[Shane Ross]

Well, having done the SAME thing myself, what you need to do is export an EDL of your timeline, use Cinema Tools to convert it to a 23.98 timeline, re-import that EDL and then re-capture the HD footage.

[Shane Ross]

Shane’s Stock Answer #8:

If for some reason you can’t view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:

1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.

2) In the FILE menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.

3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.

4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.

5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices

6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed

If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section

For all the stock answers, click on this link:
https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?50@941.OTrRaOS9SEl.0@.68a3b883

[Shane Ross]

Try these:

1) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.

2) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.

[Shane Ross]

DVDxDV. Costs $25 and can be found at http://www.lafcpug.org in the store.

I use this all the time.

[Shane Ross]

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/cc_legal_fcp4.html

[Shane Ross]

When you tell it to ignore the dropped frame warning…it is not warning you when it is dropping frames, but it is still dropping them. And each of those QT files are tied to one clip in FCP…but can’t be opened separately. Everytime a dropped frame occurred, it began a new QT file.

THis is bad. You don’t want to ignore those warnings, you want to not drop frames.

1) Set a limit on Capture Now. Never have that box unchecked. Set it to 60 min if you want the whole tape.

2) Do not under any circumstances run any anti-virus/filesaver software. Including Norton and Virex. Sure, Apple doles out Virex for free, but FCP doesn’t cooperate with it very well.

If you absolutely feel you must keep Virex installed on your system then use Kevin’s script to shut it off before you use FCP:
https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@85.zPgDaaNeQzT.323013@.68a85d17

3) Do not capture to your main system drive.

4) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mas OS Extended, jornalling off. If it isn’t, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.

Trash the FCP preference file:
Home/library/preferences/FCP user data/Final cut Pro Preferences
Or better yet, Google FCP RESCUE and download that. It automatically trashes all teh files that need trashing. I am forgetting 2 files….

[Shane Ross]

Check out http://www.promax.com. they have great turnkey FCP systems.

And I brought this up the other day here:

https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@398.KsrCanpKV2Z.2@.68ab3e90

[Shane Ross]

BTW I believe that digibeta compression is 1.6:1. Not much, but it compresses it.

[Shane Ross]

The Dell 21″ 2500 Wide Aspect monitor. VERY nice. Our graphics guy has two on his system and I am jealous….

[Shane Ross]

FCP does not support the HDV format at this time. Only iMovie HD and FC Express currently work with the HDV format.