[Mitch Ives]

Yes, I caught that. I turned off the ease/in ease/out and made them linear. It still didn’t work. That’s what surprised me, which is why I posted the question here. I still think something else is at play… Perhaps this scaling thing you mentioned?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Michael Garber] “Set up Mountain Lion tonight on my Late 2011 Macbook Pro.”

In reading the tech specs, it seems to indicate that you need a 2011 or newer Mac to use it. Does anyone know if laptops, iMacs, MacPro’s, etc . that are older than “mid 2011” can use AirPlay? If so, I’m buying some Apple TV’s…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Bernard Newnham] “Compared to before, one assumes. Not compared to a 2012 PC with a core i7, a GTX680, and an SSD carrying the operating system. Not that my machinery has all of that very expensive stuff, but I did upgrade various bits earlier this year because my 2008 kit was soooo slow. The SSD is a very good addition.”

Well, I can’t see how timeline performance could improve much, since it keeps up with all playback at max quality and keeps up with me when I jerk the mouse back and forth on the timeline. There is a point of diminishing returns, at which point going faster doesn’t produce results, depending on the function.

Having said that, clearly rendering would be a lot faster on the newer machines, since it’s processor driven. Perhaps importing, since I don’t know whether that is a processor or GPU activity…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

Thanks guys for all the answers.

I just put a 5870 in my 2008 8-core and it runs like it’s on fire. I have playback at High Quality instead of better performance… I have the A/V output on to drive the Kona 3… and I have the scopes on during playback and it plays flawlessly… no dropped frames.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Lemur Hayop] “If PE could sync a lot of data accurately it’s probably worth it.”

It can. I’ve found myself syncing clips in FCP7, then bringing them into FCPX. Saves a lot of grief…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

I’d run with it Tim…

Always nice to read your thoughts buddy…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

LOL… even if someone can’t accept you’re a reliable source, if nothing else you’re consistent Tim.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Craig Seeman] “To see that Apple had an employee, a presentation in the theater and a table right next to Avid and Adobe, really struck me.”

I choose to see this as a hugely positive thing… let’s hope it’s a trend…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Craig Seeman] “I wonder if someone(s) Apple figured out that NOT being at places where Avid and Adobe are is sending a very bad message . . . if they are trying to get across that they care about Pros.”

Maybe they’ve figured out that they can’t just “phone it in”. That would be a huge change and a positive step forward.

Let’s face it, right now I know more about Jonathan Ive being knighted (video) and Cook refusing the dividend on restricted stock than I do about what they have in mind for the Mac Pro or FCPX…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

Tim, I agree with your points about those that felt betrayed and didn’t like the changes. I disagree with you about all the missing parts and bugs not being part of the problem… or at least aggravating the hell out of it..

I think there was a third (marginalized) category… people who wanted to remain objective and give FCPX the benefit of the doubt. How do you do that when the titler doesn’t work? How do you do that when the auto save stops working and you lose changes, because there is no manual save. How do you do serious work without broadcast monitoring? How do you give up powerhouse features like Kona or Black Magic boards. Living without Multicam? Multicam is almost a given today with all the cheap DSLRs and Go Pro’s out there. No the real question was: “how can they release something like this’?

IMO, all of these “two guys in a garage” mistakes gave fuel to the argument that this wasn’t a serious tool. Unnecessary fuel I might add. For a lot of people 10.0.3 was the first usable release, and 10.0.4 is the first version I can use with any certainty. It’s actually working rather well… finally!

No, I think Apple made a colossal blunder in releasing FCPX too early. But I think it’s a function of something more insidious than whether you like the FCPX workflow. I think it’s the new Apple under Tim Cook. He’s a ‘rush it out quicker guy” who brought us the failed iPhone 4 antenna. The botched initial release of Lion, and then the way too early release of FCPX.

I think time will tell, but want to bet that’ we’ll see more of this? The optimist in me would like to think the iPhone 4s is a good indicator that maybe they have learned from their mistakes and held the iPhone 5 until it’s really ready… but I’m probably deluding myself.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill