[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Hi Nicholas,

Yes I used that method if there was 1 object to blur, however it tends to not work on 2 or more objects, the solution is the Andy’s blur, it is perfect, as I can keyframe the blur I need, set the tint to a color, keyframe multiple instances of this plugin, on the same clip of video, then reduce the tint to 0, and render, it worked perfectly, so happy….

yeah folks still use FCP7, as it is a great tool for tv news video editing, actually in many ways superior to FCP X, very happy to not be using X, there are aspects of 7 that suck, but on the whole, 7 is a bit better… It is the audio that is the problem, being able to have the window of 7 showing the audio with keyframes is so much better than X…

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Hi Andy,

I just unzipped and placed the whole collection in the plug in folder, and wow, yes just perfect, and with the tint, I can do a lot of faces, with the tint see who is who, and then take off the tint, this is perfect, OMG, thank you so much, you have no idea how happy I am…thank you!!!

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Wow Thanks Andy, do I just unzip and copy them to a certain folder in FCP7? Been a long time since I did anything like this, a bit rusty on the process…

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

Hi Emmet,

The problem is that the oval shape+gaussian blur is very limited, to only 1 object, and to blur out 2 or more is a huge issue.

On the work mac we have “circle blur” I think it is a plug in, and I cannot find the download for this plug in, what I do on the work mac is duplicated the “circle blur”, use the + center and relocate the 2nd instance of the circle blur..

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

I know this is very late, but I think very important..

I needed to install final cut pro 6 or 7 on my 2013 retina macbook pro laptop…Of course it was using APFS, many many problems, but I finally was able to figure out the solution.

The solution was not elegant and took a total of 3 days, and much much swearing, but it worked, I have 2 partitions, the minimum number required, one is HFS and the other APFS…

This is very very important, you need to wipe the hard drive clean, format back to HFS [journaled extended] 1 partition, then reboot using the internet installer, DO NOT USE any boot USB, it will not work…

I was able through the internet take the laptop back to base install, Mavericks, which is not listed in the APP STORE, for some reason the internet installer which is very slow, on my connection took about 12 hours to install, used Mavericks.

Once I was able to log into Mavericks, I created a 2nd partition called it High Sierra, formatted to HFS [journaled extended]

I was able to install final cut pro, I needed to first install Rosetta off the Snow Leopard install disk. Then I opened the FCP launcher, and installed only FCP7, it installs compressor and qmaster, this is not optional…

Then after upgrades and such, rebooted holding down the option key after the chime, and was able through the internet launcher install High Sierra onto the 2nd partition.

I was worried that APFS would destroy the HFS Mavericks, as according to Apple info this is the case, it did not for me, so once I was able to log into High Sierra and updated High Sierra I installed FCPX.

So now I have 2 versions of final cut, 1-FCP7 on a partition called Mavericks, and 2-FCPX on a partition called High Sierra, both are 50% of the inbuilt hard drive and so far no errors!!!

At this point no plans to change, but will look into a 3rd partition on the High Sierra partition later if needed..

STEPS..
1-Wipe hard drive,
2-create a single partition formatted journaled extended
3-use the internet installer to install the OS suggested.
4-once installed and updated, create a 2nd partition, formatted to journaled extended
5-Install Final Cut Pro 6 or 7, you might need Rosetta from Snow Leopard
6- restart using command+r
7-install the suggested OS
8-upate and then install zipped or downloaded copy of fcp x

I tried to make a usb installer, but it did not work…your skills might be better than mine…

[Justine-paula Robilliard]

I came across this post today, from what I read it is possible to make an image of the FC2 disks?

I hope this is possible, using the disks are a problem for me….

Justine