Olof Ekbergh
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Just sign in with your APPstore ID on your MBP and click on “purchased”, and FCPX, Motion or whatever you purchased will be there then just click install. And it will download and install in your MBP.
I had to verify it was actually me by confirming my ccard. But there is no second charge.
Olof Ekbergh
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With a little more info, someone here may be able to help.
Like what Mac what type of media/codecs.
It works fine for me and others so…
Olof Ekbergh
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You need fast drives to get the greatest real time performance.
A Thunderbolt RAID would help a lot.
For drop shadows you could build a generator in Motion with drop shadow and publish it and all the settings to FCPX, then use that in multiple iterations to build your PIC timeline when you need drop shadow.
Or it may be easier t build the whole composite in Motion, that is what it is for.
Sorry I don’t have your setup so I cant give a performance estimate, just try it out. Motion is pretty fast for previewing complex comps.
Olof Ekbergh
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Aindreas,
Everyone is entitled to an opinion.
You can use the arrow keys to move around the CC interface, this works well for me for delicate changes.
If you use 2 monitors and put the scopes on the second screen you get big really easy to read scopes, I use the scopes a lot for CC. This is the most useful CC I have seen in an NLE yet. And with BG rendering it is much faster to use than round tripping to Color. M100 has pretty rudimentary CC with very numeric controls, it is instantaneous (no renders) but harder to use with no secondaries.
So I think as an NLE solution it is excellent as as you say Colorista will probably be available soon, if you need more. But give this new interface a chance. Change can be good.
I like the way this APP just gets out of the way and your moves become intuitive, that is the way M100 is but this is even better, fast and easy but lots of power below the surface.
Just my 2 cents.
Olof Ekbergh
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Here is what I sent them:
“I never really liked FCP to cluttered. I have been using it since V1 just to be compatible and out of curiosity. My main NLE is M100, much faster cleaner and no rendering, or crashes.
But I use FCP on about 30% of my projects. I have 3 edit suites with M100 Kona and Matrox hardware, and I use MBPs in the field with M100 and FCP, one of the M100 suites also has FCP 7.0.3 installed with a MX02 interface.
This is the first version of FCP I really like.
The DB driven media management is fantastic, I love the magnetic TL. I can work really fast and accurately. And I am sure it will only get better in new updates.
The integration with Motion is very nice.
To me simpler is better as long as you can do all you need to do and I think you have done it well.
The CC is very good right in FCPX and so is the keying, especially in Motion. Great Job. Scopes are fantastic.
I am sure AJA, BM and Matrox etc will have good drivers for their hardware soon. Please help them any way you can.
I like the Thunderbolt concept, now if we could have 2 channels on MBP’s so we can have fast RAIDS and NTSC/PAL video interfaces it would be great.
The two problems that really need to be resolved are some type of XML import, I have lots of projects both in M100 and in FCP that are more than an hour long, and they get updated several times a year. I would love to have a possibility of importing those with literally hundreds of edits, it does not have to be perfect, but there must be a way to do it. And we need to be able to export just part of a timeline, this is crucial for me.
Also there should be better ways of deciding what projects and events are displayed, so competing clients don’t see each others names/media/projects. Other than moving events out of folders etc.
I think this is a great start. And I think editors will come around, everyone screams for change and when they get it they initially hate it. But I think you have a great product here. Thanks. And good luck, I like the APP store system too.”
Olof Ekbergh
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https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0/
You can also “”print” this as a PDF manual, choose PDF in the print dialog.
Olof Ekbergh
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I can see needing T&B.
Edit in FCPX make everything look as good as possible. Then put T&B on the front of the video and export. Then launch FCP7 or M100 or any NLE w/output to AJA or whatever card. Check the Bars on external scopes, adjust as necessary and then export to tape.
This is how I am planning to use FCPX on a couple new projects.
I created a generator in Motion by modifying a generator from FCPX there, replacing media with a set of bars from a BMP. I now have a generator called Color Bars in my generators tab. It is easy to import tone.
This seems like an easy fix for now.
Olof Ekbergh
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FCPX will run in 64 automatically.
You can check Activity Monitor if you like. The 64 bit tasks will be marked 64 bit.
In some MBP’s you can speed up the graphics by setting Graphics to Higher Performance in the Energy Saver prefs. This will utilize a faster version of your gpu and 512MB instead of 256MB on the graphics card. This will speed things up, but drain the battery faster.
Olof Ekbergh
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I would take a look at M100. https://www.media100.com/
They have a 15 day free trial.
It is easy fast and powerful.
Olof Ekbergh