Anybody HAPPY?

[Timothy Auld]

The problem I’ve had the few times FCP X has been a part of my life is stability. Certainly I’ve read and heard that others have had this problem as well. So in the coming weeks I’d love to know if anyone is experiencing better performance in that regard.

Tim

[Andy Field]

update 7 with 64 bit sexy charcoal-ness? They’ve already done it – it’s called Adobe Premiere CC

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Herb Sevush]

[Andy Field] “update 7 with 64 bit sexy charcoal-ness? They’ve already done it – it’s called Adobe Premiere CC”

Only in my dreams. Reality – not so much.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Keith Koby]

[Herb Sevush] “Now if only the Yanks could find a starting pitcher in addition to a couple of infielders who could hit their weight, all would be right with the world.”

I live here… but I root for a team that had a something to celebrate vs. the yanks in duh bronx in 06, 11, and 12. (you can call them duh troit… i don’t mind).

I’m not so happy. The 10.1 update is fine. It’s free and it has some great features. I was hoping for a few different, more advanced things. But what they did will be very practical and very helpful in my work. I’m going on record here to say I’m not happy with the mac pro launch. It’s messy and late for business purposes.

[Herb Sevush]

[Keith Koby] “but I root for a team that had a something to celebrate vs. the yanks in duh bronx in 06, 11, and 12. “

I’ve always liked the Tigers ever since the days of Al Kaline, which I’m guessing is a little bit before your time. 2nd best insignia in baseball –

One of the best sports documentaries I’ve ever seen was about another Tiger great “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.” Well worth the watch, it’s about more than the game.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Keith Koby]

[Herb Sevush] “ve always liked the Tigers ever since the days of Al Kaline, which I’m guessing is a little bit before your time. 2nd best insignia in baseball -“

HA! Yes! My son keeps getting number 6 on all his baseball teams so I told him why it’s a great number to have! He doesn’t read the cow, so I can share with you that he’s getting a #6 tigers jersey for christmas. He was before my time, but my dad filled me in… One of the first baseball games I watched on tv was tigers vs yanks with the bird fidrich pitching.

I haven’t got to see the Hank Greenberg documentary yet. I’m looking forward to watching it. We should connect for Tigers Yankees this year. Connect with me over on linked in…

[Keith Koby]

[John Heagy] “The edges are starting so round meaning less pounding into that round hole”

Agreed… Even though we (where I work) were already using it and finding it powerful and useful, it needed some intuitive organizational help. Thanks to people like you suggesting things, it is on it’s way to becoming more useful to bigger organizations. I appreciate your voice in the discussion John.

[John Heagy] “laughing at the emperor cowering naked in a corner”

oh boy… who lost their clothes?

[Tim Wilson]

I’m the product of a mixed marriage (dad: 4th generation of Yankees fans; mom: Brooklyn Dodgers 4ever, although as the NY NL team, the Mets’ll do), and grew up idolizing the whole 50s New York scene. All you need to know about my family dynamics, though, is that the Red Sox became my favorite team.

I still pay respectful attention to both New York teams, and I gotta say, nothing the Sox do this off season will help them win more games than the Yanks trading Cano.

re: Detroit, my first-ever baseball card: Mickey Lolich, 1966! His 1968 World Series is still one of the greatest.

I think we may need a baseball forum in the COW. 🙂

[Jim Giberti]

I’m wicked happy with Libraries.
I say this with the full expectation that Appleites are putting the finishing touches on similar needed/logical advancements to color and audio implementation.

And then there’s the, “Please just restore it and we’ll pretend it never happened”, thing regarding turning our lovely route of commerce between Motion Ave and Final Cut Highway into a one-way goat path.

[David Eaks]

[Tim Wilson] “I’m curious. Is anybody looking at this and saying, “Wow, what a great update,” or “This has exactly the features I was waiting for,” or, “This update makes me feel better about myself” — anything like that?”

Yes, ME!

Well. Libraries… don’t really care. It’s better for many people and I’m glad. I’ll just alter my workflow as needed and probably improve it some how. I haven’t completely grasped it all yet but I wasn’t hurting with separate Events/Projects.

What I’m most excited about is the under the hood performance increase. Being that I don’t own a thunderbolt equipped Mac yet (2008 2.8 eight core Mac Pro and 2010 2.66 dual core MBP), FCPX doesn’t perform as well as I know it could. My main concerns being realtime effects playback and waiting for thumbnails and waveforms to build.

With the combination of the 10.1 update and moving to Mavericks, I’ve noticed a significant improvement in performance on the MBP (Mavericks hasn’t made it onto the Mac Pro yet). Waveforms and thumbnails build a bit faster and I can get a little more real time playback with effects in better performance mode. Alex4Ds BruceX benchmark showed improvement as well. All things that make my daily life better.

Here is an example of the increased performance on my MBP. With the OS and Apps installed on an evenly-split partitioned SSD, the Media files and Event/Library on a 2TB LaCie D2 Quadra connected with FW800 (because Mavericks won’t recognize the eSATA express card). New Timeline with a one hour 1920×1080 Prores clip. Better Performance selected-

FCPX 10.0.9 on Mountain Lion cannot playback without dropping frames with only the Add Noise and 50s TV effects applied (add noise and color correction will play).

FCPX 10.1 on Mavericks can playback without dropping frames with the Add Noise, 50s TV, Aged Film and a color correction with every parameter adjusted at least a little (a second color correction will drop frames after a few seconds). Significant for a Software update to be sure.

I just now did those tests back to back, then repeated each trying to get more effects to play.

BruceX-
FCPX 10.0.9—– 436
FCPX 10.1——- 368

I’ve also gone as far as to time how long each version takes to build Thumbnails and Waveforms. Starting with an open timeline, hit shift-z to fit, quit FCPX. Then trash the appropriate render files folders and reopen FCPX. As soon as the timeline pops up I start the timer-

10.1—— thumbnails build in 4 seconds—- Waveforms build in 1 min 41 sec
10.0.9— thumbnails build in 12 seconds— Waveforms build in 2 min 19 sec

then zooming in the timeline, the thumbnails need to update for each zoom level, 10.1 is snappier.

So, there’s all that. Then there is all the actual features to be happy with.

remove through edit
used clip ranges/show unused only
Project Snapshots
AUTOSAVE VAULT!
share notifications (I’ve been happily using the “FCPX Messages” script app for a while)
Separate audio from Multicam clip
copy/paste multiple keyframes
custom project resolutions
retime/replace improvements
Stabilization/optical flow improvements
audio handles
J/L cut improvements
completely hide browser
FCPX doesn’t hold any and every mounted drive hostage
etc.

And lets not forget that we will be getting another update in 2-3 months.

I’m sure not complaining.