What have I done??????

[insanityfw]

Hello all,

I'm new to Final Cut Pro and so is my company. We are also more savy about the PC world, so we haven't been able to figure out what we're doing with FCP because things are moving so fast and now I've screwed everything up.

We were having a bunch of odd problems with capturing and TV playback, etc. We tried everything that we could find research on and things were still going strange.

Since I upgraded to 4.5 I had the smart idea to re-install 4.0 and see if that would help our immediate problems. Well as most of you are probably already stating that might not have been the smartest thing to do. Even though I copied all my files to a my external drive and internal drive..nothing will play back in 4.0. It says my files are corrupt...so all seems to be lost.

I know I've probably made some terrible nebie mistake, but I'm up **** creek because our first spec commercial was almost done with editing.

Any feedback on if there is something I'm overlooking to get my stuff to work or at least tell me where I've messed up would be appreciated.

This is an unfortunate side effect of moving to fast too soon.

Best regards,

Jason

PS-Any editing pros in the Phoenix area that might want to help us out for a reasonable price to help us get on our feet. ?

 

[Scottdvx100]

Re: What have I done??????

What specific problems did you have with 4.5? (supposed to be more bug free than 4.0)
Can you go back to 4.5?
What machine and configuration are you using?
Can you play the clips in QuickTime player?
You say it says they're corrupt when you import them?
Were these saved out as self contained QT files or links?
Did you use the media manager to backup/copy your files?
Have you tried posting to 2-pop.com?

 

[kai]

Re: What have I done??????

post more specifics on your system and configuration and we can go from there...

 

[insanityfw]

Re: What have I done??????

sorry not to get back to you guys sooner. I kept trying to type my response, but it wouldn't post. Seems I'm a technical disaster.

the good news is that I have somebody that's helping me reconfigure everything and I re-installed 4.5 and now my media is useable again. So a note to any newbies out there...if you create something in 4.5 and then try and use it in 4.0 you may have some problems.

Also, the whole problem that started this appears to be a Maxtor harddrive (not firewire 800) that's messing up. When we try and capture to the internal harddrive everything works fine. I am getting ready to reformat the external drive and see if that helps.

Thanks again for your interest in helping. I'll post my findings here later once i get it all worked out.