Upgrade to FCP 2 content media
I upgraded my system from FCS 1 to 2. When installing FCS1 I decided to put all of the content on the same machine, my MacBook. When upgrading to FCS2 I assigned a separate external hard drive to store all of the content media because it takes up so much space. In the directions it says if you assign a new location it will install everything which is fantastic. What I need to know is what can I delete off of my MacBook to free up some drive space. I no longer need that content so it's just taking up space. What files, folders, what can I throw in the trash safely? thank you!!
OK, check. so all of FCS2 is reading it's content from the new location, the external drive, where I assigned it on the install. Where are the old content files that I can toss safely? Thanks!!
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I installed FCP Studio 2 on my MBP and placed much of the media content on an external firewire drive to avoid filling up my hard drive. I did keep the livetype media on the hd so that I can work with it even when my external drive is not connected.
It all works fine.
Now I am getting a new external drive that is bigger and uses firewire 800 and I would like to transfer the media content on my current external hd to the new one.
Can I just copy it over and expect that FCP will be able to access it without problems with the new drive connected?
Will i need to reinstall the content media to the new external drive for FCP to be able to use it without peoblems?
The installation took about 2 1/2 hours, so I would rather not have to do that again, but I don't want to introduce any instability to the system or the program.
Is it normal for a full install of FCP Studio 2 to take that long or should I be concerned? The program currently has about 15 gigs installed on my hd and another 38 gigs of content media installed on my external drive.
Thanks for any advice.I believe that that content is used primarily by Motion and DVD Studio.
Not too sure about Motion, but the browser in Motion is easy to point to a sepcific location where the new files should be.
As far as DVD Studio goes, When I have manually moved the templates, etc, I have had to add them manually to the palette, in which case they appear under the "custom" tabs instead of the "apple tabs. In previous versions, there was a trick that involved putting an alias in the default location to the new location for the folder of assets, but I don't know if this still works.
Sorry I can't be more help on this one. -
Trying to compare FCP with Media 100 for a Public Access studio
Hi all,
I am new here. I do most of the review of products for our Public Access studio. We have a couple of existing Media 100 systems and we are considering adding or upgrading our NLE capabilities. Our studio manager had a chance to look at FCP being used at our high school and she came back with a number of impressions that I wonder about and would like to vet with people who know more about FCP. So, any comments would be helpful.
The high school media person demo’d FCP for her and let her play with it a bit. After looking at it herself, she says she would definitely say Media 100 is easier to understand/use, especially if you've never used non-linear editing before. That is fairly typical of the people doing Public Access production in our town.
However, it looks to her like there are a lot of tools that come with FCP that Media 100 either doesn't have or are not easily found in it. For example, she feels FCP’s set up looks more complicated and confusing compared to Media 100’s, but in FCP you can have up to 99 video lines in a program, where with Media 100 we're just going back and forth between the a and b video lines. Plus you can have up to 99 Audio tracks on FCP as well, where our max at the moment is 8. Now as to when you would need 99 video or audio tracks, she is not sure, but it is definitely a capability that we don't have in Media 100.
Titling looked easier to her on Media 100. With FCP there were a lot of filters involved and hoops to jump through, plus she couldn't do a word with each letter a different color, for example, unless she did each letter on a different track.
The media person warned her that FCP is really large. Apparently the program itself takes up like 35 GB of space on the hard drive, and a typical 30 min. project comes in at over 100 GB! She couldn't believe it, but she was assured it’s true. Even with our longest programs, like like a School Committee meeting thqat went 3 1/2 hours, it would came in at a max of 30 GB on the Media 100. She got the impression this big difference was so because Final Cut renders everything you do, including rendering any edits you make on your footage as new files, and stores it all in a huge folder. She thinks with Media 100, you import the footage and use it as is - the only things it will render are screen freezes, transitions, and color effects. Is that sort of comparison correct (and fair), or is something being missed?
She says in her experience that something like iMovie is the most basic as far as what you can do, then Ulead would be a step above that- the editing is basically the same, but you have a few more options. Media 100 would be next as far as ease of use and understanding of the program. FCP seemed a little confusing even to her. Comments or insights?
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)Welcome to the family, maybe.
I switched from M100 about four years ago, I was never so glad to give that company the boot. A direct comparison just isn't possible but I'll try to answer some questions. There is a Media 100 forum on creativecow.net.
she says she would definitely say Media 100 is easier to understand/use, especially if you've never used non-linear editing before.< </div>
Yes, absolutely, M100 has always had an elegant and refined interface. However, the paradigm in FCP is not opaque. It's far more interesting, deeper, more complex. So, yes, it's a bit tougher to grasp. But don't sell your students/users short. They'll get it.
99 tracks is marketing BS. The serious work is done with nesting. How many public access pieces need more than 5 or 10 video tracks?
Titling in FCP depends on third party filters like Boris or tools like LiveType and Motion. The basic titling tools in FCP are lame and difficult to use, in my opinion, compared to the elegant titler in M100 (as long as you don't launch Graffiti).
The installation includes tens of gigs of animation, movie and music loop resources that you don't need to load. The suite includes Motion, LiveType, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and FCP.
If you're shooting DV, a 3-1/2 hour show is, umm, well, you look it up, DV is DV. But if you're capturing 3 hours from each of three cameras, that's a lot of DV.
Rendering depends on lots of things. M100's native codec handles lots of realtime stuff that FCP can't unless you've got a huge Macintosh. Previewing is not a big deal at lower rez in FCP, you get used to it. .
FCP is really scary. You can look at thousands of "I'm in way over my head, HELP!" posts here. But all those folks find they slip right into the Apple paradigm, the weirdly new workflow and start exploring the wide new world of serious editing that FCP opens up. You'll hate it for a few months because it's so dramatically different from M100. You'll love it, though.
If you want to continue the thread, give the rest of the disaffected former M100 users a few days to post their comments. There are many of us here. Then maybe start a new thread, one question at a time.
bogiesan -
Since upgrading to FCP 5.1.2 browser widow list hidden
Since upgrading to FCP 5.1.2, I find that sometimes my browser window will not scroll all the way to the bottom in List View.
Lots of sequences, bins and markers.
The only way to regain access to the bottom of the list is to close the project and reopen.
I’d like to have ready access to all of my list.
Michael Morris
G5 dual 2gig Mac OS X (10.4.8)Wow you are just ripe with issues aren't you?
How many items do you have in your Browser? Are any bin triangles turned down revealing the contents?
But you say this all goes away with a relaunch of the application? And you used FCP Rescue to trash your preferences (there are three of them to get)? Hmm...you have the same Rig I do, and I do not have these issues.
Pondering....
Shane -
Moving all FCP content to a new drive, need advice!
Well, I just ran out of space on my FCP scratch/capture/content drive, an external 300gig. So I got this snazzy 1tb drive that is bootable and empty. What to do? How do I copy all the FCP content to the new drive, and what implications does have to all my FCP Studio projects that exist on my internal drive? Am I going to have to relink everything...and more importantly, is there a chance of messing up my projects here?
I was hoping to just somehow clone the volume on the old drive to the new, and blow away the old drive for other uses (TM) and fake out the OS to think nothing has changed. But when I looked in drive genius under duplicate volume, it warns me it will delete EVERYTHING on the target drive. Arg, no good. And in CCC it warns me it will make the target non-bootable. Double Arg. So what to do?
thx
coocoo
ps. I started a somewhat related thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8405889#8405889
as most of my aperture content is also on this FCP content drive and I need to move that too!
Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffsArg, I did that, just a simple copy to the new drive and some of the assets where found and some not so i had to use that dialog "reconnect media" which must be the most confusing dialog in all of Leopard, and managed to reconnect everything in this very large project in process (heaven help me if I ever have to go back to the others), but now the problem is there are many things that are unrendered. Mostly the Motion imbeds. But in the System settings FCP figured out to just change the drive name to all the cache definitions, so not sure what to do about that except re-render all the timelines. Well, I knew it was not going to be easy!
coocoo -
Upgrade to FCP 5.1.4 and OSX 10.4.9 stops DV
Hi all,
Have upgraded to from OSX 10.3.9 to OSX 10.4 to allow me to upgrade FCP from 4.5 to 5.1 in order to add HDV support.
First use after upgrading and FCP is no longer recognising DV camera through Firewire. Subsequently upgraded to OSX 10.4.9 and FCP 5.1.4 but still have the same problem.
Can control the camera from log and capture, but preview disabled and capturing insists that no device is selected. Capture presets state that Video Device DV Video is missing
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing the problem?
TIA
Dual processor G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)Welcome to the forum!
Try reinstalling quicktime... here's the article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
Jerry -
I've been trying to export my videos after installing the Mavericks upgrade and FCP does not let me. On one of the forums I was told to upgrade to FCP 10.6.
Is this a free upgrade or do I have to buy the newest version again?The current version is 10.0.9. The update to 10.0.9 from 10.0.1 is free. Log in to the App Store *with the same Apple ID used to buy the application* and click on "Updates".
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HT3209 I got a new apple tv 3 how do upgrade my video content to 1080p
I got a new apple tv 3 how do upgrade my video content to 1080p for the orginal purchased version at 720p?
Cheers,
MichaelYopu can stream it on the AppleTV from the internet under Movies > Purchased (or Purchases? I can never remember which!) which will bypass what's in iTunes provided AppleTV is configured in Settings for iTunes store for 1080p.
If you want a copy in iTunes, then go to Preferences and change download preference to 1080p. Then delete the 720p copy and redownload from the cloud (iTunes home page icon > Purchased link on the right). If you delete the 720p copy and it goes to trash or recycle bin, you can fish it out of there and add to iTunes later if you need a 720p version too (or SD if that gets trashed with the 720p copy).
Note - currently you cannot upgrade SD purchases to HD. Even for an upgarde fee.
Ac -
FCP 4 upgrade to FCP Studio 2?
I've got a lovely crumpled piece of paper here that I never filled out - an upgrade from FCP 4 to FCP Studio for a very reasonable rate - about $199 from memory.
Does this sort of upgrade still exist for Studio 2? Anybody? All I can find is the $700 package...Your lovely crumpled paper expired in march.
The upgrade path from FCP4 to FCS2 is now $700.
Still, don't kick yourself too much as you didn't really lose any money by waiting.
If you had done the cross grade things would have worked out like this:
FCP4 to FCP 5.1 > $200
FCP 5.1 to FCS2 > $500
total > $700
have fun.
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I am trying to upgrade to FCP 6.05. I have a registered licensed copy...but can't seem to find the update. I am currently running FCP 6.0
When I go to the Final Cut Pro 6 Release Notes page...there is no link and or any other info. http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/FinalCut_Pro_6.0rn/
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,You can get it either from Software Update or here:
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Hey,
I bought FCPS-2 about a month ago and have been practicing with it on my MBP,
while I still continued to do all of my regular projects on my G5 with FCP 5.1.4.
I am now thinking about installing the upgrade on my G5,
but I am concerned about a couple of things,
1) I have heard that you should never upgrade when you are still in the middle of editing a project,
and although I am not actually in the middle of any one project,
there are always going to be some projects that I will have to continually be going back into
to re-edit, so I really don't know when there will be a time that I won't be working on some part of some project.
If I do upgrade and have to re-edit something in an existing project,
what damage can or will I be doing to my existing video project if I had upgraded to FCPS-2?
2) Is there a wrong way to upgrade? I had heard once that just putting in the upgrade disks,
and allowing it to write over the existing applications wasn't the best way to upgrade,
but I don't know any other way to do it.
I would like to continue to use my G5 with the least amount of problems.
I have been editing projects using using FCPS-5.1.4 for the past couple of years,
and (knock on wood) I haven't had any major problems with my HD's.
I want to keep my system as healthy as possible.
I have never totally cleaned out my system and reinstalled my applications,
I had an Apple Instructor tell me that he cleans out & re-installs his entire system every spring.
He called it his spring cleaning. He said that it keeps the garbage from building up.
Short of cleaning my entire system out every spring,
Is there anything I should be doing (besides the normal updates)
to keep my system running in tip top shape?
Sorry for asking so many questions,
but I want to learn from the best and not just from my mistakes,
so that is why I am asking.
Thank you for any & all help regarding this issue.
Todd*If I do upgrade and have to re-edit something in an existing project,*
*what damage can or will I be doing to my existing video project if I had upgraded to FCPS-2?*
If all works as it should... no damage at all. The next time you open a project that was created with an earlier version of FCP, it will ask you if you want to update the project so it will open. The normal safe procedure is to let the project update and then immediately SAVE AS, giving the project a new name. This way your original project still exists if you run into any issues.
*I had heard once that just putting in the upgrade disks, and allowing it to write over the existing applications wasn't the best way to upgrade*
I think the accepted procedure suggested by many here is to do a clean install.
Personally, I've never done that when upgrading FCP. My theory is, do the upgrade and see how it works. If I run into issues, I'll do a clean install.
The only thing I do before major upgrades is Repair Permissions and run Apple Disk Utilities and Disk Warrior on the system drive. So far I've never had an issue. I have also never done a clean install for OS upgrades, I just run the disks and go from there.
Having said all that, I have cloned my system drive so that if things do go terrible wrong, I'm not totally pooched.
rh -
Upgrade to FCP 5 won't recognize DVX100A
I just upgraded from FCP 4.5 to 5. With 4.5 I had no issues with FCP recognizing my DVX100A as a capture device.
When I opened FCP 5 with my DVX100A connected (& appearing just fine in system profiler at the firewire 400 port), powered on, and set to VCR mode, I was alerted that the program could not find my external device (sorry if my wording is not precise but I tend to glaze over these windows after seeing them so many times).
I have thrown out my old Quicktime receipts as was advised by the FCP help website. I have also thrown out the Final Cut Pro User Preference folder. Neither of these procedures have helped.
My A/V settings are those that were recommended on the FCP "Qualified Devices" list which is the regular Firewire DV NTSC setting. When I ignore the external-device-not-found window and open up the log and capture window the capture window reads "VTR OK" and, if I hit play, the timecode starts rolling in the tc window, but I get no image nor any sound.
Anyone encountered this weirdness? Thanks.I captured a short clip of video (the same video that appeared to be tearing in the log/capture window), and it captured without any trace of that tearing weirdness on the captured clip...played smooth as butter.
The "tearing" occurred whenever the subject moved quickly in the frame, leaving a trace of split lines at the places of movement. It did sort of look like dirty head tearing, but like I said there was no trace on the actual video tape itself nor on the captured footage. Apparently it only shows up in the log/capture window, which is disconcerting, but if it's not affecting capture, I guess I can live with it.
Yes, DV/NTSC 48K setting.
Got any ideas? Thanks. -
Will a FCP 3.0.4 upgrade from FCP 1 load onto a new Mac Pro
Will a FCP 3.0.4 upgrade from FCP 1 load onto a new Mac Pro. I have tried loading in onto a mac book with no luck. I think its because my original FCP 1 loades using OS9 and because the new Mac Pro does not have an old operating system on it I cant load my original FCP.
You should upgrade to FCP 5.1 or 6 as Jerry says.
However, if you are desperate you could try this :-
Install just your FCP 3 upgrade and also put in your FCP 1 serial number when asked.
Whenever you try to open FCP you will probably get an error message. Click the "esc" key and FCP should open. -
Upgrade path from Content Services to Content DB
Is there an official/unofficial upgrade guide on how to migrate from OCS Content Services to Content DB?
And what about the licensing for the existing Content Services users?Contact your Sales/Account rep for licensing details - I believe there is some grandfather style licensing upgrade model in place.
In terms of a migration/upgrade patch for Content Services to Content DB, we are currently looking in to this. For the time being though, we suggest that all new installations of Content Services actually utilize the Content DB installer (instead of the OCS installer).
Matt. -
Just upgraded to FCP 5.1 and get no signal from Panasonic DVX100
Hello all.
I am an experienced FCP user. Just did a fresh install of 5.1 and now I get no connection with my dvx100 (the original not the "a" model). I get remote control, meaning when I go to capture I can play, rewind, etc, however FCP sees no image and I cannot import or export to/from video. When I startup FCP says it cannot locate the exterior device firewire NTSC 720x480.
What is going on? Is this camera no longer supported with FCP 5.1? It worked fine with 4.1.1
Please help!!Welcome to the forum.
You will find by searching that this question (deck/camera not recognized after upgrade of FCP/QT/OSX) is asked (and answered) multiple times a day.
Searching before posting is a great way to utilize the forum and to gain much faster answers to your questions.
Since this is your initial visit - you get one free get out of jail card ....
The problem most commonly is the Quicktime installation becomes corrupted in some minor way during some upgrades. A full quicktime reinstall most often solves the problem.
Heres how:
Go to /library/receipts and delete any files that say Quicktime followed by a number e.g. Quicktime703.pkg
Go to the Apple quicktime site and download the appropriate version of Quicktime to your hard drive.
Run the Quicktime installer.
Repair Disk Permissions for your System Disk (Disk Utility > Select the system disk > Repair Disk Permissions)
Reboot
Good luck.
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