Fabrizio D'agnano
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Is FCPX slowing down operations after, say, an hour or two of editing, or right from the start of the session? If the answer is after some editing, then usually a quit a relaunch of FCPX solves the issue.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
Hello.
If your source media coming from standard camcorders and you’re not editing anything really “heavy”, like color correction and effect applied to several clip at once, the speed of any RAID 5 array is more than enough. I build rough cuts on the field from a single USB3 2.5″ external drives connected to a MBPr, and never experience lags or problems of any kind. Once back to my office, I copy the active projects and media onto a RAID0 USB3 array, but I hardly notice a difference editing plain documentary style. Safety is a serious problem with modern tapeless media, but HD space price has dropped quite a bit. I keep all of my media I often need to reference to in a 5 bay RAID5 array. The media is divided in libraries and events, each clip detailed in the “notes” field with a description. So if I need a sunset, I can run a search and get all the sunsets at once. I can restrict the search to “2013” library only, if I want, so I don’t need to load all the stuff. I keep a copy of each year’s media library on a dedicated HD I keep home for extra safety for theft or fire in my office. I also build fcparch’s of each card coming from my camcorders on another RAID5 NAS. I don’t know how familiar you are with FCPX, but there’s a wide range of uses that can be more or less fit for your needs, like keeping media external or contained within a library. I keep them external, so I can backup libraries and projects on another RAID 1 USB3 array, as they are pretty small. A RAID5 alone is not a really safe way to store sensible material, and I’d suggest building separate copies on single 2TB drives anyway. A docking station is cheap, so you don’t need to buy several boxes. Depending on how much storage you need, you could buy a RAID 5 for all of your editing (media+libraries), use your 4TB RAID 1 for TM backup of your MBP and libraries alone (no media), then a few single drives for safe copies.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
In the past, I experienced some similar problem that I found was field priority related. You write you shot in progressive mode, but I happened to have footage that was misinterpreted in FCP. Maybe it’s not, but it could be worth a try.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
I own a Manfrotto 545B Tripod, with a 526 head. A great tripod and a great head at a right price. However, if you need the tripod for fixed positions shots (no or little panning or tilting), maybe you can save some money and go for one that’s lighter and faster to set. I own a few of these, and I find myself using them a lot for run and gun situations, especially when shooting outdoors. What I find very useful in the larger Manfrotto is that I can set the tripod legs first and later set the head level with the horizon by adjusting the head position only (I don’t need to adjust it’s legs position too). The lighter ones require fiddling with their legs for level adjustment. The heavier and bulker Manfrotto allows for very stable panning and tilting, and stable shots outdoors even in strong wind conditions, but it’s less portable (long walks, airplane….).
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
[Michael Hadley] “I used to to do Raid 5 and never had problems–but always a little worrisome if the drive went down.”
I use a similar set. The array I use for daily editing is a RAID 0. The second large array I synch the editing drive onto is a RAID 5. Then I keep cards fcparch’s and copies of the selected media on separate sparse external single drives, divided per year (fcparch’s on one drive, imported media on another). If the main drive goes south I can clone back the RAID 5 without having to walk on thin ice during the process, still keeping on working, as I can still resist one more drive failure. The sparse drives I keep in a second location give me that extra security in case of a severe problem or things like theft or fire. 3Tb hard drives has dropped significantly, so I like the extra security, even if can look paranoid.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
Thank you, I’ll try your suggestions and see what works best fro my needs. However, I don’t get why the browser won’t retain the notes applied to multiple clips selected in the timeline. It would be kind of easy if I could just lazoo select clips in a timeline after an editing session and fill a field, even if it’s labeled “reel”, “angle” or “scene”, and have it showing in the browser. Or select multiple clips and have them revealed/selected in the browser. Something for my next wish list.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
Did you install Yosemite on top of Mavericks or went through a clean install?
By the way, I never succeeded installing Soundtrack Pro on Mavericks, did you install it from the disc or in some other way?
Thank you!Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
[Tim Jones] “To make things work, FCP X was converting the AAC audio to AC-3 for proper container contents and that’s what was putting the system in bog-mode.
“And why is Clipwrap so much faster in doing that, if it’s what it does?
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
I remember having a similar problem some time ago trying to import AVCHD media without the entire structure (.mts files alone). I ended up downloading an app called “ClipWrap” that did the job of rewrapping those files. You could check if that’s what you’re looking for.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4 -
Thank you Bill.
I’ll try it immediately. By the way, today my flashed firmware RAID failed again, this time while working, so I’m not sure it’s a sleep problem. An external USB 3.0enclosure with a single 2.5″ drive seems not to suffer this issue, and does not get disconnected even if the Mac goes to sleep.
What SB 3.0 unit are you using?Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4