Bill
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It sounds like it is a matter of taste. Try tweaking it more until you get your desired look. It can always look better if it wasn’t originally shot on film 25 years ago.
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you can drag and select everyhting and then with it all selected you can simply drag the effect right on it all. But I prefer the nest method personally.
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[Davey_D_123] “Please share your system setup. I am currently using FCP 4.5, Dual 2.0, 4 gigs RAM, Xserve RAID 5+0 1.8T, Kona SD card working strickly in 8-bit uncompressed and having REALLY BAD issues. Very slow edits etc. Are you using a Kona card? Are your settings set for FCP to handle effects or the card and what codec are you using? Have you jumped to FCP 5 and seen a difference”
Davey, Before you look at these specs you have to understand I have two systems one that gets used as a test systema nd one as a work horse that I use the “if it is not broke, don’t fix it ” mentality. This is my everyday box. knock on wood it has not let me down.
that being said here it goes:
Dual 1.25 G4
OSX 10.2.8
1 gb sdramAja Kona SD-10
Medea Video Rack RTX 8/320
ATTO Dual SCSI Card.FCP 4.1
I am using the apple uncompressed 8-bit codec in and out to digibeta using SIF.
All my effects in uncompressed 8-bit 422 are handled by Blackmagic.Now that being said yes it has a few bugs being an older version of FCP. My other system is still being Tigerized. It is a dual 2.5 4gb SDRAM and AJA Kona 2. I am still contemplating a storage solution. I would love the extra umphhh out of this new box but I need reliability. My old silver g4 is rock solid.
I am not sure how much it will help. But, there you go.
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“Real Time” is a very tricky word in the world of non-linear editing. It is a sales pitch word. Yes, as the systems get faster and the codecs allow for quicker data streams there are more realtime options. The key is most of it is “realtime” preview. I have never used the Edius and really know nothing about so I will not comment about it. I have used Avid, *edit, Stratosphere, M100, FCP…..and a few more that had a short lifespan. All of them had some kind of realtime preview but you always have to render before output. This is reality for the industry. FCP has made leaps and bounds with “Dynamic RT.” Of coarse some of it will get pixelated or choppy and drop frames but this is not your output version. If you like it render it and move on or keep going then take 5 go get a soda and a whatchamacalit while it renders. I use FCP in a SD 10bit uncompressed enviroment and have never felt that rendering something “slowed me up.” Maybe one day we will be renderless, but in the meantime embrace it. It really isn’t that big of a deal. It’s life as we know it.
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Sorry I don’t have an answer for you but I can’t wait till someone shimes in with a solution. will you really see the difference if you up res and cc in 4:2:2?
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this might not be your entire problem but it helped me in your situation, you have to adapt it to your workflow.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/gamma_mac_pc.html -
[rienk] “Yeah, that must be it, because I can put something against your logic: Calculating in FCP and AVID is weird.
If you have 5 pizza’s and you take 2 of them, you’re left with 3 pizza’s, right?”All this hi-tech math talk is making me hungry………. I have been on many systems, Immix, Stratosphere, *edit, avid, FCP. SOme do it one way some do it the other. It takes a little getting used to as does command/control from a mac/pc. I can bet it will never change at this point so i guess you have to learn to love it.
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she looks a little top heavy captain.
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I have used the cut after keyframes with video before, i have created a few transitions and saved them as favorites and/or paste them in when needed. i have never really had to think about it in audio terms because we have a department that sweetens all of our promos. But in case I ever do I am fully prepared to thanks to you.
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just for refernce command +/- works in whatever window you are in at the time adn Option +/- always works with your sequence.