[Michael Harrington]

Jerry,

Found it. Basically it manages your fonts so FCP can properly access and display all fonts and styles.

https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/final-cut-pro-free-plugins-to-make-all-fonts-available/

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Black Magic Mini Sync Generator, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

I’ll give that a try, of course I render before I make quick-times although I have not done the mix down audio in quit a long time.

Thanks for the tip.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

Thanks, I’m not an experienced compressor user and just learning a few things about it. I’m talking about making Droplets in FCP 7 compressor saving them to my portable drive then using them on another system of which is 6.06 and not really sure if it’s an intel machine, system details are sketchy till I get there.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

I was thinking of Media Manager to ProRes proxy because my assist and I will be editing with laptops from portable FW drives and thought the ProRes proxy files would be easier on a less robust laptop?

Anyone else here editing long form HDV files projects with large amounts of raw footage.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

Version 2.11.0 says it does not support Snow Leopard. I’ve tried my intel machines. desktop and laptop, and my older G5 system and neither work with FCP Log and Transfer.

I finally figured to use my older G5 loaded with FCP 6, I updated to current software versions, and I downloaded XDCAM Transfer 2.11.0 to transfer. The Import menu displays XDCAM and I can import footage this way and it converts the files to quicktime and places clip in a bin. I sneaker net portable drive between the older G5 and newer Intel.

For whatever reason this is the necessary work around. Why can’t I see the clips in Log and Transfer window. Am I getting the best results doing it this way.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

Thanks Jerry. The soft boot, verify disk permissions and trashing prefs fixed my FCP problems. I was surprised to see FCP 6.0 pref along with FCP 7.0 Prefs especially since I did a clean install. I let Apple pull my settings from my Laptop of which was updated Snow Leopard and FCP 7, is that where the FCP 6.0 Pref came from or does it get installed with FCP 7.0?

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

I reckon I was one of the not so SMART ones and did not back up prior to installing Snow Leopard and FCP7. When I upgraded both on my laptop without incident I figured all would be safe on my desktop system. In reality it was not that big of a deal, I bought the new desktop system without any particular job in sight and as luck would have it I landed a sizable project, 5TB HDV ProRes for a 2-hr DVD project and for the past 4 months the new system worked very good. I always figured when the project was complete I’d clean install just as a matter of practice.

When I started getting the KP’s and started reading about the problems and recommended best practices I learned the errors of my ways. I’m not particularly busy at this time so the whole ordeal happened at a good time and has taught me a thing or 2 about cloning system drives, searching the COW for problems before one is created, etc.

I completed a clean install yesterday within about 8-hours, also used the time to do the same on my old G5 I’m selling and spent time on the COW reading about best practices.

As it turns out the KP’s were due to unsupported Snow Leopard PCI card. I’m not using that drive right now and since I’m on the road for a few weeks I’ll wait and see if the manufacture comes up with a Snow Leopard driver, otherwise I’ll purchase Apples PCI Card.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, FCP7, Snow Leopard, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4 – 1TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

I didn’t realize installing Snow Leopard and FCS 3 was such a problem and planned to do a clean install later on and did the update install to check it out before I begin 2 weeks of travel. Installing all the software is a pain but no way around it.

Thanks for the recommendations.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

Another KP as I was launching FCP. Turned off my SataMax and launched FCP without problem. Me thinks I need to look into my SataMax Driver? How do I find out if the driver needs to be updated, I can’t even find who makes the dang thing, nothing listed in about this computer, where do I look, what do I do?

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

Yes, I’m using most current version DW, 4.2.

Any insight to what’s causing the problem? When I looked at the KP log it included FCP notes which is weird cause I hadn’t launched FCP. I was getting ready to update my FCP 6 to 7 so once I got the system up again I updated FCP 7. I’ll run DW again and see what happens.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.