[Jason Brown]

so I’m guessing this is a no? 🙂

Feature request?

[Jason Brown]

this doesn’t ripple between the timeline and the browser…

[Jason Brown]

[Paul Roper] “the only difference between compressor 3 and 4 is the ability to send straight from FCP X”

I found in old emails the post that Craig had written –
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/20/867899

So I believe there is a difference in the container option.

[Paul Roper] “I find Adobe Media Encoder way faster and more reliable than Compressor”

I find compressor clunky and unreliable at times, but my workflow is FCP7 out to Matrox hardware. This is done easiest to send directly from timeline to compressor. I haven’t used adobe media encoder in years, but last time I dealt with it, it couldn’t customize PAR encoding like episode and sorenson.

[Paul Roper] “Or have you considered the more advanced (but more expensive) encoders such as Episode”

I have episode but I use it only for WMV encoding…I haven’t been able to get Episode 5.3.2 to encode using the matrox hardware.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

It won’t send from one to either…7 to 4 or x to 3. Obviously u can create a ref file and compress it…it’s just the “send” feature isnt backwards or forwards compatible.

I LOVE the Matrox hardware, I have a couple compress hd and mxo2 with max in our shop. Only limitation is the h264 is in a mov container…if u need a mp4 container, u can’t use Matrox.

[Jason Brown]

You definitely can’t “send” from FCPX to Compressor 3. You have to have v4 to do that. I’m waiting on Craig to hop in here, because I believe that in compressor 4 there is some new option to encode to a .mp4 container that wasn’t available in v3. ?? I could be wrong…but I think there is an added feature that makes v4 create slightly more compatible file types if you need that functionality.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

So kind of timely…I got a creative cow advertisement for promax.

What r ur thoughts? Anyone use this? Suggest? Warn against?

I appreciate all the discussion, but I don’t feel much closer to a decision. As shane says, I should buy a 12 core. But I can’t imagine that apple would introduce thunderbolt with the intention of abandoning the desktop market. It seems u would want a high powered computer to push a high power connection.

Hmm…well, I guess we will have to wait and see (or not see)

I guess in the eyes of all u pros, what is the longest I should wait if it’s not urgent. I have the opportunity to get a new system now, but don’t HAVE to get one. When would it be do or die for apple to get something out? If not a “Mac pro” then a possible replacement?

[Jason Brown]

Well from my perspective, I hope they don’t abandon the desktop platform. I’ve been debating whether it was just a mental block or a real issue, and as the Vimeo link someone posted showed…it would be a real problem.

I have been a pc user my whole life until 2 years ago. I felt VERY competent in a pc environment. I have fallen in love with macosx. I’d say that I am 30-40 percent more efficient on my Mac pro than I was ever on a pc. Spotlight is amazing. From what I know about win7 the search is enhanced…but I can’t imagine it’s more powerful than spotlight.

I was misled when I came to Mac, the marketing hype led me to believe that they don’t crash and “always work” but I’ve seen many times where a reboot is necessary and in some cases a reinstall. I’ve had to reset my smc on my MacBook pro a couple times. So they aren’t infallible, but they are better (compared to win xp, IMHO)

[Jason Brown]

Wow, what a lively discussion I started.

[Jason Brown]

[Chris Faber] “I want to find that moment in a 30 minute clip where Julie raises her eyebrow”

I have been playing with this a bit and I think “Favorites” – keyboard shortcut – F – may help. I found that you can set an in/out and mark it with favorite, rename that fav and it’s searchable in the event browser…but lives inside of the clip, not making itself a keyword. it’s selectable, searchable and you can simply drag it down to the timeline with the correct in/outs. It’s a pretty clean workflow and might solve your problem.

I believe it’s Andy Neil who made the tutorial that walks you through this technique.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/neil_andy/FCPX-Storylines-1/video-tutorial

[Jason Brown]

Link? I’m interested…