[Ray Wang]

Something may be wrong with my project. I deleted and recreated the title but same issue of not being able to re-edit the text after rendering. Also from time to time I find texts un-rendered.

In my short 40 seconds storyline, I have about 10 custom texts, 5 shapes (custom motion template). Nothing complicated but as I edit / re-edit, I nothing some strange things. I will try to delete the render cache and see what happens.

I have a typewriter text with English and Japanese characters. Re-editing the text makes the last character (Japanese) pop up first followed by English text (left to right). Hmm..

Update: after deleting the rendered files and re-render, the bug went away.

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Ray

[Ray Wang]

Is this what you are looking for?

1. Show Event on second monitor (optional)
2. Adjust the time scale in the Event viewer to 1 second to get a long clip

This will give you room to scrub around

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Ray

[Ray Wang]

[Bill Davis] “The computer as “BOX?” Old thinking. Pick your sub-systems and plug them together – drive the result with your desktop keyboard or your laptop keyboard – doesn’t matter – because anything can talk to anything – lickity split. “

It is pretty much happening now. I use Matrox MOX2 Mac connected to the PCI Express port to speed up encoding, I use Elgato connected to usb port too, Blu-ray on USB, card reader etc.

(I am using MBP 17″)

It is a terrible wiring mess. I am hoping to switch to the next version of Mac Pro so that all components are inside one box.

Daisy chain components sounds interesting but no difference to doing it inside the box. I.e. in the PC world where SLI / Crossfire is supported, users slap in GPU to beef up the power.

I don’t see Apple moving towards the mix and match world because the last thing Apple want is some user calls up and say certain combinations don’t work (i.e. what PC world has to endure).

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Ray

[Ray Wang]

It is an interesting counter attack from Apple.

Basically FCP7 was the same animal as Avid and Adobe (track editing). But Apple was careful to spend more time showing Avid and Premier screen shots than FCP7.

Also I think it is a bit waste of time too. All the features shown in the clips are well known and discussed (pros and cons).

It would be better advertising if Apple show (similar to what they did for FCP7), some cool projects to showcase FCP X (other than the Audi driving school clip). Cold Mountain 2 ?

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Ray

[Ray Wang]

I think Olof’s comments made sense in that Matrox is ready to rock and roll whenever Apple is ready. That timeline may depend on Lion, Apple’s roadmap for FCP X.

I am not in the Post industry, FCP X is what I wanted to Christmas but at the same time, I have picked up enough on FCP7 and through reading to appreciate both sides of the same coin 🙂

Incidentally I just received a Matrox customer service announcement email regarding support for Lion (good news I may add).

The next software release for the Matrox MXO2 products and Compress HD for Mac will be available shortly after the release of Mac OS 10.7 (Lion). It will provide full support under Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) for all applications that are currently supported. Support for Telestream Episode and Avid Media Composer will require new releases from those companies in addition to our new driver.

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[Ray Wang]

What I meant by in Apple’s court was that without the hooks there will be no monitoring.

i.e. Apple is the decider.

If I read the FAQ from Apple site and Matrox site, both seem to point finger at each other.
If Matrox was on the beta program, Matrox would advertise on their site to say “we are working with Apple”.

FCP X FAQ

Final Cut Pro X relies on third-party devices to support external video monitoring. We’ve been working with third-party developers in our beta program to create drivers for Final Cut Pro X, and AJA has already posted beta drivers for its popular Kona card:

Matrox FAQ

FCP X does not support professional video monitoring. For full-screen, preview-quality output you can use the second DisplayPort output from your computer in Full Screen Mode. The audio outputs of the MXO2 devices can be used for audio monitoring.

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[Ray Wang]

I think there are 2 approaches:

1) import the music file / effect to events
2) drag from finder to storyline/timeline

#2 is a better approach as FCP X will import the media to events and will connect to the clip in your timeline.

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Ray

[Ray Wang]

Have you tried to:
1. In finder, move your project folder in “final cut events” and “final cut projects” to another location.
2. Open FCP X, close FCP X
3. Copy files back to original location
4. Open FCP X again.

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Ray

[Ray Wang]

Yes 1 min for the FCP SFX folder.

5 mins for sorting my itunes music by time (for the first time, subsequent runs are instant).

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[Ray Wang]

It takes a while (spinning beach ball) to get music tab to open for the first time.

If you sort (say by duration) for the first time it also takes some spinning beach balls to complete the whole process.

In my case the beach ball stopped spinning after 5-10mins.

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Ray