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So, Ze’ev, you have that glitching OUTSIDE of Premiere, too?

I’m about to buy the laptop you have, but not if the GPU is still FUBAR.

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That fixed mine too! Thanks!

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Same problem as y’all. Just trying to open Premiere 2014 pegs my processors to 100 percent for 5 minutes, it never opens, and can’t be force-quit. I have to do a full hard restart with the power button because it also disables restarting through the OS.

I just uninstalled Premiere 2014. All is back to normal.

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“And if after all this time you still think that the magnetic timeline only excels for home videos… well, what can I say?”

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that. That’s just what I use it for, and it’s great. In fact, I think FCPX could be very interesting for cutting a feature doc, I could see it being way faster than the “traditional” paradigm NLE for that.

I can’t use it professionally, because I cut TV spots, and if I plant my end card at :30, I need it to stay there (and I know about workarounds, but they’re workarounds). Now if Apple would only take my suggestion to create an “anchor clip” command, so that you could tell certain clips to never move, and the magnetic timeline would simply flow around those clips, like water flows around a rock in a stream… But alas 😉

I will also say this… I’m looking at buying the Blackmagic Pocket cam, and maybe the 2.5K one as well. Those are clearly “high-end prosumer” products, being over 1,000 bucks and challenging to shoot with. And if you go on Vimeo and search for “BMPCC” or “Blackmagic”, you’ll find 80% of the videos are cut in FCPX. Those people are high-end users or high-end-aspirant users. So I certainly admit it’s not just “sk8tr videos”.

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As I’ve heard a couple people mention, the most disruptive element may well be the FREE-ness. We all talked about how cheap FCPX was in comparison to Avid/Premiere, and that low price point will bring in all the kids who will start by editing their skate videos (which has certainly come to pass), and in 15 years those folks will be running the industry, cutting their features, ostensibly preferring to use their first NLE, FCPX.

But FCPX is still hundreds of dollars. Resolve is FREE. Zip. Zilch. Zero dollars and zero cents.

We thought Avid/Premiere would be sweating because of the price point… but now FCPX may well be the one sweating, as the “low end” market could suddenly be going elsewhere, and quickly.

Kooky times.

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I was just speaking to an Avid Sales Rep and he said “We’re still waiting for the exodus of FCP7 users.” He thought people were just holding pat with FCP7 for the time being.

Maybe they are. Or maybe they’re just not switching to Avid…

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Ask them if they’ll take XML – it’s like an EDL on steroids (includes motion attributes, etc). Last time I went to finish an FCP project on Smoke, XML worked perfectly.

WARNING, though… if you go the XML route, output XML’s in numerous XML formats for safety… The newer XML formats have some advantages over old ones, but are less compatible with other systems. I recently exported an XML in it’s default setting (“Type 4” I believe) from Final Cut 6… only to find out that ONLY Final Cut 6 could read it – all other software simply couldn’t open the file. So I had to send them another, earlier format of XML which they could read.

So just output numerous formats, just in case.