[Jeff Kirkland]

FCPX willmworkmwith most anything you throw at it but if the images are too large it will slow to a crawl fairly quickly.

For best results, resize your images to as close to 1920 x 1080 as you can and still have it look the way you wanton screen. That’s at 72dpi.

If then ransitions are looking doubtful check that you have the preview set to high quality rather than best performance in the preferences. And maybe check that the transition you’re looking at has been rendered.

Cheers,
Jeff K

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

As far as I know, the NewBlueFX plugin is FCP7 only. The first reply was referring to the cartoon plugin that ships with FCPX. Other than that, thes a cartoon plugin for FX Factory and Boris have one. Both for FCPX.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

I personally set the timeline to my output format but I think you can work slightly faster if you edit at your clips’ native resolution as FCPX doesn’t have to background render to resize every clip you drop in. On the other hand final render is faster because FCPX has already done the conforming to your final output resolution.

Personal choice I think.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

Haven’t had any issue with FCPX under Mountain Lion with AVCHD archives from my Sony FS100.

How did you create the archives?

So far I’ve only worked with original media, media direct copied from the camera to an external drive, and FCPX created Camera Archives. I haven’t got an AVCHD DMG file on hand to try.

Mountain Lion supports AVCHD directly in the Finder so at worst, you should be able to just browse to the .MTS files and load them straight into an event.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

I try to get the clips that need Neat Video applied rendered to a new file as early in the edit as I can, or once I know Neat is going to do the job, I leave it to the very end of the edit to apply it.

There’s also a ‘fast’ option in Neat that still seems to do a good job but reduces render times to minutes instead of hours. Sometimes it helps to use that while editing and then go to the full option before final render.

Hopefully a future version of FCPX will be a little less trigger happy when it comes to re-rendering timeline changes.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’d use Automator create a quick action to send an email and then add that to the what to do when the job’s finished option in Compressor.

I made a similar script that uses Growl to send a push notification to my iPhone as soon as the render is done. I can add it as the post render task in Compressor or FCPX.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m not 100% sure where I saw it but somewhere in the neat video docs there is a mention that it will do exactly this.

The suggested workflow was to apply the effect, tweak as required, then turn it off again while you continue working. Turn it back on before the final render. I haven’t experienced quite as dramatic a system cruch as described here but Neat Video is an incredibly processor intensive plugin so it’s not surprising it brings everything else to a halt while it does its thing..

it’s the best at what it does though.

I’m surprised their support people weren’t on it because the general issue is mentioned in their documentation.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

As far as I know FCPX has always worked that way so there’s nothing to fix. It’s always dangerous to expect X to work the way previous versions did.

Create an empty compound clip in the event browser, then copy and paste your timeline clips into it.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

Have you tried cutting and pasting your current project into a new one?

Most of the sluggish behaviour I’ve experienced seems to be directly related to how much data FCPX is trying to manage in relation to the current project. Sometime moving the edit to a new project cleans things up.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[Jeff Kirkland]

Updates for the new Retina Display MacBooks and performance enhancements. Just downloading it now so can’t say if, like 10.0.4, there are any smaller undocumented changes although I’m sure there will be a handful.

Disappointing that we didn’t get any new features this time around but I’d rather get them when they’re ready for prime time than just because an update was due. And let’s face it – new features are fun but any update that improves performance and reduces the time I spend watching that little beach ball spin is always welcome.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia