• Apple Final Cut Pro

  FCPX Motion – which Mac is recommended

  Posted by Sam Friedman on December 12, 2011 at 2:20 am

  I am currently using a new iMac 27″ fully loaded w/16 mb ram but yet after a 10 -15 minutes of use the computer slows down to a craw way to often. I do alot of kinetic writing projects that use a lot of text & fonts – could that be the reason. What is the optimum mac for motion projects? IUs there a lomit to how long a project can be in motion?

  T. Payton replied 14 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  T. Payton

  December 12, 2011 at 11:50 pm

  Just to clarify, are you using Motion or FCP X? What is the resolution of your project? How long is your project?

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  T. Payton
  OneCreative, Albuquerque
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  Sam Friedman

  December 13, 2011 at 1:24 am

  I am using the new version of Motion “5”, which is part of the FCPX famly. The size of the projects need to be 1280×720 resolution @ 25 frames per second, and are between 6 & 7 minutes
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  T. Payton

  December 13, 2011 at 6:58 pm

  Thanks for the reply, since this is the FCP X forum, I think you might have a better change of a response in the Motion forum.

  I’m not a heavy Motion user, but in my experience a 7 minute Motion project is quite long. Motion is a compositor and not an editor per say. So you might be hitting the ceiling on length of the project.

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  T. Payton
  OneCreative, Albuquerque

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