Leopard and FCP 6?

Are there any issues with FCP 6, Compressor, or DVD SP and Leopard when working with SD, AVCHD, or HDDVC- PRO?

Well, I'll take the contrary position. If there is nothing in 10.5 that specifically addresses issues you have with 10.4 or improves the work you do, I see absolutely no need to upgrade the OS.
This is PARTICULARLY true if you have all sorts of 3rd party plugin or legacy applications. OSX 10.5 is NOT simply 10.4.12. It involve serious changes and and will likely break some older components. This is a deal breaker if you regularly use those elements in your work.
When 10.5 reaches somewhere around the 4th revision I'll think about it. I've been an early adopter over multiple OSs and have the scars to show for those efforts. I have learned my lesson. Once burned, shame on Apple. Twice burned, shame on me.
Do what you want, but one caution -you'll never go far trolling for opinions on the internet. lol.
/rant over
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Retrieving Video files originally loaded before Leopard and FCP updates

I loaded in 10 hours of video onto a LaCie drive and created a FCP project. Since then (over six months ago) my MacBookPro's operating system has been upgraded to Leopard and there has been an upgrade of FCP itself. Trying to open the project now ends in failure. The project file still exists. However, all the video has gone off-line. It is not even visible as files on the LaCie drive even though clearly 100GB of memory are still indicated as being used. Does anyone know a way of retrieving these files? The only option may be to load the video in again.

Sounds like you have a problem with the drive itself. It's not an FCP problem don't think. There are two software programs to try to see if you can recover the files, both are about $100 each though. One is Disk Warrior, and the other is Data Rescue II. DW will rebuild the directory of the drive, and if that fails, then Data Rescue II will copy to another drive the contents of any drive no matter what the condition is as long as it's spinning... Might just recapture if you can reformat that drive.
Jerry

Snow Leopard and FCP

I have a couple questions about Snow Leopard with Final Cut Studio.
First, in a quick search, I saw a couple folks saying that the experienced crashes or other basic problems under Snow Leopard. Is that a common problem from what you folks have seen?
Second, does render performance speed up due to Grand Central Dispatch distributing it across more processors in the system, or just by the greater horsepower of 64-bit operation?

mr88cet wrote:
First, in a quick search, I saw a couple folks saying that the experienced crashes or other basic problems under Snow Leopard. Is that a common problem from what you folks have seen?
For me, at least, there were issues but they were corrected by the x.0.1 updates released a few weeks ago. I was on 10.6.1 at the time and have recently updated to 10.6.2, things seem all good.
In case it matteres, my main editing machine is a 2007 8-core that I simply upgraded to SL (I did not Erase-and-Install). With just 10.6.0 and FCP 7.0.0, I would get regular crashes with FXplug Filters. I have an ATI X1900X card.

Leopard and FCP

I just wanted to ping the community and see if anyone have made the switch over to Leopard and is a big FCP user.
Any issues? Crashes with the app? odd features not working correctly?
I'd like to know before I install Leopard if anyone else has had issues. I'm thinking about waiting a few months (even though I have already purchased the OS--can you tell I'm a windows user? :P)

No problemo! I can imagine it's frustrating to have a favorite forum get cluttered. Still--there are a lot of new Mac users out there that need help and the forums and really beneficial to us (users). Heck, I've called Apple support and they've reffered me to the discussion boards several times.

How to get mpeg streamclip with mpeg 2 to work on Leopard and for fcp x?

How to get mpeg streamclip with mpeg 2 to work on macbook with Leopard and VOB files? Goal is to import into FCP X.
mpeg used to download effectively and for free with fcp 7 but apparently not the case with fcp x.

You need the MPEG-2 playback component. This is described in detail on the Squared5 web site.

Matrox MX02 Mini and FCP 7...

We have been using the MX02 Mini essentially for HD monitoring and have run across a few issues that have hindered productivity. It appears that one or two of these issues have been fixed in the latest 2.2.1 software release. The following remain. Has anyone experienced the same?
1) Audio scrubbing... audio cannot be heard on a per frame basis, usually audio is heard every three
frames or so.
Apparently this has not been fixed.
2) Audio playback. In the viewer... Hit play... Playback begins but the audio drops out and then
resumes... hit stop and playback repeats the last bit of what was playing before you hit stop.
3) Audio distorts, similar to an analog overdrive sound, when hitting play every 10 times or so.
Most of the projects that we are working with are Apple Pro Res 422 @ 23.98, Audio 48khz/16 bits.
Most of our computers are as described... 2 x 2.26GHz Quad Core Mac Pro running 10.6.6 and FCP 7.0.3.
Hard drives are local external 2TB G-RAIDs with plenty of room. We have check all of our media to make sure that it matches our sequence settings.
I realize that there are Matrox advocates out there, but we seem to have a hard time getting the MX02 Minis to work reliably.
All ideas are welcome. Note that we are working with Matrox support as well.
Thanks,
Scott

1) Audio scrubbing... audio cannot be heard on a per frame basis, usually audio is heard every three frames or so. Apparently this has not been fixed.
Well, that actually is the main thing that was addressed in that update. I didn't have the issue for a while, then I upgraded to snow leopard, and there it was. But that was something with the 2.0 and first 2.1 drivers. But the latest driver that was just released, 2.1.1...fixes that. For a lot of people, me included:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/132/860478
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/132/860397
As for the other issues, that are all audio related... they should have been addressed too.
Make sure to update PROPERLY. Uninstall the older drivers, then restart. Install the new drivers... and when the updates erase and then update the firmware, when the computer will shut down, and you need to unplug the MXO2 mini for at least 5 seconds, then plug it back in. Then start up the system.
Shane

Is there something very wrong with Lion and Fcp x or what?

I have just spent a very frustrating two weeks editing a one hour fifteen minute project on FCP X with Lion as the operating system. Every edit session has been plagued with crashes. My mac is a 21.2 inch, with an I7 processor and 12gig of ram which I bought the middle of this year. I had set my computer up with two partitions, one with Lion and the other with Snow leopard. This morning, in an effort to improve the terrible instability of FCP X under Lion I decided to try it under Snow Leopard......What an unbelievable difference.....I've been editing for the last three hours now throwing all kinds of clips and effects and so forth at the timeline and have not experienced one crash. What is going on here? How can Lion and FCP X be so incompatible?

dpcam1 wrote:
I have just spent a very frustrating two weeks editing a one hour fifteen minute project on FCP X with Lion as the operating system.
You don't mention whether this one hour and fifteen minutes long project consisted of just one FCP X project when you experienced problems with FCP X and Lion?
You also don't mention how long the project was that you edited successfully with Snow Leopard. If, as I suspect, this was a very short 'test' project, that would make sense. FCP X does not cope well with long projects.
I use Lion exclusively but I keep my projects to a maximum of 30 minutes (preferably no more than 20 mins). If the total programme is longer, I make create several FCP X projects - each being a 'chapter' of the main programme. When finished, I make compound clips of all the 'chapters' then I paste them into a new (full length) project.
I'm not pretending FCP X is perfect, but for me at least, it's very workable as long as you understand it's weaknesses. I have 16 GB RAM and since I upgraded from the 8 GB I had previously, it's made a huge difference.
If you are getting crashes, there is some conflict on the OS. Create a new (admin) user account on your system and use FCP X from there - if it runs a lot better, there's a conflict and a clean install would be recommended.
Other ways to improve performance:
Create optimised media.
Hide Waveforms at all times when you don't need them (both in Browser and Storyline / Timeline). They take up a lot of processor power.
Create folders in the Project library and put any projects you are not working on currently, in there. (Twirl it closed to hide them).
Move your Projects and Events to an external HD (make sure it's formatted OS Extended - with journaled on or off) and run from there.
Andy

FCP6 on Snow Leopard and Adobe CC on ML with GTX card in same machine?

Hello, I have a couple 5,1 Mac Pros in a post production environment running Snow Leopard and FCP6. We would like to upgrade to Adobe CC and take advantage of CUDA with GTX cards. However, we still need to be able to open/re-edit old FCP projects for a while.
FCP6 needs SL, while GTX cards need ML. My plan is to have each OS on separate HDDs and boot into the one we need at the time.
Problem with this: The 5,1s currently have 5770s which require one of the two 6-pin power connectors but the GTX cards need them both.
1. Is the best solution to open the case and switch which card is powered every time, depending on need?
2. Is it ok to leave the non-powered card in the PCI slot while doing this?
3. Is there a better solution to this problem?
Thanks for any help.

Separate machines if you can.
The whole "drivers" and how you can't use that GTX in SL... I can run Windows with any card because drivers are available.

Leopard and firewire video capture

I have been attempting to capture video with leopard without any success. I have accomplished a clean install of leopard and FCS1 with repairing permissions between installs of the OS and after the FSC install. I have accomplished all software updates and re-accomplished repair permissions. The OS recognizes my video capture equipment, a Laird LTM-5000. FCP seems to have limited control over the DV converter, but fails to recognize the A/V stream. I have also tried other Apps. under leopard to test ability to decode DV streams from the DV bridge to include VideoScope, Photobooth, and QuickTime directly without any success.
Has anyone been able to capture any video under Leopard via Firewire?
Dave F

I believe Final Cut Pro 5.1 was optimized for OSX 10.3.9 and Quicktime 7.
Must admit I've not checked the specifications recently so can't offer anything on whether it will even run on Leopard.
As for other applications and hardware, new drivers and updates are going to be required for many things. In fact just saw a note saying After Effects will not be running on Leopard until December.. or later.
You might be better off going back to your previous operating system and being patient for a little while until some of the dust settles.

OSX 6.3 and FCP ?

Hi there,
I was about to update my system with OSX 6.3 when I realized that there is a ton of complaints on the snow leopard forum but none here ...
HAs anyone worked with 6.3 and FCP without problems ?
Is this update useful for FCS ?
Thanks for your comments
Ivan

Then you are probably hosed unless you save to a second internal drive in a MacPro. In that case, the boot process will find the good drive and launch things for you.
I suspect most of those people having unrecoverable problems had a generally messed up machine before they updated and either had no clue how bad things were or thought updating the software would solve their problems ...
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Can I install both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same version of VMWare 5?

Even though I am running Apple OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3 on my new 2013 iMac, I have just installed VMWare's "Fusion 5" so I can have Windows 7 installed on the "Fusion 5, for limited usage needs.
I also would like to have a running version of Snow Leopard available to run my large collection of original Lynda.com training DVD's and CD's ... which unfortunately, now only allow the Lynda.com GUI player to operate in (and up to) Snow Leopard (at least this is what the Tech folks at Lynda.com have told me).
Since Lynda.com is no longer producing any or their training programs on CD or DVD any longer, and because they have stopped supporting their training programs to run on Lion and above, I will have to have a version of Snow Leopard installed to run these training programs, and still be able to run them using the Lynda.com GUI player.
So here's my dilemma:
1. Can I install both a version of Snow Leopard OS on my "VMWare "Fusion 5" .... along with a running version of Windows 7 on the same "Fusion 5"?
2. Do I install only the Windows 7 on the VMWare, and find some other "device" to run a version of Snow Leopard off of?
3. Do I consider using "BootCamp", in conjunction with "Fusion 5", to get access to both Snow Leopard and Windows 7?
Has anyone had any experience installing BOTH a previous (older) version of Apple OSX ... AND ... a Windows OS version on one installed version of VMWare "Fusion"?
OR
Any suggestions on how to set up having access to both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 .... while keeping OS Mountain Lion as my main OS?

mende1
Thanks ... the "You have to purchase Snow Leopard Server" I knew about, and a few days ago I just ordered a copy from the Apple Store:
Snow Leopard Server - Ordered at: 1-800-692-7753 ... OR ... 1-866-254-8313
I asked for Apple Snow Leopard Server (Model MC588Z/A (SLSVR)
"Unlimited Client License"
It was around $25.50 (USD) with sales tax and shipping (NYS).
One thing though ... when you mention: "you should make two virtual machines".
Not being too familiar with "Fusion 5" yet, Is setting up "two machine" all done under one installed version of "Fusion 5"?
Would you have "links" to any "Fusion 5" installation instructions/info for setting up the
"two machines" (one for Snow Leopard and one for Windows 7)?

I was using OS Snow Leopard and on 8/1/13 I downloaded Mountain Lion and found out it was not compatible with my HP printer (HP photosmart C5580) so I called Apple and asked how to get Mountain Lion off and Snow Leopard back on. The Tech told me to

I was using OS Snow Leopard and on 8/1/13 I downloaded Mountain Lion. Then I found out it was not compatible with my HP Printer (HP Photosmart C5580 all-in-one) so I called Apple support and the tech told me to erase the hard drive instead of going in the time machine. Well I did that and then it took about three hours three days a week for about three weeks on the phone with an apple tech to get all my stuff back on my computer. I have had trouble with my printer (won't do the scan anymore and wasn't printing on my DVDs. Also the computer keeps freezing up when it is in the sleep mode, etc.
When I tried to list my problem on this forum it lists your OS at the bottom and mine had Mountain Lion listed as what I was using so apparently it didn't erase it. Want to know how to get Mountain Lion off and put my Snow Leopard on so things start working right.

Go to the  menu/About This Mac - what OS version shows there?
Do a backup, preferably 2 separate ones on 2 separate drives.
Revert to a Previous OS X
Revert to Snow Leopard
If you do revert, I'd use Setup Assistant to restore your data. This process takes a while, so do it when you won't need the computer for several hours, based on my experience.

I GIVE UP! Is it possible to uninstall Leopard and go back to Tiger?

I am ready to give up for now. Is it possible to uninstall and go back to Tiger?

If you were wise you would consider other options just besides getting rid of Leopard and throwing it away. First, you could wait until Apple releases OS 10.5.1, then install and update to it. This might help take care of some problems. You could dual boot OS 10.4.10 and 10.5 as long as you have the OS 10.4 full install Disk and the OS 10.5 full install disk. I personally will wait until at least Christmas time before I install Leopard. New OS's are always full of bugs. On the Microsoft side, I've read where Windows Vista is still having major problems and is taking a long time to become widely used. These problems take time to fix. When Windows XP came out nobody would upgrade to it because of all it's bugs, now Windows XP is considered the standard on PCs. Mac OS 10.4 was also full of bugs at first, but now we talk about how rock solid it is. Simply give Apple time to fix these problems.

Leopard and Adobe Photoshop CS2 problems...

I've been reading the posts about Leopard and CS2 problems and have to say that I'm confused. A great many of you have had issues from the very beginning as soon as you upgraded to Leopard. I did not. I use a VERY basic set-up without third party plugins and suspect that to be why I had no problems. At least until now... I looked back through my documents to be sure, and my Photoshop was working beautifully through the first week of January. Somewhere between then and now there had to be an update from Apple that broke Photoshop. I haven't changed any settings since it last worked, and there certainly haven't been any updates from the greedy buggers over at Adobe because they don't support CS2 anymore apparently. What could Apple have updated that might have accidently corrupted my Photoshop?? I don't really feel it could be anything else, but who knows... Does anyone have any ideas? I would hate to have to downgrade to OS 10.4 just to use my Photoshop and I certainly can't afford to shell out the extra $$ for CS3.
I appreciate any light you guys can shed on the topic...
Stan

Actually the 10.5.2 update does seem to have improved things for me with Photoshop CS1. I can now actually type entries into the little boxes for things like crop and brush sizes. The File Browser is still prone to crashing the application though, and there is still some weirdness with opening files by a drag and drop onto the app icon in the Dock. But nothing got worse, and several annoyances disappeared.
One thing to try is to create a brand new admin test user, with no additions (that includes not adding fonts), log into the new account and see if Photoshop will work there.
And speaking of fonts, do you have Linotype's Font Explorer installed? If so, did you get the new updater for it? Some people who use Font Explorer were having a lot of problems after the 10.5.2 update, including Photoshop failure to launch, that were fixed with the Font Explorer update.
Francine
Francine
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In limbo between Leopard and Snow Leopard - stupidly didn't back up

I've got an old-school black MacBook, about four years old now. I never cared enough to upgrade it to Snow Leopard, but now I want Lion. So, I borrowed my parents' five-license Snow Leopard install disc and started off on the journey to upgrade to Snow Leopard, download the App Store update, then download and install Lion. I didn't get far.
First, let me say that I didn't back up my hard drive. Like an idiot. Yes, I know it was stupid, so there's no need to say anything. My previous installs (a few clean re-installs) have gone without a hitch, so I figured I'd trust Apple and just run the installation without backing up. Dumb.
The Snow Leopard installation started fine, but was interrupted when the installer said the install failed. Restart, try again. Booting from the install DVD, things seemed to be going fine a second time around -- picked my language, got to the install set-up screen, picked Macintosh HD as my installation drive. And then things stopped working. The installer said my HD could not be written to and that it needed repair. So I went to Disk Utility to try that. Repair Disk wasn't available, so I clicked Verify Disk. That got interrupted when it said the disk needed to be repaired, after which the Repair Disk button was clickable. Tried to repair, but apparently my HD is screwed beyond the capabilities of Disk Utility.
I tried to reboot the MacBook from the HD, which Disk Utility said still had Leopard running on it. The computer wouldn't boot up. Safe Boot didn't work. So, without any other real options, I thought I'd try my luck by just trying the install again. Booted up from the install DVD, and ran into the same issues. Didn't magically fix itself, of course. So my MacBook is stuck in limbo between Leopard and Snow Leopard, won't boot from the HD and won't let me repair the disk when booted from the DVD. What do I do?
I plan to try a couple third-party disk-utility programs tomorrow (8/25/11) to recover the files on my HD. There's not much I care about on there (just some iPhone photos and my resume, really), so doing a clean wipe of the HD and installing Snow Leopard is an option. But I'd of course rather be able to recover my personal files. Is this possible at this point?
Another question I have regarding a clean wipe: If I end up having to clean off the HD and lose all my data, I'll lose the iTunes configuration for my iPhone. Will iTunes be able to import my apps and settings from my phone if I plug it in?
Thank you very much.

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