Claude Lyneis
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Not exactly a home movie. Just look at the credits. Still it shows that an 800 $ device can make a great film in the right hands. Now for this forum we demand to know what editing software was used!
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I agree the platform wars are essentially over. But this forum is a great place to learn about the different philosophies and workflows employed by various editors. The recent discussion between sculpting and bricklaying editing was a classic. Hopefully it will stay an active forum without the propulsion of arguing over FCPX vs PP vs Avid, etc, although there is still room for that as well.
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You might look at the discussion on the FCPX debate forum called New iMac for 4k editing. There is a good discussion there that is relevant to your question.
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Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. I haven’t pulled the trigger yet, but I think I will go with the i7 based on some of the comments and the reality that this one should last a long time. I am currently still using my mid 11 27 inch. In the good old days when Moore’s Law was working, two years was a long time to keep a Mac. For me, I think the 2 TB fusion disk should be enough. It has 128 GB of SSD in it and I am going to keep my media elsewhere anyway. For RAM, it looks like adding two 16 GB chips to the 8 GB of factory installed RAM would give 40 GB and that is probably enough. The only thing I will miss and internal DVD drive for some legacy materials. So at some point I would need an external one, but they are relatively cheap. Now to figure out the 4K camera.
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[Robin S. Kurz] ”
Having an internal SSD also has little to no bearing on FCP performance as well (aside from maybe booting up?).”Booting up on my 2011 Mac is a real irritation to me, it drags on for what seems like forever, so for sure I will get the 2TB fusion internal disk. I keep my FCPX project and media on a Raid 0 disk, LaCie 6 TB which provides 3T net storage, and that seems to work well enough. Of course with 4 k media, it will require more storage.
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Just curious, which processor did you choose and why? I have had good luck buy memory from OWC.
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Where I find the browser and keywords to be very valuable is in the early stages. I edit lacrosse videos and the goal is to shrink 80 minutes to 4 minutes. With the clips in the browser, I can make rough selects of things of interest, for example, goals, hits, scoreboard, broll, etc which may be useful. Then using a smart collection to select keyworded sections, I can dump these into the time line. In one pass, I have gone from 80 minutes to 10 minutes. After that, the editing is more like Simon describes. Cutting away pieces, finding a rhythm and a story. In the days of FCP7, it was into a timeline and pairing down, which was very slow because it took forever to go through 80 minutes worth of stuff and time consuming to cut out all the useless parts.
The other thing that is useful about keywording to me, is six months later I can come back and make a new video with highlights only and easily combine this with other games in the same library, by just selecting the appropriate keywords.
So I agree with his point about working in the timeline as the edit comes together, but not so much as using early stringouts and I do miss the ability to have several sequences to slide back and fourth easily. Granted, this is a very different type of edit than a feature film.
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Andy, thanks for the link. Love the guys at Ripple Training.
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The Raptor video was certainly high quality. I have been a fan of airplanes since the fifties. New ones come along much less often than in the 50’s were innovation was more rapid.
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Yeah, one good cat video equals a million views. More cat lovers than lacrosse lovers.