Julian Bowman
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And yet you did so twice, neither time answering the main question. May wanna look into that, i’m sure there’s help out there.
Plus, venting when software developers make stupid design decision which make my use of the software more labourious, isn’t a needlessly belligerent rant… perhaps you don’t mind having your working life make more difficult, but I do.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Yep, discovered that, but i’m sure it will close again when I close then re-open FCPX, plus it takes up about 3 times as much real estate. You are not going to convince me the changes to syncing clips are good. They’ve needlessly convoluted the process.
Still, I guess fiddling needlessly justifies their employment.
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Wow. So now when you have a sync’d clip and you go to the audio panel to turn off the source material, they have hidden the option to do it behind a Channel Config button which you need to click SHOW, to see it.
WHY ARE THEY ADDED NEEDLESS CLICKS TO MY DAY!!!!!! WHY?!!!!!
Muppets.
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Actually the added irony to the change they have made is that though doing the syncing the old way was great it was annoying that all the sync’d clips get dumped into the library folder rather than remaining in the keyword bin I have placed the clips/audio.
All along I have wanted to be able to allocate which keyword bin I stick them in as that makes logical sense and would speed things up, but instead they give us this current nonsense.
it seems for every second you gain from the boons of the software, they take it away with a poor design decision.
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Didn’t iMovie win?
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It’s called football.
It’s the beautiful game.
It’s in your soul or you just won’t get it.
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Hi, my experience is not so awesome I have to say.
on my 2008 2.26 mac pro I experienced a lot of lag in actioning things, such as opening the plugins area, user the Inspector, even moving clips onto the timeline or around the timeline. I would get as many, if not more crashes, than with FCP7.
Though I am getting fewer crashes with the dustbin, I still get them. I still experience lag in opening the plugins area and in the inspector (we’re only talking a couple of seconds but it all trips up the creative flow).
I did some render tests with projects on both machines early on and my old mac was winning in some cases.
I have deleted some of my Pixel Film Studio plugins (one i had caused FCPX to crash every time i tried to render for example).
Sometimes I definitely feel a bit of an improvement but with some MotionVFX logo plugins (made in motion 5) I mostly cannot play them back without them freezing in playback mode on the new mac whereas the old mac at least played them with a stutter.
I also get weird playback on regular pro res clips for about 5 seconds before it ‘settles in’ to the playback.
I guess I should delete all my plugins and reinstall them one by one and test them all to see if there is improvement – and at some point I guess I will but I am a one man band with jobs constantly on the go so it isn’t so convenient – as it may well be some conflict with plugins, but on the whole I am underwhelmed.
I don’t regret buying it, it’s small and neat and lower power consumption etc etc., but i didn’t get the performance boost i was expecting.
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Given I started this post, can I say I use FX Factory and can’t say I’ve had issues with them. Also their customer service has been awesome. I would feel a lot happier if some other 3rd party plug in makers sold through them as I would feel more secure in buying them due to a belief their is a higher quality control…. but perhaps that is why others aren’t with them… who knows.
In addition I have done another days edit after removing the Pixel stuff and I definitely get the feel that things are running a bit smoother. I’ve also deleted some random freebies i pick up here and there but never use and will stop being lazy in getting rid of stuff I don’t really use, hopefully reducing the load on FCPX.
I also bought and used slice x / track x, and damn that is good. Totally off topic, but it is quite an exciting plugin.
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Ok, will spend a bit of time and try and shift my thinking 🙂 Guess I just got used to QT7 doing what I needed 🙂
thanks for the pointers 🙂
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Ok, cheers Oliver. thought that may be the case. Seems a shame as it would help with grading if i could have the two side by side clips in two windows 🙂