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Hey Graeme,

Love your FCP plugins by the way! I am currently working in 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed all the time. Judging from some of the Tests I’ve seen (ie. One River Media) Photo JPEG seems to stack up very well. But I want to know how the RT etc. is in comparison to 8-bit uncompressed. Using it at 100% (4:4:4) shouldn’t be an issue with an Xserve RAID running at 280mb/sec read 180mb/sec write. or will using the different color space introduce luminance shift?

Cheers,

-D

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Hey Graeme,

Love your FCP plugins by the way! I am currently working in 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed all the time. Judging from some of the Tests I’ve seen (ie. One River Media) Photo JPEG seems to stack up very well. But I want to know how the RT etc. is in comparison to 8-bit uncompressed. Using it at 100% (4:4:4) shouldn’t be an issue with an Xserve RAID running at 280mb/sec read 180mb/sec write. or will using the different color space introduce luminance shift?

Cheers,

-D

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Hey Graeme,

Love your FCP plugins by the way! I am currently working in 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed all the time. Judging from some of the Tests I’ve seen (ie. One River Media) Photo JPEG seems to stack up very well. But I want to know how the RT etc. is in comparison to 8-bit uncompressed. Using it at 100% (4:4:4) shouldn’t be an issue with an Xserve RAID running at 280mb/sec read 180mb/sec write. or will using the different color space introduce luminance shift?

Cheers,

-D

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Hey Graeme,

Love your FCP plugins by the way! I am currently working in 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed all the time. Judging from some of the Tests I’ve seen (ie. One River Media) Photo JPEG seems to stack up very well. But I want to know how the RT etc. is in comparison to 8-bit uncompressed. Using it at 100% (4:4:4) shouldn’t be an issue with an Xserve RAID running at 280mb/sec read 180mb/sec write. or will using the different color space introduce luminance shift?

Cheers,

-D

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Hey Graeme,

Love your FCP plugins by the way! I am currently working in 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed all the time. Judging from some of the Tests I’ve seen (ie. One River Media) Photo JPEG seems to stack up very well. But I want to know how the RT etc. is in comparison to 8-bit uncompressed. Using it at 100% (4:4:4) shouldn’t be an issue with an Xserve RAID running at 280mb/sec read 180mb/sec write. or will using the different color space introduce luminance shift?

Cheers,

-D

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Hey Graeme,

Love your FCP plugins by the way! I am currently working in 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed all the time. Judging from some of the Tests I’ve seen (ie. One River Media) Photo JPEG seems to stack up very well. But I want to know how the RT etc. is in comparison to 8-bit uncompressed. Using it at 100% (4:4:4) shouldn’t be an issue with an Xserve RAID running at 280mb/sec read 180mb/sec write. or will using the different color space introduce luminance shift?

Cheers,

-D

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Hey Wayne,

I’m actually I’m still running FCP 4.5 with a Kona SD. I have FCP 5 and Tiger sitting in a box in my suite and I am waiting to buy the Kona 2 card until I hear more feedback from editors who work in projects comprised soley of 8-bit Uncompressed material.

The real reason I need the upgrade though is to take advantage of the new Xserve RAID driver (only available for Tiger) and I am really hoping they have fixed the large project bug in FCP which causes stuttering/slowdown in the timeline when trimming/sliding or moving clips.

Any experience with large 8-bit projects? Timeline stutter?

Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,

Dave

Dual 2.0ghz G5
4 gigs of RAM
Kona SD (Blackmagic 4.8 driver)
1.8T Xserve RAID 5 + 0

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Hey Chris & Everyone Else who has experienced the large project mayhem,

I want to get more feedback from FCP 5 USERS with LARGE PROJECTS (Above 15megs). What have you experienced with trim editing in the timeline? Is there still a delay? Is there a stutter when moving clips around? Is there still the bug that when you have several large projects open speed is decreased dramatically even if you are not using media in another project?

Has anyone used the Xserve RAID driver that just came out for Tiger and FCP 5?? Is there a speed difference? I am using a 1.8T RAID 5.

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers,

Dave

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Jerry,

Please tell me what you have noticed in FCP 5. I am dying to know, since this has become such a major issue for us. You are right in that we are dealing with complex timelines, however, in commercial post production there really isn’t the option to simplify things.

Also, I notice you have a Kona SD. What driver are you using? Blackmagic 4.8? AND do you have the effects handling setting for Uncompressed 4:2:2 on FCP to handle or Kona SD????

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Dave

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Hey,

This seems to be a major bug with FCP 4.5. Larger projects lead to sticky timelines, which is completely unacceptable for a professional editing package. Even with a dual 2.0 G5 with 4 gigs of RAM and a 1.8T Xserve RAID the timeline is still sticky.

Has anyone installed FCP5/Tiger and experienced problems or better performance?

Cheers,

Dave