[Justin Crowell]

Wouldn’t placing a data center in such a remote location cause intolerable latency? Maybe this is just for European storage?

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[Justin Crowell]

If I’m correct in understanding your question…you can use the motion tracker in AE (without bothering to leave the software)–it’s independent of Warp Stabilizer and lets you pick anchor/search areas (so you can ignore the screen itself).

Just go to window>workspace>Motion Tracking.

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[Justin Crowell]

I can’t think of anything clever to respond to all this with. But the government shutdown, so maybe I should just take the day off, anyway.

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[Justin Crowell]

Shoot, sorry about that, Jeremy! I probably made that mistake because of some internal architecture issue. Stupid outdated brain…

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[Justin Crowell]

Ah, thank you, Walter! That makes sense. I use a hackintosh i7 at home and a Pro at the studio, and I always forget that not all Sandy Bridges are made equal. I also wasn’t quite aware of this slightly esoteric difference between the xeons and the i7s.

This makes me want the trash can/jet engine/spaceship all the more, now!

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[Justin Crowell]

Right, I understand that…but I’m really curious as to what that “internal architecture” may be. Presumably it has to do with OpenCL, which I believe is what powers those animations. Also, if we rule out CPU and RAM (which we must), there just ain’t much left.

That also explains the awful performance on even crazy powerful computers of the video (QT, Vimeo, etc) full-screen thing in Mountain Lion. What DOESN’T make sense to me, however, is that most people running Mac Pros have GPUs completely capable of speedy OpenCL. Perhaps apple is only writing good OpenCL drivers for the GPUs that ship with the iMacs? If so….that sort of sucks…

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[Justin Crowell]

So strange. Is this a Sandy Bridge issue? Because it’s obviously not a RAM or GPU thing. In general, I find the UI sluggish and annoying to work with.

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[Justin Crowell]

[Charlie Austin] “the interface melts into the background, it just lets you edit.”

Really interesting roundup of features. But my question, as an editor who is likely about to tackle FCPX, is: how do you feel about all of the UI animations? The dozen or so times that I’ve used FCPX, I’ve found the keyword, timeline, and assorted other animations REALLY irritating. They are jumpy (though I suppose they would work better on an iMac currently than a Mac Pro), slow, and (IMO) get in my way.

Thoughts?

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[Justin Crowell]

[Marcus Moore] “After 2 OS updates of integrating iOS features into OSX”

FWIW, I absolutely HATE the additions that came with this. The whole new window pop-up effect (you guys know what I’m referring to?), which I disable in terminal immediately, drives me insane. Looks like they might have fixed the full-screen video “bug,” in Mavericks, but I can’t figure out why it was there in the first place. It’s also one of those things that makes me nervous about FCPX (please, no flames, I’m actually excited about finally learning the software for real)–too much UI, not pared down enough. I really despise UI animations. I want stuff to be able to look as bare bones as possible. Makes me less distracted, and makes my work go faster.

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[Justin Crowell]

Forgot to thank your for your solution! Thanks so much! I really appreciate the time you took to walk me through it!

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