Color Grading Central Color Finale

[Erik Lindahl]

Impressive. Let’s hope Apple updates FCPX to make it usable with external video references. It’s insanely laggy / slow at the moment for serious work.

[Charlie Austin]

[Erik Lindahl] ” Let’s hope Apple updates FCPX to make it usable with external video references”

You mean external (shared) sources? That’s all I use and it’s fine FWIW…

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[Erik Lindahl]

I mean using “A/V Output” via a AJA och BMD interface. It’s dog slow on every system I’ve ever tried and unreliable as well.

If I press SPACE there’s a good second or two lag before playback starts.

The above ONLY is the case with A/V Output switched on. With out it FCPX is very responsive. When doing finishing or client-assisted session, this is a requirement sadly.

[Charlie Austin]

[Erik Lindahl] “I mean using “A/V Output” via a AJA och BMD interface.”

Ah… gotcha. I use a BMD MiniMonitor and, it’s not as bad as you describe… It’s a bit less responsive than with A/V out off for sure, though I’m also looping the signal through a machine room via a wyrestorm hdmi to ethernet converter and then back to the monitor in my bay,

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[Jeff Markgraf]

No problems with AJA Kona 3 in a Sonnet thunderbolt to PCI adapter. No problem with an AJA T-Tap TBolt to sdi.

MacBook pro 15″ Retina. TBolt 2 raid. HD and 2k footage.

[Erik Lindahl]

I’ve had issues with every single setup I’ve tried, from is it OS X 10.7 to 10.1, from a MacPro 2008 with three different GPU’s and a Kona 3, to a MacPro 2013 8-core / D700 / 64GB / 1TB / 1GBs RAID-5 with BMD video i/o. It’s always been laggy and I’ve talked to AJA about it at IBC and the reply is “you’re not the only one that’s commented on that”.

I guess some people aren’t as picky as me.

[Charlie Austin]

[Erik Lindahl] “I guess some people aren’t as picky as me.”

Or some people aren’t seeing the same lag. If I was seeing a 1-2 sec lag after hitting playback I’d be going crazy too. Nothing close to that here.

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Jeff Markgraf]

Well, I think of myself as pretty picky…

Honestly, the last nle I used that didn’t have at least a slight but perceptible lag on playback was a 10 year old avbv Avid playing standard def on a G4 tower running Mac os 9 with is9 local storage. Every system I’ve used since then has had a slight hesitation before playing the first frame of video. On pc based systems, there was usually a far more annoying lag in the interface responsiveness. As in click a button with the mouse and wait a half second for it to register. Now that will drive a person crazy!

I’m pretty sure any nle will have some hesitation playing long gop formats. I think it’s more of an issue on a network. I’ve never had more than about a half second delay with HD or 2k footage on local storage (fiber or thunderbolt raids, usb3 or esata through a thunderbolt adapter). Even then it’s not been consistent or intrusive.

[Erik Lindahl]

I’ll make a recording of it. Even on state of the art hardware it’s MUCH slower than the unsupported FCP7 and Premiere Pro CC. I even think Resolve is more responsive.

We tend to work with ProRes in 1080p25.

[Steve Connor]

Just been posted that the release is delayed