. I would make sure to not even launch something like Dashboard or close out all “widgets” just in case. Don’t even have Safari or iTunes open when you’re editing to help with this problem. Close out of literally everything except FCP.
I’m not really sure about RAM allocation, but if you only have FCP open then you will only be allocating to FCP.
John Roberts
July 14, 2009 at 1:43 pm in reply to: Jumping up frames while capturing

When it drops frames in FCP is dropping at the same points or at different ones? Also, try decreasing the codec even more to maybe DVCPRO. When you change that setting make sure you’re changing it under the capture setting and not device control. Also, when you capture do the “capture now” feature.
Is there an error message that comes up when you drop frames?
John Roberts
July 8, 2009 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Jumping up frames while capturing

The problem might be your codec. Try capturing at both Apple ProRes and try even DVCPRO50. What happens is that the card can’t process that codec fast enough so it drops frames. Let me know if this works.
John Roberts
July 8, 2009 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Jumping up frames while capturing

Hey Yaniv
I just had a similar problem with capture Digi Beta.

What is the codec to which you are capturing it to? Also, what processor do you have?

John