FCS 3 upgrade NOT worth $299…

[Rob Ainscough]

Jan,

These are all opinions, I don’t think they need to be qualified with “for me”. I was also clear in my original post with “everyone has different needs/uses”, so I really don’t think “for me” is necessary.

People have different opinions and that is all good. The beauty of not being sensored on this site is a plus, comments listed in this thread would be removed from Apple’s web site.

I still plan to use FCS 3 (especially if I get that Matrox compressHD working well), but FCS 3 lack luster performance is starting to make other products become my choice of “machine”, because as you say, those machines do more work for me in less time.

I was hoping to see more “Shake” get integrated into motion, possibly even provide optional Node/Layer view — for some tasks I prefer nodes, for other’s I like layers. But there are so little “new features” in FCS 3 it leaves me wondering Apple’s commitment to FCS.

But it’s ok to disagree and your point of moving markers is a good one, but to be honest, that “new feature” should have been implement long ago when they introduced markers in the first place, IMHO.

Cheers, Rob.

[Greg Nosaty]

Jan be warned, makers only stay in sync with your timeline if you insert, overwrite or delete. If you click and drag clips of varying lengths around the sequence the marker don’t stay in sync.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Mario Rubertis]

Rob,
After weeks of research and plunked down the money for the Matrox compressHD. I had a Matrox MXO2 working with my MacPro… so I was covered when it came to input and output, all I needed was a fast way to make my deliveries….Boy did the CompressHD over deliver! I saw the hype, I read the posts about how fast it was. There was video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErU-cs1S0Kw that helped me along… but nothing is better than the real thing. This thing rocks…

An Artist At Heart.
Life is made of moments…

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[Rob Ainscough]

Mario,

Thanks for the scoop — it will be a card I purchase soon.

On a side note, I was able to get QMaster to work and use 4 cores. Took a 1 hour job down to 16 min – key was to tell Qmaster to NOT use “All Network Interface” – assign it to my NIC specifically.

However, if Matrox compressHD works as well as you and others say, it would probably take 1-2 mins vs. 16 min.

How is 1080p output quality (visually) with the Matrox card?

Rob.