[T. Payton]

Andy,

FYI. You can assign a keyboard command to create a todo marker. We still need a “Create and Modify Todo Marker” but it is a good start. New in 10.0.6.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Actually I’m on an original Mac Pro 2006, 20GB RAM, Radeon 5770 and FCP X works beautifully. I even get real time playback of native Red r3d 4K.

Did you happen to disable all your motion templates and plugins?

~movies/Motion Templates
/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro
/Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug

Also before you throw in the towel, give Apple a call.

When all else fails frankly some times a user account just gets corrupted and you have to start over your user account. It will probably be a good thing for you as there is a bunch of junk that gets accumulated in there.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

ON my system system some HDV frankly looks pretty nasty in FCP X when viewing in “Better Performance”. Can you see if it improves with “High Quality”?

Of course that doesn’t answer why it looks poor in QuickTime. Can you post a screen shot of both FCP X and QuickTime?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Even if it is just FCP X that is showing the problem it could be something else that is causing it. Be happy you don’t have my situiation. Every month or so Adobe CS 4 decides it will no longer launch at all. Therefore I spend about an hour every month uninstalling and reinstalling.

My first thought is font corruption. Check you ~/library/fonts folder. Disable those if there are any.

Are you using external monitoring? Matrox beta drivers for 10.0.6 are cause problems on my system. Disable or uninstall it.

Also remove these:

~/library/com.apple.FinalCut
~/library/com.apple.FinalCutPro

If that doesn’t work, open up your “Console” app a view “All Messages” then launch FCP X. It might give you some more info.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I just saw this little tutorial on Mocha Pro and made me think about your shot.

https://www.imagineersystems.com/videos/join-layers/view?utm_source=December+News+letter+2012&utm_campaign=May+8%2C+2012&utm_medium=email

This is showing how much work it is to track something as intricate as different planes on a subject. This is an example tracking a beard. Now granted this is incredible fast compared to doing it by hand (and probably more accurate, at least more accurate than my painting), it is still very involved.

I totally agree with Bill that you should do your best to move it out of frame.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Ouch that is a very big thing to patch. Even to patch a still in Photoshop would take quite a bit of work and repainting. Unless you have a hollywood budget for some work with Mocha Pro or frame by frame cloning, I’m thinking you just need to crop the shot so that the Mic doesn’t show.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I thought at first it was toggle, but you have to hold it down. Also in the Commands window it is called “Override connections”.

Also Apple just posted an article about updating safely:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5550

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Up at the App Store in the US now. Motion updated too.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Looks like we got multiple selection ranges, and export a range to boot!

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Oops. Sorry for posting this in the legacy forum. Just hit the wrong button. 😉

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque