John Davidson
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She will probably need to install the new numbers to work with your updated file. It will not delete her old numbers app.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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ProApps are in the regular Applications folder.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I had screencast issues. Turned out that I had an older Blackmagic Driver screwing things up. Do you have anything blackmagic installed?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Are you using any kind of external monitor support like a Blackmagic Mini Monitor? Make sure you have the latest drivers for that – I didn’t and it caused weird little problems.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Easy solution is to get a blackmagic ultra studio mini monitor for about a hundred bucks. Otherwise you could use the HDMI out and treat it like a third monitor and put your Project Viewer on that monitor fullscreen inside of FCPX.
If you’re using legacy FCP I’m not sure how that would work. I think the Mini-monitor still works with FCP7.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I would use Compressor or FCPX to convert anything to Prores.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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The Macbook beats the 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 hands down. It doesn’t matter what’s in it, it’s still a six year old tower computer with no thunderbolt.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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There’s nothing in particular wrong with FX Factory per se. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with any plugin manufacturer. However, the more you add to a system that isn’t directly controlled by Apple and it’s programmers, the more likely you are to have issues with it. Therefore I avoid anything that isn’t home brewed by my team.
We have this program that is relatively lightweight, doesn’t require any subscriptions, isn’t dialing home every 4 minutes, and is designed to let you quickly and easily copy libraries, events, and projects to other users who can very quickly and easily open those elements as needed. While FX Factory does give you many excellent plugins to use, it basically negates everything great that I described in the first sentence of this paragraph.
It’s a hard stance for me to take, I know. However, I think one of the reasons we’ve been successfully using FCPX in a broadcast environment for over two years now is because I take that hard stance. I’ve asked Apple to consider allowing FCPX plugins to be sold in the app store, but since that would violate sandboxing rules, they can’t.
FX Factory is great if you’re a one man band, but for us I just avoid it because my system now lets me buy a new mac, sync all our home brewed generators, effects, and transitions to it, and we’re off to the races. I can then share those home built elements with any client upon delivery of their project. For me it’s all about simplicity and portability.
I hope that makes sense. Absolutely I don’t mean to disparage FX Factory and the hard work that team does – as well as all their excellent developers like you. I do follow all the apple discussion forums though, and one of the first things we look for when someone has a problem in FCPX is – “what 3rd party plugins do you have installed”. When we’re mission critical and have two hours before a delivery to a network – that is not a hunt I want to be on, you know?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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And that’s why I avoid FX Factory and most 3rd party plugins as well. You just don’t know what’s going on under the hood.
Great example was just this week – we’re doing an update to our FCPX On Air series and I couldn’t get screen recording to work via QuickTime. This was a problem that had gone on for months and I wrote it off to a Mavericks issue. Then I updated my Blackmagic Drivers and suddenly Screen Recording worked again.
It’s a challenge because FCPX needs 3rd parties for lots of things, but when they can’t control what the 3rd parties do it opens the door for lots of issues. At least Apps (like X2Pro) don’t screw up FCPX because of the whole sandboxing thing.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Blackmagic Design has an app in the app store called Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and will tell you what your speed is (free).
Just make sure to select the correct disk when you run the test.In terms of the other project, I don’t know what could be causing it. Was the other library on the same hard drive?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.