Robert Olding
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I’d start looking at upgrading the enclosures for your two external drives. The Mac Studio has four Thunderbolt-4 ports that can also handle USC-C. Apple traditionally configures two ports per BUS. If Apple has configured the Mac Studio the way they have other Macs, the two ports to the left run on the first BUS, and the two ports to the right run on the second BUS. The BUSes work independently and theoretically can reach their full in/out speed of 40Gb/s as long as the devices connected to them match that speed.
I’m not sure which Mac Studio you’ve ordered. The M1 Max should have two TB-4 BUSes on the back with a theoretical in/out speed of 40Gb/s and one USB-C BUS on the front with a theoretical in/out speed of 10Gb/s. The M1 Ultra should have three TB-4 BUSes, two on the back and one on the front, all theoretically running at 40Gb/s.
If you daisy-chain a TB-1 and TB-2 drives together and connect them to one of the TB-4 ports, you’ll only achieve the theoretical in/out speed of the slowest device, your TB-1 drive (10Gb/s) on that particular BUS. If you connect the TB-1 drive to one port on one TB-4 BUS and the TB-2 drive to a port on the other TB-4 BUS, you’ll at least be able to theoretically achieve the speeds of the two drives independently. TB-2’s in/out speed is 20Gb/s.
You’ll probably have a monitor that will need to be connected to one of the ports. It will run at its own in/out speed and will be a factor on the in/out rate of the BUS it’s connected to.
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Try using a dedicated app for copying files. I use Hedge, but you can also give Pomfort’s Silverstack or OWC’s new app Copy That a try.
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Most effects and transitions don’t translate well if at all between any of the popular editing applications. The flip effect in Final Cut is one of those that doesn’t work.
Depending on how you’ve built your edit, there could be a few solutions for you.
If you have a simple timeline, you could lift all the flipped clips up and fill in their original positions with gap clips. Export an XML, bring it into Resolve, and those clips will now be on their own video track. Select all the clips on that track and use Resolve’s transform effect on them to flip ’em.
Or don’t use Final Cut’s flip effect on the clips but use the Transform tool instead. Just rotate the clips 180 degrees and set the Scale X to -100. Resolve with see this with no problem.
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I’d give either Handbrake or Permute a try. Either should do be able to do this with no problems.
Handbrake – https://handbrake.fr
Permute – https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/
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Under the “File” menu, choose “Relink Files” and pick which media you’d like to relink. Final Cut Pro will automatically match the proxies and the originals.
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Take a look at MotionVFX. They have an excellent selection of graphic templates – https://www.motionvfx.com/
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I could be wrong but I don’t think you’ll notice the difference with a RAID 0 using that particular OWC device on your MBP. If you do decide to RAID the drives, be sure to have a backup. On a RAID 0 volume, if any of the drives fail, your data is lost and gone forever.
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You could just use the newly graded clips, as long as the colorist didn’t change the duration of any of the clips you should be able to swap them out manually. It might take some time but should work.
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Perhaps a little bit of noise reduction would help. FCP has one built in. If the results aren’t to your liking, you might try Neat Video’s plugin. https://www.neatvideo.com
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It’s the .mp4 file. The compression process the video signal goes through to make an .mp4 is very destructive. Modifications done in post will likely display artifacts like the one you are seeing. The compression process that creates a ProRes file is much milder. This is what makes them much more robust for modifications done during post. I liken it to the differences between a .jpg compared to a .tif file for digital photographs.
