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To buy or not to buy?
I would like to see if I can sum up what everybody is thinking about FCS 2, in a nutshell before we buy it. As I read through the various threads, I conclude the following statements are true.
1. There are no real major “don’t by it” bugs with the new release except for some render issues.
2. The render issues revolve around rendering a motion file on the Final Cut timeline.
3. The above render times are really long.
4. Motion 3 renders fine as a stand alone application, with render times that are about what you would expect.
5. FCP rendering it’s own effects (multilple keys etc.) is fine.
Is this all correct.
I need to know before we upgrade 4 systems.
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That has been my experience so far.
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If you are thinking Color is the “bomb”, then it is not. At version 1.0, it’s gonna take some time to be really useful. By useful, I mean “in workflow”. it will take some time to learn the quirks of Color.
FCP 6 is interesting with “open timeline” and that does mean drop any formated clip into it and the project sets the codec to that. The nice 422 ProRez and 422 Prorez HQ codecs do not work on any machine older than an Intel MacPro or MacBook Pro????
Motion3 with 3D or 2.5D as some people call it is much improved from M2 and Compressor 3 is much more robust.
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[FinalOne] “The nice 422 ProRez and 422 Prorez HQ codecs do not work on any machine older than an Intel MacPro or MacBook Pro????”
ProRes 422 works with any machine, but you just can’t capture the HD version without a MacPro box.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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So it’s not worth getting? I was interested in the color addition and new loops added to soundtrack pro.
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