[Frank Black]

so if i have a cam connected to an aja via sdi, and aja to a mac via thunderbolt, then would the footage get from the cam to the aja as fast as it would from the aja to the mac?

[Frank Black]

Thanks a lot Tom, I have a basic idea now and I’ll explore further.

[Frank Black]

Tom would you please explain what you mean by media/sequence settings?

[Frank Black]

Tom, what you just said kinda eliminates the worry about rendering entirely. Can it really be done this way? From my research, I gathered that rendering has to be done with every small addition you make if you wanna see right away how the addition came out — like adding a title, for example.

I’ve been researching FCP vs Vegas for a long while now, and a lot has been said in favor of FCP, but it seems to me that the differences being mentioned are ones that I’ll never even notice, and this leaves the rendering issue the only one to be concerned with. Any thoughts? I’d appreciate any and all direction you can give me at your convenience. Thanks.

[Frank Black]

Tom, sorry about the delay and thanks for your response. Not sure why I called you Dave, very sorry about that.

Thanks again. It seems that every forum I check, rendering is the issue discussed when it comes to fcp. I still want nothing but fcp but sometimes imagine myself being totally surprised by the rendering.

Any additional thoughts on this? Do you use fcp as your main editor and does the rendering really bother you.

[Frank Black]

Hi Dave —

what do you mean by “The rendering at the end is really what killed it.?

i tried to look toward the end but am not finding what you mean. can you please explain, this is so important for me. Thanks

[Frank Black]

This is so exciting Nigel 🙂

Thanks a lot.

[Frank Black]

Thanks a lot Nigel. If you don’t mind another follow-up —

by audio/video monitoring, do you mean the sound and video cards?

PS I hear you on the chair “)

[Frank Black]

Nigel this is awesome information, thank you. I’m glad I know it now. I have a follow up question. You mentioned that SSDs work faster. Can you please explain to me how speed applies to a hard drive. In my understanding, a hard drive just sits there and waits for things to be stored on it. So how is speed related to it?

Also, is there anything else you think that’s vital for me to know about a computer as related to editing?

Thanks.

[Frank Black]

ugly stepchild, that made me laugh.

can you suggest anything else I should know similar to this matter.

(it appears to me that it would be a mistake not to get two processors)

and how often does apple come out with a higher standard processor?