[John Davidson]

Ah yes – we don’t live on Magic Feather street though :). I think the whole inter webs can find property tax information on anyone, so I’m out there whether I like it or not. Hey, at least I have security cameras for backup!

Oh yeah, I did leave the poop. I want all to see!

[John Davidson]

Hah, no – it’s at my home. I’m waiting for him to come back again to revisit the crime.

[John Davidson]

Worked pretty great on my 2 year old macbook air. Surprisingly well, actually. I’ll wait to upgrade our two main mac pros, but only because I want to make sure AJA, Blackmagic, etc, have caught up first.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I don’t think you’d have a big issues with compound clips for your graphics. That may have been more prevalent an issue with earlier iterations of FCPX. I’d try to stay as native to my original graphics if I could help it.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Alban you’re a genius! Never though to hold down on that back arrow for a pop up list. Awesome!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Sorry, didn’t read the whole post first. Yes, we’re getting into Motion now. Only thing I noticed is that a slate we built in motion too a long time to render. I may have done something stupid with it though. Learning is a never ending process :).

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

My ears are burning! I was gonna stay out of this fight!

Currently three of the spots on our site’s main page slider were done on FCPX. I don’t like to call out specific projects/clients on sites I can’t control, but you’re welcome to step over and check ’em out. We haven’t had time to update with some of our newer projects, but we have 3 more movie tie ins that should be up in a week or two.

Aside from the occasional layback or digitize, we’re totally out of 7. We’re trying to get our systems to play well with Blackmagic and AJA’s digitize layback utilities, but they’re a little finicky. Today we started building slate templates in Motion and using them as editable generators in FCPX. We’ve just started to work with Motion, especially for building wild transitions. It’s kind of fun to make them.

We’ve been 99% FCPX since May, which has resulted in us working faster despite our lack of knowledge about FCPX. It’s a process. Today was our first string out done in FCPX that didn’t make our heads hurt, so I guess we’re getting somewhere. Oddly, it was a digital delivery so the string out was pretty much unneeded.

I’m glad we switched and look forward to IA coming out with handles for AAF exports in August, which will make our ProTools mixer very happy. That said, we’re getting good with roles for the time being.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Copying the application from their system would be illegal. I can’t say if FCPX is going to work on your system, but if you install it with a 5770 card and it works, that would be the answer. I don’t have that version of mac pro so I can’t attest.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Here’s a weird thing – and I can’t confirm it works anymore.

We got that notice on a mac pro that it was incompatible. I think it was a 2008 Mac pro. Anyways, we ended up getting a 5770 card and moving on. You really don’t want to work with 10.0.0 if you can help it. So much is better since that version.

Anyways, back to my weird thing. If you download the 10.0.5 update onto a mac that has the same store account as the Mac Pro (a laptop or anything like that), try copying it to the Mac Pro’s Applications folder either over the network or bounce the application to an HD and then copy it over. The Mac App store won’t even let you download it – but if you copy the application files over, you’ll find it might work. Don’t expect it to be amazing, but we did that with a previous project and it did in fact work.

It’s worth a try. You might also be a good candidate for a new iMac if an update comes out soon :).

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Try resetting your PRAM. It’s kind of like shock therapy for your mac.

Read this:
From the Apple Support communities:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3957452?start=0&tstart=0

And from the Apple website:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Resetting PRAM and NVRAM
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.