Lance Bachelder
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Rendering to .mpg is not ideal. You should pick Sony XDCAM. Try copy and pasting one of the D90 clips into a clean project and render that out to XDCAM 422. The reimport into cut.
Lance Bachelder
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How are you running USB 3.0 on a Mac Mini? Is this a 3rd party thing? What graphics card is in the mini? I have found making sure you have an approved graphics card the #1 issue with FCPX. Not sure what’s available to Mac Mini users or if older minis are adequate?
Lance Bachelder
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Well we’ll have to disagree on the “bad” thing. Bad is a serious term to me and speaks of moral and bad/harmful actions – not whether a person is a fanboy. I’ve never even hinted that someone here is bad.
As far as my opinions of others – I regularly look at Leaders and contributors IMDB credits, websites, demo reels, type of work etc. etc. when available, and try to make my comments based on real world experience and whether it’s clear to me that they have ever given the software a true shakedown.
There are those that come to this forum regularly just to start trouble, I just wish it was a true discourse about FCPX, it’s features or lack thereof and what it’s future may hold. I started as a huge FCPX hater and now have joined Craig, Bill, Tony and others in the hopeful camp.
Lance Bachelder
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I’ve had the same issue with certain clips crashing renders. My solution was the same as your thoughts – render the problem clips into a more Vegas friendly codec and replace them in the show. You might try rendering the clips to XDCAM 422 codec – it looks great and Vegas really handles it well.
You can try one of the problem clips alone in a new Vegas project and see if it will render, I’ve had issues where Vegas could read the clip fine, but for whatever reason would not render in the original project.
Lance Bachelder
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I called Craig a pest – never a bad person – huge difference. I was among the FCPX haters when it was released and Craig was cheerleading with what I thought was crazy talk from the get go. Now that Apple has released 2 revs of FCPX I have a different opinion of the app and need to apologize to Craig for jumping on him early on. I should have never made it personal, my bad.
Although you and David insist on the personal attacks on me, I still don’t think anyone here is a bad person. It’s easy to get personal via your keyboard, probably not so much in a face to face meeting.
Lance Bachelder
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Actually Vegas 9 was released in right after NAB 2009 and CS5 was introduced at NAB 2010
Lance Bachelder
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Dude you started this with the personal attack on me. I just answered your last post. And yet you getting personal. Whatever…
Lance Bachelder
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Sorry for late response – just spotted this. Vegas works in 8 bit color space by default. This fine for most work as most cameras capture in 8 bit and most delivery and broadcast formats are also 8 bit. But when it comes time to color correct your show or ad certain effects like blurs etc it helps to have the extra math to create high quality results with minimal artifacts and banding etc. Vegas allows you to switch your show into 32bit mode when it comes time to add the finishing touches and render. The results can be significantly better even if you render back to an 8 bit final product. If you are working with 10bit material you’ll definitely want to turn 32bit for your final render.
Other NLE’s like Premiere Pro and FCPX work in this floating point space to achieve better results. Programs like After Effects and DaVinci Resolve also allow you to work in 32 bit. Go the Vegas Pro help index and type 32bit for more detailed info.
Lance Bachelder
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David – if you’re not a Leader here why is your pic up top? For whatever reason you’ve decided to attack me personally though I can’t recall doing the same to you? I don’t live that far from Burbank (I was born there) if you feel the need to keep making personal attacks?
I’ve never ever judged anyone here including you as a “bad” person – that’s just silly. But I’ve seen very little debate in this forum, mostly just a lot of negative posts from the naysayers peppered with a few positive posts that usually get jumped on right away by more negative crap.
I guess in my “shangri la” world – all the leaders with pics would be high level, award-winning pro’s who actually used/tested the products thoroughly before jumping to conclusions. There are many such forums and leaders here on the Cow – sadly just not in this forum.
Lance Bachelder
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Chris – where’s your back-up? My last TV gig was Supervising and Lead Editor on an national Top 10 Emmy Winning CG Series with millions of weekly viewers. I just returned from overseas as Supervising Editor and Story Consultant on a $30 million+ CG feature film – both using legacy FCP.
My IMDB may not be up to date but I do have a variety of decent shows on there. I’ve released 2 live action feature films in the past 3 years with over $2 million in DVD sales and growing. I have 2 produced screenplays and will Direct and Edit my second feature film later this year – and hoping to cut it in FCPX! I Love this business and have been at it since 1986.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California