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FCPX UI instability- is it just me?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Still, though, even with these closed, the beach ball comes out at halftime.”
This isn’t a criticism, but I have a brand new Mac Pro that still beach balls once in awhile, and on average unexpectedly quits once during a long day. This is a new 8-core, Dual D700’s, 64GB or ram and a 1TB SSD and it still does that, even with nothing else opened. It’s running a 12TB Promise Pegasus2 disk array, so it’s not like everything isn’t maxed out for performance.
New machine, virgin install of everything, all new render files. I don’t know how much more perfect I could make the environment? I think Apple has some more work to do (he said in his most compassionate voice)…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Mitch, I have almost the same set up and I am surprised like you that the new Mac Pro’s don’t operate better with FCP X. I hope the next FCP X update performs better!
[Mitch Ives] “I have a brand new Mac Pro that still beach balls once in awhile, and on average unexpectedly quits once during a long day. This is a new 8-core, Dual D700’s, 64GB or ram and a 1TB SSD and it still does that, even with nothing else opened. It’s running a 12TB Promise Pegasus2 disk array, so it’s not like everything isn’t maxed out for performance.
New machine, virgin install of everything, all new render files. I don’t know how much more perfect I could make the environment? I think Apple has some more work to do (he said in his most compassionate voice)…
“Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
Mac Pro 3.5MHz 6-Core Late 2013
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I did wonder about the RAM – I might pull two sticks to see if it helps. Also I noticed a CUDA driver has installed itself (part of Resolve I believe) – could this be conflicting? Can’t seem to find it to uninstall – and it renders (no pun intended) Resolve unusable – not that this matters particularly…
Try this on your systems too and see if the same behaviour happens:
Grade a shot. Then add another colour adjustment with a mask – pull the exposure just on the outside of the mask for a vignette. Then copy that colour attribute and paste it – if I do that I get a completely mangled grade on the next shot, centre almost black as if the grade’s been reversed. So something’s being corrupted in the translation from one to another.
It’s not the biggest issue, and I think that the colour board can give some very nice looks far far quicker than Legacy 3-way, but it looks bad when you do it in front of a client and it’s obviously corrupted. So I grade each individually if they have multiple adjustments and hope they don’t notice I’m not cutting and pasting…
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Cutting and pasting is just messed up in the current iteration of FCP X. I’m finding it everywhere.
I’ve found with copying attributes, if you copy and paste everything, it’s usually ok. But sometimes if I just paste the distort or just the crop, it’s all wonky. Wouldn’t be surprised if color vignettes get messed up when you just paste the vignette.
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I’ve had paste attributes stop functioning several times.
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The CION is a 100% Pro Res camera – no image sequences. For me, in the heat of a shoot, I’ll take Pro Res over frames any day. Shooting 4K 444 should be way good enough for just about anybody.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Lance Bachelder] “The CION is a 100% Pro Res camera – no image sequences”
While that true for internal recording, the camera offers external recording of raw images. For their specs: “(SDI 1-4 YCbCr, SDI 1-4 RGB or SDI 1 Raw)”. Presumably this would go to a Codex, KiProQuad or Odyssey. Those would record image sequences if you wanted to maintain camera raw values. Am I interpreting that correctly?
[Lance Bachelder] “I’ll take Pro Res over frames any day. Shooting 4K 444 should be way good enough for just about anybody.”
Completely agree. There are quite a few films these days shot with Alexa opting for ProRes over ARRIRAW. Even most feature shot on RED cameras are changed to some sort of non-raw media before the DI session, like uncompressed DPX files encoded with RedLogFilm gamma.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Jason Porthouse] “* Range tool utterly inaccurate when entering in and out points on the fly – for instance, I usually turn music tracks into secondaries so I can edit them and add dissolves – but try and mark a bar of a track using I & O in the range tool. Seemingly completely random placement. Same goes for clips in the browser.”
Have to agree this is a MAJOR pet peeve. Marking I & O on the fly only marks ranges in the Primary Storyline. So if your music track is a Connected Clip (as they will be much of the time) then you’re outta luck. There needs to be a way to mark IO on selected clips.
In general music editing is cumbersome in X. It’s a shame with the advantage of subframe editing, but some of the current limitation of the magnetic timeline are problematic. Compounding the music edits is one work around. But then you have to “step in” to that every time you wanna edit the track. Seems clunky.
Let’s hope Apple is listening to their Pro Developer Consultants. They have made great strides with each subsequent release. But it seems like it will be 10.2 or .3 before this baby is ready truly for PrimeTime.
Peter Ochs | Editor
MacBook Pro 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB RAM
FCP X 10.1.1
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[Peter Ochs] “In general music editing is cumbersome in X. It’s a shame with the advantage of subframe editing, but some of the current limitation of the magnetic timeline are problematic. Compounding the music edits is one work around. But then you have to “step in” to that every time you wanna edit the track. Seems clunky.”
With Apple buying Beats, maybe we’ll get the new and improved Dr. Dre mixing panel and music editing module in FCP X. 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Whoops I was talking internal only. Yes the CION will send data out the 3G SDI or the Thunderbolt port depending on what you’re recording. It wouldn’t be a Ki Pro Quad though as that’s basically inside the CION and is Pro Res only.
CHEF, which opens this weekend was shot ALEXA in Pro Res for cost and time constraints. I’m sure it looks great on the big screen.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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