[Paul Jones]

To add to my last post, I tried importing sequences only…I have 15 sequences in the project.
I’ve tried importing them one by one….I get up to sequence 7, anything above that makes it crash.
It makes me think that a corrupt clip was added to the later sequences ?
The trick is to find which one ???

[Paul Jones]

I’ve just tried that quite a few times and it just crashes Premiere Pro every time.
I even tried to import previous saved projects I made yesterday and still the same.
Can’t really understand what’s happened here as the project was all perfect yesterday

[Paul Jones]

Yes I wait for the shots to be indexed, which seems to stop I think.
If I copy the sequence to a new one I just get the spinning beach ball.
I’ll try your suggestion of creating a new project and importing the old one…is there a suggested way to do this ?

Thanks

[Paul Jones]

Hi Ben
Just to thank you again for your review on running FCP 7 on a Retina MBP.
I took delivery of mine on Saturday and love it.
Had a quick look at FCP 7 and I agree with your review, not a problem at all apart from a bit of edging on the menu text….Of course I will be moving on from FCP 7 at some stage which is why the Retina Display was a no brainer !
Also got it from Jigsaw 24 ( who I’d completely forgotten about to be honest but still had an account ) In stock and super efficient delivery.

Cheers again

Paul

[Paul Jones]

Thanks Ben…Yes that’s the same as my process, maybe it’s my iMac that has an issue.
Further to our conversation and your brilliant review, I went down to the covent garden Apple store this morning to look at the new Macbook Pros.
They couldn’t show me FCP 7 running on a Retina Display but they did show me other non optimised software ( Photoshop, Word etc etc )
I wasn’t as disappointed as I thought which has swayed me back to buying a retina display.
Knowing I won’t be using FCP 7 forever I guess I must look forward.
All I have to do now is decide if it’s worth buying the top spec model for loads of cash or not !

One thing I will have to purchase is a USB microphone for guide VO’s
Can you recommend your one ?

Cheers

Paul

[Paul Jones]

One more quick question on creating disk images of Final Cut Studio.
I am doing disk images as we speak for when I get the new Macbook Pro, but don’t you run into the same problems where Lion won’t let the installer run ?
I tried to install FC Studio onto my iMac running Lion and it wouldn’t let me.

Thank you
Paul

[Paul Jones]

Thanks Ben for a very in-depth review.
Your results on running FCP 7 on the Retina MBP are better than I expected….
…..which leaves me more undecided what Macbook Pro buy.
My main gripe with the retina version is….

Losing firewire 800, which ALL my drives are,
Losing Ethernet
Losing the optical drive, I still have to burn DVD’s for clients on most projects.
Losing the audio line in port which means buying a USB microphone
Not easy to replace the storage, RAM and battery ( because in my experience owning 4 Macbook Pros, the batteries last 3 years at best.
I know you can get the external drives and converter leads but to me it’s clutter and I prefer them all to be on the laptop in the first place.
I’m still swaying toward the standard MBP but if I spec one up with a 512 SSD drive 2.7 processor and 8 meg ram it works out more expensive than the same spec retina version, including buying the external drive and converter leads !
I’m wondering if I don’t get the retina version I will regret it 6 months down the line.
I’m probably looking at using Final Cut Studio for another 12 to 18 months ( if Apple let me ) then maybe jumping to Premiere Pro.

2 extra questions…
Can you monitor the FCP7 from the HDMI port ?
How did you install FCP 7 from disks under Lion ?

Any advise on my decision from anyone really appreciated

Thanks

Paul

[Paul Jones]

Cheers Ben…look forward to it.

[Paul Jones]

Thanks all for the advise and very interested to see how you get on with FCP 7 on the Retina Ben.
At the moment I’m 90% sure I will be better off getting a new non retina MBP if I plan to stay on Final Cut Studio for a while longer
Looking forward to your results before I decide which new MBP to buy…

[Paul Jones]

Yes they have reel name
It was material shot on Alexa and converted to pro res HQ….example of a reel name is A003R10A