Don Smith
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Here’s my guess.. and I stress that this is a guess… that the software is engaging the GPU in the newest MBPro’s whereas it is not in your computer, probably due to your older GPU not having the spec’s required. So, on your older MBPro, only the CPU is engaged and is tasked with doing all the work. Also, I believe, that your MBPro is old enough not to have a second, more powerful, GPU like the newest laptops do that kick in only when needed.
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Highlight the clip. Hold CMD and OPTION and tap the up arrow to put the clip up on the next level by itself and is at the same time replace by a gap clip so that the primary storyline is not changed. Then apply retiming to the clip which is free to expand without rippling the timeline.
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I appreciate your reply, but I have to ask why does FCPX re-timing work as expected in Steve Martin’s training video?
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I also have the latest (2011) MacBook Pro, 17″, 8GB RAM, Thunderbolt. I zeroed the drive, installed only Lion, FCPX, Motion 5 and the latest compressor and it FLIES! My drive is a 7200RPM drive connected by Firewire 800.
However, before I zeroed the drive, FCPX and Motion 5 performed very well (I couldn’t really see a difference) but my machine also had FCP Studio 3 on it and both FCPX and Motion5 both had exporting problems and other artifacts that went away after I zeroed the drive and did a clean install of Lion, FCPX and Motion 5.
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Update:
I know I said I had a ‘clean’ install on my new Thunderbolt 17″ MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM but I decided to ‘clean’ again.
This time (and it was a scary process to go through the first time), I restarted the laptop and held down the Option key so that I could boot from the Recovery partition. Since I had installed Lion before on the laptop, I knew that the Recovery partition would be there.
Once booted on the recovery partition I was given access to Disk Utility. I took a deep breath and chose to Erase my boot drive (Macintosh HD.. I had yet to rename it). I then clicked on the option to re-install Lion.
Confusingly I was give a couple of login boxes, none of which would work no matter what I put as my login. So, I started canceling out, sweating bullets that I had just bricked my laptop and there would be no way out. However, after canceling the login windows I was presented with a Lion installer window.
*whew*
I installed Lion on my now blank internal drive.
After downloading the laptop rebooted and Lion was configuring and starting up. I was asked to establish a wireless connection to send in my registration but the wireless wouldn’t see my local Wi-Fi signal so I skipped that part. Once Lion was fully installed, Airport could see that Wi-Fi signal and I was able to join it.
I then re-installed FCPX, Motion 5 and the new Compressor. Nothing else.
Suddenly, Motion 5 had no problem handling and exporting the movie of a big project that had been problematic before. I had faulty audio on those export options that would work. Some export options, such as ‘Export Movie’, did not work at all previously. Now, ‘Export Movie’ worked just fine and, unlike, the export options that worked previously, the audio was was fine as well. Previously, the export options that worked only gave me good video but the audio was full of artifacts such as random bits of audio or spots with no audio at all. Funny, but the same thing happens (using that same project) on my work MacPro station still operating under Snow Leopard but using Motion 5.
Previously, my ‘clean’ laptop was bought with Snow Leopard on it and Lion was installed over Snow Leopard. I then installed FCP Studio 3. Later, I installed Adobe CS 5.5 Master Collection, Motion 5, FCPX (over the FCP Studio 3 installation so I would still have access to FCP 7), and the new Compressor. I then put in the drivers for my Matrox MX02 LE box.
Nothing else. Since i only placed software needed for work, I considered it a ‘clean’ install.
So, something among those software installations is what drove Motion 5 crazy. But Motion 5 on my work MacPro under Snow Leopard has much of the same craziness. I even embarrassed myself posting what I thought was my discovery of a bug in M5 here only to discover it was just an artifact of my installation. My task now is to try to find what those two installations have in common. My work machine still has CS3 on it and not 5.5. My work machine has both FCP Studio 3 and the new FCPX on it and that’s the only thing the two computers had in common that I’ve found so far.
So, I post all this in the hope that others who have the same experience will compare notes with me.
Don Smith
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Well, rats. Thought I was contributing something. But that revelation makes me wonder if the other problems I’ve been asking about are isolated to my installation. Thanks Mark. Sorry you’re up so early there in Cali-forni-i-a.
Don
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Zach.. thank you. I think that’s it. Gives me a small comfort to know that SOMETHING from all the troubles I’ve had with Motion is resolved. Now if it would just not crash or render with sound in sync like it does when it plays the project.
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Great tip. Thank you.
Thinking further.. Can you use the Image Mask (instead of the eyedropper) and apply a Gaussian Blur outside or inside the mask? I’ve tried this method and it’s clearly not The Way. I’m clearly missing a step.
While I’ve got your eye let me thank you and the others here for this forum. It’s just terrific. It’s here that I also picked up the trick of creating the new Text object in Motion 5 to use as an Adjustment Layer in FCPX. Wow. I even figured out how to make the Adjustment Layer contain different looks. It takes a process a little different from Auditioning video clips, but it’s easily done.
With all the talk of switching, I booted Premiere Pro yesterday (I own the latest Adobe Suite that includes it) and while it’s surely a good workhorse, I’m now spoiled by the power I see in FCPX. Same with Avid. A good workhorse but no Secretariat and I speak from years of experience on Avid.
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You are correct, and didn’t do that thinking there was nothing to learn from it. But, I should have said what it was to remove all doubt.
Now, thinking about it, there is something to learn from my experience. Try another machine!
In this case, I had worked all day trying to figure out why my movie render out of Motion 5 contained audio artifacts. Upcut audio. Out of sync. Etc. All day! Nothing would work. The original text of this message was to ask for ideas. Just as I clicked to POST the message I got the idea of saving my project along with it’s media to make it easy to put on a portable hard drive and move it to my new 17″ MBP (Thunderbolt) laptop. On the laptop the movie export (using Compressor) came out with clean audio.
I also realized that the computing environment has played a big role in my problems of late; on the desktop I use most, no clean audio export but good on the laptop from the same project. On the laptop, neither Motion 5 or FCPX will export directly to Movie without crashing, but they do that without crashing on the desktop but Motion 5 will not give me clean, in-sync audio.
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Michael. Yes, I was learning the Transform effect when I noticed that Undo was disabled! Can’t guarantee that’s when it started, but that’s when I noticed it. I hadn’t gotten to experimenting with Transform until then. Maybe we’ve uncovered a bug. Tomorrow I’m going to test to see if its repeatable.
Thanks very much.
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