Kevin Patrick
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[Seth Burke] “people really wanted an updated Mac Pro Tower with the latest i7 chip, graphics card, etc. you can purchase one using their “Business” store”
You can? I never heard that from Apple’s business representatives.
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Did you try and use XDCAM Transfer to re-wrap the clip?
Select the BPAV location and Import. In the Preferences, you define the location for the import.
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[Philip Haynes] “buy as many mac pros as you can now”
I have (like probably many Mac Pro users) have thought about what to do if (or when) Apple ends the Mac Pro’s life.
What would you do?
A. Instantly purchase a Windows box.
B. Instantly purchase a Hackintosh box.
C. Instantly purchase your last, new Mac Pro(s).
E. Wait, and read the posts from people who choose A, B or C.
F. Start a Creative Cow forum titled, Apple Mac Pro or Not: The Debate -
[Dennis Radeke] “Premiere Pro does not NEED CUDA”
You are correct.
However, after having run PP CS5.5.1 on my Mac Pro both with and without a CUDA graphics card, I believe I have confirmed that I need CUDA.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “What’s clear is that its RAM usage is needlessly wasteful – I notice for example that it tries to cache all the available projects in the event and if these have unrendered effects in them it becomes a problem even if the active project is fully rendered.”
FCP X certainly seems to love RAM.
I wondered about the impact of multiple projects, especially since I tend to use them like multiple sequences.
I don’t know what the impact is, but I can assume it’s not free. It would be nice to have a command to close a project. It seems the only way to do that is to quit FCP X.
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[John-Michael Seng-Wheeler] “I see Thunderbolt as forcing Apple to drop PCIe”
It’s this thought that prompted me to start this discussion. Not that Thurnderbolt forces them to drop something. I thought of it more as a necessary technology to allow them to finally move away from PCIe computers.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see it happen when FCP X supports broadcast monitoring, which I’m guessing will happen through Thunderbolt. Early 2012.
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Did you consider or attempt to use Roles to manage your audio?
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That’s good to know. But I’m surprised Browser doesn’t have an un-wrap function.
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I think I should have done a better job phrasing my question.
Apple states that in early 2012 they will add what they refer to as Broadcast Quality Video Monitoring. Blackmagic’s Ultrastudio 3D (and others like it) will provide iMac FCP X users with video monitoring.
So is Apple’s thinking that the current (and future) high end iMacs will have enough CPU, GPU and RAM they need? While Thunderbolt provides, video monitoring, video capture and storage.
The GPU in the current iMac comes fairly close to the best graphics card in a Mac Pro, even for Motion.
https://barefeats.com/wst10g12.html
So the question I was thinking (but did a poor job posting) is whether video monitoring Thunderbolt products (or FCP X support for) are all the Apple is waiting on to finally end of life the Mac Pro?
They might feel that works for Apple’s products, even Motion. It won’t work for people who also use products like Premiere Pro, since it needs a CUDA engine. But, that’s not an Apple product.
As a Mac Pro user, I don’t like thinking about this. But, I do wonder why the Mac Pro is still around, even though it has not been refreshed in quite a while.
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I do this two ways.
Sometimes, I gather the clips I wound up not using at the end of the timeline. Then I’ll cut them all and paste them into a project of unused clips. This is relatively quick. And it preserves any changes you may have made to the clips. I sometimes use this unused clips project to cover multiple projects. For me, this is a simple way to gather all the unused clips that I may want to go back to at some point.
Otherwise, you can right click the clip in the timeline, to reveal it in the Event Browser and then assign an unused clip Keyword to the clip or any of the keywords assigned to that clip. This method is probably more of what you’re looking for, but it is a lot slower than simply pasting them into a new project. I use this method when I know I’m going to work with some or many of these clips on another project. Then, having them in a Keyword collection is worth the added time.