[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[Victor Perez] “This might also be a good time to trash your prefs. “

Trashed prefs without any help to the problem. I experimented a little and found out that if i do not drag clip to the timeline directly but insert it with keyboeard shortcut or drug it to canvas then FCP do not crash anymore. I have this strange habit 🙂 to drag clips to the timeline and place it to the point i need and to have option to insert it with sound or without. Now I am slowed down because i have to preach myself to get used to new style of editing because this funny FCP decided to crash every time i use my old good way to insert clips… ridicules…

[Victor Perez] “We have had this problem before when one of our suites had large chunks of media mistakenly captured to the System Drive.”

All my project data are on separate 2 Tb RAID0 hard drive (non system) and I do not have anything which is not related to the project.

Andrei B.

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

Thank you all for your fast input. Yes, I am doing permission repairing quite regularly and last time i did it yesterday. no difference… I will try the other options. Andrei B.

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[Shane Ross] “So by older I mean ones that sport a DVI connection.”

is it possible to hook DVI monitor through HDMI out? they have such cables out there: https://www.optimization-world.com/products/catid/4.html

I am asking because I got my MXO2 today.

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

i see…

an what about cheap LCDs I listed in one of the previous messages? are they ok for monitoring or it will probably give ghosting on movements and bending on gradients? I noticed that plasma TVs have faster response and big number of grades. But plasmas are little too much for our budget. About at least 4x more expensive then mentioned LCDs.

Thank you Shane for your input,

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

[Shane Ross] “Well, the MXO and Dell 2408 or 2409…or older Apple 23″”

what do you mean by “older 23″? what is the problem with connection? I found some local offers of second hand ACD 23”. How to be sure they sell older model?

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

actually they have 2 ms grey-to-gray response. i am not sure what does it mean but maybe normal response much longer?

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

One more question. What min. specs HDMI LCD monitor i have to buy to meet hd video reference monitoring? I found some very cheap:

— LG Flatron W2442PA-BF
https://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=437379

— ACER H243Hbmid
https://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4242611

— ACER P244Wbmii
https://www.itechnews.net/2008/11/17/acer-p244wbmii-full-hd-lcd-display/#more-15514

— ASUS VW246H
https://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/asus-vw246h-lcd-display/4505-3174_7-33411725.html

They all have:
– 2ms response time. Is it enough?
– TN matrix. Trace Free Technology (TFT)
– HDMI in

Are the specs acceptable for video monitoring? Should I expect color bending?
Price for all these monitors are under 250 euro (uround $300)

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

Thank you Shane!

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

Thank you Shane!

Maybe then I do not really need MXO2 just for monitoring?

Do you have any suggestion for alternative solution to have reference monitor for video color correction? How do you have picture reference from your FCP timeline or from Color?

Other thing is confusing for me. Why FCP do not take advantage of 8 cores of MacPro? FCP struggling to playback some heavy effects or to render non-RT stuff in timeline but CPU graphs show that all my 8 cores are busy maximum up to about 20% and just taking rest. Any idea how I can engage the power of 8 core processor to do the job?

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[Andrei Bocharnikov]

thank you guys all for your input and especially Jenn. I like the way he do it. Much faster and no need to open other sequence or move clip up and down.

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