ProRes Codecs are missing

Did you click the "Show All" button at the top right of the Easy Setup window?

This one. When you first select Easy Setup:

Easy Setups are not codecs. Codecs are stored elsewhere on the computer.

Can you play ProRes files in QuickTime? Have you tried trashing preferences? Easy Setup information is cached in FCP preferences.

I am having the same problem. Upgraded to 10.6.1 and now I have no Apple ProRes choices in Easy Setup. Has anyone figured this out yet?

Hi Gyula

I've recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and FCP 7, however I didn't do it the proper way. I simply installed both as an upgrade, versus accomplishing a clean install. Oh well, I simply didn't have the time to go through all of that.

Anyway, my original Easy Settings containing my custom settings were carried on over into the new install and I haven't had any problems capturing ProRes 422 via firewire as I have always done in the past (with one exception, which is discussion in detail in another thread).

I've been doing some research on this topic though and even though Easy Settings for Capturing in ProRes don't appear in the easy setups, I believe you have to create them yourself (pretty much like it was (or is) in FCP6. Here are a couple links that may help, I hope so.

http://edu.moviola.com/hdv_prores

http://rtf.utexas.edu/sp/groups/public/@commkbase/documents/software/prod75_0165 67.pdf

I've probably just violated some rule that says I can't give you a link to another site, but I'm not as smart as some of the other guys that's been around here longer so I have to rely on other sites.

This does not solve the problem. NO Easy Setups with Apple ProRes (with the exception of one HDV Setup) exist under any format in the Easy Setup Window. PLease help?

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Sorry ShizzleD, not sure how I can help you. According to this article I read over at Creative Cow, you won't see the ProRes Easy Setups with the exception of the HDV which is what your seeing I suppose. I am capturing ProRes 422 in FCP 7 via firewire from a small Canon HV20, although I do have a Black Magic Intensity Pro Card installed in my MacPro, but I only use it for monitoring my video output on my external Samsung LCD while editing, I don't capture through it. Still the only Easy setup's that I see is the custom one I created using the procedures in those articles which I posted above. Look at this post and see if it leads you in the right direction.

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/944/fcp-7-no-prores-easy-setup-without-capture -card#comments

I Suppose you have to have a capture card to see any easy settings for ProRes, Im just not sure in your case. Maybe one of these veterans will give you some solid advice. You have to be really nice to them though and swear you'll name your first born after them.

helioxfilm wrote:
However, when I upgraded my FCP6 to FCP7 - (without cleans install), all the new ProRes (and old) Easy Setups were there, that's way I find it quite strange that after a clean install they are not there.

And, as Videocrafter mentioned, I can create them as custom Easy Setups...

best
Gyula Somogyi

Well, I guess clean installs don't always have their advantages do they? LOL Glad it worked out for ay Gulua.

Ron

I have this problem too on Final Cut Pro 7. I can't see any ProRes items in the Easy Setups menu but if I go to Sequence Settings > Load Sequence Preset, I'm presented with a whole list of ProRes options.

I would speculate that Final Cut Pro is disabling the ProRes Easy Setups because I do not have the necessary hardware to capture in ProRes on this machine. Perhaps it only enables it if you have a capture card.

Jon Chappell wrote:
I would speculate that Final Cut Pro is disabling the ProRes Easy Setups because I do not have the necessary hardware to capture in ProRes on this machine. Perhaps it only enables it if you have a capture card.

That's what I don't fully understand. One can capture to ProRes via firewire, Therefore any special capture card is not required. Therefore, why would (is) Final Cut 7 doing this? I have the Black Magic Intensity Pro Card, but I don't use it to capture, only for output. Does that mean if I didn't have a Black Magic card installed I wouldn't be able to capture via firewire? What I assume it actually means is that pre-established Easy Setups would not be displayed without the installed card, and I would simply need to configure them manually at the links I provided earlier explain. Am I correct in this assumption?

Ron