A few FCP to Pr questions

I'm wondering if there's a tutorial somewhere that highlights the differences between FCP and Pr, and has tips on quickly getting up to speed.
Also, I'm perplexed about the red bar in the timeline. I imported a couple of FCP sequences via XML, and my video won't play. I can see it while parked. One of the factors may be that I have 1080 ProRes footage in a SD NTSC widescreen comp. FCP will play this footage, while dropping frames. But, Pr seems to not want to play it at all.
I'm also a bit confused by the Sequence Settings, and the separate Preview Settings options. I'm presuming these are similar to the Sequence Settings > Codec in FCP, but changing them up doesn't seem to have much effect on the play-ability of my footage.
I have a Kona LHi on my system, with the latest 9.0.1 CP and Adobe drivers installed. When I bring a 1080 sequence in with 1080 footage, it plays wonderfully.
But, I guess when mixing up frame and sequence sizes, I'll have to render a lot, yes? Is that a factor of not having one of the super duper new graphics cards for the Mercury system?

I don't see any Adobe presets that are 720 x 486. All the NTSC SDs, including DVCPro50 are 720 x 480. The only 720 x 486 is AJA > SD > Uncompressed. And that's the only one that will let me use the Kona.
Jim,
Not a problem: select one of the SD presets (doesn't matter which, but one close to your needs), and then click the Settings tab. Change the editing mode to "Custom," and then you can dial in the exact settings you need. Save it as a preset, and you can come back to it at any time to create a new fresh sequence. Here's what that looks like:
"Custom" Editing Mode is your friend Obviously, you can tweak any parameter you need; you can also specific the default number and kind of tracks you need on the Tracks tab.
But, I just tried what you suggested - copying my Sequence and dropping it into an Adobe DV Widescreen Sequence, and it is now playing all frames in the Pr Sequence Panel.
I guess that will get me through the offlines, and I can change my Comp to 486 in AE when I'm finished. Or, I can copy my 480 Sequence, paste it into an AJA 486, and render, if I want to see it through the Kona. That's a little Byzantine, but I guess it'll work.
As I suspected. There might be some settings as far as the AJA is concerned to tweak performance, but I don't know anything about that.
Here's a bit of a ghetto workaround to quickly check output: after you create your Adobe-native sequence, create a new AJA sequence and drop the Adobe sequence into it (nesting, as it's known). You can work in the Adobe sequence, and then toggle over to the AJA sequence to check output. Obviously, you're still not going to get great performance, but for quick checking it'll probably be a lot faster than copying and pasting every time. In the meantime, it might be worthwhile checking with AJA if they have any optimization suggestions.
I'm looking at an IO Express, myself, so I'm curious about how this all rolls out.

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9) I wasn't quite following the context here. Jim's talking about if a linked A/V clip is already on the timeline, if you alt-click the video or the audio portion, only that portion will be selected. Then (letting go of alt), you can drag just that selected video or audio segment if you need to deliberately slip them out of sync (and you'll get out of sync indicators showing up to tell you how much of a slip you're introducing).
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Hello.
long time protools user and returning logic user (version 3.x was the last interaction)
am really enjoying the sequencing aspects to logic but am becoming increasingly frustrated by what seems to be a few really simple features but constantly used features of protools.
hopefully someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
they all have to do with audio editing.
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back from work (for which I had to leave this morning...
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Hiro
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