[Carsten Orlt]

Hi Dan,

Been following all the above and when I read this last post I started to think to understand why you get stuck with projects..

Are you making (and I’m using the FCPx naming) projects to create selects of clips?

If you do I think you are missing one of the most powerful feature of X: organizing in the event.
e.g. to have all your best takes quickly can be done by just giving them (or sections of longer clips) a keyword called ‘best’ to get all best takes from day 3 is than done by combining searches. Actually any kind of organizational task that you would use sequences for in legacy or any other NLE can be done in X by using keywords, favorites and markers.
I edit long form docus and for years was using select sequences to store best stuff. Since X this is completely obsolete because I now organize everything in the event. And of course if I want to save different versions of an actual cut I create separate projects for that.

Spent some time to see what can be done in the event before you even go to the project stage.
I straight away can think of a keyword for ‘Directors choice’ and ‘My choice’ and with a click you could switch looking at different sets. And this way. you’ll find the take that the director wants from actor Sally, shot at night, in the graveyard, in a flash because all these can be keywords.

If I got that wrong as to why projects are not working, never mind 🙂

Happy editing.

[Carsten Orlt]

Way cheaper is to get a good 2nd computer screen like a 24 inch HP ZR24w and display the viewer on that. Because FCPx uses ColorSync the computer display is actually correctly displaying your video color space. Of course it still depends on your monitor being able to produce an accurate picture but I have the HP and must say it is extremely close to my CRT ref display. Not using an external video I/o also cause less strain on your system resources playing back all sort of source material.

Happy editing

[Carsten Orlt]

I was more teasing 🙂

But I dislike bloated software in general, that’s why I like FCPx. And I can see some development going towards to post pc area where you have many specific tools rather than one-fits-all. Of course they don’t make a finished film, but they will make part of what you need to do. And because they’re small in functionality they can be faster updated and maintained. But really this is all about what I like and not what I think WILL be happening 🙂

Happy editing

[Carsten Orlt]

[Bret Williams] “For me, you made the argument for X over Adobe and Avid by pointing out many shortcomings I wasn’t aware of on those platforms. Shortcomings that I’m actually amazed weren’t addressed like 10 years ago. And since legacy just doesn’t really work that efficiently with new formats, mixed media and mixed frame rates, and has been eol’d for 18months, it isn’t much of an option. Transcoding and using plural eyes on our 7D footage just doesn’t have anything on using and syncing it automatically in X. And that’s just one feature that better in X. I think the list of new/improved features in X has finally outgrown the list of features it’s missing from 7.”

I was thinking the same but didn’t dare to write it 🙂

I wonder if at one point Adobe has to rewrite Premiere because the underlying media management is not powerful enough as it was in 7, but I’m of course just teasing Dennis here as I have no software engineering knowledge 🙂
Avid of course never had this particular problem, they are only stuck in a very old UI and related functionality which they can’t escape because they have too many customers to loose if they change it.

But hey if it works for what you want to do who cares about the details of a particular package. Luckily we can choose. Though arguing about it is just too much fun for us geeks 🙂

Happy editing

[Carsten Orlt]

You’re so dramatic :-))

I actually think it doesn’t matter as Apple is co-inventor of Thunderbolt and if they ever build their own chips they implement it on them too.

Happy editing

[Carsten Orlt]

[Frank Gothmann] “It’s not just about speed, it’s also about compatibility. Atto’s latest adapters (ExpressSAS H6F0 GT) won’t even work in a 4x slot anymore, it needs 8x.
Other cards will follow, it is just a question of time.”

And I think it’s on list as being compatible: https://www.sonnettech.com/support/charts/thunderbolt/index.html
If of course this is the one you are talking about 🙂

Happy editing

[Carsten Orlt]

I can hear your pain 🙂

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Happy editing.

[Carsten Orlt]

I understand all this, but if you think that you would build a very powerful central CPU unit that is small and inexpensive and can expand by Thunderbolt I think you have the same.

Basically I envision an Macmini on steroids and stackable to build as many CPU units as one wants and than you expand by external Thunderbolt connected expansions. Total scale ability.

Of course if Thunderbolt can’t throughput at PCIe speed you have a bottleneck, but I think this will be changing.
I see a system of dedicated CPU, GPU and IO units coming that you can stack together like Lego 🙂

Don’t know if it is technical possible but I think it would be cool. If a new faster CPU comes out, you just switch the CPU unit and all the rest works as before. Would be way better than having to replace everything every time.

Happy editing.

[Carsten Orlt]

[Shane Ross] “Every day I use Avid or Premiere, and note a small thing it can’t do, that FCP Legacy, a 3 year old app does, I shake my head.”

I would be interested if you could provide examples to what you mean specifically. Not because I doubt you but because I’m curious!

[Shane Ross] “Because the towers have slots that are 16 lane speed”

I might be wrong but the Sonnet chassis has 16x. Do you mean thunderbolt can’t transport more than 4x?

Happy ediying

[Carsten Orlt]

Hi Ken,

I’m using FCPx. We are now switched to tapeless so no need for tape capture as such. If I would need to get a tape in I would use the Aja software.

I bought an Intensity Pro because I also wanted to use Da Vinci. I’m feeding this component into the ioHD and drive a CRT RGB from it. Very specific requirement. I could have gone SDI card as well but I wanted the absolute cheapest possible 🙂

But through this I realised that the ioHD works perfectly fine as an converter from everything to everything. So in the end it was the better investment than a Kona which at some point will become obsolete. ioHD doesn’t really.

Happy editing