[David Bogie]

Getting good grades from the wonks like Walter helps me through the bad days around here and accept the times when I just Get It Wrong.

There are days I still miss the elegant simplicity of my old Media 100 but I have never once regretted throwing that board into the North Fork of the Boise River. It is food for cadis flies.

david bogie, boise ID

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

v5 of what?
FCP. Oh, that. Yeah.

I sure wish Apple would fix my long list of junk that’s still broken from v1 but from your assertions, I can clearly scratch Media Manager off that list. Thanks for the update.

I speak from what I know and from my experience. I just ran MM on a project last week. Simple copy of a ten minute sequence, including renders and handles. Not complicated, no weirdness. Only about 70% of the material made it. We tried it three times and we got three different results but never got a winner. What, in your opinion, do you suppose I could have possibly been doing incorrectly?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

[walter biscardi] ”
Oh and if Apple does debut FCP 6 at the show, don’t expect it to be available anytime soon. Maybe by the end of the year, but certainly not anytime shortly after the show.”

Was it v4.5 that was announced at the 2003 (2004?) NAB and available for immediate FREE download?

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Guilty. All counts.
But I don’t know anyone.

I got the handle from a master kitemaker, one of Japan’s National Treasures.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Mark, thanks for posting, you’re one of those people we just don’t hear from often enough.

We all knew there was someone out there for whom Media Manager actually functions. But the FCP community does not call it Media Mangler because we cannot figure it out even though the interface was built by someone from Microsoft. Media Manager doesn’t generally work and, when it does, the results are often flawed which, I guess, means it doesn’t really work after all.

Posts like yours are encouraging, though.

We started a rumor a few years ago that there were two versions of FCP; one that went to post houses and network operations with a working MM and the version that everyone else got.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

I’m pretty sure all you’re seeing is FCP’s system prefs updating to reflect your graphics card and CPU/RAM configurations. FCP doesn’t really care about your drives. If the data is there, RT will process it. If it’s not, it won’t.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Bee, welcome to the “Doh! Club.”
We’re all members. Some of us won’t admit it.
Glad you figured it out.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

That’s fine.
But most people do not understand RAID types or the benefit/risk trade-offs. There’s nothing unusual about your scratch disk designations so spend your time researching your RAID setup.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

To convert captured footage later depends on Media Manager. You think keyframes and marking your outpoints one frame off are driving you crazy? Wait till you attempt to do recapture media to a higher resolution. Avid and Media 100 have provided simple and elegant solutions to this everyday function for a decade. FCP will never be able to do it.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

“Static pops” describes the noise, vaguely, but offers no clues about the source. Your guess is much better than anything we could offer since you hooked ’em up and you’re looking at ’em.

If the noises are not going to or coming from your editor, they are being introduced downstream of the audio output from the card. You start by eliminating one possible source at a time: the speakers themselves, AC supply, cabling, external hookups like headphones or USB thingies, where they’re sitting, time of day or length of service, length of power-on status or length of editing session. If you make a comprehensive list, it’s probably 40 items.

You must change only a single item at a time or you will never be able to tell what the definitive cause was.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”