[Ray Wang]

My projects are short 5-10 minutes clips.

That sounds like a good way to do it.

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[Ray Wang]

Given FCP X user interface is very similar to iMovie I am guessing it was conceived by the author of iMovie (Randy Ubillos) and brought to prominence by the great one.

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[Ray Wang]

I am running FCP X on MBP 2010 i7, SSD + 8 Gb ram

I am experiencing the same thing.

FCP 7 on the same system felt more snappier in that respect.

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[Ray Wang]

Dick Smith Electronics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dick_Smith_Electronics.jpg

[Edit] I was talking about the front page logo – just wondering whom the website belongs to.
https://tomellard.com/wp/
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[Ray Wang]

In the FAQ, Apple states that it will deliver multi-cam and assign audio tracks for export.

Everything else (XML, OMF, external monitors etc.) are dependent on:
1) Apple to deliver the API to the third party developers
2) Third parties to deliver the feature (which may not be free)

Based on the FAQ it looks like Apple is committed to provide the API, not the “missing” features.

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[Ray Wang]

Fixed it by copying over the original file over the alias.

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[Ray Wang]

Wonder if this has to do with Steve Jobs in the backseat?

Tim the benevolent ruler?

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[Ray Wang]

The auto save function was suitable for iMovie because iMovie has a limited set of features and do not require rendering.
Therefore:
a) rarely crashes
b) on crash, not likely to loose edits
c) even losing edits, storyline is simple so it is a minor annoyance to redo

Either give us the control of manual save or make sure the auto save never looses edits!

I actually like FCP X but I think Apple should have released this as beta without charge.

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[Ray Wang]

To expand on the pain of this auto-save function:

If FCP X crashes, I find that sometimes I loose some of my edits.

After re-launching FCP X, it is a painful process to search what edits were saved and what edits were lost. I find that the stuff that got lost may not follow your edit timeline – meaning that you may lost a text at earlier point but kept the re-timing changes at later edit point.

With FCP 7, I save at logical points and if FCP 7 was to crash, I know where to start and it would be a “clean” save point.

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[Ray Wang]

2010 MBP 8gb 512 SSD.

Slow down occurs after adding texts / lower thirds, effects.

I am wondering whether this is due to GPU, CPU or memory.

It takes 1 – 2 seconds to click into a text box.

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