[Pete Fausone]

Same exact results. Avid creates an inferior picture quality when compared to the same file in FCP7.

[Pete Fausone]

I get this also on Lion 10.7.5 and Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Seems FCP 7 is really not all that compatible with anything past Apple’s best OS for Post Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I need to run newer versions of Avid so I need to go to 10.8.5 but this is a catch 22 situation if you also need FCP 7.
I look forward to the day when a truly professional Linux distribution and something like Lightworks finally rids us of the phone
company once and for all.

[Pete Fausone]

[Mark Raudonis] “I can’t even begin to wrap my head around how we’d do this with FCP-X’s scheme. Yes, I read the white paper from those folks in the UK. It gave me a headache.”

I do post end to end for network episodic television. Mark is absolutely right on this point. People who keep talking FCPX aren’t doing the same workflows
that need something like an ISIS. The new EVO by Studio Network Solutions looks promising and would greatly lower the cost of shared media for Avid or FCP 7.
FCPX is just a non starter in the big leagues. Sorry but that’s just the fact. People will take offense to this statement but then you have to look at what they are doing. Now as everyone chimes in on how well FCPX works, look at what they are doing as compared to what Mark is doing.

Pete

[Pete Fausone]

Thanks Michael, I’ll try it.

[Pete Fausone]

I tried both actually.

[Pete Fausone]

Install the latest BM 9.6.1 drivers and the sluggish performance goes away.

Pete

[Pete Fausone]

Try the just released 9.5.3 drivers. This fixes the problems you listed on my Decklink Extreme HD.

[Pete Fausone]

[Shane Ross] ” It can relink to media like no other NLE”

This is where you are wrong. It can’t reconnect to anything in an online environment like FCP7 does, no comparision. I deal with this everyday.

I even had four of the top Avid engineers out to Fotokem to confirm this, they left agreeing that for file based online I should keep using FCP for now until they fix
it. Here’s what goes wrong…

Editors work on DNX36 files that I don’t have, they are offline resolution anyway. Then I get a finished sequence. You can’t just relink that to online media like FCP7. If you have RED raw files, or Alexa camera files, try relink all day and it will not, ever.
So you “link to AMA” to get the online files into a bin. This is the part that’s broken. Avid fails to put the filename into the tape column, and the only way MC links to a file is with the clips timecode and whats in the Tape column. Works great for tape based media, but not file based!

So people do ridiculous workflows like importing all the dailies when only a fraction of them are used in the cut, or going through all the files and manually adding the filename to the tape column one at a time with “modify clip”. Insanity. I think MC is extremely weak for online until they make it work like FCP7 for relinking clips.
So for now, I use the absolutely brilliant Boris AAF transfer tool to take the Avid sequence into FCP7, relink to my rendered RED or Alexa clips instantly.

[Pete Fausone]

I think they are much more concerned about people going crazy after they release it.

[Pete Fausone]

It’s not Leopard that triggers the 6.0.4 update, I have many 10.4.11 machines running it. Seems that Apple won’t give 6.0.4 to you now without QT 7.5.5 installed first.