Michael Horton
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The Macbook is not the best tool for FCS, but despite what you’ve heard here it will install and FCP will run just fine. Many are using it on a MacBook with no problems. Color is not supported and Motion will be problematic, but FCP WILL install and run well. I’ve seen no evidence that FCP in FCS2 will not install on a MacBook so until I do I’m figuring it will. Hell you can’t get all you want out of STP2 on a MacBook or MacBook PRO. You need a Mac Pro and Apogee card, nor can you expect to get all you want out of Color without a Control Surface. And lets be clear here, the fellow asked if FCP can run on a MacBook. It can. And it can on an iMac.
Michael Horton
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FCP will run fine. As long as you get an external drive. You run into problems with Motion although it will install. Forget Color running on a MacBook. Hell, forget Color on anything less than a 30inch monitor. A black MacBook is a bit of a waste of money for video editors. You are buying a color (black) and not anything else. Plus the 2 gigs of memory limit is limiting. And 13 inches of real estate is a pain, but yes, FCP will run just fine.
Michael Horton
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We tape these shows for later sale on DVD. Soon though we will have parts of the show online for download. That is when we get our act together and can figure it out.
Next Month, the Cow’s Marco Solorio will be a featured guest. As long as he brings a raffle prize.
🙂
Michael Horton
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Hope ya got a ticket Marco. SuperMeet is about to sell out. Only 60 tickets left.
Michael Horton
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The SuperMeet will be held April 18 but as of this minute we are still negotiating for a suitable venue. As soon as we ink the venue we will make an official announcement. Hopefully VERY soon.
Michael Horton
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Dave
A scary pop up asking us to disable flip4mac comes up. Does flip4mac stay disabled? Do we have to do some voodoo to get it back?
Michael Horton
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Yeah, like Walter says you need a capture card such as a Kona or Decklink HD. Interesting set up though.
Michael Horton
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>and the 1 second lag that FCP experiences in its viewer makes using an external monitor almost worthless.
Just curious. How are you able to view HDV on a external monitor? Can you be a bit more specific about your set up?
Michael Horton
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Only way is XML. And there are a few gotchas. Read this
https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_fcp5_to_4.html
Michael Horton
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This is not a substitute for a time tracking program but a neat trick we had in the lafcpug newsletter a fews weeks back. It is from Rui Barros
With FCP open press at the same time SHIFT>CONTROL>OPTION>COMMAND and in the TOOLS menu choose INTERNAL TOOLS. Select APP/PERF INFO.
FCP will give you the full details of the system and your working session. The amount of time you have been working on FCP is located at the top of the report.Rui Barros
Michael Horton
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