Philip Howe
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When was that Nick?
I had an 8 plate Steenbeck that I shipped with me to cut feature dramas and docos – last was either Constance in NZ or Boundaries in Sydney. Mid 80s?
The sadness of losing them was equal to losing FCP7.
I have a full system – MacPro 2012 14Tbs esata with Sony and Panasonic feed machines. As well as a part completed film I had to put aside while fighting the Reaper.
350 hrs shot! Various versions of cuts in 7.
I didn’t want to move OS or FCP in case those awful change gremlins popped up.
I’m intrigued to find you all talking about this.
I was going to move to Resolve, I didn’t enjoy X when I tried it but the past 5 years have changed my thoughts.
All the bestphilip
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I was going to suggest creating a new project with a version name and then importing your bins of clips, graphics and audio – Save to your Projects folder. Close the old project and re-connect all media in your new project, Save All and re-open the original, copy the constructions you’ve made and paste them into the new project. Close the old one and remove it, including the autosave and render folders of the old version (savig to thumbnail or SD card) and the thumbnail folder but then I realised that just junking the thumbnails carrying the dates of your project might well suffice – Render All and Save All completing the job.
Sorry for “long widedness”.
But additionally there is a Preference pertaining to Optimised Media that didn’t always deal exactly as expected – check how your’s is set.
Best of luck.
It’s still fine software.philip
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Christopher have you considered the state of your material? Vdeo can become damaged over time. When was the last time that you relinked all media? There might be damage or corruption at work.
I have a huge project shot over ten years that I have to finish and I fear tht it will require recapturing because of the time that much of it has sat on drives. There is an app, or was, that would check for damage.
Relink all media first and then get Disk Warrior to check your files.
Best wishesphilip
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Christopher. Have you not been able to update to version 7.0.3 – my memory tells me that in that huge upgrade there were fixes for many of these fiddly problems that showed up, after Apple terminated development and OS’s. began to lose contact with detail FCP.
ALSO, have you appreciated the potential of working on a machine with an earlier OS?
I keep a MacPro running Snow Leopard for this sole reason – that it was best for FCS 3. My others run Yosemite and FCP is pretty good on that.
Have a think. A 2012 MacPro would cost little and have potential to run SL or ML.
Just a thought. I wish you luck.philip
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Hi Guys, I’m always a bit sorry when someone moves on to FCX. I still have a course in editing with a “cash strapped” Uni that has asked me not to upgrade, to stay with FCP as they haven’t money to upgrade Licenses or Hardware.
I keep a laptop running vers. 7 for them.
Each time I capture and build their footage I’m reminded of just how nice it is to use.
I’m sure there is some simple default that’s been changed by a related OSX Upgrade or a “misunderstanding ‘tween XML versions that’s at the root of this problem.
Best wishes,philip
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You need to resd a little of Compressor’s Help file or User Manual on this subject so as to set up Job for Compessor. It will then be clearer – the jobs are quick and very clean. Best wishes
philip
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LaCie and OWC have 4-5 bay hot-swappable tray drives that use Apple formatting of nearly flavour. DROBO make 4-12 drive assemblies but you have to use THEIR formatting and support durations – a problematic limitation.
philip
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I have had less experience of the industry in the past 6 or 7 years but can assure that before that, if you were good (and this includes FAST) then you could command your own fee. The big or elaborate projects would try to screw down the money but not so low that it compared to the drop in pay that editors have suffered. Good luck – Bournemouth in South England?
philip
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H264 is not an editing format but “DVD” format, gop and long gop etc – everything you do with it, apart from viewing it, is slow. You would be wise to reconvert to ProRes – you possibly don’t have time to go for the highest quality version HQ but the mid version is lovely.
philip
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I use Wacom 6×8 for working in all and everything but with specific settings for each app – fcp is Pen mode, with pen tip “double-click”, side lever is “control-click” upper,” single-click” lower. I work with dual 24″ Pro–Art monitors and a pair of Ref monitors, the Wacom is landscape full width with Monitor selector option to utilise just single monitors full. For effects, text animation and moving images etc. I’ll stop for now except to say that upper slider set to “right-click” or “control-click” is a major decision!
I have no rsi probs with full width whereas i did with mouse.philip