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FCPX UI goes ‘screwy’
I’ve been pulling a late one today and while working away on FCPX, with nothing else open or running in the background, this happened! Has anyone else seen anything like this?
Lawrence
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What happened? Is there supposed to be a link to an image?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Tom,
Thank you for my oversight. Here’s the file, hopefully…3368_screenshot20111205at8.10.46pm.png.zip
Lawrence
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I’ve never seen that, but the media looks very strange. Is it a supported FCP format?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Tom, it’s ProRes4444 media and I think I may have gotten to the bottom of the issue.
Graphics card is dying
AND
Only 40gb’s left on my scratch drives of 6TB’s total. Wish there was some better media management tools!Regards,
Lawrence
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Yeah that is strange. As for the HDD space issue, do you have 100’s of Gig’s worth of unneeded render files that you could delete?(Select project or event, File> delete project/event render files)
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David,
Thanks, I’ve just gone and freed up more than 200 gigs by deleting the ‘unused’ render files, via the project browser. Back to the salt mines!
Regards,
Lawrence
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[Lawrence Eaton] “Wish there was some better media management tools!”
Like what? What do you need to do that FCPX can’t do at the moment?
Looks like you are using 444 media on screen captures, why not use 422 or 422 LT?
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
My one (and only gripe) about FCPX compared to Legacy is the ability to ‘wrap’ up a project and move it lock, stock and two smoking barrels to archive it. NOW, saying that and realizing that FCPX is built around the core of a dB the relative ease of moving projects+events is not the same. Probably why a good many people have had initial ‘issues’ with FCPX. So, the move project option or the duplicate project option is satisfactory as it is. It is purely a matter of getting my mind around the dB side of things and how that works.
(Jeremy) Looks like you are using 444 media on screen captures, why not use 422 or 422 LT?
I am using ProRes4444 for this project and it is a screenshot one. The level of quality (and overhead), I’ve found, cannot be beaten. I used Intermediate codec in Legacy and Animation to great effect but as most people I’ve had the fortune to talk to wonder why I’d use FCP for screenshot work, finding the ‘right’ workflow is a little problematic for me – then again, I could be a real dunce – who knows. So at the end of the day, I use ProRes4444 and then shove it through Compressor 4 (which I truly love – I hear tumbleweeds in the background now) for the final output to the client.
The issue is now I have to go and purchase either Apple’s or Amazon’s storage facility!!!!! 🙂Any thoughts would be gratefully received.
Regards,
Lawrence
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Unless you’re editing in sizes that are larger than 2k anything beyond ProRes is probably a waste. How is this going to be delivered? I don’t think even ProRes HQ will benefit it much.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Tom,
The delivery is via multiple formats: 720p, m4v, mp4, WMV. I believe this is the ONE area that I am currently lacking in any real knowledge and it bugs me silly to think that I can’t work it out and yet, I’m too embarrassed to ask!
Regards,
Lawrence
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