[Richard Sanchez]

The exclamation point and diagonal lines mean you have “Range Check” activated. Press ctrl-z to get rid of that. That is just to warn you if you have colors that are illegal for broadcast.

Your scratch disk (for Render Files) and the location of your autosave is user configurable, so if somebody else modified this on your edit station, that could account for why you can’t find the auto save.

I would try using the finder to location your autosaves. Just search “autosave” to pull up all the autosave folders you might have, and go trolling for a file name that roughly matches your project.

The odds of this being a virus are next to none, though it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try repairing disk permissions in the disk utility. Also, as Rafeal mentioned, AVIs perform horribly in FCP and we’d all urge you to use mpeg streamclip to convert it to an MOV. DV/DVCPRO compression will probably be your best bet. DO NOT use h.264 or photo jpeg.

Do you keep a copy of your project on a flash drive, or are they saved to the mac’s local hard drive? If they are kept on the macs hard drive, it’s not entirely inconceivable that somebody may have opened your project, accidentally screwed with your project. Closed (and saved in the process) and left you with a messed up project. This happened left and right to people when I was in college. Hope any of this helps.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

The AJA IO or IOHD would do the trick. I found a used IO for $250, but the IO will run you in the avenue of $3500.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Anytime!

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Do you have External Video set to on in the view menu? If so, set it to off.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

The first thing I’d suspect is USB.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

I heard there were also issues with P2. Is that still problematic with Snow Leopard?

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

“listen on YouTube to Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues” That’s the ticket ain’t it! Make sure you get around to 32-20 Blues too!

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

It’s definitely in Final Cut. Under the generators. Maybe it’s a scroll as opposed to a crawl, I always mix the two up. You’ll still have to create a banner underneath (like most news channels do) but the left to right text can absolutely be done in FCP.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Final Cut does this. Open your generators button in the lower right of your viewer, and under text, select crawl.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

So five minutes after my last post, I decided to install the new software release for Snow Leopard. Though I haven’t yet installed Snow Leopard, it cleared up my problem completely. New firmware, and AJA Control Panel 7.0

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks