Fabrizio D'agnano
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I am very undecided, but I think I’ll eventually order a quad core with 16gb RAM and maybe D500’s. I am not an editor, meaning I create and deliver video documentaries, so the editing process is only a part and not full time for me. No chances the satellite channel I work exclusively for asks for 4k in the next three years. I don’t edit for clients, so a few minutes more for an export or a rendering (that I usually launch during the night) are not really an issue. I think it would anyway be better than a maxed out iMac or MBP, that would maybe be enough for my needs. I like that there are many usb3 and TB ports and an HDMI for external monitoring, so I won’t need an external dock and an external i/o unit.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
[Bret Williams] “You could alternatively try dropping your whole HD project into an SD sequence, and sharing to DVD from that. Perhaps X is better than legacy FCP at downscaling.”
I often need to output IMX from 1080i projects. What I like to do most is first sharing a 1080i .mov master file from the 1080i project, and then lay it onto a SD sequence, since I sometimes had some problems pasting the whole sequence, ending up with wrong scaled graphics etc. By the way, the .mov 1080i file is very easy to archive and can come handy in case of need for different transcodings.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I’ve always ran the same “clone the card first” routine, keeping the card clones as an archive just like I used to do with tapes. Shooting AVCHD, in FCP7 the main reason was that the imported and transcoded files were quite large in size, and building a safe archive of the cloned cards was convenient rather than keeping all the ProRes footage. Now, in FCPX, the extracted original files require about the same amount of space as the cards, so really backing up and safely archiving the clips alone, good and bad, seems to be fine as well. However, archiving the event at the end of the project after deleting the transcoded files makes the clips easily searchable, as they retain added metadata like comments and keywords, and makes things lots faster if you need to search for an old clip than wandering through the card. I decided to go both ways, so I archive the fcparch’s in a folder on a NFS enabled NAS from where I can drag them to the Final Cut Camera Archive folder at root level on the same NAS when I need to open one or more of them. The events containing the imported clips of older projects live in a RAID array. Both the NAS and the raid are raid5 protected.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Maybe the first time you imported the files straight from the card, connected via the card reader, and it was seen as an external drive. Now that you copied it, it isn’t, but it’s just a folder, so FCPX sees the self contained mp4 files, but not the AVCHD. You should try to build a fcparch of the card, stored at root level in one of the drives inside a “Final Cut Camera Archives” folder. Otherwise, you can build a .dmg of the entire card structure (in this case it could be the “private” package). When you mount the .dmg it’s an external card or drive for the system, and FCPX should be able to import the files.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
If they are .mts files, it’s possible you did not copy the whole structure so FCPX can’t “see” them. If you have the .mts’s in some folder on your drive, you could try to rewrap them to.mov using a sw like clipwrap. That useful sw helped me a couple of times getting usable media out of a somehow defective card.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
This one has esata: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/echo15thunderboltdock.html
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I recently tried a Fresco USB3 card, but it failed soon. By the way, all the real world transfer speed tests for external raids I looked at so far, show that esata is faster than USB3. I am happy with a Sonnet 4 ports esata card, that has served me well for about 6 years without a hassle on my 3.1 MP, and I recently bought an external 5 bays Enhance-tech/Proavio raid array with USB3, esata and FW800 ports for quickly accessible storage. However, an internal 3 HD sw raid0 runs much faster than any external array I tried, so for fast speed I chose to work with the internal raid that I synch with an external one almost daily for redundancy. The system drive is SSD, and not included in the raid0.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
James, I am no part in the decision process. I told them that 2D would be cheaper and maybe better, but 3D is what they want and want to pay for. That said, since I doubt I’ll ever work again in that format, I’d like to keep expenses in dedicated equipment as low as possible, so I was wondering if the LE of the plugin could be adequate, as there’s more than 1000,00 $ difference.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I bought a Fresco two ports card about a couple of months ago. I had to fiddle a bit inside the MP because it requires power from a molex plug, but once set it worked fine until a couple of days ago. Then it stopped. The system recognizes it, but neither a flash pen nor an external drive show up in the finder when connected. Searching on the web it seems like a powering issue. I have not solved it yet, tomorrow I’ll test the if there’s power coming from the molex plug or not. Transfer speed did not impress me, however. I have a cheap raid0 two drives array that was not any faster than an e-sata drive.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I had a similar problem a couple of months ago. FCPX refused to export and stopped all the times at the same frame, contained in a plain video clip with no effects or whatever. I could export low res demos, even a HD range containing the frame, but not the whole project in HD. I traced the frame and eventually bladed it off and everything went fine. But the fail was not randomly distributed along the timeline, and referred to the very same frame all of the times.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3