[Ben Holmes]

You might also want to try the Position tool – the P key. This allows you to drag material wherever you want without snapping material out of the way.

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Michael

I wondered how you felt about this:

https://www.marco.org/2012/05/30/amplified-9

Certainly anything Dalrymple says has to be food for thought – my vote just switched…

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As long as you move FCPX into a separate folder in your Applications folder (maybe called FCPX!) You will have no problem installing FCP7 on Lion. Never had any problems running it either.

As Color does not have a new version, you should have even less problem with it.

Despite the undoubtedly safer route of partitioning drives, I’ve had no issues running FCP7 and FCPX on a single drive partition.

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There can be little doubt that the Mac Pro is DOA. The only question is whether there is a new product coming to satisfy the needs of professionals, former Xserve users etc – a new form factor, maybe rack-mountable?

Who knows? One thing that’s for sure, the software and hardware vendors at NAB will have NO CLUE it’s coming, if it is. In the meantime, the iMacs are simply the best products to demonstrate on (they have thunderbolt which the Mac Pros don’t) and are now powerful enough for a lot of pro use. Whether or not there are new ‘power’ machines coming, I’ll certainly be using iMacs as edit stations in 2012.

My point is that it’s easy to read too much into the prevalence of iMacs at NAB – and I’m firmly in the ‘not sure I believe a replacement’ is coming camp. All I cling onto now is Apple’s continued march into the enterprise space – and maybe that they have a point to prove to pro users to stick with the platform. Hell – maybe the furore around FCPX makes the iRack Pro more likely….*

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*wild and hopeful conjecture

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There can be little doubt that the Mac Pro is DOA. The only question is whether there is a new product coming to satisfy the needs of professionals, former Xserve users etc – a new form factor, maybe rack-mountable?

Who knows? One thing that’s for sure, the software and hardware vendors at NAB will have NO CLUE it’s coming, if it is. In the meantime, the iMacs are simply the best products to demonstrate on (they have thunderbolt which the Mac Pros don’t) and are now powerful enough for a lot of pro use. Whether or not there are new ‘power’ machines coming, I’ll certainly be using iMacs as edit stations in 2012.

My point is that it’s easy to read too much into the prevalence of iMacs at NAB – and I’m firmly in the ‘not sure I believe a replacement’ is coming camp. All I cling onto now is Apple’s continued march into the enterprise space – and maybe that they have a point to prove to pro users to stick with the platform. Hell – maybe the furore around FCPX makes the iMacRack Pro more likely….*

Ben

*wild and hopeful conjecture

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Very simple with same timecode, 2 options:

Manual: Mark an in on both clips at the same frame, so the ins are in sync. Drop one in on V1, the other on V2 (keep both audio to ensure sync, then discard unwanted/duplicated tracks) , then resize both clips to 50% and drag left/right to create split screen you can use to edit. When you’ve cut the clips you want, just select all on the timeline and ‘remove basic motion attributes’ to make them full screen.

Personally, I prefer to do this for 2 camera shoots.

Or, Automatic: Use Multicam (RTM). Start off by setting same in points to save syncing.

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[Shane Ross] “Because FCX cannot be ignored. The first FCP took the world by storm, and by version 3 was the most popular NLE in the world. It eventually made it’s way into most areas of production…over the skepticism of many many people. Now I am one of those skeptics when it comes to FCX being able to do the same thing. But I will not ignore it…that’s dangerous!

The features are there for many things, not for others, but might be included at later dates. My biggest issue with FCX is the editing methodology it employs. It makes no sense to me. The first versions of FCP used editing terms and workflows that we were all familiar with, only it did things others could not (Avid could not capture via firewire, for example).

FCX isn’t going away. So I’m keeping my eye on it. I’m not stupid.”

Absolutely spot-on.

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Comparing the price of high-end workstations to Mac Pros the price difference is never what is suggested – of course you can buy and spec something a lot cheaper.

As there are no Mac Pros out with even an i7 chip, you can’t make price comparisons.

Given the trend on pricing, I would expect a new model to encompass a (lower starting) wider price range, making it more volume product, with a smaller form factor, or a rack mount pro beast, or both.

If there is a new model. 50/50 on that.

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[TImothy Auld] ” It doesn’t look like FCPX is going to work for me at this point”

A free trial and a copy of 7toX will prove if you can work with the kind of projects you usually do. Just open up the largest one you have handy in FCPX. Cost: $10.

All NLEs (especially FCP7) suffer from some slowdown with larger project sizes. Avid has always done better with them, thanks to it’s file and metadata management, but the others have always been much of a muchness.

FCPX is capable of handling more RAM, and should in the future handle larger projects better. For now, I find it quite capable of the kind of work most people do (including most documentary work).

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https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.3/#ver79aa3d71

Short answer – you don’t have to save, FCPX, like other modern Lion apps is constantly saving every change you make. If you close the app (or it crashes) it will reopen exactly where you left it – except you obviously lose your undo queue.

FCPX also regularly saves backups in the background, in case a project gets corrupted.

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