Darren Roark
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[David Mathis] “Not sure if it is me but FCP loves to create all kinds of render files which can quickly eat up drive space if you are not careful. Not a real issue with Premiere Pro as far as my experience has been. “
No it’s not just you. Just turn off ‘background rendering’ in the prefs if your GPU can handle it.
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[Andrew Kimery] “The final upgrade to version 7 in ’09 was anemic at best and looking back I think it’s clear the team at Apple had other priorities.”
I agree. The rumor that they had FCP 8 pretty much finished in 64bit then scrapped it at the last minute supports that statement.
It makes sense that they would make something completely different no longer having to create a GUI that makes it easier for editors to adapt from cutting film on flatbeds. (A kem was my first NLE) FCP X 10.0 is really the first version that Apple made completely on it’s own since legacy FCP was bought from Macromedia.
Other than gang sync there really isn’t anything I can’t do using FCPX that I could do in FCP 5-7.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Just in time for Apple to let it stagnate for two years the blow it up all over again when they introduce FCP 11! ;)”
I did get a chuckle out of this.
FCP stayed pretty much the same for 12 years, and X is barely 2.5 years old. I think it’s come a long way in such a short time.
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[David Mathis] ” I was thinking does it make sense to have both installed on the same system?”
It does if you need or use them both. It’s not like keeping a wolverine and a tasmanian devil in the same zoo cage.
My big moment of realizing I had been fighting the magnetic timeline was after having to go back and forth between X & 7 for so long that using tracks started to feel tedious. It really just comes down to personal preference.
If you don’t like the messy spine look, there are ways to open a shot ‘in timeline’ and add titles, overlays, whatever you want in there and then click back to your main project. If you ever want to expand them, then shift-command-g will expand them. That’s what I do, there are other ways.
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I saw Red Dragon 6K footage playing back at full debayer on a maxed out 12 Core nMP for several minutes without dropping a frame on the beta of Red Cine X This is with no red rocket card. If Red incorporates those GPU accelerated drivers into FCP X, Resolve, and AE that would be a big deal.
Their two minute 1080p video is a prores file correct? When I render out a few minute project shot on red from the proxies, it takes no time at all to export to an h.264. This is with BG render turned off as it has to render all the color corrections and effects.
That same project rendering with the Red files, I may as well get my grocery shopping done. Until Neat Video and the Red drivers are updated to take advantage of the dual GPUs, it’s really hard to judge performance.
It’s good to know that the legacy mac pros still do quite well with a pair of newer GPUs.
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Turn off “app nap” as many have posted on here have advised.
It actually helps.
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[Tim Wilson] “People will wear glasses for the right content. Over 80% of the audience for Gravity saw it in 3D. More than Avatar.
The larger problem is that the overwhelming majority of 3D movies bite. I’m a HUGE enthusiast, and other than the Hobbit, I can’t remember the last 3D movie I saw and liked.”
Oh I could not agree more! I love 3D, I even love watching it at home but I am in the minority. “Gravity” is my ‘told you so’ to all the friends of mine who vocally dislike 3D. I shoot and make shorts in 3D.
Using my wife as an example, wearing polarized glasses would put a cramp her style while she watches TV and multitasks with her iPad. This is how I see most people watch things at home nowadays.
This now totally OT. I could go on about when 3D is done right by people who care, it’s amazing, just a PITA for most in the home. Also, the Russians are really pioneering post conversion software. What they are doing is starting to look better than shooting it stereo, which usually has to be converted anyway.
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[tony west] “This is why I think 3D fell flat. I never believed people would toss out their nice new HD TV for a 3D one.”
3D capability of a TV doesn’t hurt the 2D at all. In many cases the 3DTVs are better in 2D as some models need stronger processors to display twice the frames for the ‘active shutter glasses’ type.
Nobody wanted to wear the stupid glasses.
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[Tim Wilson] “You heard it here first: a time machine, bus-powered over Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3.”
Awesome! The current going rate for plutonium is really cutting into my time traveling budget. That and Delorean parts are way too overpriced.