[John Treffer]

Convert to AIFF before import should solve the problem.
Quicktime pro and iTunes can do this.

[John Treffer]

Wow, trashing the prefs worked, also for HDV. I only installed FCP5 yesterday, but still. Thank nick

@Wayne
I am sorry I didn’t read your post carefully, about MM to an offline project, saw it just after my post. Anyhow, did you try deleting the prefs? Less than 24 hours after installing it still resolved my MM problems!

[John Treffer]

It is only for backup purpose. I don’t fully trust mini-DV tape as a backup medium so I normally use the Media Manager to gather the clips I use and burn it on DVD before I trash the media from my harddisk. (it is a short film, so this 2 or 3 DVDs normally)

Anyhow, thanks for the advice, maybe I will trash it anyhow because I want to install tiger cleanly and than reinstall FCP5. I can always recapture and mediamanage when this issue is fixed.

[John Treffer]

Okay, it also doesn’t work on DV material.

This is abit annoying to me, because I have to clean my harddisk. Any suggestions on a workarround, other than reinstalling FCP 4.5?

[John Treffer]

I can confirm this problem. For HDV material.
I just made a first test project,
– captured a few clips.
– set in/out points to one clip.
– CTRL-clicked the clip and choos media manager
SETTINGS:
media: Use existing
checked: delete unused media from selected items
unchecked: use handles
unchecked: duplicate selected items and place into a new project

(the bars for original and modified stay the same size)

– if I click okay I get a warning saying
(WARNING: This operation will permanently modify existing media files. This is not undoable, and any open projects referencing these media files will be saved.)
– when I click continue I see a progress bar for a split second. (way to fast to read what is progressing)
– than nothing appears to have happened, the clip length is the same and the last modified time of the clip as shown in the finder has not been changed since the capture.

Is this a bug that will be fixed or has the MM changed so strongly that this basic functionality just works differently?

[John Treffer]

You can also try to trash Waveform Cache Files in the Final Cut Pro Documents folder.

[John Treffer]

although you didn’t ask me: yes that is correct.
But the other options are very interesting and not to pricy, if you need additional storage(speed).

[John Treffer]

The new Powermacs can be bought with an internal 400GB drive optionally.
It would surprise me a lot is 250GB would be a maximum in older G5’s. (But I can’t confirm a 100% shure)

[John Treffer]

I heard something about a forced scene detection, where a new shot automaticly starts a new clip when capturing. I than allready wondered how Batch capture would work. I can’t tell though, because I am still waiting for my copy of FCP5.

If it would really be unavailable it would really suck. Things like interval recording would be a real nuisance.

[John Treffer]

Alternately you can read this article.

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/smith_stephen/film_look/index.html