Large projects

[T. Payton]

Regarding the original post and the “Foozball” search issue, turns out the Search Box in the event browser ONLY searches for names of clips and their notes, not keywords.

I confirmed this on page 101 of “Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X”.

I couldn’t find this in the online help, but the above training is the closest manual there is at the time.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Found the reference in the FCP X help here:

https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.1/#ver65764b45

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Timothy Payton] “ONLY searches for names of clips and their notes, not keywords. “

Great point, Timothy.

It also doesn’t search for the names of Favorites (if you name them), but it does have marker search capability. Almost all other metadata in the huge mass that FCPX allows, is also not searchable in the Browser which seems odd, but perhaps it’s a performance issue as we are experiencing.

[T. Payton]

Just a followup on the large project problem in this thread. https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/21413

I finally made it to my local Apple store to try this on some new 2011 27″ iMacs. The slowdowns were almost identical to my 2006 MacPro (13GB Ram), or my 2007 MacBook Pro (4 GB Ram). However, they all had 4 GB of RAM, but FCP X was only using a little of 1 gig most of the time. One of the employees I was showing this to with was floored at the slow performance, especially when typing text in a title on a somewhat complicated project. I was trying to reassure him that the rest of the app is excellent, it is just the database format that is the problem.

I also mentioned to him that despite the slowdowns, the more efficient workflow in FCP X is actually breaking even in my edit time as compared to FCP 7. I have found several workarounds, and right now FCP X is working really, really well for the projects on my plate.

The fact that the performance on my projects was so bad on the new iMacs actually made me very hopeful. I was thinking that my old MacPro workhorse was needing to be abandoned, but my MacPro isn’t the problem, but rather that database method in FCP X!

I would encourage all of us who like FCP X to give Apple a call or Send Feedback to make the FCP team to let them know how aware we are of the problem we have discussed here and that it is essential that they fix it.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque