[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “But now, 10.0.8 on 2012 iMac is a crashing, buggy, nightmare. It’s the experience people described with 10.0.1. “

That’s a bummer. FWIW, I’m running 10.0.8 on a maxed out new 27″ iMac and it runs fine. I’ve also got 7 Pr, MC and a slew of other crazy video and audio apps, it’s by no means a “clean” system…. :knock wood: 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

OK… here’s what I got… in a folder on a drive. I can see and import the SXS-PROXY files, but Neither FCP X or Sony Content Browser will see the 4k RAW files… Now what? 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Michael Phillips] “An obvious rack configuration as long as you don’t have to connect something to any one of them…”

I’m sure they’ve probably considered that in the “pod” design….

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[Charlie Austin]

[James Cude] “Will you be using Sony’s RAW format, XAVC compressed 4K”

Still no word, guessing XAVC, but who knows. Really just looking for potential gotchas etc. probably only about 3 minutes long, but It’s all green screen. Should be fun… 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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[Charlie Austin]

[James Cude] “Will you be using Sony’s RAW format, XAVC compressed 4K or capturing the live output to a 4K outboard recorder such as a KiPro Quad?”

Not a clue… will find out and post here. Thanks!

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[Charlie Austin]

FWIW, I’ve found the keying in X blows the doors off 7,though admittedly I don’t use it a lot. But when I’ve need to do quick little things I get really really good results. Thre’s a stabilizer effect in there somewhere which people seem to really like as well, but I haven’t messed with it so can’t say…

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “If they were to tilt in that direction, it could conceivably slow them from exploring and using the actual database tags – which would presumably be a system that they’ve NEVER had any experience with.”

While I see where you’re coming from, I really think you’re misunderstanding everyones concerns. Color coding Roles, or grouping Roles, is strictly a way to get an *visual* snapshot of what’s going on in your sequence, to me anyway. I use the index, tagging, markers Roles… All the cool stuff in X to find and keep track of specific clips, but there needs to be a way to keep things instantly visually readable, for lack of a better word, when I look at a sequence as it’s playing along. Yes, you can highlight Roles, but as it stands now there’s a problem in that multichannel clips with multliple Roles, highlight no matter which role you select. If you expand the components you can see which channel is highlighted, but if it’s collapsed… no way to tell. It’s an unfinished feature, bug, whatever, and Apple takes it seriously. X is amazing, but it’s not done, not by a long shot. And honestly, I find that pretty exciting. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “but until this specific item is dealt with in some meaningful way, I will not be interested in using FCP X. This is principally what I don’t like about the magnetic timeline; its not that its magnetic, its that its taken these other, more important to me, tools away.”

Well, with the caveat that I honestly don’t know what Apple is doing, I’m convinced they understand our concerns and are doing something about this. I don’t imagine it’s trivial, due to the fact that a single multichannel clip can have multiple Roles… But I’ve had a very good, detailed back and forth with some folks there on this issue. And getting responses like this:

Thanks for the suggestion, Charlie. I have forwarded it to the product designers and audio engineers.
Keep sending the thoughts in – the more detailed the better.

Gives me hope… Particularly the “audio engineers” part. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Paul Dickin] “Pixar have just announced that the video “Painting the Future” is now on Apple’s dev site:”

Just watched it. Mari is pretty uh… crazy. And the Pixar artist and the developer seemed genuinely excited about the hardware. Also, it didn’t crash. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

If you think Apple are going to be paying retail prices for components you’re umm… probably wrong. 🙂

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