[Saya Hillman]

Thanks, super helpful, I appreciate it!

MAC OSX 10.3.9
1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
768 MB DDR SDRAM

MAC OSX 10.5.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
LaCie Big Disk 380GB
FCP 6.0.2

[Saya Hillman]

Opps sorry! I mean a couple of HUNDRED GB left —

thanks for the fan tip.

MAC OSX 10.3.9
1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
768 MB DDR SDRAM

MAC OSX 10.5.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
LaCie Big Disk 380GB
FCP 6.0.2

[Saya Hillman]

Thanks Ty. Always helpful.

Follow up question –
Is a mono recording ok, soundwise? Silly question I guess, but I’m not sure how different video recorded in mono will sound from video recorded in stereo. If you mono-recorded would you just use the audio as is, or are there things you’d do in FCP to sweeten the audio so to speak?

[Saya Hillman]

Thanks for the responses – I don’t know any info about the camera except that it’s a Sony, as it’s a client’s. She was planning on just giving me the tapes that I would import with my minDV deck, but also said she could leave the camera for me to use for capturing, so will probably go that route until I’m able to purchase an HDV deck.

Will look around for useful threads on the topic of importing HDV, thanks.

[Saya Hillman]

Thanks Sean. Ugh, that sounds ominous. Are FW ports replaceable or are these cameras forever lost as far as capturing goes?

[Saya Hillman]

Thanks for the input Chuck. I want to make sure I gave you the right RAM numbers – I went to “About this MAC” > “More Info” > “Memory”. It says 512MB in one slot and 256MB in another (I think I purchased extra when I first bought the computer). So not enough, huh? Every other application runs fine, even FCP when rendering a two-hour movie, weird. If that’s what you think it may be though, you all are the experts! Thanks for your help.

[Saya Hillman]

The stills range in size from 500KB up to 3MB, and the issue exists on all of them.

I usually have Firefox and iTunes open, when running FCP.

The media is on a 400GB LaCie that has about 14GB available.

RAM is 768 (if I’m reading that right).

Pixel dimensions look to be around the 2000×2000 ratio (if I’m getting the numbers from the right place — I opened up a few pics in PS and looked at image size).

[Saya Hillman]

Peter or anyone else with this issue, were you able to find a solution? I’m in the same boat, with a corrupt file, and all of my autosave vault files are the same. I threw out my render files for the project, to make room for something, would that have corrupted it? Any solutions?

[Saya Hillman]

Hi Lenn-

I did not have that problem you’re having, sorry to hear that! Both FCP and QT worked perfectly right away. I’m on FCP 4.0. You might want to check out the Final Cut discussions thread on the mac website, and search for anything QT related in the forum – TONS of discussion on this and someone might have had the same issue you are having. That’s how I found my solution. Good luck, sorry I can’t be more help —

[Saya Hillman]

If anyone else has this problem, try this remedy. QT 7.3 renders FCP virtually useless if you have an older version like I do. The Apple support forums are filled with suggestions, I tried below and it works.

1. Download the QT 7.2 installer from https://www.apple.com/support/downloa…e72formac.html
2. Download Pacifist from https://www.charlessoft.com/
3. Use Pacifist to open the package file on the QuickTime 7.2 disk image
4. Select the following 2 folders within Pacifist’s window under “Contents of QuickTime720.pkg”, and use the “Install Files to Default Locations” command under the File menu:
/System/Library/Components
/System/Library/QuickTime
5. Select to install with Admin privileges and give your password
6. Restart your machine, and– even though your system still thinks it has QuickTime 7.3.x– you can now capture more than 5 minutes’ worth in FCP!
7. Go to https://www.apple.com/quicktime/feedback/ and tell them they’ve got a bug on their hands!