[Patrice Freymond]

How about editing the clip above the off line, crop clip where most visually convenient to find match, then slip tool to visualy match. zero crop and you’re done. not the most fluid of workflows but at least you don’t have to expand menus, colapse tracks or else…

hope this helps

Patrice Freymond

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[Patrice Freymond]

Thanks !

we use Mocha for FCP at the moment and would probably move to Pro anyway.

Any idea how MC effects translate into either DS or Smoke via the AAF export?

Patrice Freymond

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[Patrice Freymond]

Thanks guys.

Are there any issues that you know of regarding shared storage, codecs etc?

Also, in terms of performance, DS has dedicated hardware that Smoke on Mac does not. Is there a huge performance gap?

Patrice Freymond

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[Patrice Freymond]

mmmhh, now you got me thinking…

and though I love the concept of nesting in 7 the implementation is not fail safe. I lost hours tracking down oddities due to nesting. Unless it was the mxf4mac component at the end of the process that did not like the concept….
So I am now approaching Compound clips in X with circumspection 😉

Patrice

[Patrice Freymond]

This used to happen too in FCP 7 with some effects. In FCPX’s hierarchy, Colour Board is after whatever filter you apply, unlike 3 way colour correction which was a filter itself.

I remember in the early days watching a program where I used Glowing transitions only to discover that whatever transmition limiter had turned the nice white glow into deep black… not pretty.

Also, white in the Mac’s colour palette is 255 which translates into above legal white level. If you use the “crayons” palette you have to select Mercury white for a legal white, Snow is too bright.

Patrice

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

maybe an afordable solutions could be https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=15

Give Caspian at SNS a call or fire off an email; we’ve been using their products for a while and are very happy with them and their service.

hope this helps,

Patrice Freymond

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[Patrice Freymond]

Hi François,

we run a similar setup to yours, albeit smaller. The question of upgrading to FCPX looms and I’d be very interested to share any info regarding FCPX/SanMP (on an EVO server) with you.

Sorry I can’t be of much help as of now. I plan to start testing the FCPX/EVO setup towards the end of the year.

best,

Patrice Freymond

patrice@monteur.tv

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

you may want to have a look at X Target from SNS.

https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=15

not sure it addresses all your needs but since no one mentionned it… Give the SNS guys a call, they are very helpful.

hope this helps,

Patrice Freymond

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[Patrice Freymond]

We’ve got the same sort of setup and are running a 16 TB EVO from SNS.

We’re using Gigabit Ethernet which is sufficient for us but made provision to go up if needed. One of their selling point actually as you can upgrade later.

It has been in operation 24/7 for the past two months without a glitch. This is not a very long time but we bought based on other people experience and the great service we got from them.

my 2 cents,

Patrice Freymond

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[Patrice Freymond]

….soooo

does the beta version have problems handling aspect ratios:

…. or is this just “cool” ?

😉

patrice