Scott Sheriff
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My tip would be avoid.
Unless you absolutely need FCS3, I’d hold off, and let the market cool down. Both the auctions and the Buy It Now listings are going for just short of what a new unit from apple goes for, and then you still have the unknown of the quality of the discs, version or ser#. Might be better to just bite the bullet and buy new from apple if you have to have it now.
When I was looking for used copy of Shake, I wasn’t all that happy with the fleabay listings, and ended up with a much better deal from Amazon. You might try check there too.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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Tom
Go here and read this:
https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
Scroll down to the Snow Leopard and mpeg2 component.On the clean install issue of reinstalling other apps, welcome to our world. LOL!
Everyone faces this issue, but cutting corners is a train wreck waiting to happen. Don’t talk yourself into cutting corners if you use your machine for business. If you keep your plugins, updates, drivers, apps and serial numbers organized, a clean install should just be an afternoon project.
The good news is 95% of all apps besides FCS can simply be dragged to the new drive from the clone (or original if you use a fresh drive), without having to reinstall. A few may ask for a ser#. Keep a PDF list of all your ser#, so you can just copy/paste. I have a couple of apps that have to be ‘authorized’, but they worked after a drag from the clone and inputting the ser#. YMMV on that. After you clone your drive, go get all the new drivers and updates you will need and put them in a folder on the clone drive and then it should be pretty straight forward.
Another tip is to image all you apps to a separate drive and use those disc images to install, which will reduce future install time. This is especially true of FCS since the many discs can be reduced to one operation from a much faster source. It takes some time to do images, but it’s something you can do in your spare time.
Hope the info on the Squared 5 page gets you back in biz.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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M5 does not connect directly to FCP6/7 in the form of a ‘send to’ type function. Nor does M4 connect directly to FCP X.
You have to export/import to move media.
You might want to go to the Motion forum and do some reading on the M5 before you spend the money.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Tom Matthies] “I finally updated my otherwise very reliable system to Snow Leopard tonight and have lost my ability to play back mpeg2 encoded files”
When you say that, do you mean that you used the SL disc to update your OS, or you updated your system by doing a clean install?
Never update FCS or the OS when you’re running FCS. Always do a clean install, preferably on a fresh disc. Then you will have your old system on disc to use in an emergency, and also have access to files on the old disc.
Had you manually installed the SL 10.6.2 update you might have been OK. Using the automatic software update and going past 10.6.2 as you found, out breaks your mpeg2 component. This has been well documented in this and other forums. This can be fixed if you need a higher version for some reason, just go find the missing mpeg2 component folders from your old system, and move them to the new system. If you didn’t clone your drive, or do a clean install on fresh disc and don’t have the old system files you might try a reinstall of FCS.
If you have gone the update route, and are having problems but eventually get it worked out, you might consider starting over with a clean install soon. Odds are that there are corrupt/duplicate files from doing this that might cause random lockups/beachball just when you need your system the most. Be sure to trash your prefs and do a permissions repair too. If your FCS installation is temperamental, you might try some of the Digital Rebellion tools. The real, sure fire answer is the meticulas clean install. Everything else is a band-aid.
FWIW I’ve been running FCS on SL, since the day it came out, and it’s rock solid. I decided to freeze my system at 10.6.2 because no other software I run needs a higher version, and I don’t need app store access built into the OS.Recap
Always clone your system before doing any type of OS or FCS update no matter how trivial.
When moving up to a new version of OS and running FCS, always do a clean install.
Search the forums before updating FCS or the OS.
Snow Leopard breaks mpeg2 component after 10.6.2, stop there or get these files from a previous (working) install.
Snow Leopard doesn’t install QT 7 automatically, instead it installs QT 10.0. QT 7 is on the SL disc, it just has to be manually installed. Or you can just drag your QT 7 over from your cloned drive.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Christopher Key] ”
Thanks Shane – I have Final Cut Pro X (10.0.4)”If your asking about X, then you should go to the X forum. You won’t find a lot of help here since this is the Final Cut Pro forum. Two completely different applications.
Actually if your using X, there isn’t that much to it. iMovie on steroids.[Christopher Key] ” I assume whatever features were missing or changed – there has been an effort to make editors happy since -“
Highly debatable. Walter Murch remains unconvinced. In fact there is an entire forum dedicated to the debate over the merits, or lack thereof, movie hero.[Christopher Key] “I know the creative community here in Hollywood loves Final Cut”
Final Cut Pro is well liked. FCP X aka movie hero, not so much.
There are a bunch of advocates for X that have an iron in the fire because they sell training, plugins, etc. There are some folks that don’t need all the features of FCP, and X fits their workflow. There are some fanboys that will rave about anything apple does. And then there is everybody else.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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You didn’t say what format you need the window burn in.
But, you could export the timeline to a QT file, drop that into Compressor and use the TC generator in Compressor. And then if you have the Quick Clusters enabled so you are using all your cores, then it should be faster.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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As far as FCP is concerned, 99% of it’s in the manual. Pretty much all you need to understand Final Cut, or the rest of the suite, and a good place to start.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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Use the Write On behavior in Motion.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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[Mark Suszko] “Double-click that track to highlight it, go to video effects>mattes or masks>8-point or 12-point masking tool. There is a free 16-point masking tool out there somewhere as a plug-in, but I can’t find it. (Someone reading this: if you know where to get one, post a link please.)The more control points you have, the beter and simpler this job becomes. I usually use a 12-point tool, I think (I’m not at my edit computer this second to check) But for a relatively stationary centered-up bust shot, the 8-point or 10-point tool will do.”
The version of FCP I’m on only has 8 point garbage matte. Doubling that would be very handy for simple stuff like this.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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Hard to say for sure without seeing the shot.
Basically if someone is in front of the mural, you have to have a way to separate them from the BG.
Sounds like you are going to need to either roto, or make a difference matte, maybe corner pinning for the blur and do some tracking-match moving, or manual keyframing. Non of which is really FCP stuff, but typical of the things that can be done in Shake and probably AE. If you generated a matte in AE, I don’t understand why you aren’t fixing the problem there?
If this is time critical and not something you’re familiar with, your best bets are going to be to live with it, or farm it out.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?