[Michael Black fcp]

I’m going to reinstall, go back to 7.0. There goes my evening.

[Michael Black fcp]

Well, I removed one of the graphics cards and it didn’t fix the problem.

[Michael Black fcp]

I believe you that it can cause problems, but why would it work fine for 9 months, then crap out? Would the update trigger something that was working (but technically shouldn’t be) into not working like this?

[Michael Black fcp]

Trashed prefs a few times, no luck. I’m running the latest OS (10.5.8) and Qucktime is up-to-date as well (7.6.4). Graphics cards are NVIDIA GeForce 120s (two of them).

trying to repair permissions, see what that does.

[Michael Black fcp]

Yeah, I’ve seen that, but I’m not sure how to get that .ac3 file onto the Blu-Ray. The process is a little annoyingly automated, so you can’t select 2.0 or 5.1 on export, regardless of your sequence settings. It looks like you can only make a 2.0 .ac3 file.

Any one found a work around?

[Michael Black fcp]

If you scroll down a bit, you’ll see I had this same problem the other day. I used that Compressor Repair app and it worked fine. Not so well since my update to FCS3, but gets the job done.

[Michael Black fcp]

Thanks! That definitely helped with the stuff that just wouldn’t go away, but now there’s a new problem. I’m just now trying to compress an MPEG-2 for a DVD using the QMaster (I have an early 2009 Mac Pro with the 2 x 2.93 Quad-Core Xeons) and it was going gangbusters at first, but now the cluster will disappear, it will look like it’s still compressing in the Activity monitor, but if the cluster reappears it looks like it’s not doing anything at all.

Any way to fix this?

[Michael Black fcp]

I’m trying to import the OMF we created originally into Soundtrack and… not much is happening. There’s a progress bar that’s BARELY moved in a half hour.

I tried to create a small OMF, one with just five tracks of audio spread out over about 12 minutes and it’s not going any faster. Is this common?

[Michael Black fcp]

That’s what I thought. I’ve never seen this in ‘lo my many years of using FCP. But you know, the guys at the mixing facility (which I won’t name, but may or may not rhyme with Bony) just love to put down FCP when they can and are always quick to blame FCP.

“So, when you exported out of your Avid…”
“Final Cut.”
“Final Cut?”
“Yeah we use Final Cut.”
“Oh well, if you’re using Final Cut…”

I’m going to try another couple tests. See if I can’t get to the bottom of this.

mb

[Michael Black fcp]

I always uncheck all the boxes pertaining to levels and panning when exporting the .omf. I’ll mention those settings to the sound supervisor though. Thanks!