Apple Color to FCP

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soulsurfmedia

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Hi All
I have been an Apple Color user for a bit, but after upgrading to the latest version I wanted to see if anyone else is having (or has had) the same problems and what (if any) resolutions you may have found.

1) when I add clips to the render queue and then render - Color becomes unresponsive and freezes. This happens on random clips. I can render them one at at time, but on a 10 minute sequence with lots of clips, this will be really time consuming. (especially with 6 of these sequences to do - due by this weekend)

2) I found a little work around to the above by completing my grades, exporting the XML and then importing that XML file into FCP - BUT the grades look completely different in FCP - most are lighter but some have color tints that are off and some do not seem to have the grades at all. Really frustrating.

I am trying to render to an external 7200rpm drive hooked to my mac pro tower via esata. The Mac Pro has 2 qty 2.6ghz Xeons and 2GB Ram. Have done this to USB attached drives with no problem, so I am confused why a higher bandwidth esata drive would be the culprit.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
 
Are you using quicktime X? If so get rid of it. Use your install disk to install quicktime 7
and in quicktime 7 prefs select use FCP gamma.
 
Apple Color to FCP

Hi J
thanks for the reply - I appreciate how helpful everyone is in this set of forums. I checked and have Quicktime Player 7.6.6 - I cannot find any other quicktime apps installed. I was able to go to preferences and set the gamma in quicktime player. Is there is a problem with Color rendering on the 7.6.6 version of Quicktime - ? otherwise, I have no problem getting the install discs out and moving back to the original 7.0 version.

It makes sense since I tried this on both my tower and mac book pro with the same results and both are running the same OS and Final Cut App Suite.

thanks
chris
 
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