Final Cut Pro HD on a MacBookPro

Can it be done? Will it be worth while or should I just get FCP express? I've got a g5 tower with the production suite that includes FCPHD, Motion, and DVDSP. I want a macbook pro and am just curious of whether or not i can put my FCP on there.

As a full time production unit it'll struggle, especially with Motion 2. While the Core 2 Duo processor used in the MBP is quite capable there are many levels on which a professional editor will find an MBP lacking… GPU performance, drive performance and capacity, memory bandwidth and capacity. All of which are essential to the video editor.
Ultimately, yes you can install and use FCS onto an MBP. Many do and many are happy with it. It really comes down to your own expectations and performance requirements.

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Dear Ben,
Thanks for your help. Apple and I dealt with this. It was an FCP, NOT Motion problem. As It seems you understand, we simply trashed my FCP prefs. Problem went right away.
Thanks. Do you live near Hammond? Played in a rugby tournment down there once. I was transformed.
MS

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found out why Final Cut 10.1 won't load my custom titles without crashing. When scrolling text in Motion 5.1 if you ad a graphic to scroll with the text Final Cut 10.1 will crash. If I remove the graphic in Motion and then load it into Final Cut 10.1 it will work.
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Final Cut Pro Quit Unexpectedly
Process:         Final Cut Pro [4123]
Path:            /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier:      com.apple.FinalCut
Version:         10.1 (238755)
Build Info:      ProEditor-23875005025000000~5
App Item ID:     424389933
App External ID: 223682791
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [175]
Responsible:     Final Cut Pro [4123]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2013-12-28 12:37:04.233 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: E080EF73-4EC7-F729-7343-2C37817936C6

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Get a MacBookPro 17" and upgrade to FCP5.1
You need the 17" to get the firewire 800 port - necessary if you want to edit anything more than DV or HDV.
The upgrade from FCP4 to FCP5.1 is very inexpensive now (offer expires in mid December) and you would be very foolish to not do it.
good luck.
x
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Final Cut Pro finished project looks good in FC but when I export The slugs appear as a Red screen any ideas?

You certainly are new at this. That's cool, we all were new at one point.
You have a MacBookPro. That means you are using at least Mac OS X 10.5.6. Otherwise FCS 3 would not even install. You also should have QuickTime 7 installed. If you don't, it's in the Additional Installs folder on the Mac OSX disc that came with your computer.
OS 2 is an ancient Microsoft/IBN product and doesn't run on a Mac and certainly won't run Final Cut.
Your camera shoots in AVCHD format. The files are MPEG 4 and should have been transcoded to ProRes LT for use in FCP. Your Sequence settings should also be ProRes LT to match the transcoded footage.
Your laptop is not a codec.
Wiki definition:
A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. word codec is a portmanteau of 'compressor-decompressor' or, more commonly, 'coder-decoder'. A codec (the program) should not be confused with a coding or compression format or standard – a format is a document (the standard), a way of storing data, while a codec is a program (an implementation) which can read or write such files. In practice "codec" is sometimes used loosely to refer to formats, however.
Don't export using QuickTime Conversion. Export as Self Contained with Current Settings (same as your FCP Sequence, which by now is hopefully ProRes LT. Import that file into iDVD.
Better yet, learn DVD Studio Pro and Compressor. Both are included in Final Cut Studio and will give you far more control and much better results.
Whilst your video is encoding, take the time to read the user manuals found in the menu bar under the Help item. They contain a wealth of information and you can amaze the teacher and fellow students with your new found knowledge.

Final Cut Pro dropped frame rate issue

Hi there, i currently shot a short film on the canon 5d mark II 30fps and i am trying to edit it in final cut studio 2. I have recently bought the new macbook pro 15inch 2gb module.
Now the canon footage is h.264 but when importing the clips into final cut pro 6 there is a lot of dropped frame rate issues but I thought this machine could handle HD footage?
Can someone more advanced than myself recommend what i am doing wrong or a work flow that i can work with to stop dropped frame rates and render times.
Last piece of information, the project will be entered in film festivals in the spring its only a 3 minute short and i have 5 folders of footage under 4gb each which was taken from the camera
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Michael

You are missing a huge conceptual point. If the file can not spool off of the hard drive fast enough, you get dropped frames. It isn't a processor or ram issue right now, it is a hard drive speed issue. Your system drive is overtaxed trying to run OSX, applications AND spool video. It just can't keep up. Changing the graphic card isn't going to help (and how do you change the card in a laptop?)
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When you drop in the ProRes clip to the timeline and it tells you there is a mismatch, this means your preset for the timeline is something other than your clip. You WANT ProRes and you need the sequence to match your clip - tell the program to CHANGE the sequence to match the clip.
Video is not easy and it isn't inexpensive. Time to open up those manuals and your wallet!
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x

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Here's Apple's official position: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303782
However, there are several people running most of the Studio Apps successfully ... except possibly Motion. With FCS2, chances are Color won't run either. You should be able to search here for similar postings; this topic comes up frequently.
-DH

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Hi,
I am thinking about getting the latest MacBookPro 15" (fully loaded) and would like to use my Final Cut Pro Studio.
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Using an older MacBooPro 17" I can not use Final Cut Pro on it since it really struggle with a graphic card not powerful enough for it.
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i use fcs 3 on my 13" macbook pro and the only issue i run into is color does not play well with the smaller screen.
the best part is i use a second internal hd as my scratch drive and it works really well.
i don't use dvd studio pro, i master all discs on my mac pro, plus i no longer have an internal optical drive.

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I just got a new MacbookPro and it does not seem to want to let me install Final Cut Pro 7. Maybe it's the 10.9 System?
It does let me use Final Cut Pro X, is that the newer version of FCP 7? Will older projects load in FCP X?
I thought I tried this before and X would not load 7 projects.
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Final Cut Pro 7 was discontinued over 2 years ago and is no longer supported on new Macs . . . . though it should still work.
FCP X replaced it completely.
It is a totally different app and you can't swap projects (unless you buy a third party app for $9.99).
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7tox-for-final-cut-pro/id496926258?ls=1&mt=12
Message was edited by: Ian R. Brown

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Thanx Everybody for posting reply for my post regarding running video out to external TV from Final Cut Pro in MacBook.
It's working fine.

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My current setup uses the Firewire output, which is then converted to composite video & analog audio using a pair of ageing DV tape decks. That setup is becoming troublesome due to age.

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Hi Shane,
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I read that it is not on Snow Leopard only on Leopard....so do I need to get only Leopard? Can u advise?
Alternatively I do have Mac OS X Tiger so is it on this and can I install it from here?
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I want to use Final Cut Pro on a clean user account. How do I set it up? How can I access my old FCP library and still work on it from multiple users?
Also, I want my DropBox account to back-up my media. Any tips?

I use external drives as backup. But I don't trust them. And in case of fire or what ever...It is of no use...
But I agree on your comment about DropBox. It would have been the perfect solution though.
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I have just started up a new project.
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Did you use Log & Import? Or did you at least convert the D5 files before importing? FCP doesn't work with those files natively.
-DH

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