[Steven Gonzales]

After you have the entire clip in Final Cut, you can select it and choose DV Start/Stop Detection from the Mark menu.

This will create markers for each time the camera operation was paused. You can then drag these markers to another bin to create subclips.

For more info, you can choose Final Cut User Manual under the Help menu, then in the search field typs DV start/stop

[Steven Gonzales]

When film goes through telecine to be put on video, it is not played at 24 frames per second. It is played at 23.976 (slowed down by 1/10th of 1 percent).

This allows the frames to sync with:

1) NTSC SD video at 29.97 frames per second (if 3:2 ratio video field manipulation is going on, referred to as “pull up” and “pull down” ),

OR

2) with HD video at 23.97 frames per second (if a 1:1 frame relation is being maintained between film and video).

This is also the reason that when you shoot dual system (as film does– sound and picture recorded separately) and you bring that new video and the original sound together you have to make some choices:

Edit at true 24 fps, by speeding the video back up in the computer by 1/10th of 1% (.1%) and syncing that way with the sound speed unchanged
OR
Edit at 29.97 and slow the original sound down by .1%
OR
Edit at 23.97 and slow the original sound down by .1%

Those are the basic ideas. Of course, when you finish on film, you have to undo all this timing mess in the opposite direction, but luckily once you are on video you are staying there.

[Steven Gonzales]

Since the Apple 30 inch display is not supported, I doubt the Dell 30 inch is.

Here’s the page with supported monitors:

https://www.matrox.com/video/support/mxo/rec/dvi_monitor.cfm

[Steven Gonzales]

Maybe you should see if they open in MPEG Streamclip https://www.squared5.com/ and then export them as something you can work with.

MPEG Streamclip allows cropping, etc., to get them to a standard size and codec.

[Steven Gonzales]

Here’s a tip to make a matching sequence for any format of master clip. It uses a trick involving multiclip.

https://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2007/02/18/quicktip-getting-those-sequence-settings-in-fcp-just-right/

Basically, you select the master clip in the browser, control click on it for the contextual menu. select Make Multiclip sequence. Then you go into the resulting sequence, and delete the multiclip, and cut in your original media, because you now have a matching timeline/sequence.

[Steven Gonzales]

How about syncing all your audio clips to your video clip in a timeline. Then export only the audio to one long file, and bring that back in, then merge that combined long audio file as a merged clip.

[Steven Gonzales]

Quicktime Pro has export options in its dictionary for Applescript. Here’s an example of a script that exports from Quicktime Pro.

Perhaps you could easily modify to export still of the current frame, then do this export work using Quicktime Pro

https://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=15111

[Steven Gonzales]

I looked up the FCP 3.0.4 update, and it has system requirements as OS 10.2.1, and Quicktime 6.0.2

https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/finalcutpro304.html

Here’s an OS 10.1 operating system bundle for $40

https://www.welovemacs.com/1z6913184a.html

[Steven Gonzales]

You listed FCP 5.1.4.

Which version of quicktime are you on? Perhaps your quicktime version is not compatible with the older FCP.

[Steven Gonzales]

The firmware update from Apple that caused ram problem checked ram for timing compliance. The memory that failed did not run at the faster speeds required in the new firmware, or was not able to report that it was capable (and thus wouldn’t have run at that higher speed).

There was no malicious code based on ram manufacturer. There was only code with a query to detect ram that could not operate in the higher speed mode required by the firmware.

I’m not sure about your Final Cut issues, but I’ve had problems with large projects in the past, so I always keep them pared down.