Fabrizio D'agnano
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I am not really familiar with that, but if you share without editing anything else in the setting pane besides adding a background the first menu will bring up the choice to go for the chapter menu where the chapters will be shown and nothing else. I went for the black template, but it looks it’s just the same. I burnt a dozen BRD’s or more, each containing two 30 min episodes of a series I recently delivered just to have some ready to watch copies, and they all play fine on home players.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Yes, you can. You can add chapter markers in the timeline that will be shown in the BRD menu. For example, if you need to burn a BRD containing two episodes, you need to place the clips onto the timeline, add a marker at the beginning of each episode, double click on each marker and transform it to chapter marker and maybe add something like the episode title and then burn. You can also add a menu background or a graphic from the “settings” tab right after you launch share -> Blu Ray. It’s not a real authoring, but it works fine for common use.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
[Michael Sanders] “Search an entire library by keyword etc”
I think you can. If you highlight the Library icon and launch the search, only the desired clips or projects will show in the browser.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Time Machine will take care of that for you. It will consider an attached drive (usb, FW or whatever) as part of your system and back it up together with the system drive, unless you want to exclude on or more of the drives from the System Preferences=>Time Machine. What TM won’t do is different backup sets. I use TM for my system drive and projects folders, while I prefer to sync my internal and media units onto other external drives or arrays for both space and safety reasons. I recently had to restore a system drive from a TM backup, and everything went fine.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I’d go for the tower even if I had to pay something more for that. The reason is I could keep using my PCIe cards like my Sonnet e-sata for my many e-sata arrays and drives (that are still faster than USB3’s in real world, at least than the ones I tried so- far, I can’t se why e-sata has been dropped), and I could set an internal three or four drives RAID 0 for media, fast, quiet and cheap, that I could easily sync or backup on a cheap e-sata or USB3 external array (I already own, by the way). I am keeping my old 3.1 tower that I refreshed a bit for one more year, if the 2013 was the tower you describe, I’d already bought one because I wouldn’t need to also buy an external TB raid, plus e-sata or PCIe cards adapters, provided the HDMI port on the new MP allows RT output on an HD monitor like a Blackmagic Intensity Pro or whatever, so that another RT output device would not be needed. I have a MBP for portability, my main machine is supposed to stay on my desktop. I’d maybe buy that machine even if it came with no Thunderbolt ports. Am I calling for a faster horse instead of a car? 🙂
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Precious info, thanks for sharing.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
[Darren Roark] “Get a good USB 3.0 card (they are not created equal) and you should be in great shape.”
I got a Fresco Logic two ports, but it died quite quickly. The led lights up, the system sees the card, but drives can’t be seen even when powering the card. Which one would you suggest?
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I upgraded my 2008 MP adding RAM and a 5770 GPU. I won’t move to 4K any soon, since the TV I produce content for won’t change the delivery standards in the next future, so I guess that if my machine keeps doing just what it did in the past two years for another two, it will be about a two hundreds dollars per year expense, that’s not bad especially if you are on a tight budget. AVCHD 190×1080 runs smooth even without transcoding, I can launch heavy export during the night time so a, say, 20% faster wouldn’t mean much to me, and I can say I am pretty happy. No problem of any kind. Plus I can keep running my very fast internal RAID and all the e-sata RAID or enclosures without having to spend more money for TB ones and adapters. RAM and video card make a noticeably difference. I recently went to a friend of mine’s office, where he has a 2008 MP that’s twin with mine, but with the standard GPU and 8 Gb RAM, and it was a pain, although we could still edit, with spinning beach ball most of the time and very noticeable lags. For older FCP7 projects, I have an external FW800 drive running Mountain Lion and FCP7. If I need to access one, I launch that as a system drive and do what I need to do.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Here’s the screenshot of my current organization:
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I can’t grab a screenshot now because I am not at my office. I will tomorrow morning. However, at the moment, I have, say, eight libraries open in the browser. They are called “2007”, “2008”, and so on. Each contains multiple events, symlinks only, each event called something like “2008-03-Corse”, “2008-07-Cartagena” and so on. Within each event the files are grouped by keywords (like “underwater shots”, “landscapes”, “Interviews”, and so on). Then I have one or more libraries named with the current project(s) I am working on (like “The vagabonds of the sea, episode 1-4”), each containing one event for the media and one for the projects. I can click on the arrow and collapse the libraries I don’t need at the very moment. If I drag the events and collect them inside one library, I will have a long series of events, included the one containing the projects, and even if they’ll be ordered by name and so by date, they’ll not be contained in separate “closets” like my current “2007”, “2008” etc. libraries. By the way, I don’t know if FCPX could have issues dealing with very large libraries. I noticed that even after long hours of working, with all the libraries showing in the browser, when I open a clip in one of them (maybe one I had not already used in the session, I can’t tell yet), a window pops up reading “loading Library and Events”, like it was not really loaded before.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3
