Claude Lyneis
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I am not buying it that this magical seven year old did all this great work without a heavy infusion of effort on her editor father. It makes a cute story though. Even setting up an Avid Account with iLok and all the fun that is can be confounding.
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Jeremy:
Sorry if I didn’t take the discussion of whether it is properly labeled a bug or not too seriously. Whatever it is labeled it needs to be fixed by Apple and I think Simon’s explanation of what is going wrong is crystal clear. Shouldn’t take too much effort for it to be sorted out. This is not rocket science.So, bug, blunder, mistake whatever, I hope Apple fixes it soon.
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Beautiful demonstration of the math right and wrong behind the gamma curves in the color wheels. Obviously not a bug. As a professor of physics at Stanford said many years ago, that is not a mistake it is a blunder. I am hoping Apple sees the light and fixes it, because the color wheels have great promise and are much more convenient to use than the available plugins.
Thanks Simon. This is the best explanation I have seen as to how gamma should work. For me the math is easier to grasp than to do great looking color grades. -
Thanks Oliver. While your suggestion is probably the most practical, I am still evaluating whether filming in 4k for eventual 1080 p carries enough advantages to outweigh the extra time, effort and storage. I did a test using 4k (150 Mb/s) color graded in Apple’s 10.4 FCPX color system and then compressed it to 1080 p for the web. This went fast enough (1 min video took 6 min to compress on my mid 11 27″ iMac) and it used all the cores all the time as opposed to what happened with a similar project graded in Chromatic.
So in this way, I give Apple Color a plus. Overall, I like it and think I can do what I need without Chromatic or Color Finale. Not having floating panels in the way is a big plus.
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For a while I have been using the Chromatic plug-in, but may need to switch to the Apple color system. If I grade 4k in Chromatic and then try to compress to 1080 p for the web, the compressor spends something like 2 hours for a 7 minute piece using a single processor probably to deal with the color grading. Only near the end does it utilize the four cores properly. Without the color grading, it does the compression much faster.
Any experience with the new Apple color system and Compressor?
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[greg janza] “When you factor in that most raids now are large enough to handle multiple 4k projects, it’s much easier to copy the raw media to a raid and then start working instead of adding in the time consuming extra step of proxy creation. The one caveat being that your system needs to be fast enough to handle 4k full res playback.”
Since 4k is where I am going, is there a good way to know how to configure a new 27″ iMac to meet the 4k full res playback criterion?
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The discussion of using Proxies to edit 4k projects in FCPX is especially relevant for me. I have a new CANON XF400 camera which has a 4 k 150 Mb/s mode. I did a few sample projects using proxies and FCPX and it basically works using my Mid 11 27 inch mac. I am planning to go up to a loaded iMac, but probably not to an IMac Pro. This would give me a 5k screen, faster graphics and processor, USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 ports, although not as many as the iMac Pro supports.
I did a 50 second 4k project with my old iMac and was surprised to see that to compress it to 1080 p for the internet took about 25 minutes. This process was only using one core as far as I could see.
Do you think I will be OK with a loaded 27 inch iMac?
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Bloom is an artist and I thought he had some nice shoots of the ugly box and the fans turning that looked cool. Glad to hear the iMac Pro is out and running.
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A big vote of appreciation to all of those working behind the scenes to make the Cow work. I have learned so much reading the forum and it is a great way to get insight into what is important to professional editors.
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Although I started this thread, mainly because I thought Phillip Bloom’s video was thought provoking, it certainly didn’t make me jump ship. I have used Mac’s since about 1985, through the good and bad times. Also, I took the FCPX fork in the road long ago and it serves my needs as an amateur film maker.
I plan to get a loaded new iMac as I just bought a Canon XF400 and plan to shoot in 4K. So while firmly in the Apple ecosphere, it is fun to look over the fence and see where the other fork has gone. Also, I am hoping the Apple promised Mac Pro will keep the momentum going for professional FCPX editors.