[Phillip Hollweg]

Allegheny College in Meadville, PA had a large NeXT installation. I remember using these machines to do my first-time-ever web browsing! They had a computer lab full of them, and faculty offices had them too, with the matching laser printers. This was in the late 90s.

At home, we had our Mac IIsi with SEVENTEEN megabytes of RAM. My wife and I had purchased that RAM upgrade from the OSU bookstore (when she was in grad school), and I remember getting a nit-picky phone call after I placed the order. Didn’t I know that only 16 bit applications could use that much RAM? And what did I want all that RAM for???? ☺

Anyway, here’s to the next Mac Pro. Some day.

[Phillip Hollweg]

So far as uploading goes, I have read FTP over TCP/IP is not the fastest use of bandwidth. Google Chrome uses a faster Google network protocol to Google sites and services. Google Apps for Work Unlimited is $10/user/m, and can be shared with anyone. I have not tested side by side, but it might give a faster upload speed over the same pipe as FTP, and the unlimited sharing is inexpensive for a small number of employees.

(We are trying to find a way to upload 24TB of data to Google apps. Upgrading our bandwidth for a month seems to be the only option. So, I have been looking into this recently…)

[Phillip Hollweg]

I have good success with the performance, reliability and features of Wistia, although I am not sure if they support everything you need. You can set view only/download/edit permissions for each user in each project, and their embedded players work well, too. Users can download the original file as well as re-compressed versions.

[Phillip Hollweg]

Ha! I had no idea the sizes were different, I see the 27 inch has a little door on the back, Thanks!

[Phillip Hollweg]

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[Phillip Hollweg]

Thanks; I have also noticed that setting an out point on a faded group can prevent other groups with later in points from flattening themselves.

[Phillip Hollweg]

I feel your pain, Darren.

I have also struggled with this in FCP7. I place motion files into sequences along with editable motion templates (for text callouts, section titles etc), backgrounds, stock footage, etc. This is compositing from a technical point of view — and the real-time performance suffers accordingly, but primarily it’s editing when you take into account that the voice track, the music, the sound effects and my basic video cuts are all in FCP.

I would prefer not to export my motion files to .mov while editing. I like to adjust the timing and design of the animations as I edit them together with all the other elements.

Exporting chunks of audio out of FCP so that all my compositing can happen in Motion is just another kind of performance penalty 🙂 I don’t like to edit in Motion!

With FCP7 my biggest wish-list item is more real-time preview performance, and the computer that would deliver that. I moved all my media to an internal level 0 RAID, my render files to an attached level 5 RAID, and I’m still looking a blurry, jerky previews. From what I have read about FCPX so far, this is not likely to change for 720p30 projects?

Will gobs of RAM and the best video card make a huge difference? My system (dual 2.8 GHz) runs on 8GB and a Radeon 4870.

Regards, Phillip Hollweg