[Eric Johnson]

Copy & paste (cmd-c/v) works on both shots and individual nodes. But you have to paste the entire correction of one node into a node.

I’m not sure about beginning/end of timeline…. it seems like there isn’t, but you can scroll through the numbered shot timeline or the “edit” timeline (i guess you could call it that, the one above the shots that gives relative duration).

For shot to shot: cmd- L/R arrow, will go from one shot to the next. optn- L/R arrow will go to head or tail of current shot.

[Eric Johnson]

You started with this, right?
Mac Pro
Slot 1 = GT120
Slot 2 = Cubix HIC
Slot 3 = DeckLink SDI
Slot 4 = Nitris DX HIC

Cubix Desktop4
Slot1= Quadro 4000
Slot2= GTX480
Slot3= Empty
Slot4= ATTO UL5D

What about this?
Mac Pro
Slot 1 = Quadra
Slot 2 = Cubix HIC
Slot 3 = Atto
Slot 4 = Nitris DX HIC

Cubix Desktop4
Slot1= GTX
Slot2= Empty
Slot3= Decklink
Slot4= Decklink HDMI (only if you benifit from it, otherwise empy)

[Eric Johnson]

I’ve used the Wave and currently use the Eclipse. I’ve had my hands on the MC Color, but never in the Software…

I have no 3D experiance so I didn’t notice it was missing form the Eclipse until it was brought up in a thread of mine.

Personally, the difference in cost was worth it to me. I really love the feel of the Eclipse compared to the Wave. The Wave, which is a great tool, was loud because of the enclosure which was not conducive to my environment.

But the big thing for me when I finally made my decision was how the 3 were mapped, I liked how many of the controls were not multiple buttons away. Some are, it’s only 7k vs 30k and has maybe a 1/3-1/2 the buttons/knobs the BMD panel does.

But if your budget is really less than $4k, then you really only have two options… Maybe a 3rd after/if the Element is supported. Unless you find a really great used price on the Eclipse…

[Eric Johnson]

I don’t know about the Avid board, but for the Eclipse, if you are working in the Qualifier or the Window it will switch, but you can’t get to the blur or the key…. So you get some, not all… Also, I can get from all of the “rooms” to Color, but not the other way around. Which is a huge bummer…. That would be a really handy shift function…

I realize that’s not a direct answer… But you can at least get a portion of what you are asking for w/o spending $30k, so that has to count for something…. Also, I tried out the Wave w/ Resolve, and had my hands on the Avid w/o the software and I have to say that if you can find a way to afford the eclipse, it is really worth it.

[Eric Johnson]

If the money is there. If not, you can continue working, just be mindful of how much space is being taken up by render files.

Also, laptop HDD’s have historically been 5400RPM, this is less and less true, which are slower than most external drives.

[Eric Johnson]

The “not found” error i’m pretty sure means a corrupt clip in FCP… likely not the actual media on the drive. So you may have to find the bad clip and possibly recut the shot in… by hand.

You could also be running out of room on the internal… if you can, try rendering to whichever of the 3 Graids (or are they the single disk G-Techs?) has the most room, and is hopefully the earliest in the drive daisy chain.

That will likely help. In the future I would recommend that you do whatever you can to not render or capture to the Boot drive of any machine you’re working on. That, in my experience, includes partition volumes on the boot drive.

[Eric Johnson]

Are the sections of your timeline that DO NOT require rendering occur nearer the head of your sequence?

I have found that as sequences get longer, sometimes things that require no render or a “green” bar render at the head will become a “red” bar render at the tail.

This usually varies based on system spec, editing codec as well as any outliers that may be in the timeline (Filters, non-native edit media, vfx and title cards).

[Eric Johnson]

You should never use your Computer monitor as a reference, unless your final delivery is for the web. But even then I would question that…

If you have an external monitor, that is what you should be using.

[Eric Johnson]

One thing worth mentioning, so you’re prepared more than anything, the BMD Pref Pane for the Decklink card is a horrible piece of software when compared to the AJA control panel.

It is super unfriendly, I find, and the documentation is even worse. When I was setting up the Resolve that I am now using, I would’ve happily taken a single GPU with a Kona 3G over the Decklink with 2x.

I have nothing but good things to say about Resolve, but I have a hard time finding anything good to say about the Decklink card.

[Eric Johnson]

As I understand it, if your monitors are connected to the GFX card, then that card is GUI. Resolve doesn’t decide, you do based on where you make your connections.