10.2 update

[Mitch Ives]

[Jeremy Garchow] “It is quite obvious, Tom, that this software is not made for professional use.”

Sarcasm noted. It’s a good update, but as usual some issues.

1) Waveform update is a bit inconsistent. I often find I have to either zoom in or zoom out to force it to redraw.

2) Had the rare occasion of having to drop a whole series of JPEGs onto the timeline, as some of the GoPro footage was mistakingly shot as jpeg’s rather than MOV. This gave 10.2 quite a problem. On several occasions trying to bring in 1000 or so would result in FCP going into Not Responding mode. This is on a fully loaded 8-core nMP with 64GB of ram and a very fast disk array.

That’s a first for me, I’ve never been able to get X to hang. It’s completely repeatable. The good news is that I don’t plan on doing this other than this one time…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Jeremy Garchow]

1) That’s better than a beach ball

2) GoPro has tools to make those .movs that FCPX can handle with ease.

[Eric Santiago]

[Jeremy Garchow] “But what I am saying is that, when I RAM preview the 4k shots with a key, this is faster than RAM previewing the rendered 4k files after I reimport them.
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I have to investigate that one.

[Bret Williams]

You’ve got FCP 7 laying around? You’re just one step from taking it into motion. Instead of importing that XML in AE, open it in 7 and send it to motion. Ignore Motion 4 and open the Motion project it creates in Motion 5.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I do have fcs3 around.

I have to share Ae projects, otherwise that’s a great trick that I will definitely try.

Thanks!

[David Mathis]

I take it Motion will work on Yosemite?

[David Mathis]

My biggest beef with After Effects is having to use RAM previews and the occasional long render time. Curious to see how Fusion stacks up. Of course, I prefer expressions over parameters on occasion. As they saying goes about having cake and eating it.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Motion 4 doesn’t even install on Yosemite. Every time I have to fire up Final Cut 7, i have to move Motion 5 in to the “Final Cut Studio” folder in the Applications folder, unless Brett knows a workaround for that? 🙂 Maybe a sym link?

Jeremy

[Bret Williams]

If 7 won’t send to motion without motion 4 functional then that throws it for a loop. Honestly the couple times I’ve done it, I sent the xml from xto7 over to my old Mac Pro 1,1 running lion and legacy FCP studio 3. I open in FCP 7 and send to motion. When it asks where to create the file I’ll save it on the FCP X system. Then roll my chair back over to the main system and open it in motion 5.

[David Mathis]

Thanks for posting. I have FCS 3 Studio lying around somewhere. Might set up two partitions, Mavericks on one with Yosemite on the other. I will keep X on Yosemte side, to have that glorious 3D text, install old school on Mavericks partition.

Where should I save any project files to?