Darren Roark
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My biggest issue with FCP X was with larger projects. Been working on a doc for a year, and it has well over three thousand clips. Scrolling the clips in the event, waking from sleep, at any moment it could choke up. After converting the events to 10.1, there were no more beachball moments. After putting it through the paces for a few hours I was amazed how smooth everything was running until I realized I no longer had the proxy setting selected after the update.
That made it go to eleven for me.
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When I first launched 10.1 I didn’t convert the projects and events. Then when I had backed them all up and relaunched FCPX, it didn’t give me the option again. EDIT. I just found out how to manually do it by going to File, then update projects and events.
I had to do this twice to get the projects converted for some reason.
As a safety, I would at the very least make zip files of all the fcpevent/project files. FCP X also gives the option to save them, which I did.
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The BM ultrastudio express is working. I used to have the non retina mbp with one thunderbolt port, had to get the retina for the extra thunderbolt port and hdmi.
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I got in some trouble on another forum for my opinion on this…
I really like drobos, have owned every model up until the thunderbolt models so I’m not super familiar with using those for editing. My main concern with using them for editing is when a drive is detected as faulty, the drobo immediately takes it out of commission which slows down the whole thing until it rebuilds the raid.
Again, not sure on the thunderbolt models, but I have read several people having similar experiences with them when a drive is detected as bad. That said, they are excellent easy to use backup devices.
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[Marcus Moore] “A brand-new iMac, to config to 32GB RAM will cost you $600.
Via OWC, it’s like $380 bucks. Still less, but not less than half.”
That’s the rub, you can get other ‘apple tested’ 32GB kits for around $290. But then what is your time worth if it’s crap? I’m waiting to see what the performance is before I pull the trigger. I have 32GB in my tower right now, and with the current version of FCP X it never goes beyond 16GB when at full load. I’m sure the new one will be able to use more. Can’t wait for Apple to take my money though.
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[Marcus Moore] “I had a hellish RAM upgrade last year that took me a week to fix. That $450 I’m saving is less than 1 days work, so I can rationalize just having the machine show up ready to go.”
I’ve been lucky I haven’t had that happen since the G5 days. It’s worth the risk as the same spec RAM from other vendors is priced less than half for the new pros.
The other thing I am curious about is the GPUs are speculated to also be user serviceable as they are on daughter cards. If it’s like upgrading the proprietary SSDs on a MB Air, it’s probably not going to be worth the money.
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Don’t forget RAM is user serviceable so we will be able to save money there as soon as OWC is able to determine what they want to sell. All the big memory providers already make ECC sticks that are compatible on paper. At least you have the option to sell the 16gb you remove on ebay. I don’t think it will take OWC long.
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I was at a Lumaforge event where Peter Chamberlain gave an overview of Resolve 10 and mentioned that in an update it would support GPU acceleration for Red files once the new Mac Pro is released. It would make a lot of sense that fcpx would have this as well. If that’s the case, it makes the top end GPU more enticing than getting more cores on the CPU.
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After upgrading from a GTX 570 to that card it’s been a huge boost. This fcpx benchmark test from Alex4D is a good way to test performance.
https://blog.alex4d.com/2013/10/30/brucex-a-new-fcpx-benchmark/
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My two cents:
I have been working on a doc that has tapes n’ tapes of archival VHS footage I have been digitizing. (a word I haven’t used in a while) Other than using a Canopus or DV camcorder like you mentioned, you are going to want to rent a time base corrector and capture using an SDI capture card (or box) to prores. Even though it’s ‘just’ VHS, it looks so much better. Lastly, good condition svhs deck can really help regular vhs if the TBC can take s-video.
Hope this is a help. Feel free to PM me if you want to know my setup.