Lance Bachelder
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Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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Good to hear – let’s hope you guys can make the changes necessary for high-end post.
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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Yeah it’d be cool if the PPro engineering team was as good and responsive as the After Effects and Photoshop teams… sadly not the case when I was a beta tester for several revs…
Still hoping for improvements in audio, .mxf stability (audio being out of sync, shorter than video, slower than video on files that play perfectly in Sony Vegas), fixing the file-at-a-time relinking and I agree an Adobe codec is long overdue. A total redo of the color fx and 3-way color corrector is needed – everyone I know pretty much relies on Colorista II at this point which should be embarrassing for Adobe. Also simplify hardware output with AJA, Blackmagic etc. Always a pain just to set up a preview yet FCPX was automatic with same hardware.
Lance Bachelder
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Thanks I’ll take a look at both of the sites. I was relying on tonymac and found it all a bit confusing.
Lance Bachelder
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My PC is built around the Gigabyte Z77 with Thunderbolt – tried a couple of times to “hack” it but no luck – I’m sure it’s me, but I’ve been building workstations for 20 years and it’s harder than it looks to get a stable hackintosh working.
Lance Bachelder
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This is just getting stupid now – EVERY plug-in does NOT have the same problem – many perform fantastic with smooth playback that allows a workflow without rendering until the cut is done – sorry you don’t believe that – maybe the physics part is your Mac? Although many plug-ins performed well even on my old Mac Pro with 5770.
Back to cutting and applying plug-ins….
Lance Bachelder
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I’m not talking about rendering – I’m talking about playback performance – Red Giant stuff sucks, it hasn’t been improved in any app in years. Yes they off-load some heavy lifting to graphics card and this was great 3 or 4 years ago, but they’ve fallen way behind in the era of CUDA etc.
I have a LOT of paid 3rd party plugs in FCPX – regardless of the architecture and Motion blah blah – they all playback very smoothly compared to Magic Bullet stuff which chokes – even in Premiere etc. The only other really slow plug-in I’ve tried in FCPX is Film Convert, which is even worse than MB stuff.
But thanks for the tech lesson and deep insight into what ALL the companies are saying “off the record”.
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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I also recently updated from an aging Mac Pro with 5770 to the top of the line iMac with 32GB memory, Fusion drive and GTX680 w/2GB and external Thunderbolt RAID – my performance is dramatically better with everything. FCPX runs great even with files larger than 1080p. The only things that are still sluggish are plug-ins such as Magic Bullet stuff that is obviously not optimized for FCPX (I love how Red Giant still blames Apple, yet most of my plug-ins run in real-time) Photoshop is now faster than my very fast PC.
I’m very happy with my purchase and now waiting on Apple to update the Thunderbolt Display to match the new iMac display.
Lance Bachelder
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Love my GTX680 iMac! Photoshop raytrace renders are 3 times faster than my GTX570 all SSD PC!
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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Dave’s original post was concerning “losing” an internet connection – the point was you can still keep working until connection is back. I think the days of purposely keeping your editing system offline are long passed… plus Adobe does frequent updates to various components of the suite so it’s good to be connected all the time anyways.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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