Chi-ho Lee
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The other truth is that not everyone is using FCP for broadcast or theatrical. So for professional users providing contents for the web and mobile and other non-broadcast delivery, the open format timeline works just fine for them.
I myself work in broadcast so I understand the points given here but we tend to forget that there are “other” professional editors out there editing contents for other mediums.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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Meg,
[Megumi Nishikura] “I’m looking at probably a maximum of 10 hours of footage/per month over a six month time period. “
You do realize this is only 60hrs. At ProRes 1080, this equals around 3.5 TB which is about $400 in drives these days. Shane’s instructions work fine but it’s worth considering editing this in fullrez for $400. You could prob even use ProRed LT if your source is AVCHD.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
How much overhead is taken up with the software raid 0 that is controlled by the mac?
It’s hard to say what your performance should be without looking at your sequence in person. But there is one indication – what color is your render bar? If it’s Full or Preview Green, then it should be realtime 100% every time. If it’s orange, then there are no guarantees and you may have to render to watch it.
I have seen two FCP system where green bars were getting dropped frames. Had to uninstall FCP with FCS Remover and reinstall. That fixed the RT problems. Actually, had to do this last night.
There’s no substitution for hardware acceleration. That’s why those old Avids costed $60k back then. If we’re willing to pay $60k again, I’m sure someone would make a kickass RT card for FCP.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Given that case, buy yourself a $100 500gb 2.5″ drive and install two partitions – one in 10.5 and one in 10.6. Boot into which ever you need.
3 new boot drives for your MBP are even cheaper than a $1200 P2 reader.
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Why not just revert back to 10.5? There is nothing in 10.6 that is essential to FCP. If your $100k solution works fine with 10.5, I’d just go back to it for the time being.
Again, there is nothing lost in any functionality of Final Cut Studio 3 in 10.5.
10.6 has some nice bells and whistles in the general OS but doesn’t seem worth the hassle when you have so much riding on your current solution. I’d rather do that than buy a Panny P2 reader or carry another PC laptop on the road.
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
[David Roth Weiss] “since Herb and I actually had the capability for years, “
Not only on the Discreet. Avid had it for years. My use for it is not exactly to undo 30 steps at once but for it to tell me what i am undoing! I have to watch the timeline like a hawk one slow undo at a time and many times I can’t see what it is undoing because the actions are small. But if it tells me “Undo trim 4 frames” or “Undo mark out” or “Undo replace edit” then I know 100% what it is undo-ing. It’s a everyday time saver.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Herb,
True dat. I remember when cars didn’t have a passenger side rear mirror. Sure every could drive a car pretty safe without one. But there came a point when it was a given that every car would have that passenger mirror. But I’m sure someone here will write in that they don’t even need four wheels on their car. They’re perfectly happy and safe and actually much more efficient driving a car with only three wheels.
It’s 2010 and one of the industry standard editing software in the world can’t even tell you what you’re undoing. It’s a shame. It’s safe to guess that it has to do with some underlying coding issues. But it’s time to dig deep and fix this missing functionality. I’d much rather have an undo list than alpha transitions.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Matt,
I agree with you 100%. If you look back to FCP v3 or 4, undo history list was one of the top 5 feature requests back then. But people have either forgotten about it, learned to live with this omission, or am just being argumentative here. If we ever get an Undo history list, I doubt any FCP user on this planet would say, “No, this is terrible. Why did they add this? I like guessing what I’m undoing.” I’ve been leaving feedback on apple’s site since 2002 about an undo history list. And to be clear, every other NLE out there has an undo list.
If they can’t add an undo palette, then at least list the last undo so I can see what i’m undoing one step at a time. But yes, please leave them feedback. Maybe they’ve blocked my email from their feedback page…lol.
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[Matt Lyon] ” is there a way to do this and I\’m just missing it?
“Do you see the 4×3 marks in this 16×9 canvas window? Is this what you are asking about? This is in FCP 7.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
[marrian cho] ” i’m trying to see a “viewer timeline”.
“OK, I see…. if I understand you correctly, FCP can’t display source footage from viewer in the timeline.
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Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com