[Kent Wiley]

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.

[Kent Wiley]

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.

[Kent Wiley]

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?

[Kent Wiley]

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.

[Kent Wiley]

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 changes anything.

[Kent Wiley]

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, and all my other sound files are at that rate, so it’s not an option to change there. Any other ideas?

[Kent Wiley]

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.

[Kent Wiley]

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 recorded in a different room in one house. They were using Brightsign servers. I’ve not gone down this rabbit hole yet, but it looks like they have software to create streams which are served by their display boxes, sent to screens of any type.

I’ll be very interested to hear what others suggest for your project. Mine is much less complicated than yours, as I envision only four screens running simultaneously, with some material sliding from one screen to another.

[Kent Wiley]

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