Nicholas Zimmerman
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Are you on a vanilla copy of FCPX? I’ve had a few projects where as soon as I’d enable one 3rd party effect (often BCC8 which isn’t optimized for nMP) it would eat all 64GB on my machine. Other things worth attempting: Reboot, repair permissions, delete prefs, update CUDA (I’ve had weird behavior in Motion 5 when CUDA was too out of date on a rMBP), try Compressor. These are all simple maintenance type things, so please don’t take offense if you’ve already tried all of them, I’m just letting you know the troubleshooting path I’d take. If none of those work, try moving the project to a new library or exporting and importing XML into a new one, could be Library/Project corruption.
Of course, it could also be a weird Hackintosh issue. A few years ago I was running a flashed Radeon 4970 in my Mac Pro 1,1 and when Apple dropped 10.6.4 it decimated my machine. After that I’ve stuck with official products.
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I haven’t loaded up LR5’s dictionary, but judging from Adobe’s other apps, it should be pretty full featured. My guess is that your best bet would be to find someone to write an Applescript app to change your LR keywords into Finder tags.
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My recommendation would be to get the DPX sequences and make the full resolution ProRes files in Resolve. You’d basically just import the DPXs, put them all on a timeline, deliver for Final Cut Pro roundtrip, then import and edit in FCPX. You can then take the edit back into Resolve, relink to the DPXs and do a final deliverable from there.
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I’ll vouch for Logic Pro X as a mixing environment. I recently three short films with it and have no major issues whatsoever. I haven’t tried with FCPX XML since they updated Logic to improve. Last summer when Avid released Pro Tools 11 I brought in an AAF from X2Pro and discovered that none of my plugins worked anymore due to their awful transition to 64-bit. Instead of downgrading the machine I just decided to try it in Logic Pro X and it worked no problem. On the second film I tried using the .fcpxml but there were a lot of issues at the time, so once again I generated an AAF with X2Pro and had zero issues. I know with the 10.0.6 update they redid the .fcpxml import, so next time I need to mix a project I’m going to try going straight to Logic.
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I went with 64GB for mine and there have been a few times when it really did come in handy. When working on large projects in Motion, AE, Smoke or FCP X I regularly see the available RAM drop down to below 32GB, especially once I’m in the finishing stages and using a lot of FilmConvert and Neat Video stacked with BCC etc. I tend to finish in FCPX so they’d be the FxPlug versions, not OFX. So far as Resolve goes, I don’t think the application’s ever used close to 32GB of RAM, even with 10-20 active nodes. I don’t have access to Nuke on this machine, but if Motion and AE are any sort of precedent, that’s where you’re going to want the 64GB.
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What sort of drives are you using. Most of my issues have been with slow HDDs and we fixed when I switched to a faster RAID. Also try using Proxy mode.
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I just colored a short film that was shot on a C100 and edited in FCPX without any issues.
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See if you can find a CS6 license for Encore. I use it to author my FCPX edits and Adobe didn’t update it for CC.
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Yes, I’ve got two Drobo 5Ds for very different uses at the moment. One is connected to my Mac Mini Server via Thunderbolt and holds my 6TB iTunes Library. It consists mostly of my own Blu-Ray rips so I can watch them on my Apple TV. The other is connected to a Mac Pro 3,1 via USB 3.0. I tried a few PCIe USB3 cards and didn’t have any luck, but Drobo specifically mentioned the CalDigit as working. This is my primary media drive.
So far as media performance, it’s okay at best. I’m currently looking into buying the new TB2 Pegasus R4 and loading that up as a speedy drive, and will then use the 5D for nightly backups. With 5x3TB WD Red NAS drives the 5D gives me an effective 10.87TB of space. It fills up somewhat regularly so I found some cheap 4TB USB3.0 drives that I do double back ups with (one on site, one off).
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If there’s nothing by noon Pacific time I’m going to be disappointed. Until then, I’m optimistic.
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