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

[Paul Williams]

I did weeks of research on this when i had the QT7 -vs- FCPHD problem 
and i would say if you have any unfinished projects in FCPHD DO NOT 
upgrade to QT7 until you've finished these projects. Because if you 
upgrade to QT7 you'll have to go back into your unfinished projects 
and delete any EQ adjustments to your audio tracks and re-drop them 
back in with the new EQ settings given to you in QT 7. As an example 
of the differences between the two EQs (QT 6.5.2 versus QT7) i show a 
side-by-side comparison at 
http://users.adelphia.net/~pcwilliams/01.gif

If you upgrade to QT7, any new projects will work fine.

Paul

>It is more likely that the problem is with existing projects and the 
>upgrades rather than QT 7 alone. This is only a guess. I imagine if 
>you start a new project with QT 7 and FCP 4.5 in Panther it will 
>work  fine. I am only imagining things.
>
>I am using FCP 4.5 with QT 6.5.2 and Panther 10.3.9 to get 3ivx two 
>pass encodes for the web to work properly. So I can relate to your 
>consternation. With Tiger and QT 7 the 3ivx two pass encode yields 
>huge file sizes. The moving target of OS changes and developer 
>followings is always frustrating isn't it? 3ivx says that because of 
>Core Video and QT 7 changes they don't know when they will get the 
>two pass encode working right. So I just set up an old system and QT 
>as my work around - have Tiger and 7 (required in Tiger) of course.
>
>Still looking for a non H.264 alternate encode I can use in Tiger 
>and  QT 7 for webcast level quality that won't collapse when you 
>zoom in  or blow up the 320 x 240 image. I've resorted to one frame 
>per second  for some of my longer pieces. Not sure the fast start 
>works in the  Panther QT 6.5.2 two pass encode. So I may wind up 
>giving up on this  way soon.
>
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>On Sep 17, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Derek Roff wrote:
>
>>  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
>>
>
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