Fabrizio D'agnano
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Thank you Don. This looks much easier and safer than the XML way. I’d loose one level of grouping (at the moment one Library is one year of shooting, each event inside it a shooting session), but it should be a minor issue.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
[Don Smith] “Not that I’m aware of but why not just import the external media folders you’ll be using and leave them external? “
Because since previous versions of FCPX I have made a long work adding precious details in the “notes” or even in the “angle” field of each clip and classifying them via keywords collections or marking them as used in previous documentaries. If I import them into a new event from their folder it would all be lost, and it’s really crucial to me to use the search tool when I am searching for that very particular shot of a particular fish among a few hundreds, for example. As they are now, my libraries are more than a bunch of clips, but a real archive.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
My experience so far has been very good. I upgraded to 10.1 as soon as it was out, and after upgrading projects and events I kept working full time on two important current projects, that by the way should be quite difficult for my machine to deal with, with a dozen libraries open at the same time, each containing multiple events and hundreds of clips from many years of shooting, all without transcoding but dealing with original AVCHD and HDV files. I found the new version to be faster and more stable, with much less spinning beach ball showing on the very same projects. It does get a bit slow and less reactive after some hours of editing, but less than it used to be with the previous release.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Editing documentaries I often have to search for particular clips coming from my entire archive, so I need to keep a lot of libraries and events open at the same time. At the moment I’m editing a series and I have about ten libraries open, containing about one hundred of 2′ to 4′ clips each. Two of the libraries contain multiple events. I noticed that with the latest release, the typical slowing down and everything getting somehow sluggish that I was meeting in similar editing situations have gone much better, and I don’t have to quit and relaunch FCPX to restore a decent speed in scrolling and skimming or continuosly wait for the spinning beach ball to get away. The footage is mostly unoptimized 1080i AVCHD or older HDV, and the machine an old 2008 MP.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Good to know. Is it noticeably faster than the previous one?
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Steve,
I enquired OWC about the 7950 as a first option, but the technical dept. answered it was not going to work on the early 2008 MP and suggested to go for the 5870. If Barefeats tested it, then it should work.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Bret, you’re right. I am trying it with my MBP at home, and I can lift from storyline even with the superimposed title or the cross dissolve. There must be some bug with my old MP, that’s trying to urge me to upgrade to the new one… 🙂 I am experiencing some other strange behavior on that machine, so I’ll go for a new install.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Thank you Don. I’ve found out that a title among the selection was causing that issue. I’ve tried selecting only three clips in the set leaving the title casually out, and it worked, and I was also able to move them without leaving a gap or creating a secondary storyline. A cross dissolve will cause that behavior like the title. I had never noticed it before.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
You’re right, Rick, I didn’t notice it. It sounds great.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
[Rick Lang] “If you really want to be super safe you can configure the RAID 1 on the three drives so that drive two and three are copies of drive one. Someone could find that handy for making copies for offsite or client storage.”
Yes, but since the speed would drop dramatically to the one allowed by a single drive, I think there are cheaper options if one is looking for data safety. The reason I’d buy a TB raid instead of using an esata arrays via a USB3 to esata adapter or an USB3 array (I bought a driveless two bays RAID 1/0/JBOD one for about 120,00 €) would be speed.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3