James Cude
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It also depends whether you are storing original media within the Library or leaving in place.
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No you don’t want the 4K monitor for the UI of FCPX- much of the UI becomes so tiny as to be unusable. (And this is endemic to most apps at that resolution so no fault of FCP here). The 4K monitor is for your video i/o.
You can drive it directly over HDMI from the Mac Pro. Or better: get a Blackmagic or AJA output card that support 4K. More expensive but you’ll be set for at least a few years and you can impress your clients with your full 4K support. (I think you can charge more too).
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Highly resource intensive would be the politically correct term.
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Most of the native FCPX filters use the GPU for rendering, not the CPU. What you’re describing is not a bug, just a reality that FCPX in general is more dependent on the GPU for speed.
The CPU is used more for computations such as multicam sync, stabilization and when rendering out to a Compressor render farm. Most everything else is GPU.
So if you have this issue you should consider an upgrade to a system with a more powerful GPU.
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Definitely would suggest a 4K display- 4K is not going away and you’ll see critical flaws you won’t on an HD monitor- especially when mixing 4K with other resolutions. Also I would suggest the 8 core or higher machine and 32GB is fine for RAM though the more the merrier. Hope that helps.
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Some other aspects that can affect memory usage- compound clips, projects started in earlier versions/imported via XML, lots of keywords/favoriting, etc.
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A couple of things come to mind- a tiny piece of gap hiding someplace in that long section. Or a hidden l-cut on the audio side. Or perhaps a botched XML import. Does the Timeline Index show anything past the last edit?
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You could do it that way but then you’d also have to add timecode generators for each. For that many clips it might get awfully tedious.
If it were me, I’d just layout all the multicam clips on one huge timeline, then open the angle editor with timecode showing and play the whole thing into a screen recording application overnight with the angle editor filling as much of the screen recording as possible. Depending on the res of your monitor you ought to be able to fill up at least a 720p sized frame at 1:1 with the angle editor and crop out the rest of the UI. Least amount of pain to achieve what you want.
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Perhaps you don’t have permissions set to everyone for your user’s files so when another user logs into the system they won’t read.
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I’d ask over on the Blackmagic forums- more folks likely to be using them there.