FCP X Design Influences

[Jim Wiseman]

To Tim’s point on single screen operation, FCPX runs great on my new MacBook Pro Retina 15″. Much better than the tower. At least as well as the Late 2013 nMP hexacore on first impression. BTW, I do like a two monitor setup, which the new MBP will do when necessary. Also, I bought the MBP now because I knew I would get Yosemite, required by Aperture which I have been using in a managed library since version 1. Not a big fan, actually I don’t like, Lightroom’s interface. Find the “Rooms” cumbersome. And yes I have tried it. Own the perpetual license 6.x, and find the Aperture interface much more fluid. Will probably use it until my computers won’t run it any longer, which makes the El Capitan changeover moot as long as that is the case. Haven’t heard much good about the “upgrades” to Lightroom lately. Will still practice with it once the bugs are fixed, though.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.2, Final Cut Studio 2 & 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC: 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro Retina 2015, i7, 500GB, M370X 2GB: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems

[Andrew Kimery]

I agree that monitor real estate is what we are talking about and not necessarily having multiple monitors. Though having multiple monitors allows you to have one in portrait and one in landscape if you are in to that sort of thing.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andrew Kimery] “Though having multiple monitors allows you to have one in portrait and one in landscape if you are in to that sort of thing.”

It’s monitor Tetris to play track Tetris! 🙂

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