Lance Bachelder
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That’s been my plan all along – 6 core with D700’s – nice to hear it’s a good plan…
Lance Bachelder
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Has this forum become the FCPX Flea Market? Since when do we let folks come in and sell their wares? Aren’t there banner ads and press releases etc for that?
Lance Bachelder
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I’ve been tempted to try the 7950 or even dual 5770’s but have to wait until I’m done with the shows I’m working on now. I’m on a 4,1 Mac Pro so the off-the-shelf GTX 760 has no issues with the latest CUDA drivers installed. I’m guessing FCPX is better optimized for AMD and OpenCL now though I wonder how this effects all the iMac owners? They’re stuck with nVidia…
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GTX 760
Lance Bachelder
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The point was that folks are talking about these seminars like it’s an uber event that has all of Hollywood clamoring to get a seat. It’s just another company trying to make a buck and hoping FCPX is their ticket. It may be, but it’s not Promax all over again. We bought our first Promax system 6 weeks after the release of FCP 1 at NAB 99 and starting doing pro work on it immediately. It’s been over 2 years now and there’s still a bunch of hucksters trying to sell training and system integration by trying to convince the world that FCPX is the bees knees – which it is not…. yet.
Lance Bachelder
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Sam Mestman is NOT Walter Murch – he’s just another starving LA filmmaker trying to find a niche. He may think FCPX is ready for primetime but others, including myself, who have actually cut and managed TV series and movies etc disagree. But that’s LA, NY and London may be more open to throwing away decades of workflow and starting over with an inferior product.
Lance Bachelder
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You were told wrong about USB 3 – it is full duplex – meaning bi-directional transfers at full speed just like firewire and unlike USB 2 and earlier.
Lance Bachelder
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I agree Mark – other than John D’s promo company, I don’t know a single Editor or post house here in LA that uses X. I’m cutting a comedy pilot right now and all the “kids” at the studio tried X and hated it. The show I’m cutting was started in FCP7 and xml’d over to Premiere CC where I took over. I did XML it over to X just to try to cut it there but it’s got so many issues – black clips that can never be relinked, no way to simply match frame or right-click and replace a clip in the timeline and even with all the improvements it’s still sluggish on an 8 core old Mac Pro with Library residing on its own SSD.
That said – I still think Apple will get X right in the near future and I’m sure it runs great on the new Mac Pro using all Pro Res files and starting the show correctly in X
Lance Bachelder
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Tried it thanks – no change. Files are fine in FCPX and AE… oh well.
Lance Bachelder
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FCPX is such a mixed bag right now. Some pretty cool features here and there but mostly I agree that it is not up to snuff for the work that I do – and I have tried believe me.
The latest update says there are improvements for large projects but it’s still so sluggish I sadly find it unusable on my old Mac Pro – though the same exact project in Premiere is not sluggish at all. I just think all the optimizations Apple has done are geared solely toward using the new Mac Pro with dual AMD GPU’s and NOT nVidia products.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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