Final Cut creative suite Authorizing.

I recently acquired Final Cut Pro and when i tried to open Cinema Tools after an update it asked me to reauthorize the program. Is it supposed to be the same serial number as FCP or did another one come with it?

Why don't you enter your serial number and see what happens?

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What do i have to do , should i install first the older version or can i install the new version directly?
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You will need to run the studio2 package. All you need to install the upgrade is your original serial number

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Welcome to dicussions John!
Well I have an iMac G5 I run FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Macromedia 8, and Photoshop CS2 with out any problems I even run some of these applications at the same time with out any problems, now you will find some problem when rendering video a Dual G5 will obiously do the job alot faster somenthing that takes 60 to 70 on a Dual G5 will take you 2:30m on a iMac G5, hope this info helps you.
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We are purchasing a new MacPro with Final Cut Pro Studio to edit High Def video (1080x1920) in a professional sports setting. Initial storage will equal 12 TB. I've always felt original internal hard drives are more desirable: higher quality, fully compatible with Mac, and faster I think. Others feel that external storage is "safer." Should we get a MacPro with 8TB internal or go with all external? What are the advantages/disadvantages with each? Thank you very much in advance.
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A hard drive is not going to change.
An external case has its own PSU and cooling.
SATA II is not going to change.
"Sharing" one channel for multiple drives is the only way it would be slow, using Port Multiplier.
There are very nice rugged storage racks for 8-12 drives and $600 range controllers. Take a look at what Fibre Channel offers. What the Apple XRAID once was.
I'd put the system on 10K 600GB WD probably, and not worry too much about internal storage. Also, you say "initial storage" so that assumes your needs are in the 20TB and you never using more than 60%. A good RAID can maintain performance to higher %.
Disk drives have made port multiplier less useful until SATA III chipsets arrive.
http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/BurlyPortMultiEncl.php
http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/BurlyRAID.php
The quality of the drives, buying 'spares' as well.

Will disabling Spotlight affect Final Cut Studio suite?

Many of my composer friends have disabled Spotlight which speeds up their machines supposedly.
They use Spotless2 & Find Any File as their cpu search utility.
I wanted to check to see if trying this would pose any problems in Final Cut Studio, etc.
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Disabling Spotlight indexing of media/render drives would not adversely affect FCS at all, many folks do just that.

Switching from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere

Hi everyone,
Hopefully there are others here who have made this switch and can offer me thoughts and advice. I have for the past few years used the Final Cut Pro suite as my video authoring media. It's done a great job editing and compressing my videos, so I could burn them to DVD, but the time has come for me to start burning to blu-ray. The problem is, DVD Studio Pro does not support blu-ray (something I discovered after buying the burner, etc).
After some research, it seems that Adobe Encore is the only software I've found that people recommend for blu-ray authoring on the iMac. Is this true? If I buy Adobe Premiere, will it edit, compress, does it have a color program - basically, will it do everything I've been using Final Cut for, or will I need to move files between the two programs (if they even support this?)
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You can download a trial version. I tried it some time ago and I can only use one word "boring" sorry I can not explain this feeling in a more concrete way.

Final Cut Pro 6 App says it's 495GB in size! Say what?

I'm trying to clear out hard drive space to keep FCP 7 and FCPX running smooth. I was horrified to discover that under my directory Macintosh>Applications>Final Cut Pro 6 =495.27GB in size! In comparison to FCPX 10.1 which is 3.34GB in size. How can this be? I'd imagine MAYBE with the entire Final Cut Studio suite would POSSIBLY be that large in size, but just the Final Cut 6 app????
Can anyone else verify their size by right clicking and clicking "info" when the FCP6 application in the finder window. I never noticed this before and think something is wrong here. Thanks
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Thanks a million Shane, this is indeed what happened. Apple felt like putting all of my render files inside the App for no provoked reason! I always run my media on a 2nd dedicated internal hard drive for my media, so I never unplugged or unconnected my Media drive...but I suspect UPGRADING to Mavericks, or should I say, I was forced to upgrade to Mavericks in order to give FCPX a whirl. I assume this issue occured when I made the update to my system, I'm just now noticing it though since I've been using FCPX the last month exclusively.
By the way Shane, since I've pretty much mastered FCP7 like a lot of older power users, how do you feel about FCPX? Are you currently using X? I like that its 64 bit but I HATE connected clips, and the way it handles audio editing. I always wished FCP7 was given a makeover and made 64 bit with updated graphics instead of changing over to this beast! Thanks again Shane.

Final Cut (Server) as an application server for web-video ??

Hi,
we are currently evaluating different solutions to automatically postprocess video files, which are uploaded to a web-server.
The video files are flash-videos (flv) uploaded from the public internet to our web-server. Each uploaded video has to be postprocessed, (applying some slight color grading and processing the audio with audio-units plugins) and finally converted to a h264 video file. The Webserver and the workstation are connected by ethernet or a fast internet connection.
Is this possible with the Final Cut (Server) automation features?
Any feedbacks, ideas or alternatives are welcome.
Thanks in advance fom Berlin, Gemany,
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Final Cut Server's video processing is limited to what Compressor can be set up to do with a file. The rest of the automation potential lies with communication among teams of users and file movement. FLV is not readable by default (via QuickTime), so you would still need the Episode Engine plugin to be able to process FLV inputs. Final Cut Server does not script the comings and goings of the applications in the Final Cut Studio suite, it is a tool for managing multiple artists and editors all batting work around to each other and feeding it to producers for approval and feedback.

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I just updated to Final Cut Pro Suite 2 but Final Cut Pro, Compressor, & DVD Studio Pro wont open with my display selected to 1280 X 720, 60 Hz, Millions. It demands that I have it set to 1024 X 768, 75 Hz, Millions, which looks like trash.
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Final Cut won't run if the display is fewer than 1024 pixels wide, or 768 pixels tall. Either one will trigger the minimum-size error message.
What the **** kind of display do you have that won't draw at least 768 lines?

Working with final cut x (10.0.9) on macbook pro want to add compressor cannot download 4- where can I download 3

working with final cut x (10.0.9) on macbook pro want to add compressor cannot download 4… where can I download 3?

It has been available at some online retailers (Amazon) and EBay – but only as part of the discontinued Final Cut Studio suite. It would be cost--prohibitive to buy and there are other more cost-effective solutions. Depending on what you need to do, MPEG Streamclip might be a (free) solution. There are others – Episode, for example, which is not cheap at $500– but less than haf the cost of buying an used copy of FCS.
Another approach (and the one I would follow in your situation) would be to install Mavericks on an external, bootable drive. Run a copy of FCP 10.1 and Compressor 4.1 from that drive.
Good luck.
Russ

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I've been running the same Final Cut Pro Suite HD (FCP HD 4.5) for about 6 or so years now and it's time to upgrade to the current version of Studio to my new iMac.
Does anybody know how do I go about upgrading my package and what is the UK cost for an upgrade to the latest version of Final Cut Studio?
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Sizo65

>If you can find it anywhere, a new copy of FCS 2009 costs $299.
Don't you mean $999? That's the going price here in the US...again, if you can find it. Discontinued back in June...then reluctantly sold again by Apple and only if you called them direct. NO upgrade pricing.

Advise on upgrading to Final Cut Studio

Hi,
I'm still using my trusted old Final Cut Production Suite (FCP HD 4.5) and it's now time to upgrade my old G5 PowerMac to the new i.7 MacBook Pro. I'd like to know if upgrading from my old software to the current FCP Studio software is straight forward to do?
Cheers
Si
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Yes. Purchase the FCS 2009 (aka FCS3) upgrade version.
Install JUST the new FCS on the new computer. During the installation, FCP will ask for the previous version serial number. Enter it and the new serial and be happy.
Do NOT install the previous FCS version.
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They will need Final Cut 6.02
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/finalcutpro602.html
Release notes:
http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/FinalCut_Pro_6.0rn/
Mac Pro discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=194
Final Cut discussion is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=939
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Try changing your capture presets to one that matches your camera, and of course make sure your camera is in VTR/VCR mode. Make sure you are using Firewire.
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You Macbook Pro is Intel processor based. The first version of FCP 5, part of Final Cut Studio 1 was Power PC based up until version 5.1.1 when they went universal. If you're trying to install FCP5 version 5.0.4 or earlier it won't work at all on your Intel based Macbook Pro. You need to upgrade to FCP 5.1 or later, which means sending in your FCS discs to Apple and they'll send you back the universal versions which will work on both the Intel and Power PC based platforms. Hope this makes sense.
If you're using FCP 5.1.1 or later on your Macbook Pro but it's not working right then you need to provide more info about your system: Anything that will help to diagnose your problem. All things being equal, your Macbook Pro should certainly be able to run FCP 5.1.1 or later.
- Don

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