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The Affinity suite and Pixelmator Pro are both good alternatives. Exchange between Photoshop and Photo is pretty good, but it depends on how complex the files are. There are plenty of things you can do in Photoshop that simply don’t translate correctly into Photo. If it’s a simple layered file, without layer styles/effects, complex masking, and grouping, then it’s pretty compatible. You’ll just have to do some testing.
I also use Logic and like it. I think it depends on what you want in an audio app. Do you want an audio creating/mixing app or a post app for mixing to picture? If the latter, then Fairlight may be the way to go. However, you can also get pretty deep into FCP just for audio. It falls down once you get into more complex bussing. But FCPXML to Logic works nicely. The one issue I’ve run into is where audio has had speed changes in FCP. That doesn’t appear to translate.
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No idea. Contact Apple’s tech support. Or if it’s not an Apple keyboard, then the supplier for the keyboard that you are using.
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Before you go to Big Sur make sure that all of your audio and video plug-ins and external hardware are compatible. That OS changes the FxPlug architecture. I don’t know the answer about partitioning, but I think you are pushing your luck. Kiss FCP7 goodbye. It’s a zombie ?
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What happens when you exit out of FCP and relaunch? Or reboot the system? I suspect the D700 GPUs. Might need to let them cool down.
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Congrats! I absolutely agree about folders for events. The current structure is a bit restrictive.
As far as Ken Burns moves – don’t hold your breath. That’s the sort of info that just won’t be translated in the same way between different systems. Also not helped by the FCP method of behaviors.
In the future, you’d probably be better doing the color correction inside FCP rather than round-tripping to Resolve. But that’s probably an uphill sell.
When you say the Library took 5 minutes to open – was this with native media or proxies?
– Oliver
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I’m not sure what 2.8K anamorphic means. I presume you mean an Alexa at full sensor size with an anamorphic lens, so that the actual de-squeezed frame size of the dailies would be 2.8 x 2. Correct?
Normally your timeline would be a standard video or DCI frame size. So a feature file that is 2.39:1 aspect would generally have a timeline size of 2048 x 858 or a 4K variant. So your camera footage would be de-squeezed and then scaled to fit into this timeline size, usually with some cropping on the edges. At that point you could export any way you like.
If you are creating lightweight screening copies, then H.264 at around 8Mbps should be fine. You might want to look at a 1/2-sized version of that sequence size to lower the files size even more, if required.
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To my knowledge, the M1 Mac mini (or any other M1 Mac) does not support an eGPU. I could be wrong, but my opinion is that Apple is no longer interested in eGPUs and those were just a stopgap until the Mac Pros came out.
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Buy as large of a storage option as you can afford. I would suggested also buying external storage for all of your footage. 256GB will be too small for any significant amount of media.
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Woohoo – old timer posts! ? Title – cards. Man, I remember those well. The first post house I worked at took this up a notch by creating retail disclaimers on 35mm slides. These were projected into a camera using an aerial image technique. This resulted in nice-looking, small text.
One of the important things about the Chyron design and font/size options was that they were designed to look good (and readable) in the world of SD interlaced video. For example, roll/crawl speeds were engineered to be smooth at NTSC and PAL rates. No infinite speed choice nor font sizes. Limited serif options. Earlier systems, like 3M’s, produced very DOS-like text (ugly). British developer Aston also made a very nice system. Much nicer font options than Chyron, but less popular in the US.
Seconded on the DFX! One of its strengths was internal 4:4:4 progressive processing, which resulted in the best blow-ups of that the era. Ahead of its time and a technique briefly adopted by the short-lived Media 100 844X.
All the best for 2021!
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I could be mistaken, but I think DVE was always a generic term for “digital video effects.” At first there was the Quantel DPE and the Vital SqueeZoom. These were 2D effects devices. 3D DVE effects came later – like the Ampex ADO, Abekas A53, and GVG Kaleidoscope.