Bret Williams
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In Adobe, hover the cursor over any of those panes and press tilde. The whole pane goes full screen. EXTREMELY useful.
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You’ve got the cred so I’m trying to give you the benefit. But you just kind keep saying the same thing without really giving any specifics. What kind of stuff are you doing with these clients that your system isn’t up to snuff for? What kind of system is that? You trying to get by on a i5 or something? You doing ILM effects?
Your original post seems to allege 3 things.
1. The computing power you currently have been using isn’t up to snuff for now or the near future for your clientele.
2. The difference between a consumer and a professional editor is hardware, not proficiency.
3. FCP X is a consumer grade product and all the others are reaching for the stars.
So, 1.- if you could give an example of what it is you’re doing that made you come to this conclusion it would help your point. certainly 4k is being edited and manipulated pretty painlessly on even some lowers end systems and technology seems to be keeping up just fine.
2. Really? Because if that’s true, the cost of hardware and software have never been more economically obtainable to the consumer than it is today. We’re doomed! But I don’t think we are. Skill and experience is the bigger differentiator. But the economics have changed because the cost of horsepower has dropped to such low levels. Let’s face it. This is a skilled profession not unlike any other artist but it is also technical like an electrician or a plumber and can be learned. Years ago the tools weren’t even attainable to the consumer to learn. Now they are. So we adapt. There are many ways for a pro to adapt. Take advantage of our skills and experience to do more with less and be competitive or we could try to outspend the consumer and have the most amazing hardware to lure in high spending clients with extremely high end hardware needs. The latter sounds riskier and potentially shuts out a huge portion of the market. And if there isn’t a focus on technique and skill….
3. Everyone has their opinion of course. But consumer grade is pretty harsh for a piece of software that is ahead of Adobe in many areas, 4k workflow arguably one of them, and behind in others but being used for motion pictures, documentaries, and just about anything. But it sounds like you haven’t used it in a few years. Anyway, it didn’t seem like software was your focus. But that’s what I wanted to figure out. What was the focus? We’re all going to need more computing power soon? Ok. That’s not exactly a stretch. What is this big decision you’re going to have to make?
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So…. What is it that you can’t do with the equipment you have? Because I find the world to be going in the opposite direction where a talented artist can do more amazing things with very little.
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What is it that you can’t do with the equipment you have? Because I find the world to be going in the opposite direction where a talented artist can do more amazing things with very little.
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I can’t replicate this. However, unlike FCP 7, you can scale the text up to all you want and it retains it’s vector quality. Even if nested in a compound clip. No need to scale back to 95 and scale up to 100. Animate from 300-400, it looks sharp.
Could be a font or particular codec issue?
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Workaround is to move the mouse out of the timeline.
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Can you post screen shots of your timeline settings and your output settings?
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What do you mean by source file?
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You might have a drive or directory going bad. Seems like it keeps losing track of the drive or maybe just a directory. Have you repaired the disk?
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You’re working in a 16:9 sequence. So , you might be exporting to a 4:3 standard def format which wouldn’t look right. If you export to these 16:9 sizes you should be ok…
1920×1080. 1280×720. 853×480. (or any size where the ratio is x/y=1.777
4:3 Formats that won’t look right on a computer…
640×480. 720×480 720×486