Will this iMac be OK for FCPX Editing

[John Davidson]

Are you in FCP7? I think X would be a bit faster than that. You could also try compressor with that.

Try downloading the free trials of x, compressor, and motion and see what happens.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Ned Miller]

Hi John,

Something weird is happening: I started the export in Quick Time Conversion, by the way the media is on an external Lacie 800 firewire drive, I am not going through a hub, the progress bar was about 10% and said it would be another two hours to complete. Then I leave the house for four hours and I come back and it’s at only 20% complete and says it will still be three hours! ugh. Do you think I should have dragged the entire project onto the internal fusion drive and it will be faster? There are no unnecessary programs open.

I will download the X trial but am too involved in the present jobs to try to learn X right now but perhaps that will be faster? And you are saying Compressor is faster for exporting in X and 7 as compared to Quick Time Conversion?

This is a disappointing first step with such a nice machine.

Thanks,

Ned Miller
Chicago Videographer
http://www.nedmiller.com
www,bizvideo.com

[Tim Jones]

Ned – please, please, please get your data off of that FW drive and onto something connected via Thunderbolt. It doesn’t matter how fast FCP and your new iMac are if the disk is so limiting. Also, even if you can’t get to a faster drive for now, make sure that you’re not transcoding TO that drive while reading FROM it.

Tim
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[Ned Miller]

Oh good point! Well, it’s going to take a couple of clients sending me their checks before I pop for a Thunderbolt drive. I have a shelf of about 30 drives of clients’ projects, both 800 and sometimes 400 FW. Are you saying that I need to transfer over to a Thunderbolt before editing?

Also, what do you mean by: make sure that you’re not transcoding TO that drive while reading FROM it.

I did download the FCPX trial version, imported the P2, dropped the whole 30 minute clip into the timeline, used the Share function adn wow, it was done in about 15 minutes! Created a QT of 1.2GB.

Thanks

Ned Miller
Chicago Videographer
http://www.nedmiller.com
www,bizvideo.com