SSD and FCP speed.

[Dylan Haley]

Hi Matt,

To answer your question, after going through several months of trying to get our multiple HD production shows off the tricaster(file sizes anywhere from 30-60GB) and on to cable, my solution, after several suggestions, was to buy an external recorder. I went with the Atomos Samurai. It records my shows and converts them to prores 422 on the fly. I then take the recorder home to my mac based studio and create DVD’s for the clients right off the drive using FCP X. Now I’m seeing blazing fast edits and saving 4+ hours on authoring DVD’s.

It was painful using FCP X after a decade of cutting on the legacy versions of FCP, however, after painfully going through the motions (and complaining on many blogs) I must admit I was wrong, and FCP X has made me a convert. Honestly, anything that can save me several hours of editing at this point, is worth its weight in gold.

Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it.

~Dylan

[Jerry Hofmann]

That’s a fact. FCP X is the fastest nle to cut with out there.

But you have to work it as it was designed to work. Which is efficient IMHO. BUt so foreign to track based editors. You get past it if you just do the training. Fast. It’s faster to teach than FCP 7 was. That’s for sure.

Well, it’s fastest Until next week possilbly when the other three A’s announce NLE goodies at NAB… Gotta love it.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.

[Rob Ainscough]

Jerry,

Just wait … CS6 with the right GPUs will make FCPX seem it’s living 10 years in the past … especially Prelude. Sadly the Windows version appears to have the edge once again (hardware support and accelerated support).

I think what I like most about CS6 is how easy it is to customize the interface is and just how well it adapts to one’s work flow.

Rob

[Cris Mcconkey]

Jerry, How much a differences does it really make to have the project files on the boot drive? Why is there a difference with FCP7?

[Jerry Hofmann]

In FCP 1-7, the idea here is to keep the media drives set aside to just play the media files, and let the startup disk only pay attention to the apps, and project files.

It’s different in FCP X. project and event files should reside on a dedicated media drive. It’s because they contain the media files, imported, and rendered.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.