Claude Lyneis
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CC means Combined Clip? Just checking.
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I agree hard drives are cheap and a $100 for a TByte is only 10 cent per gigabyte. However, with my new iMac 27″ and a couple of WD firewire drives daisy chained together, each with some FCPX event files on them I had a series of the disks getting the directories damaged and then the disk would not show up. The Apple Disk utility said reformat, Disk Warrior was able to repair them and sort out the overlapping files. Then I went to only one external disk and the problem has not reoccurred.
Has anyone else had difficulty with corrupted disks using FCPX, daisy chained FW 800 disks with event files stored on both external disks?
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It is a real challenge to use FCPX on an old computer. You need all the RAM you can get. The other problem is the video cards can’t handle the native H.264. I gave up on my iMac7,1 and went to a new 27″ iMac with 8 GB of RAM. Life is easier now.
Not sure on the 422 question though. I would try a very short part of your project to see if it is feasible, before getting to far in. My first project on my old iMac was nerve racking because of all the crashes.
What about getting a 500 GB portable drive to help with the project?
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Thanks David. By saving “sequences” in FCPX I assume you mean saving a project by duplicating the project and then continuing to edit then duplicated version.
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Thanks, I will give the shortcuts a try.
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How about making FCP7 and FCPX distinct enough so they can easily be loaded on a Mac. I made the mistake of loading FCPX on my new iMac before trying to load FCP7. FCP7 would start then just disappear. Then I learned it had to be loaded on Lion first. I have learned to “love” FCPX but still need FCP7. Since X is not really an upgrade, why can’t they be independent?
For me it is way to early to worry about Mountain Lion. FCPX and Lion are just now becoming solid.