Jim Glickert
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Sorry if I sound like a noob, but if Apple used Nvidia cards, what exactly would that mean for us? Significantly faster rendering and encoding compared to ATI cards? Also, would it be more beneficial to FCPX users than to PPro or Avid users, or would everyone reap the benefits? Thanks in advance for any responses.
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Others have had similar problems in the past. Search the forum using the phrase “Canon HV20 FireWire” and you’ll see a number of threads. Also, use the same search terms at Apple’s Support Community for FCS: https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/final_cut_studio?view=discussions
It might not be worth the hassle, but have you considered downloading the FCPX 30-day trial to see if that works? https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/trial/
I have an HV10, and always captured to ProRes without a problem.
Since it worked OK at one point but doesn’t now, I’m wondering if it’s due to an operating system or ProApps update since then.
I feel for you (computer problems are very frustrating), and hope that something suggested above will help.
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My answer: B. I would be pleased. To be honest, though, it wouldn’t lead me to purchase FCP X.
The lack of a source viewer was one of two principal reasons I declined to purchase FCP X. The other was the introduction of the magnetic timeline. The way in which I edit my videos makes the use of a source viewer and non-magnetic timeline important to me. I mostly enjoyed using FCP for the last four years, and grew very comfortable with it. I didn’t see the need to scrap it.
Now that I’ve purchased Premiere Pro and After Effects, I have even less interest in FCP X. Premiere Pro works great, and was pretty easy to learn. After Effects is extremely powerful, and its integration with Premiere Pro is outstanding. Motion 4 was nice, but I found it to never work well with FCP, and it crashed all the time.
FCP X would have to change dramatically in order for me to purchase it. Even then, I can’t imagine dumping Premiere Pro and After Effects.
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I’ve gone the Premiere Pro route. I’ve completed one project so far, and it went well, despite not having spent much time trying to learn the software. As to be expected, I found some things better than FCP, and sometimes wishing PPro had a feature available in FCP. The integration with After Effects and the minimal amount of rendering needed were my best surprises. On the other hand, I do miss some of the plugins/effects that were available to me in FCP. All in all, I’m satisfied, and think I made the right decision.
I don’t ever see adopting FCP X, if for no other reason than not wanting to be vulnerable to another Apple debacle. I love their hardware and operating system, but their application software whims aren’t going to bite me again.
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Had Apple simultaneously released FCPX and a fully functional 64-bit FCS 4, I doubt this forum would even exist. Everyone would have chosen one or the other and gone on to live happily ever after, with none of the anger and nastiness that erupted.
I’d be happily using FCS 4, anticipating the purchase of a new Mac Pro soon, and wishing nothing but the best to those using FCPX.
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I used EDIUS for about five years up until going with FCP in 2007. I loved it. Rendering was so rare, it was as if I thought there was a problem with my Windows computer every time it was required. Unfortunately, EDIUS didn’t have motion graphics and other software packaged as a suite. I needed something better, and bought Final Cut Studio.
I’ve liked FCP for the last four years. My only complaints were the frequent, slow rendering, and Motion crashing far too often. I had hoped FCP 8 would help solve some of those problems.
After seeing FCPX, I went with Premiere Pro and After Effects. I didn’t want to switch, but FCPX wasn’t going to cut it for me. (I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who wants a source monitor.) I took the risky step a few weeks ago of undertaking a significant project in PPro / AE without having spent too much time at all learning how to use them. It was a very pleasant surprise, to say the least. Yes, I missed a few things about FCP and Motion, but things went very well and the project was completed quite satisfactorily. Of course, it took longer to complete due to my lack of experience with it, but there’s a learning curve to everything. (I’ll bet the FCPX learning curve would have been significantly longer.) I absolutely love the integration between PPro and AE. (I hated having to work in Motion with FCP closed, or risk another irritating crash.) I also love not needing to render very often.
So, I’ve happily moved on to PPro and AE. I’m planning to spend lots more time learning them, and I think I’ll end up liking them even more.
On a side note, I’ve been waiting Apple to update the Mac Pro to the Sandy Bridge processor. (I’ve been using a MacBook Pro these last four years.) I sure hope they don’t EOL the Mac Pro like they did FCP.
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That was great! Thanks for posting it.
Jim
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Funny you should mention that. I was in a Micro Center store in St. Louis just yesterday, and noticed a “Limit 2 per customer” sign near the hard drives. That sure looked strange. Plus, there was a LOT of empty shelf space in the hard drive section. Coincidentally, I was at the store to pick up some Hitachi 2TB hard drives. I found some left, even at sale prices ($119 each).
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Is FCP X really worth it? Not to me. I didn’t buy it, and instead jumped on the Premiere Pro bandwagon. FCP worked fine for me for the last four years, and I was eagerly anticipating something awesome after patiently waiting two years for a major update. With FCP being EOL’d, and having seen other Apple software I own get thrown on the junk pile, Apple has taught me that they’re simply not reliable. In that sense, I guess FCP X was indeed worth it to me.
I just can’t help but think of how different the current situation would be had Apple delivered an awesome FCP 8 that had those features we were hoping for, and perhaps more.
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If the FCP X team should respond, I hope it isn’t like this phony letter I drafted a few months ago in a moment of extreme sarcasm. This thread seems to be a good place for a little bit of humor today. Sorry for hijacking it.
__________________________________________________________________________________Dear Ferrari 458 owners:
We hope you’ve enjoyed your ownership experience with the 458. As you know, the 458 is considered the finest sports car ever made, and it comes after years of research and improvement over previous models.
In the past two years, we’ve been developing, without doing any market research among our existing owners, an entirely new vehicle. We’ve not said anything about it publicly other that to say it’s going to be “awesome”. As you may know, Ferrari is owned by Fiat, and Fiat makes cars by the millions for the vastly larger consumer market. We’ve decided to take one of the consumer-level Fiat models, add a state-of-the-art battery-powered motor, and call it the Ferrari 458 X. It’s the new paradigm of automobile. It’ll be priced much cheaper than the 458, as we’re hoping to sell millions upon millions of them, and adding “Ferrari 458” to the name will certainly help do that. For a limited time, we’re also giving every new buyer a beautiful magnetic replica of their 458 X to attach to their refrigerator. (Certainly you’ve heard that magnets are the latest fashion in everything, right?)
Unfortunately, the new 458 X won’t have many of the features of the 458 at the introduction, but we plan to add some of them at some point in the future. Or, maybe some other company will come along and provide those features instead. Sorry, you’ll just have to wait and see.
So, as of today, the 458 is no longer available for purchase. Yes, you’ll still be able to drive your current 458, but in time you’ll find that parts are no longer available, as the vehicle has now officially been designated “end of life”, and we’re not going to fool with it anymore. We’ve moved on, and so should you.
If you don’t like what we’ve done with the new 458 X, then you’re just a big whiner stuck in the old way of thinking about automobiles, and perhaps should just go buy a Lamborghini or Bugatti. We won’t miss you. Fiat, our parent company, makes far more money off of its other businesses, and buyers of those other products that Fiat makes are not nearly as demanding as you.
If you have any complaints, please take them to an automobile discussion forum, not to us. We don’t care what you have to say. After all, we’re Ferrari, and we know a lot more than you. Now please shut up.
The 458 X Team