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Having a problem with video on a MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2018, Mac OS 10.14.6, Logic Pro 10.4.8. Process: File-Movie-Open Movie These are QT movies with embedded audio from post production houses. When opening I'm prompted to extract video and audio. Then prompted to use the frame rate of the QT file. I click to use that frame rate. The movie opens and audio files with individual tracks are created. When playing the movie the video stutters. Audio is fine. Going to: File-Project Settings-Synchronization, brings up the option to select frame rate. The second that the Synchronization window opens the movie magically syncs and there is no video stutter. If I stop the movie and restart playback or go forwards/backwards the stutter begins again. If I re-select the frame rate(which hasn't changed) from the Synchronization window the stutter will stop. All QT movies opened in Logic Pro have this issue. The same movies play just fine in QT and Pro Player. All of this being said I have a MacPro aluminum tower Mid 2009, El Captian, Logic Pro 10.3 and this issue does not exist. Never one issue on that system. Logic Pro has become useless for post production on 10.4.8.

What is the correct way to back up a project on a back up hard drive that has freeze tracks? I use a UAD DUO for plug ins. When I'm loaded down and close to maxed out on the UAD DSP, I freeze tracks to conserve usage. Normally, when it comes time to back up, I use the "Save as" or Save a Copy". However, when working with tracks that are frozen things get a bit tricky. If I use the "Save as" or "Save a Copy" to back up........ when opening the project in the backed up hard drive..... the freeze track files haven't followed. Then, when opening the project, in the back up hard drive, the freeze tracks are marked with the green snowflake but need to be "refrozen" the first time I hit play. This is particularly hairy when I'm completely maxed out on the UAD card.... I'll get the "one or more of the plug ins has been disabled" warning..... which makes sense since the tracks with plug ins that should be frozen are not and are overloading the UAD processor. Even more interesting, the plug ins on the channels I want frozen come up in the default state, not the settings I had them set at. It becomes an endless cycle of trying to decipher what has been disabled and what has the wrong setting. I should say that the work around that I use is to "copy" the project folder in the original hard drive....... then use "paste" in the back up hard drive. Obviously, this copies all sub folders like audio files, bounces, and freeze tracks. Is this the correct way?? Or, is there something I'm missing in the "Save as" and "Save a Copy" command? Any thought are appreciated.