[Diego Barraza]

Thanks Tom, the video out from FCP sounds like a clever and practical solution for me, might just try that. It is so obvious that I had not thought of it myself.
I had never heard of Dataton, they look like a great pro solution for decent budget events. I am getting a Matrox dual head to cover more space with the projection, I am starting to look at the projector hire side of things for the event now.

Cheers!.

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[Diego Barraza]

Thanks Jim for the input,appreciated, for this project the money is on the low side of things, it is a piece for a show with a string quartet with about 200 people in the audience. So the budget does not allow me to dish out the 400 for Playback Pro, I have only heard good things about this software. Someone commented on using Keynote, never used it myself but if it is anything like powerpoint with video I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.

For now I’m considering Mlplayer, again does pesky transport controls will be onscreen for about 5sec and I don’t think I can bear it and it is very basic but will play well ProRes files. It will only be one HD file with Audio/Video but I would like some basic fade in to cue the piece in the other monitor/projector.

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[Diego Barraza]

I don’t think it is possible to straight copy and paste the edit points into a new multiclip Eric. I would conform your original edit, export it out and re import as a new clip. Then I would add this “new” angle to the multiclip and use it as a visual reference to play along the other angles and give you visual reference for the edit points in the second multiclip.

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[Diego Barraza]

The only useful thing I have found is a time code reader plugin developed by a Argentinian editor Leo Hans, you can download it here:

https://finalcutargentina.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/timecode-reader-gratuito-para-fcpx.html

The instructions are in Spanish, but it is easy to install and works like a charm.

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[Diego Barraza]

This is another one of those weird FCPX issues. The tape in question above was shot at 50Shutter speed, for some time, cut, and the interview was shot at 25 shutter speed. If I let the tape run from start to end to do a complete capture, FCPX will only capture the first part of the tape. There will be no warning or error message whatsoever, so the tape will run the hole length in camera while capturing, yet upon revision of ingested media only the first bit shot at 50 shutter speeed had been catured-ingested into computer.

I tried with another tape that was shot in the same way. Half the tape at 50 and the other at 25 shutter speed. Again as I captured the whole tape FCPX had NO error message or warning, it would seem that it was capturing everything and then I would find out by my own observation it had only ingested the first part of the tape.

Solution: I have found that if I capture the first part of tape that was shot at 50 shutter speed in one batch. Stop, quit FCPx, turn on and off camera, and now skim to the part of tape filmed at 25 shutter speed and capture that part of the tape separately it will ingest the footage.

The annoying question that arises is: if the camera man has been shooting at different shutter speeds along the same tape, and the editor logger has no idea and is just ingesting the whole tape. He will not know what has been capture and what has not, because FCPX in this case will give a warning. Very annoying.

For information sake, I am working with a Sony Z7 HDV camera for the tapes and FCPX 10.0.3

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[Diego Barraza]

12GB of RAM upgrade. Much better, no stuttering and things running smoothly. FCPX loves the RAM.

Thank you everybody for your comments.

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[Diego Barraza]

Thank you Claude for the input. Just ebayed a couple of 4GB sticks. It is definitely a RAM issue. Kind of sad, that a 4min HDV project with 4 cross fades and 2 effects is eating the 4GB of RAM the machine now has. FCPX is a bit of a RAM hog. Was not the case in older versions.

I will post more info, when I get the new RAM slotted. See how things run.

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[Diego Barraza]

Thank you Michel and others for your support.

My graphic card is a AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB more than plenty to handle HDV and ProRes. Most definitely RAM is the only way to go. I am thinking that because I have other events in the media browser that might be hogging the RAM, will check the RAM usage via process view.

To edit in Proxy seems a contradiction. I have a decent specs machine, with the latest and to edit in Proxy something that I could do in older machines and older versions of FCP would be a sad regress.

Ill keep posting how its going.

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[Diego Barraza]

I have handled and edited a LOT of projects in HD-HDV and Pro res with 800FW and never had a problem with FCP 7 and bellow. I know that in today’s scene FW800 is a bit passe, but many editors out there and I can say that it has been tried and tested with successful results for many years. I would not say that my data bottleneck is in the transfer rate of FW800 in my case.

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[Diego Barraza]

Sorry, I flagged solution to the post when I was trying to use the like button instead. My mistake, have not found solution yet.

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