[David Mcclellan]

Yeah it lags. We need a decent sized feature update big time. I find that when it gets laggy doing a full restart sometimes helps. But you already knew that.

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

OK — that’s great! The simple solution I was hoping for. Thanks!

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

So – I’m going to export an XML of the project and give them that and a hard drive with the entire contained FCPX Library. Am I correct in assuming that all of the speed changes, transitions and multi clip edits will open in DaVinci? There are no other effects – just the basics – a few dissolves, some speed changes and that is about it. I could also break it up into 10 minute reels so that it is not one 90 minute file. That may be easier.

-DM

2013 MacPro 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 64BG Ram
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[David Mcclellan]

Yeah that may prove problematic for about 5-10% of my media was dragged in after the fact from separate drives, reshoots, inserts, and stock footage etc… I have been using FCPX’s optimised library management system as my main working media dump and backing the working library up nightly. So barring that hiccup – I’m pretty much buying ClipExporter2 then correct?

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

Thanks. I have all of the media contained inside a single FCPX library as optimized media. Is that an issue?

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

I’m aware and I use it. We are due for an update any time soon anyway. Hopefully they add this to their list.

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

Clip exporter can’t do it. I put in a feature request at Apple.

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

Right. But the net effect of this is increasing an already bloated Library as the render files, and cache files and everything else that accumulates during the editing process add up. So even if you cut the libraries up into smaller pieces – like part 1- part 2 – part 3 – etc… you still end up with tons of junk media that wastes space and bogs down the drive and slows down the edit. I can tell already that the edit is slowing as I progress and I have to chalk it up to the excess of unused media as part of the issue. I know for a fact if I was able to simplify the project files things would go faster and be more efficient. I miss this aspect of 7’s Media Manager on projects like this.

I’m still testing Clip Exporter as an option but it seems that it doesn’t do synced files. And all my files are synced to an audio track.

-DM

2013 MacPro 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 64BG Ram
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[David Mcclellan]

I’ll take a look into clip exporter but that kind of sucks that there is no way to manage and elimanate unused media in X.

-DM

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[David Mcclellan]

Yeah it’s in sync – so far no drift even on long takes and even if it’s out of sync by a frame or two that is an easy fix. I have several shots that need to be flipped 180 – and that can’t be done AFAIK in the browser. So for those I have to put the sync’d shots in a timeline – apply the 180 flip on the clip and then re-compound that clip. Other than that the sync is going well.

-DM

2013 MacPro 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 64BG Ram
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2013 MacBookPro Retina