[Ryan Holmes]

Same here. FCP7, CS6, Resolve, and Smoke all running from the same drive with no problems. I’m on 10.7.5.

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[Ryan Holmes]

As Tony notes, make sure all your files are a standard 16bit (or 24bit), 48kHz WAV or aiff file. FCP doesn’t play well with mp3’s or variants off of the 48kHz standard.

You may try rendering your audio to have it playback smoothly, but make double sure that all your files are indeed setup correctly.

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[Ryan Holmes]

Either transcode the footage to a .mov with a standard codec like ProRes or DNxHD for them to use or just give them the BPAV folder. CS5 reads the contents natively without any problem. It would certainly be the fastest way to move material around.

As everyone has mentioned, Log & Transfer makes a XDCAM file specifically that FCP7 can read, not PPro.

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[Ryan Holmes]

They don’t make an adapter that I’m aware of. Additionally, given that XL lenses were designed to cover a very small sensor (1/3 inch or so), there’s no way the lens will cover your full-frame 5DIII sensor. Even if you could adapt the XL lens I’m not sure why you would want to. XL lenses are cheap, not sharp, and won’t cover your entire sensor.

Just my $.02

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[Ryan Holmes]

Have you verified you’re running the correct drivers for your card and OS version? Is your card on the list of certified GPU’s for Premiere Pro?

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe CS since you swapped cards?

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[Ryan Holmes]

[Omar Ayoub] “I make the sequence resolution smaller than the original video resolution (1080 for example), so that I can help make the close-ups lose as little resolution as possible when I enlarge the videos? “

You can use a 720p timeline (which is HD) or you can even use a standard definition timeline. If you use a 1080 timeline you’ll be zooming in on footage past 100%. Once you do that your footage will begin to get softer as you move past 100%.

[Omar Ayoub] “(I also want to use a lot of low-quality mobile phone videos,”
If you’re going to do this, then it seems quality is a secondary issue anyway. A losing sharpness on your 1080 footage looks to be the least of your problems then.

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[Ryan Holmes]

I run a couple of DP4s, a DP6, and a AC7. It depends on how big of a monitor you want and how portable you want to be. For many of my team they think the AC7 is too big if they want to be portable and in a run-and-gun style. The DP6 (now discontinued) seems to be the agreed upon sweet spot. But for the lightest portable rig we use the DP4’s pretty often. The AC7 isn’t terribly heavy, but it is big as a 7 inch screen (kinda like an iPad-mini size, just a bit smaller).

But you really can’t go wrong with SmallHD. Their products are solid and they have good customer support if you need it. If you get one of their monitors you can also purchase a Canon 5D/7D battery bracket which allows you to use your existing LP-E6 Canon batteries to power the SmallHD monitor. That’s how we power all our monitors when in the field – https://www.smallhd.com/products/dp6/accessories.html

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[Ryan Holmes]

FCP7 is end of life (EOL). The last supported OS from Apple to run FCP7 is 10.6.8. Anything past that and you are on your own. So if you get it up and running on 10.8.3 and Apple release 10.8.4 there’s no promise that the patch will work with FCP7….so upgrade at your own risk (hence the backup of your drive solution).

You may contact Red Giant and see if you can get a copy of PluralEyes 2 which does run on 10.6.X I believe. Then you wouldn’t have to upgrade. Or if you have an extra machine, you could run PluralEyes 3 on that and leave your other computer frozen at 10.6.8 that runs FCP.

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[Ryan Holmes]

I typically use Prelude or Media Encoder to log footage and transcode it. But if you’re PPro isn’t reading the MXF correctly then it’s possible that Prelude and/or Media Encoder won’t work right either.

You probably need to carve out a couple hours to completely uninstall and reinstall CS6 and get your MXF settings working.

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[Ryan Holmes]

I’ve read many about many people running FCP7 on OSX 10.8.X, but I’ve also read some failed stories. As you know, 10.6.8 is the last officially supported OS for FCP7. Anything beyond that and you’re taking a risk. So it just depends on how much you need the newer OS vs. what if FCP stops working. Before you upgrade, clone your drive so you have a working backup so you can get back to a working OS if things go awry (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper work well).

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