Jeff Kirkland
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Both FCPX and motion are GPU accelerated and an Open CL capable GPU is their minimum requirement for that. Resolve is also GPU accelerated and has similar but even higher requirements. Resolve prefers you use one card to handle the mundane stuff like displaying the user interface and one card dedicated to just GPU based operations.
The second point is more an OSX thing but yes, FCPX, Resolve, and Motion are asking OSX to supply them with a GPU capable of OpenCL., and that doesn’t have to be the one you are currently using to display things on the screen. In fact, that should be the slightly better option as the better GPU doesn’t have to split time between the apps and the user interface.
I would think the above may also be a little application dependent. I’m sure there’ll be other poorly written or older apps that assume just a single GPU.
You can test the above by taking the new card out and seeing if the GPU warnings come back. You pretty much get what you see on the tin. If the apps have an OpenCL GPU available to use they’ll stop asking for one.
As to the computer freezing… try moving the new card to a different slot. For whatever reason, some cards seem to work better depending on the slot they’re put in.
I also had some weird freezing and crashing issues when I first upgraded my Mac Pro 1,1 with a new graphics card but they went away when I did a complete reinstall of OSX.
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Once you get into the FCPX way of thinking anything else, including Premiere Pro, seems way too clunky and old fashioned to use.
In this case it makes perfect sense (to me at least) that connected clips are essentially one off cutaways but as soon as you have two or more clips that have a relationship to each other, and tell a story in themselves, you group them together in a secondary storyline. I think secondary storylines are a good habit to get into whether you’re adding a transition between them or not.
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You can bring the clip into the event library then right click and choose edit in timeline. As long as you edit in the event library rather than the actual project timeline, you can keep the custom resolution.
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By monitor, I assume you’re looking at it on an interlaced external monitor? If so, it could be an issue with the field order so you might want to check that in the info pane for the title clip.
It can also occur if the font is too small, too thin, or an odd number of pixels high. You might try reducing the opacity of the title or adding a small amount (1-2 pixels) of blur.
If both of your preview screens are progressive then that’s more an interlaced vs progressive issue. An interlaced project is always going to look a little dodgy on modern screens depending on how good the deinterlacer is in whatever is playing the file.
You might also try rendering the title in the final deliverable format and see if the problem persists right through to the end.
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I have HDV footage from tape shot on a Sony FX1 at 25fps and there was no issue importing it. Have you tried capturing with other software to see if it’s something to do with that particular tape?
FCPX’s support for tape based workflows is pretty minimal so it wouldn’t surprise me if it had issues with some tapes & decks and not others.
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I’d just create a 720×576 anamorphic project and then drop the advert in. Set spatial conform to fill and FCPX should handle the rest.
Maybe add a little sharpening to compensate for zooming in on the original clip, and then export the project. Export via compressor to access the better resizing options if FCPX’s defaults aren’t giving a decent result.
That should be all there is to it.
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If the primary storyline is the spine of your edit, then connected clips are best used for single shot cutaways. Whenever the cutaway consists of a sequence of clips, group them as a secondary storyline to keep them together and allow you to add transitions between them, etc. Essentially, as the name suggests, create a secondary story within the main story.
Compound clips can be resource hogs and I’d always recommend avoiding them unless absolutely necessary. They are best used to create timelines that can be shared between projects, or for creating a single virtual clip from a group of clips in order to apply a single effect across them all at once.
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I’m not an AJA user but I’m sure it won’t take more than a look at their support pages to find the latest version of the OS that their drivers are certified for.
As to the update – I usually recommend that you don’t update the system past whatever was available when your NLE was last updated. For FCP7 that was a long time ago and I think the time will rapidly approach where you’ll need to make a choice between Mountain Lion to run FCPX efficiently and Snow Leopard for FCP7.
Right now I’d recommend running Lion for FCPX until a post Mountain Lion version is released. Having said that I read that FCP7 runs fine on Mountain Lion (can’t verify as my copy of FCP7 has it’s own Snow Leopard drive) and people are suggesting that FCPX will run better on ML as well.
My suggestion would be to make a bootable clone of your existing drive so you have something to fall back to, spend the $29 and see how it goes. Let us know if there are any issues.
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Events in the event library are always available to all projects. You can manually move events to another folder to effectively take them offline and not have them show up.
You Can do it by hand but I’d recommend using the excellent app Event Manager X app to do the job. It makes it easy to move events and projects on and off line.
When you send to compressor, only your timeline is sent.
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You could duplicate or move the project and tell final cut to just copy the media used in the timeline. That would give you a new event folder with just the images that are in use.
Cheers
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