Darren Roark
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[David Mathis] “Cheese grater Mac Pro”
If it’s a 2009 or later you might be better off upgrading the one you have to a 12c dual GPU setup that would leave my maxed out nMP 12c in the dust with Resolve. (You can install 2X 6c CPUs which actually run faster for some tasks than a single 12c chip)
Depending on what GPUs you get you could save a decent amount over a 5K iMac. (You would not have the awesome screen though)
If eGPUs become a thing in the mac world you would want an iMac with Thunderbolt 3 which is just starting to show up.
The upgrade itself isn’t that difficult if you’ve built a PC before, otherwise any local computer repair shop should be able to handle the CPU swap.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Yeah, my most irrational fear is probably of buying electronics and then having an better version come out right after my return window ends. lol”
I think we share the same techupgradeophobia condition.
I just buy the outgoing model refurbished when the new one comes out. That way I’m pre-disastered into having old tech. At least I saved enough money to feel like it was justified. 😉
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[Andrew Kimery] “Intel hasn’t released a new CPU since 2013, AMD hasn’t released a new GPU since 2012… Man, Apple has the toughest luck finding reliable partners. ;)”
Well yeah, they did announce the nMP on a ‘tock’ year not a tick year. As for the AMDs, they have been pretty much been polishing their 2013 chips until this new gen was announced a couple months ago.
It’s a lot better than when I finally got around to getting a B&W G3 tower and then the G4 came out a month later.
Thankfully nowadays Intel and AMD have at least provide roadmaps that make the guessing game a little more reliable.
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[Andrew Kimery] “This is why my life would be easier if Apple just buffed the specs every 12-18 months like they used to! “
That pesky intel went to a longer wait time between CPU refreshes. It’s going to be even slower in the next few years.
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[Paul Golden] “This is where I’m a little confused as to who’s responsible. “
In this case I’d say BMD as you can revert back to older versions and it’s fine.
It’s probably a case of them trying to fix a problem and they create two new ones.
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The BMD drivers are a big mess and have been for some time.
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I guess I’m not following what you are trying to do. Are you trying to reorder an edit via keywords?
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I would recommend finding some tutorials on keyword collections and smart collections.
I like the Ripple Training series for most topics.
This will get you started. https://www.rippletraining.com/free-videos/metatag-and-organize-your-media-in-final-cut-pro-x/
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[Claude Lyneis] “Seems to be both powerful and archaic.”
We could also replace powerful and archaic with “respectable”.
Like John Huston’s pitch perfect delivery in “Chinatown”.
Skip to 01:28 if you are into the whole brevity thing.
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[Doug Metz] “ClipWrap will also add a bunch of metadata, and transcodes the AAC audio to PCM. Maybe it’s the audio conversion that makes it ‘friendlier’… ??”
I’m of the mind that the further away you get from your camera originals the more complex things can get later on.
Many AVCHD consumer and prosumer cameras record audio in AC-3 which back in the day was problematic. The pro cams record uncompressed PCM. The test could be to make a duplicate timeline and render the audio which makes uncompressed render files.
If the behavior doesn’t go away then it wasn’t the audio, if it was then clipwrap away.
Is there camera file metadata that clipwrap can extract that FCP X doesn’t? I stopped using it once I didn’t need to anymore. If it does I want to know, you can’t have too much metadata.