John Heagy
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Oh… I should add I’d like to do this on a Mac not Windows.
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It’s bad media but it may only be a few. Bring them in one at a time and once the bad ones are found try transcoding them in Compressor.
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One can build a PC with 16 cores. This means PCs can out CPU a MacPro until Apple decides otherwise.
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Amen….
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Like Oliver said, this release is +1 for engineers over editors. Being an engineer I agree. The first step to getting FCPX into a facility is winning over the engineers who have to integrate the damn thing into existing workflows. I think Apple thought FCPX would meander itself into facilities like FCP7 did in Avid environments. The tables are turned now however with a less flexible system (FCPX) trying to gain a foothold over a very flexible system (FCP7).
Apple made big foundational changes. Events have essentially been scrapped and relegated to simple folder like organization. San locations are gone too, so no more locked up media. The multiple “plates in the air” model has been scrapped and unified into a single library. The edges are starting so round meaning less pounding into that round hole.
It was mentioned how Apple could not foresee the dead end their initial course was leading to. Remember, this is the same company that presumably had meetings discussing the plan to not have FCPX open FCP7 projects and at the same time to kill FCP7. How a group of intelligent people could all agree to this is beyond comprehension.
In meetings with Apple I expressed that I saw no way of integrating FCPX in our shared environment and that I had no suggestions on how to tweak the existing Event based system. Apparently neither did Apple, and to their credit scrapped the foundation and built one that has a future. For that reason alone I am happy about the release and hopefully the people at Apple who knew better all along are now laughing at the emperor cowering naked in a corner.
John
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Feature wise it is sparse, but I have to say Apple really ripped it apart and rebuilt the foundation. This is something I never thought they would do. They essentially abandoned the separate project/event paradigm and contained everything in a single project folder called a “Library”. A nod to us large facility operators that what benefits for us will benefit all. Almost exactly a year since my “Events: Good or Bad” post and it seems Apple saw the light.
Unfortunately Apple’s latest Chess move has us in check and we’ll need to move our Xsan to 10.9 before I can update our clients in order to really test FCPX 10.1.
John
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Have you tried creating a USB thumb drive boot image from the downloaded installer? You may be able to boot off that.
John
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I’ll bet if you change the metadata in the interlaced clip from upper/lower to progressive FCP would not de-interlace it. The only app I know that will do this is Digital Rebellion’s QT Edit which is part of their Pro Media Tools suite.
John
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Thanks John, seems like Telestream’s independent creation of audio and video op atom mxf is next to pointless.
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Hi John,
Can Pegasus present a video and audio op atom set to Avid as a single clip assuming proper UMIDs?
John