Matthew Celia
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Geoff, thanks for posting that! It shows that FCP X can sync multiple clips. I have found the key is to wait for the background render bar to finish before opening up the sync’d clip.
Tom, many professional people are shooting with DSLRs including several feature films, television shows, and commercials. Pro color houses such as Technicolor have workflows designed around those very cameras, so I don’t think it’s right to say that they aren’t “professional”. Do other cameras have different features that might be helpful? Yes, but that doesn’t make the tool (or the videographer) any less “professional”.
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The best option I see now is either using Steve Martin’s Disk image method and manually copying at the end of every day (maybe an Automator action can do this) or setting Time Machine to backup the events and projects folder. It’s just annoying to have to keep yet another copy of the 1.5TB of media I already have.
I have tried to “reconnect” by reimporting media into event references but it does not work, or is not reliable enough (meaning I could not get it to work) to be a satisfying option. Not to mention, losing your event would also mean losing the hours of key wording and logging one has done. It seems that changing event references is only good for taking a copy of the media on the road, working with it a bit and then bringing it back off the travel drive and onto my main edit drive. I can tell the project file (which I move) to now reference the event off the edit drive instead of the travel drive so I can get back my maximum performance. Still means I need to take a travel drive equal in size to my edit drive, which gets costly. If any one has a detailed step by step way to take only proxy files, let me know. This is one area where I wish FCPX would let me know a bit more about what is going on under the hood.
I, too, am editing a feature length doc using FCP X (I know, I know – but it really is great for this kind of work) and guess the best solution is to pick up a cheap USB HD to use as a backup. I’ve had great luck with the phenomenally cheap Western Digital Element drives.
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If skimming is turned on and you are skimming through clips (or even moving your mouse past the clips) it will temporarily halt rendering/background processing.
Maybe that is it?
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The quality looks good to me. The color correcting (once you get past learning the new color board) is actually very nice and looks good on the footage.
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I think it’s a tough call RAM vs. Graphics card because I’m not entirely sure yet how much FCPX is using the card. My instinct says quite a bit, so I’d lean towards the graphics card first. Especially with Apple’s technology moving to utilize the GPU for more and more things. However, with only 6GB RAM, when working in Final Cut, I’d try and not have anything else open.
To give you a sense of comparison, I’m running my FCPX system with the 2GB ATI graphics card that ships with the iMac and 12GB RAM. Very speedy. But I have seen FCPX eat over 9GB of RAM alone on a very large project with 2300 clips.
Hope this helps!
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I’ll echo Matthew. I just picked up the 27″ iMac and it’s the best Mac I’ve ever owned. Easily much faster than my 8-core and 12-core mac pros at work (at least for editing). I think a large part has to do with the system drive being SSD. The machine SCREAMS.
With Thunderbolt on the iMac (allowing me to connect high speed RAID’s and capture cards), I personally don’t see much need for the Mac Pro (at least in its current outdated state).
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I think that would make quite a difference.
A faster hard drive or RAID would make a huge difference as well.
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Ha, sorry Andy – it was another Andy and I got confused. It was Andy NEIL (https://web.mac.com/andy.neil/resume/index.html)
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I found no real speed difference in my tests. In fact, Compressor 4 seemed buggier to me.
If you have access to it, Adobe Media Encoder flies through that stuff rather quickly, being 64-bit. Otherwise, you can set up a quick cluster in Compressor 3 and probably get the same performance.
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I think I saw Andy Mees make one using Motion 5 at the LAFCPUG meeting last week. Seems very easy to do…
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