biting the big one - upgrading to FCP 6 today - any pointers?
by mortimer heathcliff
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Jul 17, 2007 at 5:17:25 pm
i think it's time for me to do this, for various reasons: the HDV native capture issue, needing a timeline with various codecs...
BUT, i've also been trying to keep up with the bugs being reported here. any basic alerts i should be aware of when i upgrade today? can i just install it on top of 5.0.4., or do i "uninstall" 5.0.4 first (pardon my allusion to PC parlance)? will it recognize previously captured clips? how does it do in reading a current FCP project? (i also know conventional wisdom says to NEVER upgrade in the middle of a project, but my next few months look like they will have continually overlapping projects...)
Re: biting the big one - upgrading to FCP 6 today - any pointers? by walter biscardi on Jul 17, 2007 at 5:21:33 pm
You can install on top of FCP 5.1.4, that's what we did.
If you're working in HD, you may run into the Shift Fields issue when you bring the project up from 5.1.4. All our HD projects were screwed up when we upgraded, but they had all been mastered already so it didn't matter.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Re: biting the big one - upgrading to FCP 6 today - any pointers? by mortimer heathcliff on Jul 17, 2007 at 5:25:01 pm
(i have 5.0.4, not 5.1.4... but i'm guessing that doesn't make much difference?)
also, could you define "screwed up?" i'm currently near the end of an HDCam (codec'ed to DVCPro HD) and HDV project and would like to find out all that i can.
Re: biting the big one - upgrading to FCP 6 today - any pointers? by walter biscardi on Jul 17, 2007 at 5:30:14 pm
[mortimer heathcliff]"also, could you define "screwed up?" i'm currently near the end of an HDCam (codec'ed to DVCPro HD) and HDV project and would like to find out all that i can."
It shifted the fields on my 1080i timelines so they all play with a staccato. I told the system NOT to apply the Shift Field filter but the video still does not look correct. I would have to recapture all the footage on these 1080i projects if I had to lay them off again.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
http://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.
All Things Apple Podcast! http://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Re: biting the big one - upgrading to FCP 6 today - any pointers? by mortimer heathcliff on Jul 18, 2007 at 7:18:10 pm
hi walter,
as you probably see in my plethora of other posts today and last night, i've basically upgraded to FCP 6 over last night and today. had a few disc read problems, but it seems to have "worked".
after FCP was installed, i pulled up a few 1080i clips that had already been captured and they played beautifully. when i went to save my old 5.0.4 project file, it was then that it asked me about correcting the "shift fields" dealy. i said, "no", it finished, and all clips (so far) still play fine with no flickers....
it's a little scary because my install didn't seem to go that smoothly, yet the project and clips are playing fine...
i've since now also done the upgrade to 6.0.1 and this same project is still fine. of course, i'm only viewing it on the computer screen and an SD monitor, so maybe it doesn't show up until i'm on an HD screen?
i dunno...
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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