[Doug Metz]

If you’re only seeing one card in System Information app (System Report), you’ve got a dead card. Nothing to check, except prices on a replacement.

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[Doug Metz]

If I’m reading this correctly, you just want to toggle the mask guides, yes? If so, clicking the dashed oval will toggle visibility.

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[Doug Metz]

[John Rofrano] “I’m sorry but I have to say it again… Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was the last OS that was 32-bit only back in June 2009. We have had 64-bit support for 10 years!!! What have these developers been doing for the last 10 years that they haven’t moved their apps to 64-bit??? (…and now they are crying about Apple doing this to them) “Lazy” is the only word that comes to mind.”
My thoughts exactly. No excuse whatsoever.

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[Doug Metz]

[Oliver Peters] “So maybe preview FCPX at the Summit, release a few weeks thereafter, and then release the tower before the end of December.
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This is my expectation as well.

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[Doug Metz]

If there’s an angle that has audio you want under the whole piece, you can select it in the timeline and expand its audio components, drag it out to the top & tail, and then select all of the other clips and disable audio for those in the Inspector.

You could also just place the original music track under, and disable all of the audio in the clips.

When the multicam clip viewer is active, there are buttons you can use to activate the audio angle you want to use, and also to specify video-only cuts.

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[Mark Suszko] “Would I have to first un-install on the older machine?”

As Jeff said, no need to uninstall FCPX or Motion, but you’ll definitely want to make sure you move your plugins / templates – doubly so if you’ve built any yourself. Purchased plugins may require licensing maneouvers prior to decommission (CoreMelt is one).

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[Doug Metz]

[Paul Huppe] “Can I use my current MacPro 5,1 as a drive bay for the new one? How would I need to configure it to do so and would I be able to get max speed out of it this way?”

There just isn’t a good way to do this. You can either run it as a file server over the network, and doing that in any meaningful way would mean spending a pile of money on a 10GbE card (to run on the outdated OS), or you could try some kind of unreliable case mod. Either way, the internals on the 5,1 are old and slow by today’s standards. Target Disk Mode would only allow access to the boot drive, and only over FireWIre 800, and fans run full the whole time.

It’s just not worth it for what you’d end up with. Better long-term to go RAID, either internal or TB3. Or USB 3 NVMe SSDs. They’re quick!

EDIT: Sam’s Pegasus suggestion is an internal option, not an external box.

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[Doug Metz]

+1 for Beyond Compare. Great filtering, too.

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[Eric Santiago] “Tried the Synology support route on this and all I get is that its Apple’s fault.
When using the Finder in High Sierra (nMP) we tend to crash it when doing a search on the NAS server.”

So many questions… first, though, have you made any progress on this?

1. Which model NAS?
2. What version DSM?
3. What services are running on the NAS?
4. Which connection protocol are you using (afp, smb, etc.)?

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[Doug Metz]

[Bob Zelin] “when does this go on sale at Walmart for $349 for the 65” version ? “

Given that they’re introducing this as a settings option next year, and 65s are almost down to that price already, I’d say… Christmas 2020.

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