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Final Cut stops
I assume that on all Macs, regardless of Kona or just firewire only, when playing from the timeline and you CMD TAB to another application final cut stops. The Kona output on a video monitor also goes green. Seems to me that we should be able to watch video and check email at the same time…
Adobe Premiere did this also, you couldnt even touch another application while capturing footage without it aborting.
Is there some way to have FCP stay in foreground? I like to multi-task and FCP isnt wanting to help.Also, any word on background rendering coming around in any upcoming versions?
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Never a good idea to do ANYTHING with your system while you are capturing video. My suggestion is to get a mac mini or iMac for your multi-tasking. Better yet, go get some coffee.
Kevin Monahan
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Right about capturing Kevin, but I am using a new G5 Quad with a stripe set and only capturing at DVC Pro 50. Easy stuff. If it cant handle that and a render on After Effects simultaneously then it would be weaker than my 4 year old PC editor, which I know that my new G5 machine is much much stronger. FCP will allow you to capture and do something else,but not playback. What I wonder is why MUST it stop playing (timeline playback) when you switch to another application? There must be something in the code that tells it to stop. But why? Whats the point? It would be nice if the client could watch the edited program, or view a long clip of captured footage, while I am working on some other background application like Photoshop.
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Again, I would recommend a second computer for your situation. You may have to accept the fact that this will not change any time soon.
Kevin Monahan
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i dunno guys, on my dual 1.8 with 2 gigs of ram, os10.4.5
i have been known to do the following.
capture firewire video to an ext drive
run itunes
have at least 3 webbrowsers
ichat
widgets
update my ipod
play world of warcraft (windowed)
and run photoshop,never caused a kink for me.
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Yeah, everything but log the footage, right? Or mark some subclips. Or enter some comments. Or set some cue markers. It’s Final Cut Semi-Pro until I can enter some metadata while the media is inbound. Come on; fast processors, native media processing therefore no trans-coding, QT finally multi-threaded….what’s the problem Apple?
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Right now, I need to be working on a logo in Illustrator and listening to 3hrs worth of captured interviews on FCP. It would be real nice to not have FCP stop playback while typing this message.
Frustrating!
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