FCPX crashed today

[Frank Gothmann]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I’m all for dumping QuickTime, but it’s currently not quite an option. The web is ready with mp4, the professional video industry seems poised to be ready with MXF, but there it sits. QuickTime is still extremely ubiquitous, even though it’s fairly outdated for today’s modern architectures.

Everyone stills asks for .mov. Not one entity has asked for an AVI. “The future” is clearly cross platform compatibility and AVI isn’t great on a Mac. “

Oh, I agree. Would love to see Quicktime fade away but it is and will be for quite some time the main container for delivery. Which is why you can also output to .mov from Edius; you just have to swallow the performance pill that also comes without prescription with Premiere or Avid. But if you CAN output to something else, or need to go to Tape, or encode to BD or whatever, you have a fast alternative that impressively showcases where the bottleneck of many NLEs is.

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[Geoff Addis]

No problem running Windows on a Mac, just use Boot Camp. No problems encountered here with this configuration running over three years.

By the way Edius 6.5 also incorporates a Loudness Meter to meet the upcoming requirement to control program loudness for broadcast use – quite handy if you’re in that field.

Geoff

[Dominic Deacon]

I had to tip into Premiere Pro yesterday so I could access my Red Giant plug ins. I figured I’ edit the whole project (a fairly basic 50 second trailer) in there but was flabbergasted by the difference in performace. When you’ve got used to Edius the jump back to something else is quite shocking. In the end wound up doing the editing in Edius and then just dipping into Premiere for the bare minimum time I needed to spend there.