[Ray Wang]

Thanks for the responses. Yes by delete I meant to remove the content itself from the drive.

In iMovie you could mark part of the clip as rejected and there is a function to strip (“Move Rejected to Trash” if I remember correctly) the rejected contents to save disk space.

This could be part of the clip or the entire clip.

I was going mad trying to find that function in FCP X!

FYI Space saving features in iMovie:
https://imovie08.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-use-space-saver.html

[Ray Wang]

[Kevin Patrick] “Their fastest iMac runs FCP X as fast as their fastest Mac Pro.
Mac Pro 3.33 GHZ, 24 GB RAM, 5870 GPU
iMac 3.4 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 6970 GPU
https://barefeats.com/fcpx01.html “

A dual 3.33 GHz would probably top iMac 3.4. This would still make MBP the fastest in the entire line up but not by much. Terrible price/performance though.

[Ray Wang]

Mini in a 1U rack.

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html

I do remember reading comments in the past that the pros demanded ECC memory (only supported by workstation class CPUs), fiber channel card (which still outperforms TB), workstation class GPU for 3D work and 64Gb+ memory (for Photoshop work). None of which will likely to fit into a small factor desktop / notebook.

I am not in the business but I will be looking for something along the lines of Mac Pro due to the following shortcomings of my current MBP:
– Fan noise. In FCP X GUI gets jerky and fan is on most times (background rendering is off)
– Heat. CPU throttle means I am not getting 100% performance out of the CPU
– Spiderweb of peripherals with its own power supply. Much “cleaner”/compact desk space and cheaper to have everything in one box

Rather than connecting TB to Raid why not buy Mac Pro and do raid internally?

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[Ray Wang]

107.67 MB update for my MBP (OS X 10.7.2)

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[Ray Wang]

>> Fixes an issue in which a title may revert to the default font after restarting Final Cut Pro X

Excellent fix. Noticed this bug from point 0 release.

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[Ray Wang]

With iCloud, do you still keep a local copy of your music or does your music stream from iCloud to your iDevice?

I can see situations where you won’t have any 3G or Wifi connection and want to listen to music.

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[Ray Wang]

I am hoping that the book “Final Cut Pro X Advanced Editing” will go into details like these.
This book is delayed until 20 Feb 2012 so I am suspecting may be there will be another FCP X point update to formalize the workflow (such as converting projects into event browser compound clips).

FYI The empty Keyword Collection method is explained in the Ripple Training.

I tested the following:
1. Created empty compound clip in events browser
2. Copied project clips and pasted into the compound clip in events browser

The result was a series of unconnected clips in the compound clip in the event browser (all red).

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[Ray Wang]

Thanks for the tip. That means I will need to plan ahead if I want to use compound clips in the event library 🙂

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[Ray Wang]

Comments from Mike Chambers principal product manager for developer relations at Adobe

https://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/11/11/clarifications-on-flash-player-for-mobile-browsers-the-flash-platform-and-the-future-of-flash/

Summary

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396314,00.asp#fbid=ivIDRNbz9nk

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My take is that the key is on “Differences in how users consume rich content on mobile devices compared to the desktop” and the fact that html5 fills that space without the unnecessary bells and whistles.

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[Ray Wang]

How did you send multiple projects to Compressor?

I am unable to select more than one project at a time.

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