[MacDV] Re: Final Cut Pro 4.5 & QT7 compatibility question

[Paul Williams]

This is the first time i've chimed in on this group, but i had the 
same problem with QT7 and FCPHD (I believe i have version 5).

None of my FCPHD projects would open after installing QT7. Even after 
downgrading to QT6 again, i could get the projects to open, but any 
audio track with an EQ adjustment wouldn't play without an error. If 
you get to this point you can just simply delete any EQ adjustments 
and reinsert them again and the tracks should work. In my case, this 
wasn't an option as i had - literally - hundreds, if not thousands, 
of EQs applied to my hundreds of tracks.

My solution was to wipe my main drive completely clean and reinstall 
from my original disk and allow software update to update everything 
EXCEPT QuickTime. I have only allowed updates to QuickTime up to, but 
not including, QT 7 and everything has been humming along beautifully.

I'm running a dual 2G G5, OS 10.3.9.

Paul

>We have Final Cut Pro HD (4.5), on a G5 PowerMac 1.8 GHz dual, 
>running OS 10.3.9.  We upgraded to QuickTime 7 Pro (a new code 
>number is required, which we paid for).  Most of our Final Cut 
>projects wouldn't open properly, and several of them caused Final 
>Cut to crash while opening the project.
>
>We downgraded to QuickTime 6 Pro, and all our projects work again. 
>There is a downgrade installer on the Apple web site, apparently due 
>to this or other problems.  I don't know the details and causes, but 
>our experience is that QuickTime 7 Pro and Final Cut Pro HD have 
>serious incompatibilities. Or perhaps the incompatibility is between 
>QT7 and Panther.  In any case, it didn't work for us.
>
>Derek
>
>
>>  Does anyone know if QuickTime 7 is compatible with Final Cut Pro 4.5?
>>  I've been hesitating to update QT from version 6. I don't care about
>>  having to pay for the Pro version for QT7 again, I'm just concerned
>>  with whether QT7 will mess things up. I'm using OS 10.3.9.
>
>Derek Roff
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