Lance Bachelder
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Okay hadn’t played with this for a while since the Mini Monitor has been on my iMac to output to client monitor. Just installed latest drivers and firmware on Gigabyte PC and it is now working with Premiere Pro 6 via Thunderbolt so kudos to BMD!
Lance Bachelder
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Yes it will re-link all files within a folder – but you must point to that folder. You can’t just point to a drive and let it search all ht e folders etc like 7 or Vegas can.
I know there are some workarounds but this is still not acceptable – relink function should be able to drill down as necessary to find all missing files in my opinion.
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None lol! I bought a Drobo 5D with Thunderbolt and USB 3 – Drobo currently does not support Thunderbolt on Windows – USB 3 works fine. Drobo currently attached via Thunderbolt to my iMac.
Gigabyte Thunderbolt port does not work with my BMD Ultrastudio Mini Monitor either even though BMD drivers are supposed to support Win 7. Works okay on iMac. Seems to me that Thunderbolt not exactly top priority in the PC world and not working well. Most folks seem to be waiting for new USB 3 update which will match current Thunderbolt speed…
Lance Bachelder
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This doesn’t address the issue at all. In your method you still need to drag a specific folder to the Event. Will this method search sub-folders that may be in the folder? FCPX creates a folder called Original Media inside every event folder and sadly cannot find this on it’s own.
Regardless of how well your method works for you, FCPX re-link still needs to be able to index a complete volume including folders and subfolders and find and re-link files wherever they may live.
Lance Bachelder
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I built a Gigabyte thunderbolt workstation a while back – in fact typing this message on it. It would be silly to hold off buying any new workstation because you want to wait for 2nd generation Thunderbolt – the current version already exceeds the speed of any available hard drive or SSD and most Raids. Yeah it will be great to have more throughput in the future when the world goes 16k but currently I’m not even close to maxing our my USB 3 ports, let alone my Thunderbolt ports on my PC or iMac…
Lance Bachelder
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I realize much of the pain I’m having on this project is because it was created as a complete mess by the last FCPX editor who touched it – but this would be so quick to clean up in 7…
Lance Bachelder
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I wish it were as easy as you say but it just doesn’t work that way – the 50+ Events stay with the Project regardless of how you copy/duplicate/move/consolidate etc. Even using the Move function is garbage – I’ve moved the Project from a USB drive to my Raid (I see all the correct files on my Raid) and disconnected USB drive and tons of random files go offline. This happens every time I move a project to another drive – it’s very buggy. When I try to Consolidate to move all files into one folder it says they’re already there – but this isn’t true either.
It’s a complete mess and there is nothing “Pro” about it. I did mention some of this to the Apple FCP guy at NAB and he said they’re aware of it and it’s on their list – when it get fixed is the question…
Lance Bachelder
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I need to be able to manage media – something that is so basic in every other NLE out there and completely lacking in FCPX.
Granted, the film I’m working on was built completely wrong but there is no way to correct it without re-cutting the show from scratch! In FCP7, for instance, I could simply manage a finished sequence onto another drive with or without trimming the media – leaving all the terabytes of unused media behind and ending with a nice clean project. This is impossible with FCPX if the project was built incorrectly and cannot be reversed due to the whole Event vs. Project mess. The big problem is that the events are always linked to the project and vice versa so even if you copy and paste your finished show into a new project or event you must keep all the original events active or everything goes offline with no way to relink it! Horrible…
Lance Bachelder
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Don’t giver a crap about round-tripping to ANYTHING… until they get the Media Management sorted out this is the most unusable NLE on the planet – absolute GARBAGE!!! I truly may never use this app again and thinking if FCPX is not improved, what do I need a Mac for? I can use Premiere, Vegas, Avid, Lightworks, Edius etc on Windows and have complete hardware freedom…
Yeah I’m pissed at X right now… yeah Merlot may be enhancing my rant… 🙂
Lance Bachelder
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I agree – having video and audio “pre” expanded would be nice and then just collapse as necessary. It’s an extra step I don’t like taking although at least you can expand more than one clip at a time. But maybe this would be too much like every other industry-standard NLE…
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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