Carsten Orlt
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Rather than compounding, which I avoid totally until the very end right now hearing so many bad things about it, why don’t you try to cut in sections, meaning creating several projects rather than having everything in one?
I’m in the middle of a large project and don’ have the slow decrease in performance. But I edit ‘scene’ based right now. Every scene or logical section of the doc is in its own project. I will only put it together in the end. Don’t know what will happen then but so far so good. It might take a moment when loading a diff project because of the size of associated events, but ones it’s done system runs normal.
Mac Pro 2008, 16 Gb ram, ATI 5750, third party eSata raids.
Happy editing.
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All the usual suspects, good summary Oliver and good find Garry 🙂
One software which I just discovered yesterday should be added: Backups https://npassociatesllc.com/backupsforfcp/
I’m not affiliated at all with this company but I highly recommend this back up solution for Events and Projects.
I used Pro-versioner and unfortunately it doesn’t really work. Specially when using Event Manager which I think is a must to keep things tidy and economical. Also Pro-versioner is very unstable and temperamental at times.
Backups is very elegant and really backs up what you need if you are concerned about having no copy of the current projects or event database files on a second hard drive in case the media drive dies. And they fully support ‘hidden’ folders created by Event Manager. On their website they also have a white paper about back up strategies with FCPx which can be a good read if you’re new to the problem.
my 2 cents 🙂
Happy Editing
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As much as I admire Mr Murch work as an editor I totally disagree 🙂
What’s the difference to the old days when a letter to Moviola or Steenbeck had the same effect as a letter to Apple, Adobe or Avid now??
And by God I do not want to get the scissor out of the draw again to edit.
We have choices today. Not happy with one find another one that works. NLE’s exist for only 25 years or so. To stop developing and trying new ways to improve on the technology only because something was done a certain way for the last 10 years is quite frankly ludicrous!
Apple move was a move forward. Adobe’s move is to stay alive. I think rather than crying crocodile tears over things are changing is to see the changes as opportunities to evaluate how oneself is working.
History is constantly repeating itself in the regard that a radical departure from known methods causes people to call foul. I don’t subscribe to the myth of us and them. We are not victims but we are customers who make decisions on satisfaction level. Where in the whole world does a business listen to every single person and reacts personally? The companies make decision based on what they think customers will like and in turn allow them to make a bug. It’s called a business.
We can discuss the merits of differently functionality in different software but you are wasting your time entertaining the conspiracy theory that we are victims of the ‘evil’ empires…
Happy editing!
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I think you have to compare FCPx more with FCP 1-3 and not FCP 7. Same goes for Avid. Avid was pretty mature when FCP started.
Question is more if the new approach to video editing will take hold. Avid and Premiere are basically the old way of editing in an NLE. Special functionality aside neither Avid or Premiere aren’t reinventing anything substantial. Just combining a few buttons calls into one. Not even the mercury engine I regard as new. It only takes modern computer power to speed up preview. If I have to wait on final output I regard this still as the traditional NLE scenario.
FCPx is a total new way to edit. After a year working with it now I’m convinced it will grow. I got Avid when it came out and I switched to FCP when it came out.
Lets see if I’ll be right 3rd time 🙂But regardless I actually don’t care where Avid or Premiere is going or if Apple is not as ‘professional’ anymore. Looking at everything Apple does I feel extremely comfortable that they keep FCPx around because even if they might stop making these big machines FCPx will work just fine on an iMac and with Thunderbolt I get all the extension I might need. Video is a big cultural part for the future and for Apple not to have a more substantial editor other than iMovie makes a lot of sense, specially if it’ll work on their lower end machines.
My feeling is that more and more people will edit FCPx and finish on DaVinci or maybe Smoke.
Time will tell 🙂
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You can build an effect in Motion and use image wells as placeholders. In FCPx you just populate the wells with your footage.
You can work with Audio in Motion so can make sure the timing is right.
You can also think of separating static tiles from tiles moving around by creating 2 effects that you than edit back to back in FCPx.The advantage of using Motion vs After Effects is that you can don’t double up on media management because in Motion you don’t use your footage but just placeholders. And you can reuse the tiles effect for ever in the future 🙂
Happy editing
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Not that I have a definite answer (don’t have the models you mention) but my experience is that the intensity range doesn’t support Resolve. If you look at the current Blackmagic site you’ll see that Resolve is not listed on any Intensity product as compatible. Only the Decklink range is.
Hope that helps.
Happy editing
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Many thanks Rob!
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[Craig Seeman] ” I look at the value of the purchase (or rental) and how quickly I can cover that cost.”
Exactly 🙂
And it’s the reason why the Apple model works for me so much better.
But I’m a single person shop that doesn’t need to react to what customers want. I dictate the NLE. So if you are under customer pressure to supply a certain NLE you might not have the choice.
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Adobe is a business. If they can charge double or in any other way make more money out of you they will. They did for years in Aus charging insanely higher prices without any reason.
This goes for Apple too. If they thought they could get more they would.
And for Adobe listening. I think there is a lot of spin in this like this money example shows. They listen as much as they have to to make a buck out of you.
I think people should stop treating software companies as a personal friend that is out there to help them personally and only strives to listen to the individual. Adobe is listening because Apple gave them an opening, and will only do as much as that is helping to sell software.
It’s a business. Treat them like one.
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[Julian Bowman] “but there is a thread with my macs specs, and my workflow, which is basically pro res converts on an external 2tb hard drive. “
I tried to find it but can’t. Would you mind pointing to it? Thank you.
Happy Editing