Bryan Shelton
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If you want to use your machine right away, go with tried and tested. Since none of the Apple apps support multi-threading at this point, dual core vs. single core is a moot point unless you are building a test machine for the future. Spend the money on a better video card.
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If you have any freeze frames which are from a sequence and not from the original media, the edl export fails. It never even warns you that it will fail nor gives you a reason.
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Though it is time consuming, I would recommend using After Effects to remove your pulldown and render out 23.98 fps QTs. The pulldown removal is cleaner than in Cinema Tools. See: https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_video_to_film.html for evidence.
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Final Cut Pro, while occasionally hinky and equipped with a woeful Media manager, is perfectly suited to modern digital production methods. I work for a multi-platform animation studio and we could not function with an Avid alone.
The Avid interface is great but their technology is a little behind the curve. The Avid is only truly successful with a tape-based workflow and their codecs are a few years behind.
In addition, I find the Adrenaline to be a poorly implemented and supported product. Our Meridien Symphony still hums along at a good clip but no matter what we do, we cannot keep our Adrenaline stable. We have downgraded the machine to offline editing only.
However, if a SAN is in your immediate future, Avid is still superior. Every problem with Media Manager is doubled when sharing media in FCP. Hopefully a combination of QT7 & FCP5 will fix the major issues.
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From what you wrote I am assuming that you are moving masterclips and timelines back and forth between various projects.
If you move a timeline from one project into another all the clips in the timeline become independent. Which disables SHIFT-F but not OPT-APPLE-F or just plain F.
I have had this problem occur on multiple occasions as I try to avoid the ridiculously long save times that FCP needs when working with larger project files. What I generally do is create a new bin, use OPT-APPLE-F, and drag the clip from the viewer into the new bin.
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I am foolish. After additional testing I have found that the visual pop and waver only occurs while playing out DV through Blackmagic NTSC DV video playback.
The audio problem only occurs when playing 23.98 DV out using Blackmagic NTSC 8 bit/23.98 video playback. Meaning that there is only an audio problem when I am using an unsupported hack.
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I had been having a very similar problem at my facility. We are a fully featured facility with 15 FCP stations with Decklink cards, a Symphony, a MC Adrenaline, & a MCX. I regularly and randomly had a + or -1 frame discrepancy in my layoffs from the Blackmagic machines. The Avids did not have any problems.
I thought it was a sync problem so I had an engineer do a facility wide test of our sync signals. He found a few bad cables and calibrated our D/As. The problem went away for almost a year.
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While Media Manager can be difficult and is nowhere near as fully functioned as Avid’s Media Tool, FCP does have the added ease of having identifiable, searchable media files. Being able to sort and manage my captured Quicktimes by hand easily makes up for the obnoxious upRez process.
This capacity, as well as the easy to use Reconnect Media function have allowed me to work in tandem with another editor on the same project, trading project files back and forth, by making sure we just had the same media on our local drives. The poor man’s SAN.
Bryan Shelton
Curious Pictures
NYC