FCP hd on Tiger

Hi
I tried to install FCP 4 in tiger but it says that
need higher or faster processor and AGP graphic card.
I do not know why this happened. Is that mean Tiger only need FCP 5?
Please help me

#29: Need AGP Graphics card
Shane's Stock Answer #29
You either need to either:
1) use the following hack -
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/finalcut_pro_on_oldmacs.html
or
2) Upgrade to FCP 5
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302667
Shane

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sudo pmset spindown x
type your password when it asks for it.
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0 = never
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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1. html
And I found this here
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Hi Guys,
thanx for your replies.
here's the latest:
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I have only had this happen twice and the second time was just this morning. On my laptop running Tiger latest version and FCP 4.5 and QT 7.1 (I think)
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Only upgrade if your not in the middle of a project. Sometimes things don't go as smooth as they should. Also, backup your main drive and settings to another drive before upgrading, so if you need to, you can downgrade to where you were, (just a word of caution, learned from experience.)
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Before i go into too much detail, how many of you are having KERNAL ERRORS with FCP 5 and Tiger with the latest updates?
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Since my second suite is still running FCP 4.5 and compressor I ran the same tests in the old suite and the levels looked fine, suggesting that there is an issue with Compressor 2.
I tried to alert Apple directly and was told that they had no way of putting me in touch with anyone directly. So I hope that for the sake of other users and myself this posting will ring some alarm bells.
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an ideal world
714-953-9501
[email protected]

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However, if you're talking about the so-called Quartz 2D Extreme then my system doesn't support such acceleration (and as far as I know Q2DE isn't even enabled yet -- not on any system -- you need a developer debug tool to turn it on).

Suggestions for VERY sluggish timeline?

Does anyone have any ideas for how to remedy a very sluggish timeline? I have searched this forum and I've seen problems with FCP 5 and Tiger that sound similar to mine, but I'm running FCP 4.5 and OS 10.3.9.
My timeline has slowed to the point where I can barely use the drag and drop functions anymore. When I do, and two clips butt up next to eachother, I get the pinwheel for a few seconds before I can drop the clip and when I do, it generally shifts past where I wanted to drop it - even in snapping mode!
You can forget about using slip and slide - these have been rendered useless. Right now, I am forced to use the blade tool, cut the selected clip out of the timeline and paste it in where I want it. What a pain!
My timelines are not that long - only 20 minutes. the only suspicion I have is that all my media is running off of firewire drives, rather than internals. But it's the internal drive that is spinning when the timeline hangs up. The other thing I've noticed is that this doesn't happen nearly as badly when I am working on a 30fps timeline, as opposed to the 24fps timeline that I am working in now.
Any ideas? It's not a processor issue (dual 2.5 ghz) or a RAM issue (2.5 ghz RAM). What's up?!???!

There are many reasons why we ALL get dropped frames on playback. Some have been addressed here.
For me, I always seem to get them when I'm viewing on external monitor and don't have things rendered properly. A small crossfade that "looks" rendered but is only actually 'kind-of-rendered' so it plays in RT can easily clog playback so you get dropped frame warnings. Do you have ANY non rendered things in the timeline? If you don't want to go through and trash your render files and re-render... at least do Command-A -- Option-R... the Option R should render out everything to FULL render and not just what FCP things it needs to render it to to get it to play in your RT settings... FCP's often wrong there.
CaptM

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Hi,
welcome to the forum,
Bearing in mind what you said in the last few lines of your post I would suggest to keep a positive and constructive attitude. People here don't usually make random and careless suggestions.
Based on the amount of info that you provided I can only suggest two things:
1) Delete all your renders and render everything again
2) Create a new project and sequence and copy and paste everything.
Genuinely trying to help basing my suggestions more on intuition rather than deduction.
G

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Has one been invented yet? I need it badly. My FCP just hates any MPEG2 footage. It's a crash-fest. And a utility that does this would save me a step and the time of transcoding to ProRes after importing the XDCam.
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Hey Jim
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http://www.imagineproducts.com/files/pdf/sonyworkflow.pdf
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