FCP Studio 2

[Jonathan White]

yes

[Walter Biscardi]

From the Apple website (found in about 5 seconds)

Minimum Requirements to Install All Final Cut Studio Applications

* A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor
* 1GB of RAM
* An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
* A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
* Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
* QuickTime 7.1.6 or later
* A DVD drive for installation

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ben Oliver]

walter…..

i am wondering If FCP Studio 2 is going to allow me to edit while having the waveforms displayed at all times.

that would make me a happy person! do you have any info on this, they seem to have reinvented there timeline, so perhaps this will be a reality too? Its perhaps the best part of vegas video!

-ben

[Walter Biscardi]

[ben] “walter…..

i am wondering If FCP Studio 2 is going to allow me to edit while having the waveforms displayed at all times.

that would make me a happy person! do you have any info on this, they seem to have reinvented there timeline, so perhaps this will be a reality too? Its perhaps the best part of vegas video!”

You talking about audio waveforms? I don’t recall ever having an issue with this and we have an old G5 Dual 2.0 that doesn’t have any issues with this right now.

It can also display the video waveform in realtime since FCP 5.1.2.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ben Oliver]

interesting.

is there anyway to make them not contunually redraw themselves everytime I want to zoom in or out.

Im on a new intel machine, about 8 months or something, and the redrawing seems to be tedious, like it always has.

[Walter Biscardi]

[ben] ”
is there anyway to make them not contunually redraw themselves everytime I want to zoom in or out.

Im on a new intel machine, about 8 months or something, and the redrawing seems to be tedious, like it always has.”

No clue what’s happening on your end. Are you working with really long audio files? Once they draw, they should not take long to redraw.

With Good Eats I get full audio mixes of 22 minutes with four channels of audio and have zero issues zooming in / out of the timelines and those are the longest audio files I get.

With our documentaries, this hasn’t been an issue even with over 400 – 600 clips per show.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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[Ben Oliver]

yeah, i tend to work with large, 2-3 hour lectures. They are shot via a firestore and come in, in long long long files. like, up to 4 hours….

i can’t do much about that stuff, as it’s all stored on a server 4 miles away that I cut off of (yay gigabit)

for the stuff that I capture, which is becomingless and less, if lets say I have a 3 hour dvcam tape, if I captured it in smaller chunks, that is frame on accurate, would that work better? I usually just capture it inone whole file, it never looses sync or anything.

-ben

[Walter Biscardi]

[ben] “for the stuff that I capture, which is becomingless and less, if lets say I have a 3 hour dvcam tape, if I captured it in smaller chunks, that is frame on accurate, would that work better? I usually just capture it inone whole file, it never looses sync or anything.”

I never digitize entire tapes as they are more hassle than capturing individual clips in our workflow. But very very long 2 – 4 hour clips will certainly lead to waveform re-draw issues.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Ben Oliver]

thanks for the great info as always!

[Lance Bachelder]

This could also have to do with how your scratch disks are set up – make sure your Waveform Cache, previews, renders, captures etc. are going to a dedicated drive and not your system drive.

Lance Bachelder
Southern California