Darren Roark
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A chore indeed!
To take some of the pain away I install to a different drive and keep the old install intact until I don’t need it anymore. That way I can boot backwards, or easily drag something to the new one. (not that you asked or anything, but ML is worth the trouble)
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I used to use Cocktail, switched to Onyx because it’s free. (I donated tho!)
Is your tower not supported by ML?
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[John Fishback] “Don’t know if it’s a Lion or FCPX thing.”
Mountain Lion seems to be the best fit for X. I upgraded to Lion from SL and it was a mess for me. I downgraded until ML came out and it works much better.
But yeah, the permissions thing is a puzzler. My friend has a 12 core Mac Pro and everything FCPX related was running dog slow until doing the permissions repair.
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What GPU do you have? How much RAM?
I have seen weird (yet different) things happen as you described on Nvidia and Radeon GPUs. Just yesterday I needed to make sure the soundtracks were exactly the same length while zoomed in all the way, and the ends looked like a glitchy video game.
I am on a GTX 570, and although the performance boost is amazing, FCPX was designed initially with Radeons in mind.
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That’s sort of a glass half empty view. I could never have used something like a Teranex with one small cable that handles I/O. Yes, 10gb is considerably slower than 16gb in a PCIe slot. But hot damn can I run RED 4K in FCPX with no problems off a crappy Seagate desktop external with the thunderbolt adapter.
I do love the Mac Pro case. There isn’t much reason to change it except for making more room for another expansion slot or two.
I do need something more than an iMac which is what lead me down the road of building my own system. I would have rather bought one from them.
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Yes, it’s been dragging on too long.
Now that thunderbolt is now two years old (as is my March 2011 MBP) they could have been waiting to see if it catches on in the pro world before radically redoing the Mac Pro. Thankfully it has. USB 3.0 is great for what it is, but it cannot replace daisy chaining, and it’s direct connection to the logic board. They will coexist like firewire and USB 2.0 did.
I do wonder if they are purposely becoming more laxed about only supporting Apple blessed hardware. Now that you can use PC GPUs in a Mac Pro it seems they may go away from a one stop shop machine. Before having only three choices for a GPU, (stock crap one, ‘premium’, and ‘holy crap you better be rendering DNA models) it made every release of the Mac Pro kind of repetitive. It would be “Faster processor, and a new choice of a card that PC users have had almost a year.”
Thunderbolt ports and being able to use whatever graphics card you want would be huge. I do like my home built solution, but that might tip the scales back to having a warranty for me.
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That’s a great idea for a workaround.
I think the weird relinking issues have to do with the way it handles metadata. I get things where it will say “the files share no common attributes” or something like that. I have had identical files where it will say “The older one had audio, the new one does not.” Even though they are both exact copies of the same file.
I really have problems with projects I have been picking at over time that have been updated from older versions of X. I have been reconforming a documentary that has youtube downloaded clips that have either become corrupt or copied differently from drive to drive. Same thing, FCPX won’t relink some of those.
It’s all very strange.
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No luck relinking project files? Yes, that’s a really frustrating thing about X I don’t agree with. I am an adult and should be able to override what I want.
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Have you tried manually relinking it in the event to the new version?
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Bret said “Everyone above is correct.”
That is one of my favorite aspects of the magnetic timeline, you can make it into whatever you are comfortable with. I still yell at the screen to do what I thought it should be doing, but less and less the more I get used to it.