[John Christie]

Cross posted from the FCP 7 forum:

Well I decided to be a guinea pig.

I loaded Yosemite onto a 128GB USB 3 flash drive so I could dual boot with my existing Mavericks setup on a latest generation Mac Book Pro. I installed FCP 7 only, none of the supporting apps and it runs!

This was a very, very simple test, I loaded up a Prores clip added a few splices and it kept running. But the fact that FCP7 even loads is encouraging.

Keep in mind that Yosemite is still beta. Additional changes could easily break FCP7. I certainly wouldn’t have done this test on a production machine.

Now I’ll try loading VisiCalc 🙂

[John Christie]

Well I decided to be a guinea pig.

I loaded Yosemite onto a 128GB USB 3 flash drive so I could dual boot with my existing Mavericks setup on a latest generation Mac Book Pro. I installed FCP 7 only, none of the supporting apps and it runs!

This was a very, very simple test, I loaded up a Prores clip added a few splices and it kept running. But the fact that FCP7 even loads is encouraging.

Keep in mind that Yosemite is still beta. Additional changes could easily break FCP7. I certainly wouldn’t have done this test on a production machine.

Now I’ll try loading VisiCalc 🙂

[John Christie]

I have a 2 year old iMac i7 (still drooling over the new Mac Pros)

I’m not running FCP X, but FCP 7 runs nicely with ProRes HD, both on a 6 drive Pegasus and a 4 drive OWC raid using a Lacie Tbolt to SATA adapter.

The Pegasus is faster, and I like the extra redundancy of 6 drives vs 4 on the OWC Mercury Elite Pro QX2.

As the MacPro can handle much more data, I’d throw as much speed as possible at it. But short term, the OWC/Lacie combo gives good bang for the buck.

Cheers

John

[John Christie]

[Herb Sevush] “I’m not monogamous when it comes to operating systems – I can be had, all they have to do is whistle.”

To steal from Lauren Bacall, “You know how to whistle don’t you. You just put your GPUs together and blow”

[John Christie]

How about just using the down arrow to jump to every transition. You could quickly scan the entire timeline that way.

But as Shane pointed out, nothing better than watching the whole thing again. In my world, I probably see every show we edit 8 to 10 times before it goes out the door.

[John Christie]

I’ve run into this a lot. Not a fix, but I switched to doing my smooth cam work in After Effects. I export the file from FCP and use the warp stabilizer in AE.

I’ve also found it works much better than Smooth Cam

Here’s a sample, first shot un-stabilized, second warp stabilizer, third is a split screen of before and after.
https://vimeo.com/70642590

Cheers

John

[John Christie]

[Andy Branner] “Sure. He up and downloaded that 1000 times. Mmmh-hmmm…”

If you look on Youtube, there are 1000 versions of the file.

[John Christie]

Thanks Mark

I’ll look into our sync setup.

John

[John Christie]

Hi Mark

We’ve done that. Both our decks record and playback Dolby E just fine, it’s just cloning from one deck to another we have trouble with.

Cheers

John

[John Christie]

Every year my wife does an amazing job of decorating the tree, weaving lights in and around the branches.

I shot this with 2 gopros and a Panasonic 160. And yes, I know the color correction isn’t perfect 🙂

https://vimeo.com/55921495

(Sorry, I can’t figure out how to embed a vimeo link here)

Best of the season to everyone.

John Christie

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