No doubt price is always the determining factor. I’d lean towards the newer hardware. I don’t know about the mini’s. I’ve got a M2 Ultra 64 GB Studio and it runs FCP & Affinity Photo and scanners w/o a sweat. Get more RAM and less storage, which can be external, if that helps with the price.

This oddity has plagued me since first using Motion 10 years ago. Both .mov exports and titles sent to FCP look and behave differently than the project when run inside Motion. This may be vague, but I can’t even get an output that looks like my project to show the differences.

Specifically my project has text that looks to flicker intermittently.…

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Good to know.

Yeah, what’s w/ the Cow’s reply box that won’t allow viewing the message you are responding to? Mine goes almost totally white beneath the reply box.

But I wonder about the page of the guide you linked to. It shows even as far back as FCP 10.5 there is an option for mono, stereo, and surround. I’m still running 10.7.1 and there is no surround option, but there is the reverse stereo. When the audio is imported and selected in the browser, these options change?

Whoowho! That was indeed the solution. Changed the configuration to “Reverse Stereo” and it sounds fine. I know about the channel config but never thought to look over there for music. Many thanks Doug. I think you’ve saved me from buying Logic.

Hi Doug,

I do not have either of those apps. Hard to describe how the files sound different. How to write about sound? Pinched? Distorted? But how…Not very helpful. Missing frequencies. The problem lies within FCP, it seems. Everywhere else, they sound fine. I’m going to create a FCP project that is 44.1 kHz and import the GB files, see if that…

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Thanks for your reply, Devrim. As far as I can see, and from what I’ve read elsewhere, GB does not allow 48 kHz resolution files. So it’s not an option. I would have done that at the start, if I could have. The files were exported in all formats (WAV, mp3, AIFF, AAC), and all of them are messed up. The FCP project was started months ago in 48 kHz,…

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Anybody heard of this? I’ve brought a few pieces of sound from GarageBand into FCP 10.7.1 and they are being mercilessly modified. The files sound fine in every other player: Finder; Audacity; VLC; Quicktime. Is it the 44.1 kHz sample rate that GB saves them in, and FCP expects 48 kHz? BTW, it’s a known fact that GB cannot save files in anything…

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Thanks for the input Mat. Not sure about the O.P., but I envision for my program something like a room in a gallery with screens on all four walls. How the program moves between them, I’m not certain. But your experience is definitely a help.

Likewise, I’ve been working on a project for a few years which would utilize a number of screens for playback, but haven’t settled on how to edit the material. As others have suggested, I think figuring out the display tech may be the place to start. One solution I’ve seen was an art project that used nine screens all in sync, each stream recor…

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And the keyboard command to get down to the primary timeline is Command down arrow.