Speed, stability concerns and learning curve

[Olly Lawer]

Thanks. But I’m running FCP 6 not 7. I think there is a difference with compatibility between the two from what I understand. Although FCP 7 is fine.

Do you know if my graphics card is openCL?

Olly Lawer

[Simon Ubsdell]

Here’s Apple’s list of non-compliant graphics cards.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664

Your card appears not to be compliant.

I don’t know for sure but I can’t see that there should be any issues with FCP6 and X as against FCP7 as long as you follow the correct installation procedure.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Olly Lawer]

Shame. My card is OpenCL but not supported by FCP X – so that pretty much cans that idea!

I guess it’s not really a possibility to edit in FCP X and then carry on editing in FCP 6 and swap back when I’m back in the office?

The biggest thing I do on the move is orangise footage. Again, probably not feasible to arrange all my clips and marker clips in FCP 6 then move the project to FCP X when I’m back in the office?

Olly Lawer

[Olly Lawer]

Have I misread this?? Surely it cannot be true…

On the tech specs for FCP X it says:

Symptoms
You may notice green artifacts when you export a QuickTime movie. This can occur on a system that has two graphics cards installed and a display attached to a DVI port on each card.

Products Affected
Motion 5, Final Cut Pro X

Resolution
To work around this issue, only use Final Cut Pro X or Motion 5 with a single graphics card installed on your system.

A brand new MacBook Pro has…

AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory

Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

So am I right in thinking I cannot use a brand new MacBook Pro with FCP X without uninstalling one of its graphics card?

Surely not?

Olly Lawer

[Bill Davis]

Olly,

You’re kinda over-thinking this.

FCP-X will run fine on any MacBook Pro from the past couple of years. Period.

The better the laptops specs, the faster it will run.

This is NOT something that’s all that “fragile”

As an example of that, I have one MacPro system with an incompatible graphics card that is NOT open Cl compatible. That system would NOT let us “download-install” FCP-X because of the card issue.

BUT.

When I used target disc mode to move a from my laptop to that old system for backup – and decided to try running it – FCP-X actually opened and ran pretty darn well!

I’m sure Apple doesn’t want people running the new code on old, tired hardware because we all know EXACTLY what would result – a flood of posts from people going “it’s SLOOOOOW” and “it’s a DOG.” when the REAL problem is they’re trying to use it in a setup it was NEVER intended to be used on.

So take a deep breath and relax. You’ll be fine.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Olly Lawer]

Me over think things? Never. 🙂

It is interesting about the dual graphic cards though don’t you think?

Olly Lawer

[Neil Patience]

Hi Olly

“The biggest thing I do on the move is orangise footage. Again, probably not feasible to arrange all my clips and marker clips in FCP 6 then move the project to FCP X when I’m back in the office?”

This can not be done by simply moving project files as FCPX can not open projects from any earlier versions of FCP or the other way around. So moving between the two is currently impossible anyway.
The XML versions are different too so cant use that route.

There have been a few suggestions that a third party may come up with a way of doing this, Apple currently say it is not possible, but others have shown it may be and have used things like CATDV to get part way there.

But as I understand it no solution as yet though.

best wishes
Neil
http://www.patience.tv

[Rafael Amador]

[Olly Lawer] “A brand new MacBook Pro has…

AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory

Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory”
But Apple is not reffering to this two cards.
Those two cards do not works at the same time but they shift depending of the task.
The Radeon is what is call a GPU and has an external port (DVI0, the Intel is integrated in the motherboard and has no external port.

When Apple says:
“You may notice green artifacts when you export a QuickTime movie. This can occur on a system that has two graphics cards installed and a display attached to a DVI port on each card.”.
is talking about MacPros with two GPUs installed in two different bays.

All this without proselytism.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com