Nevin Styre
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This would be a great feature to add to Prelude, add timecode on ingest from the THM files.
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The only thing I could think of that might support transparency in a moving image in Powerpoint would be a GIF
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It’s my understanding that Mercury optimized effects are only accelerated by the GPU when you playback in realtime without rendering. When you go for the render the effect is actually handled by the CPU.
If your GPU can’t handle realtime playback in the mercury engine & you are relying on rendering effects before playback then you really aren’t benefiting from “GPU acceleration” in that case.
The BCC keyer may actually be faster than the ultrakeyer when it comes to CPU rendering. The real benefit would be if your MBP GPU had the performance of a CUDA card(which is what we were all hoping), then rendering while editing wouldn’t be necessary. Though the final render out when you export your sequence would still likely be faster with BCC if it is true that it is more efficient with CPU rendering than the ultrakeyer.
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It could be an alright solution for the current mac laptops that have all ati or intel GPUs, with the bandwidth limited maybe a midrange GPU without as many CUDA cores could work.
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I think it’s funny they were too lazy to take new interface screenshots of FCPX for this, like the average user cutting together their kid’s soccer game is going to jump into editing a professional car ad.
Also funny that they promote burning blu ray as a notable feature though no mac has ever shipped with a blu ray burner.
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Doesn’t the quad core Mac Pro only have 4 ram slots? I don’t think you’ll be able to use your old ram for 40GB config, I think 32GB is the max with 4x8GB.
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The nature of long GOP codecs like h264 or hdv means footage can’t be cut without reordering the GOP. Every editor has to reorder the GOP at the end to export a final video file which results in re-compression. The best thing to do is to export your final video to a higher quality iframe codec like prores.
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you can click above the clip then drag over it with a selection box to select it, this won’t move the playhead.
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I’ve heard that while the programs will still work in Lion the installer is rosetta only, so FCS 3 would have to be installed on Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion.
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I find it a little funny that this new technique of editing was originally developed for creating a first (rough) cut, but now they want it to be used for creating a final cut.
I really wish apple offered a classic timeline mode in fcpx(allowing us to open past projects too), because really in FCP7 it was never my technique or paradigm of editing that was limiting the speed of my getting the job done, it was the old 32 bit architecture and slow rendering.