Julian Bowman
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I only use FCPX and Motion 5 with DSLR footage and in the end plumped for the 6 core with D700 cards thinking it’ll run well and get me the most years out of the machine before needing to consider a new one (self employed one man shop), so it is really nice to read posts that validate my instinct. Thanks.
And now we are in Feb (alleged delivery month), please hurry up Apple. I’m tired of my 2009 machine being sluggish in large projects and crashing in large projects. It’s like it knows it is going to end up on ebay and is playing up even more at the moment. The wife keeps teasing it arrived and she hid it in the loft, but I can’t find it there anywhere!
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I just use carbon clone copier. I back my internal raid to an external drive and my boot drive to a small external, both via CCC.
Whenever i tried time machine I had problems. I also think it was quite limited for me in terms of what I could do (the usual Apple knows best, but doesn’t really).
I am still using the free CCC but there is also a paid one (small amount) which is better for the later OSX, though the free one still does the job on a daily basis.
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I’m a one man shop who works with FCPX and Motion 5 and DVD Studio 4. I shoot on DSLRs and do everything myself. I’d go for the new Mac Pro, but then again I may be the target market, which is great for me as the machine and software are designed together. Sympathies to others where the new Mac falls short.
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My mac pro (soon to be replaced… roll on Shipping in February)
Bugs in FCPX which still aren’t resolved.
Annoying design choices in FCPX that still haven’t been resolved.
Personal procrastination and a love of life over work.
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This was my post. In the end I never really got any better performance on this machine. I have to close all other events down when one gets too big. I have sucked it up till the new mac pro came out and one is on order (feb) so hopefully my issues will come to an end, but it does also seem like the nicely spec’d iMacs did the trick too.
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Ah, ok, cheers. So inside an Event can you also have folders as well as projects and keyword collections – like you could have folders in the Projects pane before to put the projects/sequences in?
So if the Event is a bin then inside that we can organise as we wish? or is it that inside the Event/Bin we are limited to keyword collections and Projects/sequences.
Cheers
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Isn’t it:
Library -> Event -> Project
Bin -> Folder -> Sequence?
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I just hope DVD Studio runs on it, despite the call for DVD being dead I use it a lot for my clients.
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How about if I only use FCPX with 1080 footage in ProRes and motion (mostly templates). money is a consideration so for me it seems like the best choice would be the 6 core with a 500 (mid range) graphics card (RAM i will max from elsewhere). But can I save myself a grand and just use the 4-core with the 500 card? I don’t do masses of rendering or exporting so if the CPU is export and render only on these apps, would I benefit from the 6 core?
Cheers in advance.
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In fact, as an addensum, it would simply be great if one could highlight two or three stacked clips in the timeline and create an audition like that… or be able to take a stacked clip from the timeline and drop it onto the primary clip, even with a key modifier to do it.
In this instance FCPX doesn’t appear to consider that some editors may use the timeline itself to paint, so to speak.