[Mark Landman]

Have you updated either FCPX or the operating system since the last time you were able to use the plugins?

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

I just submitted feedback to Apple requesting that they add a preferences item allowing users to set the default spatial conform option. Having it default to ‘Fit’ has always been a nuisance for many of the projects that I do.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

I don’t believe that it can be changed in preferences. You could highlight all of the offending clips in the browser then open the inspector window and change spatial conform to ‘none’.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

Don’t burn the files by dragging and dropping from the disc image. Burning files by using drag and drop will burn files in windows format which isn’t recognized by DVD players. You need to burn the entire iso file to your disc. The iso file is a disc image and contains the formatting needed to be recognized by a DVD player.

Insert the DVD blank in the burner. Right click on the ISO file and select burn image to disc.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd451080.aspx

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

I’ll second Jeff’s suggestion. I shoot football games where I have to upload each play as an individual clip. I send a stringout from FCPX to Resolve via XML, do a little color correction in Resolve if needed, and then export the whole thing as individual clips. It works like a charm.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

Maybe you can restore your projects from one of the autosaved backups.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH15847?locale=en_US

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

You could write an Automator application to strip out the preset names.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

I really can’t point to a particular function or two and say “that’s why it needs an OS update.” The program is quite a bit faster than previous versions. I suspect that the some of the underlaying code was rewritten to take advantage of ElCapitan and up – although you’d have to check with someone more knowledgable about such things than I to find the real reason. (Cue Dr. McCoy – “Dammit Jim, I’m an editor-not a programmer.” ☺)
I haven’t had any problems since upgrading from 10.2, although to be honest I really didn’t use it very much before I made the upgrade.
In addition to the COW forums, other good sources of FCPX info are fcp.co ( .co , not .com) and rippletraining.com. If you still run into problems you’re sure to find someone there who knows much more about this than I do.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

If I’m not mistaken, you won’t be allowed to update (or even shown the update page) until you have a compatible OS. Once you update you should be good to go.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL

[Mark Landman]

Which OS are you running? I believe that 10.3.3 requires at least ElCapitan. If you’re running less than that you won’t get the update notice.

Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL