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Arya Boustani
October 28, 2016 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Upgrading to El Capitan for Latest Final Cut Pro X (10.3)

Thank you!
Arya Boustani
June 3, 2014 at 1:13 am in reply to: How to Create Custom Size Projects in FCP X

Hi there,
I didn’t need the audio for this particular clip so I just went ahead and used transform to scale the work to get rid of the circle right from the event library. It doesn’t change the ratio so still I should be in 16:9 ratio (UHD project setting).
I went ahead and wanted to create a new compound clip. In there, there is custom setting that I can type the resolution, but I don’t know how to see the cropped footage resolution in the earlier step. I rather maximize the resolution and use the real revolution so after the crop assuming 150% scaling in UHD resolution = (3840×2160) /1.5 = (2560×1440). If that’s the case, I’m still slightly larger than 2.5K resolution (2432 x 1366), and I rather use the real resolution anyway. But there is no way to find out what exactly my resolution is after the crop. Is there?
Thank you.
Arya Boustani
June 3, 2014 at 12:33 am in reply to: How to Create Custom Size Projects in FCP X

I tried in 10.0.9 and the only option other than 2K, 4K, etc size is under Other and in there it doesn’t allow custom size. It is only a couple of lower resolution options. I just finished opening up more room in my Mavericks partition. Please let me know if there is a solution in 10.1.x.
Thanks.
Arya Boustani
June 1, 2014 at 2:52 pm in reply to: How to Create Custom Size Projects in FCP X

Right now, I’m working in my mountain lion partition which is still my main partition so I can’t update to 10.1 but I have 10.1. on my Mavericks partition. I just need to do some partition space reconfiguring to make that bigger since it wasn’t populated with my apps back then but now it will be going in that direction.
If it makes life easier I can work on 10.1 for this as well. I already had a project done in 10.1 and I like it more anyway.

Thanks for your help.
Arya Boustani
November 7, 2013 at 3:33 pm in reply to: FCP7 with Mavericks

Hi there,

Well, just some typical tech formula:

– try a new session, throw a pro res footage in the time line and play back. Is it still out of sync?
– try a new session with NTSC setup with NTSC footage. Is it still out of sync?

If any of those play in sync, I imagine you need to wait for Apple to upgrade the OS. You can report it to them. I just did that for Premiere Pro not picking up my graphic card Open CL in the settings.

If BM hardware had a driver installed previously, then it could be the case that the driver is not streamlined with Mavericks.

Good luck.
Arya Boustani
September 13, 2013 at 3:20 pm in reply to: how to skip VST audio plugins in FCP

Hi Andy,

You mentioned there is a way to make FCP doesn’t read AU plugins.
Would you be able to point out the steps?
I have the same situation but regarding AU plugins: using them in a DAW but not need it for FCP.

Thanks,
Arya
Arya Boustani
February 22, 2012 at 2:31 am in reply to: Mountain Lion

Messengers are the product of the need and the momentum of believing in a concept by the critical mass, almost regardless of the capability of the messenger. Apple is trying to stick to the themes of popularity and I don’t think they quite know which ingredients are destructive in their path to future. They are just counting on the momentum.
I think the reason studios bought Mac 15 years ago was because they found it was not trying to change now and then to suite the peak of the popularity and profit making so they could rely on it as a solid ground to grow their proficiency by sticking to a work process. I rather fabricate that solid ground by sticking to the older OS and older Pro Apps. I think it is a dangerous path to mix up my day to day personal computer fun features with deadline driven audiovisual deliverables. I look to it as a hardware mixer. It doesn’t change with time and I know exactly what it’s doing so I can rely on it.
Arya Boustani
June 13, 2011 at 8:45 am in reply to: Affordable RAID solution in Mac Pro

Thanks Bob. That puts me in the right mindset. I have a Mac Pro 3,1 with the internal drives hooked up to the built in SATA II controllers. I guess I need to buy a PCI-e 2.0 SATA III controller, unhook the connections of the drives from the motherboard and hook them up to the PCI-e card. You are right. It doesn’t make sense not to take advantage of 6 Gbps capability of the new drives especially when they are so affordable.
Arya Boustani
June 12, 2011 at 12:15 am in reply to: Affordable RAID solution in Mac Pro

Thanks Bob for your advice.

Sorry I think I need a bit higher speed than 100 MB/sec for 4 streams of Pro Res 422 overlays, etc. I need to get the speed test from my 3 internal 1TB WD Black Caviar 64MB cache RAID 0 to find out. It is interesting to know that 2 drives gives 300MB/Sec. Is it with a RAID card or just disk utility RAID? I’m wondering how come Areca ARC-5020 which is a 4 bay external RAID with a high performance RAID controller can offer only 210 MB/Sec on a 3 Gbps eSATA connection.

Also I heard the drive performance drops once you pass the 60 percent full capacity. It’s nice to have a cushion in read speed to avoid the choking if the drive is getting a bit full.

Arya
Arya Boustani
April 20, 2011 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Sudden loss of smooth rendered motion

Thanks for the comments. I already checked the full frame rate. Also I tried both dynamic quality and full quality. I have a second 1TB internal drive in my Mac Pro which I keep all my media projects. I believe it has enough juice on it. It is about 36 percent full. I didn’t seem to get much of the increased smoothness after I did the defragmentation. I’m also trying to see changing allocated memory would do any thing.
I’m copying the content to my original FW800 drive to compare. Or I may do disk allocation for the render material to be read from a different drive.

Any other thoughts?