Michael Hadley
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that’s fastest/easiest way. And there are no audio dissolves because they are made quite easily in the timeline. Right click on the audio “nib’ and you get four choices right there, including +/- 3db. Faster than dragging an effect from the Effects folder in 7.
For me, the video/audio transition is a pain 50% of the time. The other 50% it’s what I was going to do anyway so it’s actually a time saver.
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Here’s a thought. Ever run Disk Warrior or similar utilities on a sparse bundle? Don’t know if it’s possible but maybe that might help improve speeds?
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Don’t use AE. Love FCPX. For any complicated graphics, we hire out to individual graphics folks. They all use AE but they deliver Pro Res 444 files to us and we cut ’em into our X timeline.
That said, for a lot of titles/graphics work we can use what we’ve got with X, Motion and templates/plug ins.
Don’t see that changing anytime soon. Big picture, we edit in-house and our hired graphics folks can use whatever tool they wish.
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From the demo, it shows they actually rotate 180 degrees or more to expose the i/o ports. Although you’d have to allow some play in your cabling. Not sure how that will work. But maybe it grinds coffee, too?
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In 1999, I remember being in a $600/hour Davinci Resolve Suite at a mid-level NYC post house. Massive interface, massive hardware.
Now Davinci Lite works up to 2K for FREEE. FCPX is $300. (Alright, let’s say $800 with a decent set of plug ins, etc).
If the new Mac Pro sets me back $3,000, so what?
The huge drop in cost coupled with the huge gain in capability, quality, and speed is simply amazing.
At the time, a Beta SP Camera was $75K. With glass, add another $15-$25–for a quality zoom lens. Today, a C300 with a fine set of glass is $25k. And the quality improvement is HUGE.
Folks, this is a great time to be in the video business. Maybe not the film business. But we have two edit systems, both on FCPX, and I can’t wait to get a new mac pro. From my perspective, for my work, my clients, my budgets, it looks terrific.
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FCPX may not be the best choice for your workflow/client base. If you have something that works well for you, no reason to change.
For me, FCPX is quite good (not perfect. Nothing is). And the fact that I’ll soon have a killer box to run it on–specifically, to run FCPX and Resolve at optimal speeds—is terrific news.
If you don’t use X, the new box (or tube, actually) may not be a good choice. Fair enough. But it looks like it will be a great one for those who have made the switch to X. (And those who use Davinci Resolve—at least according to Blackmagic’s CEO, who has had a chance to fully evaluate it).
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I agree. I think the new machine looks like it could potentially be very powerful—or at least a terrific machine for cutting video. Which is all I care about here in the “FCPX Or Not” Forum. And the expandability via T-bolt 2.0 may help keep costs down–more a la carte.
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Look pretty expandable via T-Bolt:
The next generation Mac Pro is the most expandable Mac® ever built. With six Thunderbolt 2 ports that can deliver up to 20Gbps of bandwidth to each external device, Mac Pro is perfect for connecting to external storage, multiple PCI expansion chassis, audio and video breakout boxes, and the latest external displays, including 4K desktop displays. Each of the six Thunderbolt 2 ports supports up to six daisy-chained devices, giving you the ability to connect up to 36 high-performance peripherals. Thunderbolt 2 is completely backwards compatible with existing Thunderbolt peripherals, and allows you to transfer data between Macs faster and easier than ever.
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Man, tough crowd. At first blush, I think it looks like a vast improvement over current options. With no benchmarks, though, hard to say. But the specs quoted make it look pretty impressive. Plus, hub and spoke concept means you buy what you need. But for me, rack-mounting is not something I need or want.
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Ripple Training’s Ripple Tools 2 also has a nice-looking title crawl in their new plug in. It’s on sale for $29. I haven’t bought it yet but there stuff is generally terrific.