[John Rofrano]

That would be more than adequate if you are editing with Final Cut Pro X. That’s the MacBook Pro that I have and I’ve edited on far less. That’s actually a killer laptop. It just doesn’t have the Radeon Vega Pro GPU, but other than that, it’s top-of-the-line.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You haven’t really given us any solid technical information about your hardware or OS so I will speculate from what you did tell us. A 6 year old iMac in 2019 would be a 2013 model. Apple’s latest macOS 10.14 Mojave is comparable with iMac introduced in late 2012 or later so it looks like as long as your iMac is at least a 2012 you can upgrade to the latest OS.

Since you’ve already copied off all of the data that you need, I would just boot into the Recovery partition by holding down Command+R while booting and that will allow you to repartitions and reformat your drives using the Disk Utility. Then I believe you will be offered to re-install whatever version of macOS that the recovery partition matches. I’m pretty not sure it will not let you install Mojave so you will have to install a fresh OS and then upgrade it to Mojave.

Having said that, if you can download Mojave from your current OS version then you can make a USB thumb drive installer and use that to go directly to Mojave by booting from the USB thumb drive. Just search for “mojave usb installer” and you will find tutorials on how to do this. This will save you the step of install an OS twice, or maybe in 3 times because I have 2010 Mac Pro on Sierra and I can’t upgrade to Mojave, I have to upgrade to High Sierra first and then Mojave. You may be in the same boat if you have to restore to an older OS.

So that would be my “tip”. Make USB installer and go straight to Mojave.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

Is there anything you installed or updated recently? That’s really strange that it ran fine for 2 weeks and the got slow again. The problem is figuring out what changed. I don’t envy you but it must be something that changed after 2 weeks.

~jr

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[John Perez] “Also, how do I create a new Notepad plug-in that will work in Vegas 13? Is it code? Is there an app do do this in? Thx”

I will look into making Notepad into a FasstApp which will make it compatible with the latest versions of Vegas Pro. Stay tuned. ????

~jr

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[Chaz King] ” I can still double click a video and it plays in Quicktime but it was much more efficient to use quick look. Has anyone else encountered this issue?”

Quicklooks are an extensible framework that allow you to add new preview capabilities to your Mac. I’m guessing that at one point you installed Canon’s free XF Utility 3.2 for Mac OS X and it installed the appropriate Quicklooks extensions. I believe you can find a link to it (along with other valuable Quicklooks extensions) at QuicklookPlugins.com. I have several 3rd party Quicklooks extensions installed that I couldn’t live without.

~jr

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[Jake Griffiths] “I have also gone to preferences to set the time line to beats and measures and the project to 154bpm but it does not sync up correctly with my metronome, which was recorded and is detected in audacity as being 154bpm exactly”

Did you also make sure that under Options | Preferences | Audio that you have [x] Import audio at project tempo checked? This must be checked BEFORE you drop the audio on the timeline. If you did not doing this, that could be your problem.

~jr

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[Ludmil Kazako “if I want to run Mojave am I more limited?”

Yes, You will need to have a video card that is Metal capable. Apple released a list here:

Install macOS 10.14 Mojave on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012)

You will be limited to selecting a card from that list. I already have the SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition but I haven’t upgraded to Mojave yet. First I would have to upgrade to High Sierra (I’m still on Sierra and apparently you can’t go straight to Mojave unless you are at least on High Sierra 10.13.6 first)

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

If you do a clean install, I believe the two options you are presented with are sign-in with your Apple ID or Create a new ID. That is one way. Here is an article from Apple that explains 3 ways of creating an Apple ID: Create an Apple ID

The easiest is to go to the Apple ID web site: appleid.apple.com and select Create Your Apple ID from the top right of the page next to Sign In. Then use that to sign into iTunes, iCloud, etc. on your Mac.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

That’s odd. I’m not sure why an admin account would run faster than a normal account. In the beginning, Spot Light will run though all of the files to make it’s index and that slows things down a bit but that should subside in a few days.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

How about using the Activity Monitor to see if any process is taking up all of the CPU?

You never know what apps are doing in the background so it’s good to check.

Here is an article on Transfer files between two macOS accounts

~jr

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