[Jeff Kirkland]

I use either Magic Bullet Grinder or MPEG Streamclip to import my DSLR footage from a copy of the CF card, converting them to Prores 422 as I go. Then I import the Prores files into FCPX.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ll second that. I’m also running on a Mac Pro 1,1 with a Radeon 5770 card. I’ve only got 7gb of RAM but that hasn’t been an issue so far.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I have always kept the two on separate partitions and have had a very smooth run with FCPX.

On the other hand I have a friend who continually has strange FCPX issues, Quicktime issues, odd happenings in FCP7 and other weird behaviour that I put down to having FCP7 on the same machine.

I think the best answer is that it will *probably* work but your mileage may vary.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

What settings are you using when creating the multi clip?

To leave a little less to chance you might try checking/changing the clip metadata – make sure each angle has a different name, make sure each camera has a different name / ID.

You can also try to manually create the angles in the multi clip angle viewer, drag the clips into the appropriate angle and then get FCPX to re-sync the clips from there.

Cheers
Jeff K

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

Uninstalling and re-installing doesn’t change anything. The screenshot with output choice was clearly from a newer/higher-end output card with SDI etc.

So is NTSC SD at 30fps all that Intensity Pro users are going to get?

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’d consider setting the project up as a compound clip in the event browser. Each week edit the compound clip into a project and then break apart the clip items. It won’t be locked but it will give you a base project to start with each time.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

This is a great idea but I’m wondering if having the project backed up will be of much use if disaster strikes and you don’t have access to the original event? There’s no easy way to reconnect media…

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

No problem here using Magic Bullet Grinder. I can assign either time of day (if I have the .thm files) or assign continuous timecode. i import my clips into FCPX and the timecode shows up as expected.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m running FCPX on a 2ghz Mac Pro 1,1. It won’t install from the app store but I just copied it over from another Mac. It works well. It’s certainly more useable than FCPX on my two year old MacBook Pro.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

[Stephen Bakopanos] “Just make sure you keep it all on the same drive as your event and projects.”

Or take it one step further… if you create an event in Final Cut X then go to that event in the finder and manually create a folder called “Original Media”, you can import your grinder footage to there and FCP will see it in the event library next time it opens.

Probably doesn’t make a huge difference functionally but if you really want to keep everything tidy…