Michael Sanders
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My apologies – bad week. Very sorry.
Surely though its up to Nvida and ATI to work with Apple on this and write the drivers for their high end cards?
Michael Sanders
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Er isn’t that’s the point?
You don’t have to buy one from Apple.. if they were tied to thunderbolt the range would be limited. Surely THE entire point of PCIe
Surely its up to AMD, Nvida etc to update the GPUs?
Or are you a troll, cause seriously I’m not in the mood for that.
Michael Sanders
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No it doesn’t!
Seriously don’t people get it? OK USB 3 could have been there but that (I assume) would have mean a logic board redesign. But the big issues is with thunderbolt. As I postulated here and was summed up somewhere (Poss: Arstechnica) some days ago its a really big deal.
Thunderbolt has to (so we are told) carry the display data as well and if that’s the case how do get the current range of high end PCIe GPUS that we all want for high end work to send the display data back to thunderbolt?
Other than having a external return cable which is highly un apple I can’t see how it can easily be done.
Michael Sanders
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Sorry,
What I meant is not being able to quickly dip channel 1, keeping channel 2 up and then switch between the two. I know about open in timeline but its a pain, especially in an interview situation where the interveiwer interjects.
Michael Sanders
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I’m fairly sure you can’t export a multichannel file with the separate roles and a mixdown as well.
I’d happily be proven wrong though.
Michael Sanders
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What amazes me is the arrogance of people that thinks we (as in video pros) are the only ones who need mac pro’s. What about..
Biochemists
Physicists
Engineers
Audio engineers
Photographers
Designers
Graphic designers,
Er software designers to name a few..If anyone doubts the first three I can take you to labs in the uk where PCs are rapidly being ditched for macpros at a rate of knots.
Michael Sanders
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Right from the word go I thought that the event management side of FCP X would be incredibly powerful in a news scenario, as one could tag everything to make a very powerful archive/library. If you had a big enough SAN to keep your archive permanatly online it would be draw droppingly useful to be able to search for bank gv or whatever.
Roles also would be very useful as good discipline would make it very easy to create clean audio versions, either for revoicing or archive use. If you’ve ever worked in news you know how annoying it is to get a feed of a story which you need to recut but the audio isn’t clean.
Note to Apple: it would be great if you could export a mix and roles to separate tracks to create international versions.
However, the one thing i found cutting news on FCP X is that nasty issue of not being able to dip a track quickly.
Michael Sanders
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I’d be really interested to hear comparisons between FCP x on a current MacBook pro, a current mac pro and an iMac if anyone wants to share.
Michael Sanders
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[tony west] “Since I’m not sure which employees they want to use for which tasks,(and they don’t sit in the whole time) I stack up multiple choices in the timeline. Then when they come in, and start to argue over shots I simply hit the “v” key and toggle through their choices.”
As a mater of interest, why are you using this method over “Auditions”?
Michael Sanders
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“If I’m cutting to a music track I always attach this to a gap clip at the start of the edit, in FCP7 I would always put this on track 3 & 4.”
Same here. I’ve done quite a few of these now in X and that seems to work best. I put in a generator at the start ( white black etc) and attach the music to that. Then most of the stuff goes in the primary.
For cutting projects like this X can be a real time saver. Being able to reject material the client doesn’t like is very useful. And being able to range a section of music and with one drag of the mouse fade it down is great.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor