[Jeff Kirkland]

If you’re talking not seeing the timeline viewer while monitoring externally, sorry been a long time since I used FCP7, then nope – you haven’t missed anything. There’s no option to do that.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

You’d probably need to be a bit more specific – format, frame rate, etc? What are you doing with the clips on the timeline? What have you tried to sync them up so far?

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[Jeff Kirkland]

As far as I know there’s nothing to experience. Unless something’s changed since the last time I looked, none of the effects you mention are compatible with FCPX or motion 5.

The only RG products that do work are Looks, Mojo, Pluraleyes, and Bulletproof, plus it looks like they’re making others FCPX compatible via the Universe platform, starting with Light Factory EZ and Holomatrix.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ve been thinking about trying a second 5770 in my 2006 Mac Pro as well. Since getting FCPX on my old Mac Pro I’ve found it can still render faster than my 2012 27″ iMac.

I’ve got a Black Magic Intensity Pro for monitoring and while the Mac only has 8gb RAM, it’s still very useable as an extra workstation.

I wonder if I’ll get as many years of useful life from the new Mac Pro when I get one….

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[Jeff Kirkland]

For what it’s worth, I regularly edit on a 2011 13″ MacBook Pro with 4gb of RAM and a 2013 11″ MacBook Air with 8gb RAM. I wouldn’t want to edit on them every day but they work as a portable solution for occasional use. I have used a 2013 MacBook Pro with retina display and haven’t really noticed any great difference in performance for the stuff I edit.

It will come down to what you’re cutting, how often you need to use it, and what you consider ‘acceptable’ performance.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Thanks.

That’s a shame – It would have been great to use one less application and I’d prefer FCP’s disk archives to the folders that Shotput Pro creates but there needs to be some error checking, even if it’s just a file size comparison.

I’ll send some feedback to Apple and keep my fingers crossed for a future version.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

The sound remover tool in Audition CC should be deal with it. I’ve had great success on ceiling fans in the past.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Fair enough. Unless for some reason your ingest isn’t in chronological order (which of course it is unless you changed it), you simply select all, hit e to add to timeline, hit g to make a compound clip. Edit away or grab a coffee while it exports.

If you’d rather kill yourself than spend the 30 seconds that takes, then perhaps editing isn’t quite your life’s calling 🙂

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[Jeff Kirkland]

[Sebastian Naslund] “Is there any way I can TELL FCPX to NOT listen to timecodes or embedded signals?
Just let me press start and stop and decide the file?”

Not really. FCPX only has minimal support for tape ingest. I guess Apple consider it a bit old fashioned for a modern NLE. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter what you use to get the tape captured as long as it gets the job done. It makes very little difference to your FCPX workflow.

Personally, I very rarely actually use FCPX import to copy/capture media, just to link to the files once they’ve been ingested.

And if the problem is the DSR-11 then at worst you can always just drop the segments onto a timeline and either group them as a compound clip or output them to one file from within FCPX.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Interesting, I can’t say I’ve ever encountered FCPX breaking up a tape where there wasn’t either a time code break or start/stop marker embedded in the signal.

QuickTime can capture most video devices with the possible exception of some more proprietory things like Black Magic cards, etc – but those have their own capture apps. With the DSR11 I guess we’re talking DV or HDV? (haven’t seen one in along time so can’t really remember) if so then yes, QuickTime should see it as an input device and let you capture from it.

Cheers
Jeff K

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