Nikolas Bäurle
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Apple recommends 512 MB VRam.
I would also turn off Thumbnails in the Timeline, and set the Event to List View, scrubbing through Thumbnails is really efficient but it can get clunky on slow machines or older harddrives.
TheTB drive is 7.200 rpm, right. 5.400 rpm will slow you down
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It really depends for what you need it. If its going to DV Tape to be shown an a SD TV you can leave it as is. Interlace always shows up on computer screens.
For Internet you need to deinterlace.
There’s always a loss when deinterlacing. As far as I know FCP Legacy and Premiere simply gets rid of one of the fields.
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What type of hard drive are you using? Using FW800 and older drives could cause this.
I recommend using the timeline setting without the thumbnails. Personally I never use them, even in legacy.
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Motion’s tracker is very good and easy to use, but you won’t get that wonderful automated mocha tracking though, or like you have in Resolve.
Slice X isn’t a tracking plugin, but a masking plugin with tracking integrated. As far as I know there isn’t a dedicated tracking plugin for FCPX yet, would be cool if Apple added one.
Nik
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You’re welcome:-)
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Hi Fred,
yes, you should, if you have duplicate events with the same name FCPX will give you a warning that it can only open one. It is better to move things within the software. When duplicating (cmd + d) an event or project within X a window opens giving you several options of how and where you want it duplicated.
By default X automatically creates an Event in the movies folder, if you don’t have a harddrive with an event connected or are using an empty drive.
I recommend you get Event Manager X, which will help you hide and load your Events and Projects, this is an option X does not have yet. For it to work smoothly it is important to hide older Events and Projects that are not needed. You can do this manually as well by creating a Final Cut Events NOT IN USE and a Final Cut Projects NOT IN USE folder to put your old events and projects in, this way X can’t open them and you don’t need to have everything loaded all the time, which really slows things down.
Nik
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On our X the only codec choice we get is the one set in the system preferences.
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At Promiflash we get Templates made in Ae, work perfect in X:-)
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I actually like the Event/Project Structure what I feel is lacking, though, is way to hide Events or Projects from within the software. I prefer this over FCP7, there’s less reconnecting and troubleshooting in FCPX once you get used to it, in my experience, now, if you break the rules you will have issues, like the FCPX hater editor I dealt with recently who claimed to know what he was doing and pulled files out of the events folders instead of calling me, and instead of admitting the mistake complained about X.
I believe that the way FCPX is structured it should work well with shared working environments. One centrally located Event and each editor with his/her own Project. But I don’t have any experience setting up shared storage, so I can’t tell.
I am getting tired of FCP7, though. At one of the postproductions I work for we get crashes on a regular basis, especially when using XDCam and if someone is grading on the Resolve suite. 2 corrupted Projects per day… And the time it takes to render stuff… And once you start working with titles in FCPX smoothly, you forget how clunky and slow FCP7s title tool really is. And people can complain all they want about keyframes, but what FCPX has to offer is way better than FCP7, and a major improvement…
By the way, I think big screen TVs will continue to thrive no matter what happens to Broadcast. It’s more about video on demand and not being limited to certain schedules, why do I need to make time at 8pm if I can watch it whenever I want. Currently I use my TV as my laptop monitor when I’m in the living room, and am thinking about buying one as a second monitor for my iMac to use as control Monitor as well, switching between the HDMI channels as needed.
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You need to set the codec in the system preferences, and I think you only get one choice in FCPX… I’m at the Deutsche Welle right now in front of an Avid Newscutter, I’ll be certain in about an hour once I’m home.
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