Final cut x import window freezes

Import from camera works, but FCP import window freezes. 6-core Mac Pro, plenty of RAM, fast drives, worked before.

mini DV--Actually the media DOES import into event, but the import window freezes until the import has completed. Shows a rough version (blocky) of the first frame, then the last frame after import is complete. LCD window on camera keeps rolling along. I've imported lots of footage, but have never seen this before.

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I am an editor and I use Final Cut Pro everyday. I recently had to upgrade to LION because of a wonderful Quicktime update that corrupts
video codec files on Snow Leopard. So now that I have LION I can actually edit again. But, when I try to import files into Final Cut the
search window wont sort my files by date, name, etc...
It wont actually sort by anything. Every other program works fine for that, mainly After Effects. I have to manually go find files that I used
to give a certain naming system to because I could find them easily by typing in one word.
I also cannot search the Network anymore at my office which is a real pain. We dump all our finished projects onto a huge server. Now
when I need to find an old file I have to know the exact date it was made or else I have to go searching through every folder in our server.
Any body know of any way to fix these issues without having to rewrite code which I really don't want to do with my company computer.
Also our IT people refuse to learn anything at all about MAC computers which is SO helpful...

Im not sure what you are referring to. Maybe I didn't explain the problem correctly.
Final Cut seems as if it is not indexing the files. Most of the time it won't even show me dates (modified, created, etc...) just dashes. Then if I do what you are describing and try to sort it at all it stays in the same exact order. I can't even sort alphabetically.

Final Cut Pro X keeps freezing when sharing my work to You Tube, it does about 90% of the upload and then seems to get stuck. Any ideas on how to resolve this please?

Final Cut Pro X keeps freezing when sharing my work to You Tube, it does about 90% of the upload and then seems to get stuck. Any ideas on how to resolve this please?

this is a perfect question to ask the users in the FCP X forum. Good luck. https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/final_cut_pro_ x

Help urgently needed, I have installed Logic Pro 9, since then my Final Cut Pro X keep freezing. Anyone what is wrong and how to solve it? I desperately need help on this. Thanks

Help urgently needed, I have installed Logic Pro 9, since then my Final Cut Pro X keep freezing. Anyone what is wrong and how to solve it? I desperately need help on this. Apple support says I have to pay £85 for to help me. Thanks

Just a word of advice. Never ever use the word "urgent" on this forum

Can I buy final cut pro using windows OS?

can I buy final cut pro using windows OS, then install it in a mac in other state?

Technically yes, as long as you use the same Apple ID on both machine's to purchase it and to download it. The Mac in the other state will have to meant the system requirements for FCP.

Final cut pro x kip freezing

My final cut pro x keep freezing?

A few general FCP X trouble-shooting suggestions.
Use this app to trash the preferences.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
It should be the first thing you try when any problems occur.
Open Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
Check you have plenty of space on your hard drive …… ideally you should have a separate one for video files.
Shutdown all other apps.
If you have a problem simply opening FCP X, create a new User Account (Admin) in System Preferences and try running FCP X from that as it sometimes works miracles.
These 3 links contain more detailed info on troubleshooting FCP X problems.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3893
http://fcpx.tv/troubleshooting.html
http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_fcpx_troubleshooting.html
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Question Final Cut Pro Viewer Window 4.5

I Have a problem with my 4.5 Final cut pro viewer window , I'am working on a project and when I Dbl click on an icon in the Browser window It gives me a white screen on the viewer window and only when I press play it will show me the clip if I push stop it will go back to the white screen, when I toggle with the curser a black x appears on the upper rt. hand corner of the white screen and nothing else. I've tried just about everything . Hope someone out there can help me

#15 White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Shane's Stock Answer #15: White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Make sure the canvas or viewer are selected then go to VIEW>CHANNELS and set it to RGB. It might be set to ALPHA.
Shane

Final Cut Pro X is freezing as it loads one project.

I have been editing with X for several weeks now with only the occasional hickup. Now, having spent the entire day editing a rough cut, I am no longer able to open Final Cut Pro. If I do, it freezes on the project I was working on. It tells me that currentversion.fcproject is not available at the moment.
If I delete the project it opens no problem. Does someone have a fix for this? and do I need to restart?
The other issue is how do I stop this from happening in the future?

Try starting a new project and copy the currentversion.fcproject from the movies/final cut projects & movies/final cut events to the new project folder. You will need to import your source files to the event library again.

Final Cut Server Info Window - Which Group Controls the information?

I have been searching the forums and have found similar postings but none that solve what i am seeing and wondering if it is my database (been configuring quite a bit and may have messed something up) or just an oversight of the wrong metadata group. I did notice that it happened when shortly after i needed to recover from a backed up version of the database.
Here is my issue. When you look at the main assets pane of final cut server you see all of the thumbnails which is great. Double clicking an asset bring up what i refer to as the info window for that asset. in configuration i have inadvertently removed the thumbnail representation of the asset and all of the data underneath from there, except for one custom metadata field. the productions still have the thumbnail, but have also lost a significant amount of data under the thumbnail.
I would like to put some of the info back but do not know which group to modify. I have looked inside the metadata groups from this post to see if it would help but no luck:
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9136299&#9136299>
thought it was the AssetTilesView that affected that window's info on that pane. I looked inside that group but many fields in are listed in that configuration list when brought up. like i mentioned above, only one is listed when viewed outside the configuration window what the client app would see.
The only group that i have been modifying as per my knowledge was the asset_search group to add custom fields i made to the search criteria.
hope this is clear. i am tired and a little exhausted from racking my brain. thanks in advance.

i figured it out. it was an error between the chair and the keybord..
for those that stumble on this...
aside from the order the groups show up in the list Asset, P2.. ect.
the display priority affects the layout of the variables on the info page. so if the window layout looks odd (no thumbnail, or missing metadata) check the display priority.

Viewing movie made on Final Cut on a windows PC

My friend has a mac and made a movie on Final Cut. He tried to give me a copy, but after printing it to DVD from both Final Cut and from iDVD, whenever I load the DVD into my PC i cant read it. My computer barely even recognizes that the DVD exists and instead of showing that there is a DVD but then saying the file cant be opened, it just pops up an error message after thinking for a long time and declares that the file type is not supported by Windows. I dont know much about movie formatting, but my friend insists that the DVD isnt a data disc, and that it should be formatted properly to work in either my computer or on a standard DVD player.
My question is: does anyone know of a plug-in or other adapter that I might need to view this DVD on my PC or some other work-around that might help me out?
Thanks so much for your time and assistance!

Your friend has to export the file as a Quick Time movie and you can see it from Quick Time for Windows.Also you can burn from the Finder and make a Mac/PC format without using iDVD - I'd be surprised to find out that a PC can understand an extension like ".dvdproj"

FInal Cut Pro for Windows?

Yes or no. If i were to purchase Final Cut Pro Studio Academic 6, would i be able to use it with windows on my laptop? I would love to know beofre i purchase anything.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
simply said: NO.
Final Cut is an Apple product and only runs with Apples OSX system, not with Windows.
There are similar programs for Windows, like Adobe Premiere, for example.
Regards
Stefan

Motion 5 to Final Cut 7 Import Problems

Hello!
I am driving myself nuts with a project mixing Motion 5 with Final Cut Pro 7. I am using 1920 x 1080p settings in both programs with 23.98 frame rate settings in both. When I export from Motion (as either an image sequence or a self-contained MOV file) and bring the finished piece back into Final Cut Pro 7... the footage refuses to line up. The timing is off, and it appears that the scaling is off as well.
I've checked Distortion on both clips, scaling, Speed settings... everything I can think of. Tried cutting & pasting to new sequences. If I line it up to match at the beginning of the clip it's off by a few frames in. If I line it up for the end the same thing happens. Either way it's 128 frames long... what's going on here?
On top of that, if I take the footage from Final Cut, export it, pull it into Motion, do NOTHING to it, and render it back out to a file and import that into Final Cut Pro 7... it is significantly darker.
Any ideas??

QT 7 shows two frame rates: the actual frame rate (FPS) and the frame rate you're getting while it is playing back the video (Playback FPS) -- that will tend to be variable especially if QT has to work really hard to play the file.
Anyway...
Watch your canvas (and/or export) render settings in Motion (and probably FCP, as well). Normal is not Best (duh). Normal in Motion 5 is okay for FCPX effects, they'll be rendered in FCPX anyway and I think that FCPX always treats it as Best, but for exporting video, I'll always set it to Best (higher quality image resampling; antialiased intersections and particle edges; and probably most importantly: sharper text). You can set the render settings when you Export by going to the Render tab in the export dialog and setting the Render Quality to Best. If you're exporting from Motion (any version) *for* FCP (again, any version) your export settings should be some flavor of ProRes. [Unless there is a lot of very high motion in your video - OR - you require transparency, ProRes LT is almost always acceptable to use, especially if you need to save disc space.] The *default* export from Motion 5 is ProRes 4444 (this is the only variant that supports transparency). Even though this is the Highest quality ProRes, it is not the same as the render quality settings in Motion since those determine how well (and precisely) the animation in Motion is rendered to whatever file format you choose. ProRes is the "native" format for FCP, period.
In FCP, your render settings might be for lower resolutions while playing back (unlimited RT, etc...) When you get these resolution variations going for playback, nothing is guaranteed to line up. So, when you import your Motion export [ ], render everything in the FCP timeline and see how they line up. Chances are everything will be perfect. (PS - this phenomenon can also occur in FCPX until everything is rendered especially if proxy media is being used.)
... um ... there is this one thing, though, that just came to mind. Under certain conditions (you'll need to check with somebody else about this, I was never really sure what the deal was) , you might actually be getting something like 1888 x 1062 resolution from your project... that *might* cause some alignment issues. It seems to me that there was a "difference" between some of the "Broadcast" 1080 HD settings and the actual 1920 x 1080 HD option... (but I can't remember specifically, and it doesn't seem to be an issue in FCPX. It could be worth checking into if you continue to have alignment problems.)
[PPS: "Self-contained MOV" doesn't really tell us anything. MOV is just a "wrapper" and the format could be anything from Animation to XDCAM. "Image Sequence" is also ambiguous since there's a huge difference between JPG and similar formats that don't support transparency and are "lossy"; and PNG and other formats that do support transparency and are "lossless". In video, it's always best to go with the least lossy options... ]

Final Cut Pro: Imported music files too large?

I've imported a 10 min and 20 sec .aif audio file that is 104.2 MB currently in Final Cut. Does this seem like a correct file size? Is there any way to make the file smaller? Here's the other specs for the file:
data rate: 172.3k/sec
Aud rate: 44.1 KHz
Audio Format: 16-bit integer
I have other files of similar size for example a 6:43 music file that is 67.8 MB.

I have exported a 3min video in HDef and it is 1GB! I don't understand why this is so large.
you suggest file format to be AIFF; how do i export in this format and where do I change the sample rate to 48k? thanks.

Annoyed with JVC/Final Cut Pro import problem; will they ever fix this?

Annoyed with Final Cut Pro JVC import problem; will they ever fix this?
I've shot footage on JVC GY-HD111E in the UK in 720p/25p PAL mode.
I'm trying to import lots of short clips (average 10 seconds) into Final Cut Pro (latest version with 720p/25p support) with a new Mac Pro maxed out with ram and 3 extra internal HDs.
Problem is, on a scene-break i.e. pause/stop, Final Cut detects this and creates a new clip, but it takes about 5 seconds to 'searching for media" before it starts the new clip. Because some clips are only very short, this 5 second delay sometimes means I only get the final few frames of a clip, rather than the entire 5 seconds or so of it.
JVC UK are blaming Apple and are saying it is up to them to fix it as Premiere and Edius does not have this problem.
However, Symbiosis in the UK (who do HD-Connect box) say that the JVC ProHD cameras do not wrap the shots up properly at the end, they are kind of left open and this creates problems on scene-breaks.
I've tried turning off the "create new clip on timecode break" etc, but it does not make any difference, when I do this it simply quits capturing on a scene break. Besides I have about 300 cutaways like this and I don't want to spend the rest of the year breaking them up on the timeline as this would be a futile and long workflow.
I'm importing and working on a native HDV 720p/25p timeline and this is the way I want to work. I've already imported and edited 4 hours of footage, but these 4 hours were easy as all 4 tapes had no start/stop points, they were recorded continuously from beginning to end of tape for 64 minutes each time so importing was no problem; 1 clip per tape.
But now I've come to my 5 tapes containing hundreds of cutaways I'm kind of screwed and need some advise on how I can import them natively in HDV without losing this 5 seconds off the beginning of each clip whilst FCP searches for the media each time.
I've been told this issue is definately with FCP, any ideas how I can get around this?

I haven't heard of this JVC/FCP problem, so I can't comment on it. However, whoever shot the cutaways didn't do you, the editor, any favors.
I've been doing video since 1984, and I've got to say, anyone who shoots a scene that is only 5 or 6 seconds long on tape is making a huge mistake, and it's been that way since the beginning of computerized editing in the late 70s.
Shoot at least 5 seconds of pre-roll before the shot begins, then roll tape for at least 5 seconds after you've got the shot. That's the protocol I've followed for 22 years now. Tape is cheap, edit suite time isn't.
But laying down only 5 to 6 seconds for a scene is wrong, IMO.

Final Cut .mov import error

I have been trying to figure out why in the world final cut generates an unknown error when I'm trying to import a quicktime .mov file. Any ideas?

Same problem with this kind of .mov files :
GoPro AVC encoder, 1280 x 720, Millions
AAC,Stéréo (G D), 48,000 Khz
29,97 fps
Does it mean I have to convert my files with Mpeg Streamclip? GoPro encoder is not supported in FCE 4?
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