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Chris Davis
December 6, 2009 at 12:22 pm in reply to: Matrox Mxo 2 Mini plus which external computer monitor for FCP?

[Bret Williams]
“Why are you guys looking for computer monitors? They will be less accurate and likely more expensive.”

Due to a limited budget, I personally am wanting the monitor to double as a standard second monitor (without the MXO 2 Mini) when I am not doing color correction. Would you please say more about your experiences with the MXO 2/MXO 2 Mini and a computer monitor vs. a TV? Thanks.

[Gabriele]
“I will get the mini Tuesday and I will tell you more but so far the monitor is doing great with perfect colors.”

Thanks. Is this primarily a TV? Does it do well with text? I’ll check this thread at least through Wednesday.

[Shane Ross]
“No, that’s the original MXO. That connects to computer monitors via the DVI out of the computer and their DVI in. The MXO2 mini works best with an HDTV.”

Thanks for your help here and on other threads. Can you say more about how/why the MXO works well with computer monitors but the MXO 2/MXO 2 Mini does not (besides the DVI vs. HDMI connection)?

-Chris
Chris Davis
November 22, 2009 at 7:48 pm in reply to: How does Avid handle rendered clips?

Michael and Shane,
Thanks for your quick replies.

[Shane Ross]
UH…I can. If I move a rendered set of clips from one part of the timeline to another, the render stays. Unless you put it on top of other clips…then the render goes away.”

Yeah, it seems dependent on what I am doing with the rendered file. I just played around with FCP and I could not find some of the problems with rendered moving files that I was referring to before. I guess I still don’t know all the “rules” of FCP yet.

Thanks again,
Chris
Chris Davis
August 1, 2009 at 2:14 am in reply to: Tutorials for PPro?

Thanks, Tim. I’ll look into this.
Chris Davis
July 30, 2009 at 11:16 pm in reply to: Tutorials for PPro?

Matt and Vince,

Sorry for the late response. Thanks for the replies, and Vince, thanks for the link.

I’m wondering, why are there 2 or 3 times as many tutorials for FCP as PPro? Is it just because PPro is less popular? Or is there actually less to know about PPro than FCP?

lynda.com has about 12 hours of training for PPro CS3, and over 24 hours for FCP6 (including 4 hours for color correction in FCP5, as CC is the same in FCP5). Adobe has one 400 page book. Apple put out over 2000 pages in the three books I have alone.

-Chris
Chris Davis
July 29, 2009 at 9:53 am in reply to: FCP 6 & 7 use only two cores for RT and Render, Right?

Mark,
Very interesting. Many thanks for your time.
Chris
Chris Davis
July 28, 2009 at 9:52 am in reply to: FCP 6 & 7 use only two cores for RT and Render, Right?

Erik,
Thanks for the info and the link.
-Chris
Chris Davis
July 27, 2009 at 8:53 pm in reply to: FCP 6 & 7 use only two cores for RT and Render, Right?

[Mark Hollis]
“Snow Leopard does offer something new, and that is a kind of cleainghouse for multi-threaded applications. In other words, if the application is multi-processor aware, the OS will step in and become a “scheduler,” so that multi-thread processes scale up much better. I would note Microsoft has nothing like this in Vista or Windows 7…”

Mark,
Many thanks for the reply. I’m still following this thread. If you have time, could you please say more about this?

Would this mean that Snow Leopard could make a 32-bit app like FCP 7 as fast for RT and rendering within FCP as a 64-bit app like PPro CS4 (on Windows 64)? (Apparently PPro uses all cores for this in Windows 64. Anyway, Just another hypothetical question 😉

Also, does anyone have a link for the ProRes white papers mentioned above? Couldn’t find them, called FCP tech support, and they didn’t know about them and offered no guidance on how to find them (do the guys at tech support always get pissy when you ask them a question they don’t know?)

Thanks,
Chris
Chris Davis
July 27, 2009 at 8:35 pm in reply to: what takes longer – Grading in FCP or Color

[Max Huggett]

“Hi Hector…

But you highlighted an important point. Collapsing. Until you mentioned it, i never realised that this needed to be done, and when i read up on it and applied it, i can now apply more FCP effects without the need to render…”

Don’t want to hijack the thread, but I’ve wondered about what’s happening when a clip is collapsed. The only way I can understand why a collapsed clip gives more RT is if it is somehow rendered, then the effects are added to the rendered version. I seriously doubt that’s what’s happening. Can someone please explain why a collapsed clip or group of clip gives more RT? Is there a quality hit when adding effects to a collapsed clip?
Chris Davis
July 26, 2009 at 8:13 pm in reply to: FCP 6 & 7 use only two cores for RT and Render, Right?

[Dave Jenkins]

“…Testing conducted by Apple in April 2009 using prerelease Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, a prerelease version of Final Cut Pro 7.0, and shipping Mac Pro 8-core 2.26 GHz units.”

Thanks. I should have specified that I meant using Leopard, as Snow Leopard is not officially out yet.
Chris Davis
July 20, 2009 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Roundtripping to Motion Without Clipping Highlights?

I set up a project with I tried sending to Motion directly from FCP and back without doing anything to it. It appears the super-white is still there, just judging from the zebras (haven’t studied the scopes yet).

Funny AE will apparently clip the highlights even when set to 16 or 32-bit.

I was able to set 16-bit color from the start, but I’m not sure how to make 16-bit the default. If I go Motion (at top)>Presets, almost everything is locked.

Anyway, thanks.

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