David Chai
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While it’s understandable you want to keep your main system stable, you can surely afford another hard drive to install mavericks and run FCPX 10.1.2 and Resolve V11. This way you don’t have to compromise your working system while trying out the latest versions.
By the way, FCPX 10.1+ and Mavericks is light years faster and better than the old 10.0.0.8.
For the record I also run a hackintosh for my main system. I built it when the new macpro wasn’t out yet and I have PCIe cards that would have had to be replaced for no good reason at all. I also have 6 hard drives internally, which would have forced me to buy thunderbolt enclosures to keep using. Not a cheap option. It’s been extremely stable and I have done many jobs on it. While I think the new mac pro is sexy, it’s an expensive machine that can only be justified if you have enough revenue to pay for it and all the thunderbolt attachments needed. -
Did you make sure the project settings are matched to your footage – interlaced vs progressisve? Set incorrect and it will not be so sharp. I believe the default is progressive.
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The FCPX speed tool also allows you to use Optical Flow for your retiming, and it’s pretty good too.
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I think it’s extremely valuable to understand how to do monitor calibration,
even if you end up getting an expert, as more knowledge is power.For you to do calibration you need: Software, Probe, Patches.
You have the best low cost probe already: I1 Display Pro
Free calibration software: Color HCFR – https://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre-hcfr/hcfr-colormeter/
Runs on PC, but works well in parallels on MAC.Here is a great walkthrough guide for how to the software: https://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10457
Patches, color patterns, greyscales free to download: https://www.avsforum.com/t/948496/avs-hd-709-blu-ray-mp4-calibration
Start by running the black and white clipping on the patches to set your brightness and contrast levels (make sure you’re not clipping out your black and whites), then run the Color HCFR software to get your white balance and gamma set as well as possible.
There is a lot of information to take in and process, but you’ll be glad that you did it.
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FCPX supports native frame rate playback, under speed, just choose conform and it’ll play back frame for frame, slow mo for 60fps in a 24fps timeline.
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Justin,
Actually there are drawbacks for every technology right now.
LED has limited viewing angle. Black levels tend to be higher. Uneven backlighting issues.
Plasma has Automatic Brightness control but great off-axis viewing and excellent blacks.
LCD has lighter blacks, off axis issues, uneven backlighting.
OLED has the best blacks but poor off-axis. Pricy.For critical color: there is the Dolby reference monitor at $40k. DLP projectors for film mastering.
For your situation, actually panasonic plasma’s (especially pro models) are popular in many grading rooms as a client monitor and sometimes as the main monitor. The more important issue is calibration, but that is possible for cheap with an i1 display pro probe ($250 and you can calibrate your GUI monitor as well) and free software: HCFR colormeter. https://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre-hcfr/hcfr-colormeter/
You can get most reasonable high end consumer displays in the ‘ball park’, as long as you don’t need absolutely ‘critical color’. I guess if you’re doing high end mastering, you wouldn’t be asking about these low end monitors anyway. The new Panasonic ZT60 is claimed as a reference studio grade display. It’s not available yet, but looks promising. The KURO was the closest to reference plasma made, and is still. But this new model looks promising. The important thing is High and Low RGB control, as well as gamma control, so you can dial the colors to true 6500k, and gamma of 2.2 – using your cheap probe and software setup. The Sony OLED is promising except for it’s poor off axis. I would probably wait for a next revision on that monitor. Actually once you use a big monitor 50″, you don’t want to go back to a small one, as you can really see a lot more detail and get an impression of the whole image. Just as they grade films in a theater, if you simulate what they see on TV on a similar size screen, then you’ll be closer to the mark. Especially important for fine edge masking, secondary isolations.
Most HDMI cards are only 8 bit, but then again to get a true 10 bit display will probably set you back more. For most DSLR originated content, it’s only 8 bit anyway, so you’re not going to magically get better quality with a 10-bit display. But if start doing a lot of SLOG or RAW material, you may want to step up to a SDI input display.
Any of the Blackmagic cards work fine with Resolve including the cheapest ones – like the intensity pro for less than $200.
Again, YMMV, so do your research, and have fun – if nothing else at least you’ll have a kick ass TV.
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Your 2600xt graphics card is not supported, so you’ll need to upgrade that to a better one. The mac 5770 works fine, or if you are more adventurous, you can get a PC nvidia GTX 570 or 670. Just install mountain lion first.
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neat video is your best option, absolutely amazing results, but super long render times…
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I had this happen to me and it was driving me crazy, as it was on one project and no others. I came across this link and it helped me out.
https://revuptransmedia.com/index.php/component/content/article/40-tutorials/170-reimport
Basically, if there is ONE clip that is referencing the camera original and has not been imported, then you cannot export your project. You can tell because your project will have a hazard warning on it, and also the event will also have a hazard warning. Then the clips or clips that are referencing camera originals have the camera icon next to them and have to be reimported.
In my case these two files never imported fully, as the system was shut off before the import finished and I didn’t realize as I could edit everything without issue, but couldn’t export, until re-importing and then everything was fine.
Hopefully you still have the camera original files.
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No problems Chris:
1) was only able to get around 11fps before, now I can get full frame playback with multiple nodes with the GTX 570.
2) I use FCPX a lot, and if anything seems to run faster with the new card.
3) Resolve for my needs is perfectly fine with the single card, I’m mostly doing simple grades with 2 or 3 nodes, and real time playback is not a deal breaker. As I work mostly unsupervised. If I was working with client in room, then I would probably look at multiple cards, but you can always add that later if you find one is not enough. I initially thought I had to have a separate GUI card, but I also didn’t want to lose performance with FCPX when I spend most of my time, so it’s a good compromise. And Blackmagic recommend this card if you are running single GPU only.Good luck with your system!
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