[Andy Mees]

They are here Olof: https://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/

[Andy Mees]

I gotta say I’ve never really had any problem with the Media Mangler outside of the well known issues its had in the past, especially with speed effected media. I’ve used it to consolidate many projects for archive (including all associated media) without issue.

[Andy Mees]

its at times like these that a simple macro function in FCP would be handy … just assemble the content in a single timeline then use a macro to perform: up arrow – ctrl v – x – shift delete … and repeat itself until done, then just media manage the trimmed sequence.

[Andy Mees]

A few blog and forum posters have noted complete success in Media Managing complex speed affected sequneces … zero errors. Does that mean you won’t find a problem? I don’t know. But the early reports are good in that regard … here’s one such post by Scott Simmons:
https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/kicking_the_tires_on_final_cut_pro_7/

[Andy Mees]

try this: with the project tab active, press Cmd A (for Select All) then Control C (for Batch Capture)

at the bottom of the subsequent Batch Capture window you should see a summary for Total Media Time (and Total Disk Space).

[Andy Mees]

So I guess what multiple people had told me to expect is now not going to be coming true?

Nick, those multiple people were speculating, or making “best guesses” … call it what you will.

I had heard that Snow Leopard would include an entirely new kind of Quicktime…

This is already known, that SL will include the all new “Quicktime X”

…and that the delay of FCStudio was directly related to the fact that FC7 would be running using this entirely new Quicktime

And that was the speculative bit. Since NAB back in April many FCS watchers and interweb commentators felt that they had a good explanation for why Apple hadn’t released an upgrade to their aging production suite … and they posted their thoughts, thats all.

Does the FC7 have hooks buried in the code ready to grab ahold of a new Quicktime from day 1 ?

Do you want more speculation?

[Andy Mees]

The MXO2 is great Jason, works a treat… I’m using the bigger box, not the Mini, but the functionality is primarily the same. I believe Shane Ross, might be able to comment to the Mini specifically as he has one.
There’s a table with the user documentation that shows what formats it can and can’t handle … its not a small document tho, about 5MB, the format info is on page 94: https://www.matrox.com/video/media/pdf/support/mxo2/doc/en_Matrox_MXO2_Installation_and_User_Guide_1_4.pdf

The faster than realtime H264 encoding in the MAX hardware is great … creates BluRay compatible encodes too if thats your bag (although no word yet on if it’s Compressor 3.5 ready, in that regard … certainly the official FCS 2009 driver release is not out yet)

[Andy Mees]

>and who knows how much more performance will be there, given that FCP7 is Open CL-aware

Open CL aware … Is this something we now know for a fact Philip? Apologies, been scanning so much info I’ve missed this tidbit. Do you have a link?

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

i’ve seen your reel Warren … I think you should definitely wait ;p

[Andy Mees]

They did include native AVHCD editing suppor

No they didn’t Brent, they introduced native support for the professional AVC Intra codec, not consumer AVCHD

Maybe they will include an update later for the native XDCAM editing

Thats already native. You just need to rewrap to quicktime, there’s no transcode. If you like you can even edit the raw MXF recording files through third party support though its not ideal.

There’s a long thread on FCS and FCP 7 just a few posts below this