Claude Lyneis
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The more items on the desktop, the slower the system finishes booting up. This is very noticeable if you don’t have some version of an SSD for the internal drive. The system has to treat the desktop differently. So it just a guess, but putting the library on the desktop would not be the best idea.
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One question are you doing the comparison using a 4 k monitor or at 1080 type monitor? On my 2011 27 inch iMac I looked at a number of frames from my 4k footage, either at 1080 p or 4k, see post above for details. On this monitor, the differences were extremely limited and not obvious to my eyes. In both cases I used the compressor setting suggested by Apple for Youtube. It sounds like to me Compressor may to a better job than trying to go straight out of FCPX. For $50.00 you can buy Compressor, which I find very useful for a variety of tasks involving outputting video. Of course, your mileage may vary.
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Joe Marler: Thanks for the informative response. The deeper I look into 4K the less enthusiastic I become for switching at this time. Since I mainly shoot sports, which generate about 80 minutes of video per game ,which I edit down to about 5 minutes, storage is an issue as is the time to generate proxies and then compression during output.
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[Noah Kadner] “Exporting 1080p from a 4K timeline is what I do- much simpler.
Noah”
I just been experimenting with some 4 k footage. It started out H.264 3820×2160 59.94 fps at 150 Mbs from a Panasonic Hc-X1000. Impossible to edit natively on my mid 11 27″ i5 iMac,. Editing worked fine with proxy media. I then used Compressor with 4k “Youtube” settings to output it (H.264 3840 x 2160 at 59.84 fps and 19.5 Mbs), which worked fine although the 3 min 27 sec video took 3 hours to compress. That was impressive. It would play on my imac, but not on my Apple TV because our TV is only 1080 p. Then for comparison, I compressed it to 1080 p with “Youtube” settings (H.264 1920×1080 59.94 fps at 15 Mbs, which took 1.5 hours. Since my iMac is not 5k I will have to wait to see if I can tell the difference between the 4k and the 1080 p.
I have been thinking about upgrading to a 4k camera and a new high end iMac, but not sure 4k is worth it, since I am my own client. The idea of buying a 4 k camera would “future proof” it for a while, but I seem to buy cameras about every three years anyway. How fast is 4k or about catching on? Certainly slower that the transition from analog to SD to HD. Any thoughts?
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Great discussion in the spirit of tolerance for different NLE’s. Of course too much tolerance and FCPX the debate forum would whither away and it is often fun to read, so that would be “SAD”.
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[Mark Dobson] “Color Finale is one of the better color plugins and it works really well in combination with the new Apple Color not least because it sits adjacent in the FX browser.
Generally it’s received good feedback from users. I have to admit that I mainly use it for applying LUTs and tweeting the core levels before moving on to the FCPX color application for secondary corrections. After 4 years I’ve actually got very used to the color board and and also like the way the Apple controls can all be done on the keyboard whereas with Color Finale one is trying to do pretty minute adjustments with the mouse. Denver Riddle has already adjusted the calibration on his controls, its now very easy to move about within a color wheel and with a hit on his hands I’m sure we will see a bunch of further improvements.
I’d like to see keyboard control. I’d also like the ability to be able to resize the floating control display as I’working on a 2 monitor, different resolution , system and if I move the panel over onto my 1080p monitor it almost takes up half the screen.”
Did they ever implement “resize the floating control display?”
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After reading the discussions I decided to go I7, although I haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Mac last much longer now that Moore’s Law is dead, so I figure the i7 might be more future proof and it is now or never. But there were a variety of opinions for sure.
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There is some discussion of this in the FCPX debate forum titled https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/96047 New iMac for 4k editing. I posted that question a couple of weeks ago.
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[Noah Kadner] “At 30p or 60i/29.97? 60i can be converted to 24p with much less motion artifacts than 30p which is a pretty much useless abomination outside of home movies.”
For anything going to the web I don’t find 60 i to be very useful and I certainly avoid AVCHD packaging if I can. 30 p works well. It is a bit harsh to declare 30 p as useful only for home movies. I generally shoot at 60 p because it looks fine at 30 p and really helps for slow motion.
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It clearly dominates the top of the pyramid in terms of the some 400 Hollywood movies produced each year and there is a large support structure built around that. On the other hand it is hard to see how it can dominate the more independent users who will choose something easier to learn and cheaper to use. I think Avid’s challenge is how to survive on that small top of the pyramid base.