FCP 5.1 and tiger

When I bought my new imac, they told me if i am running FCP 5.1 I should stay with tiger, now i'm having freezing problems with the imac, and they are telling me to upgrade to imac software update 1.3 (leopard) to fix it, can i still run FCP 5.1 on Leopard?

5.1.4 and tiger with QT 7.1 was a very stable system for me. Even 7.2, though that caused big messes for some other high end users.
I'd suggest doing some simple maintenance on your iMac before forcing a leap to Leopard (Which is working very well for me with 5.1 now)
Repair Permissions - /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility - first aid tab... select your system HD name and hit REPAIR PERMISSIONS. Do this twice.
Other things we could try too if that doesn't help - might want to get a copy of a program like COCKTAIL and run those kron scripts.
Your iMac shouldn't be freezing... nor should anybody be telling you that a system upgrade NEEDS to happen just because you are having issues with your mac.
Now - THAT said... when are the freezes happening? Are they related to FCP? If so - google for FCPRescue and use v5 to delete your FCP preference files.
And with THAT said too -- I love Leopard. It's a great system with a few little bugs. If FCP is not (NOT) your main source of income I'd go ahead and make the switch. Your best bet for that (and not the default install) is to clone your drive to another drive using somethign like carbon copy cloner. Then use the instal disc to wipe your drive and install fresh - rebuilding everything from the ground up.
I did an overwrite install of Leopard and it worked fine... for a while... ended up doing a full fresh install of everything shortly after just because there were a few things that were goofy.
Just my thoughts.
CaptM

Similar Messages

FCP 5.02 and 5.03 HDV codec not found?

Hi i installed a few systems but now i have a machine (G5 tiger 10.4.2 fcp 5.03 and a BM card with driver 5.1.1etc. etc. where if i try to choose easy setup it tells me Codec not found. you may be using a compression type without the corredponding hardware card.
and if i then choose seq. setting HDV :
Videocompressor HDV 1080i50 was not found present and enabled for this compressor setting the video compressor to Animation?
Also there are still intermidate codec's in my library? :
/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Custom Settings/HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i50.fcpre
help wanted
cheers
martijn

Have you tried copying the codec from one of the other machines? Might try that?
Jerry

FCP 4.5 and Leopard/QT7.3 are enemies. BAD UPDATE

I have some very upset customers... I was half reading the ** updates 2 weeks ago and accidentally upgraded to QT 7.3. I have since installed Leopard and NOT upgraded to 7.3. The problem is still there... Captures 4 mins then freezes on a frame. Audio continues
the problem isnt QT7.3 but something that both leopard and QT 7.3 changed.
I have rebuilt prefs and everything. I think apple didnt take into consideration that there are people still using 4.5 when they made their changes.

Corine, wow you registered three years ago and this is your first post. You must have had great luck with your Mac. I have spent a lot of time here lately because QT 7.3 broke my FCP 5.04. I had to install a new system on a my second drive and update to only 7.2.
To set up a second boot drive, you have a couple of choices. I have two disks in my machine, on one I will keep QT 7.2 and Tiger until I pay upgrade fees worth more than my computer. On the second drive I will probably install Leopard and use it for Logic Pro 8.
The other way is to clone your current startup drive with a program called Carbon Copy Cloner onto your external drive. This is also a great back up strategy. I will let others chime in since I do not have a cloned drive quite yet (I do have backups). Do a search for Carbon Copy Cloner both in this forum and in Google and you will find a lot of info.
Good luck, Eric

Problem about .xml file from PPro CS5 to FCP with RED and P2 file.

I have create a Project in Premiere Pro CS5.
I import the RED file R3D or P2 file XMF and editing my media.
From menù File i select Export to "Final Cut Pro XML.."
I open FCP and Import file XML but the media are not reconnect.
"Warrnig: Non-critical error were found while processing an XML document.
Would you like to see a log of these error now?"
I want see the log file and...
"<file>: Unable to attach specified media file to new clip."
Where is the problem?

Hi Dennis I re-format my MACPRO 8 Core and I installed Final Cut Studio Suite and CS5 Premium (no CS4)
I install Blackmagick driver Decklink 7.6.3
If I open the After Effects and setting preview card blackmagic, I see the preview in external monitor.
If I open the Premiere Pro and setting preview, I don't see the blackmagic card but the second monitor, DV....etc.
In Premiere I see the blackmagic preset, but no the preview card.
I have a second question.
About Red file I want editing in Premiere Pro and i whant color correct in Apple Color from FCP.
My problem is: my color program crash when I send file form FCP to Color (random mode)
The sequence is:
I import file red in PPro5 -- editing file --- export file xml.
Close the PPro5.
Open FCP import xml (no re-link media)
Save de project in FCP
Select sequence and send to Color.
In this moment the Apple Color crash.
I shutdown the MAC.
I power-up the MAC
Open FCP select the project and send the sequence to Color.
Color see the project but no media.
I re link the media and I editing in color my media.
Why Apple Color program crash?
Sorry for my English
Many Thanks
Distinti saluti
Gianluca Cordioli
Alchemy Studio'S di Gianluca Cordioli
Via Pacinotti 24/B
37135 VERONA
cell.:+39 3385880683
[email protected]
www.alchemystudios.it

Why can't I use WebCT chat with my computer? I get the 'spiral of death' every time I try to type in my chat. I have a feeling it has to do with compatibility issues between Java and Tiger.

Why can't I use WebCT chat with my computer? I get the 'spiral of death' every time I try to type in my chat. I have a feeling it has to do with compatibility issues between Java and Tiger.

Hi Elizabeth,
Do your Mac meet any of these requirements?
http://www.wvnet.edu/services/webct/requirements.html
From this it appears to be PC only!???
http://sourceforge.net/projects/awebctcclient/files/Pancake%20%28it%20own%20proj ect%20now%29/Pancake%20Console%20V1.0.0/PancakeConsole-1.0.0-src.zip/download
Can you provide any more info on which bersion or file you have?
Can you tell us why you need this for your use?

Running Leopard on one partition and Tiger on another partition?

I have recently purchased a family pack of Leopard, and I am reading up on a lot of the posts, here, before I venture the installation on two machines. I intend to install Leopard one machine at a time and give a few weeks between installations.
One machine is a 20" 2.0 Ghz Intel - IMAC Aluminum (August 2007), and the other is a G4 Powerbook 17" 1.67ghz 250GB HD. I will probably install on the IMAC first.
My question concerns the G4 Powerbook 17." I have just purchased a 250gb internal hard drive; however, it has not arrived yet. From time to time, I want to be able to run a few programs in classic....., and to have that available to me in the rare event that I want to look at files formatted for classic programs. Call me old fashion or unable to let go of the past... .in any event, I have some files that may be difficult to convert or some software that I do not want to purchase in OS X because I use those programs so rarely.
Initially, I considered just having an external fire wire drive with Tiger installed on it in which I could boot classic up on the rare occasion.
My new idea has been to partition the internal drive to have 10 gb or so available for Tiger. Has anyone successfully run Leopard on one partition and Tiger on the other partition or do they potentially cause problems for one another? Any suggestions, recommendations or concerns are welcomed.

Works like a champ. I run Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and OS 9 on the G4 w/o problems.
Get a bootable, external HD, partition it into enough volumes to accommodate each machine, and make bootable backups/clones of each machine before upgrading/updating and ensure that each boots that machine and works like the original. That allows you to revert to the previous good state without having to reinstall anything. See these for details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html
Once that's finished, review these for upgrading options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5757385
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5666369
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5646414

Coverflow crashing Mac using ATI 9800 and Tiger

just gave my MDD dual G4 a birthday and installed an ATI 9800 pro mac edition card and moved from Panther to Tiger, however I have a problem:
first of all let me say, I have 2 monitors connected to my mac using 2 separate graphics cards, ie 1 screen per card, my other card is a PCI ATI 7000 32mb and the problem I am about to describe does not happen on the ATI 7000 card/monitor it works perfectly fine.
problem: iTunes displayed on the new 9800 pro card if I try to switch to coverflow mode my mac completely freezes, dead, requiring a reboot, however if I move iTunes over to my other monitor it works just fine which leads me to think that its a bug with the 9800 and Tiger?
needles to say I have rebuilt my iTunes library and loaded the latest drivers for my graphics cards, and OSX is bang up to date:
anyone else get this problem?

btw both monitors connected by DVI

Aperture, iPhoto, Mail, FCP X, Motion and Compressor suddenly kaput!

Yesterday I discovered that Aperture and iPhoto, which I hadn't used for several weeks, were refusing to open and throwing up an error message saying there was a "problem and they probably weren't compatible with this version of the operating system etc."
Shortly after, I discovered that Mail and the latest versions of FCP X, Compressor and Motion were also disabled.
After searching the internet/forums it appeared that this problem (with Aperture) could be caused by installing FCE 4, which I had done a week earlier and the only cure was to reinstall the OS.
I deleted FCE 4 and went through all the usual troubleshooting strategies to no avail so I reinstalled OS X 10.8.5 which which took less than an hour and luckily appears to have cured the problem. (I had been dreading reinstalling the OS as I mistakenly assumed it would wipe all the apps and folders off my Mac ......... but of course it didn't.)
So has anyone had a similar experience or can shed any light on this?
Now I have to decide whether I dare reinstall FCE 4 ...........

Quite a few bug fixes, like the text position bug in Lion has been fixed.
Here's some from Tim Payton on the COW
- During Playback, zooming the timeline with the keyboard doesn't send you to the end of the timeline
- Scale controls on timeline now update live
- Synchronize Clips now works if you have multiple non overlapping video clips for a single audio clip. (huge!)
- Preroll and Post Roll settings in preferences work.
- HDV Footage with "better performance" doesn't look nearly as bad. Way less flashing.
- Timeline feels much snappier.
- Timeline index now includes sortable columns: name, roles, & notes, and you can edit the values! (huge!)
- Zooming on the timeline now really centers on the playhead if skimming off, skimmer if skimming on
- Inspector updates more consistently to the clip selected.
- Startup is much faster.

FCP motion tabs and things

When I am im (for example) the motion tab in FCP, and i want to increase a slide (say the scale slider) how do i increase the scale by an increment of 1 at a time. The only wa i see of doing this is
-typing in a new figue
-moving the slider
In horrid Avid I would press the up or down arrow and the settings would change accordingly so it's easy to fine tune and not be guessng figures...there musy be a way of doing this in FCP?
MacPro, (and others!) Mac OS X (10.4.9) Quad core 3Ghz, Kona LHe, 8 gig RAM, 3TB fibre channel,RAID, 30" ACDisplay

Doh.. am i being thick here? < </div>
Well, yes, you are, but we are all members of the DOH! Club.
Some of us won't admit it.
You are going to find that the increments on some of those FCP motion and effects sliders are nonlinear or completely nonsensical.
bogiesan

Canon 650D doesn't support FCP 7 log and transfer...

Canon 650D doesn't support FCP 7 log and transfer...
anyone know how to solve this problem? thanks alot

Download and install the latest version of the E-1 plugin from Canon’s website here:
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/eos_slr_camera_systems/eos_digita l_slr_cameras/eos_rebel_t4i#DriversAndSoftware
If this didn't work, follow this creativecow post to modify cameras.plist file; if there's still no go, follow this guide to either modify the .plist file or convert your footage to Apple ProRes, the native editing format of Final Cut Pro.
Hope this helps
John

C300 fcp 7 log and transfer

hi. i have a folder structure and i am trying to import on my hard drive via log and transfer. i don't have the original card. I downloaded both the xf utility and the xf transfer. i am on 10.8.6. Each time i am getting the unsupported media error. The folder reads : "AA39" with the contents"AA0399.CIF
AA0399.THM
AA0399.XML
AA039901.MXF
AA039901.SIF
all my codecs are up to date. any ideas. thanks.

That's not the proper card structure. It needs to look like this. if it doesn't, then you don't have the proper card structure, and FCP will not import the footage. The FULL INTACT card structure is needed in order for FCP to Log and Transfer the footage.

Logic 6 and Tiger Issue

I just upgraded to tiger, from panther.. I'm still using logic pro 6, and after 3 days of erratic behaviour (long long start ups amongst other dialogue boxes), now it wont start up at all.
I also use a motu 828 mkII, and have installed the latest tiger drivers for this product, to no avail.
If anyone wants to know, i really don't think it's compatible with tiger, and although i was going to upgrade anyway as soon as i could, now i have a problem..... do i go back to panther in order to finish my tune? what a waste of time! Shame there wasnt a warning from apple..so i do it for you.

Nathan Pangburn, "Logic 6 and Tiger Issue" #3, 11:38am Oct 26, 2005 CDT
Be aware, there is one bug that I know of with Logic Pro 6.4 and 10.4. If you try to change a song's metronome settings, Logic will crash.
I think that's the only known issue.
The workaround is to create songs in 10.3 with the desired metronome settings and use them as templates in 10.4.

I want to pass my iMAC along to my kids. System is 10.4.11 or 10.5.11. Have original Lion and Tiger OS discs. What do I need to do to set it up for a new user?

I want to pass my iMAC along to my kids. System is 10.4.11. Have original Lion and Tiger OS discs. What do I need to do to set it up for a new user?

I'm having to guess at which iMac you have. This forum covers three older variants of the iMac family that were made from 1998-2005 with three different processor types.
If yours has a G-series processor, it can run neither Lion 10.7 nor Snow Leopard 10.6. If the processor is a G5 or a G4 (must be faster than 867mHz( you can install Leopard 10.5. If your plan is to reinstall the OS before turing over the computer, let us know which iMac you have (doing "About this Mac" from the Apple menu will give the processor type--that will do for this purpose)
If "About this Mac" says you have an Intel processor, you have a much newer iMac. Let us know and I can ask the Hosts to move it to that separate forum.
If you wish to maintain control over the computer, you can go to System Preferences > Accounts and set up a new standard account. The user logged into that acct can pretty much use anything installing in that account but cannot install new software or modify the system. That means less chance of something bad getting on the computer but also means they wil be asking you to help install stuff as they won't have access.
If you wish to give the kids full control, set up a new account with admin priveleges, then either strip content form your account and leave it, or simply delete it once you are satisfied that the new accout is working.
This Apple support page is chock-full of helpful tips on manageing accounts and security in OS10.4 Tiger"
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/accounts/

Best ways to run FCP 10.1 and FCP 7 on same machine?

I though I understood this complication was resolved with the introduction of FCP 10.1. Is having FCP 10.1 and FCP7 on the same drive and partition still a problem. I have partitioned my SSD Boot drive in case if it is, however had planned on using only half for Applications ONLY and the other half for occasional projects. I really didn't want any applications (FCP 10.1) on a cluttered partition.
I thought I read about a work around to keeping FCP 10.1 and 7 together in the same application partition. It had something to do with just taking all the application out of the old Final Cut Studio folder and just dropping them in the (root) folder. If this is really possible, this sounds like the best solution to my issue.
Thank you in advance for any help you can lend me.

KidVid wrote:
Yikes. Ok Ok. Im going to load Mavericks then load FCP 10.1 in the same Applications folder as my current Final Cut Studio.
If anyone has any second thoughts or additional warnings please let me know.
I will give an update ASAP.
Thank you.
As Ian has discussed loading the apps is a piece of cake.
What can happen if you have updated over one or more Operating Systems is that any "bad luggage" contained in a previous system can be inherited.
That is why a "Clean install" is done.
Another thing worth considering is using another drive altogether to load Mavericks "Clean Install" and boot from that. It's called dual boot.
This would leave you existing drive and stuff untouched.
Your call on this.
Al

Spotlight and cmd-F (find) and Tiger Cache Cleaner

OK it's taken me years, but I finally have a Mac with the "classic" applications selection menu (ASM) on the absolute far right - thanks to "ASM" shareware and Tiger Cache Cleaner to remove Spotlight.
But when I re-activate Spotlight, I see that it now has to spend 4 hours recataloging my HD. OK, not a problem, but I wonder if I use cmd-F "FIND" is this going to be much much slower than a cataloged SPOTLIGHT?
What about EasyFind 3.9?
And with cmd-F (FIND) (like with Spotlight) is there any way (other than cut and paste) to have the Mac WAIT until I've typed all my search letters BEFORE it starts going crazy and searching? I typed "S" and before I got to type "Steve" I had a zillion files that it had found...
OK and any comments on how safe this is to have used Tiger Cache Cleaner to remove Spotlight... appreciate that!
(now how to get rid of the Apple application menu in words and replace that (just to the right of the APPLE menu) with just the application LOGO to save Menu Bar space. I know a HAXIE does that, but Haxies mess-up and slow down my MacBook Intel core duo 2 ghz just tooooo much.
Thanks!
Steve

EasyFind works fine. It's slower than Spotlight because it doesn't use an index, but it can find things Spotlight can't.
To eliminate the "live" search behavior of Spotlight, use a third-party Spotlight front-end (there are several on versiontracker.com).

FCP 5.1 and tiger

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for