[Paul Escandon]

At my office we’re still running 5.1.4 and we’re also running Quicktime 7.3 and we are having no problems whatsoever.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
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MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

[and finally, try double clicking a project that isnt whatever is loading to start the application.]

He said he’s already tried trashing the preference files and when he does that Final Cut will no longer remember what the last program was to auto load it.

The other options are worth attempting.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

Based on what you’re saying, that obviously should not be happening. But I’ve seen weirder things.

Have you tried trashing your prefs just to make sure that’s not the problem?

Also, consider trying to rotate the image in the motion tab 180 degrees instead of the flop… see if that helps.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

The only way to get it is to have the Final Cut Studio 2 install discs… it only comes on there.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

Maybe that is indeed somehow the culprit…

I did find this effect in HD > Users > Shared > Motion > Library > Filters > Stylize

Try temporarily moving this file into a different folder and see what happens to your launch.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

The only time this has happened to me where trashing prefs didn’t help was because I had upgraded Final Cut and there was a Plugin that wasn’t allowing it to start up. Have you recently upgraded or do you have any third party plugins installed in your plugin folder? Even if you haven’t upgraded recently, it might not hurt to remove the plugins from your plugin folder (copy them to the desktop or something in the mean time) to see if that helps. If that does help then you can try adding the plugins back one by one to see what the culprit is.

Check Library > Plugins > FX Plug
Library > Application Support > Final Cut Pro System Support
User > Library > Preferences > Final Cut Pro User Data > Plugins

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

If you do the method I told you by creating a new sequence and dragging this Photo JPEG footage in – it should conform the sequence settings to match your footage the first time you bring it in (assuming you’re using FCP 6 which I believe you said you were).

You do already know what type of project settings you should have – you wrote it in your original post. Match the sequence settings to your footage:

Codec: Apple Photo – JPEG
Frame size 1024 x 576
Pixel aspect ratio: square (this is an assumption on my part)
Audio: 48KHz 24-bit
Field dominance: (depends on the type of footage you say you have)

If you’re not sure on all of these settings, then check the columns in the browser after brining your footage in – it should give you all of this information you are looking for to get your sequence set up correctly.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

I’m not sure that I’m totally following but in any case I’d recommend doing this…

1. Collapse the multiclips for edit decisions that have already been made. If you’ve already cut a portion and no longer have a need for the 4-up view on a portion of your multiclips then collapse them. You can do this by selecting the multiclip and selecting collapse multiclips.

2. Trash your render files so that you can rule out any sort of rendered file corruption. Go to Tools > Render Manager and check the Remove checkbox near your project and sequences.

I’d then try cutting again and see if that doesn’t at least help some of the problem you were having.

Oh and by the way, you can always uncollapse a multiclip the same way you collapsed the multiclip.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

You’re going to have a hard time working with the footage since FCP is not optimized to work with Photo JPEG in real time.. but it’s definitely possible.

Create a new sequence and go to sequence settings and match your sequence settings to the type of file format. An easier way to do this in Final Cut 6 is to drag your footage onto a blank timeline and it should auto-conform. You can edit away (albeit you’ll probably need to render often) and then out put a Quicktime when you’re done.

The only thing I think FCP might have a hard time with is the AAC… you might have to do some trial and error with that.

See if that workflow works for you.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Multiclip editing is very taxing on the system – when you’re working with multiple camera angles on screen in the 4-up or 9-up or 16-up views, Final Cut Pro will throttle down the settings so that you get video and audio playing in real time to make edit decisions – but depending on the speed of your system you will lose either quality (the pixelation) or you won’t see all the frames. This is called FCP’s Unlimited RT feature and this is where you see it kicking in.

I’ve editing before on a 9-up with multiple streams of DVCPRO HD clips, and the quality was definitely cut back but this was only during the edit. When you make your edits and collapse the multiclips everything looks as it should.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University