Robin S. kurz
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[Bill Davis] “For kicks, try transcoding a short source clip to Optimized inside X”
FCP X does not optimize XDCam.
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[David Chai] “I have PCIe cards that would have had to be replaced for no good reason at all.”
Might one inquire which those would be i.e. what they do?
[David Chai] “I also have 6 hard drives internally, which would have forced me to buy thunderbolt enclosures to keep using. Not a cheap option.”
USB3 would of course be the much cheaper option. 🙂 When switching I actually simply bought new disks to replace the old ones that were not only cheaper (of course) but also 3-4 times larger so they all fit onto nearly just a quarter as many disks as the original. So I even ended up with far less baggage for it.
[David Chai] “While I think the new mac pro is sexy, it’s an expensive machine that can only be justified if you have enough revenue to pay for it “
That’s of course a given, yes. But then it doesn’t have to be a nMP either. Even a mid-sized iMac will easily outperform any given old MP exponentially, almost in all areas.
[David Chai] “and all the thunderbolt attachments needed.”
Again, USB3 is your friend. 😉 TBo only makes sense for extremely high-performance peripherals. As in: peripherals that need more than 200MB/s throughput.
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Well, I believe “cheap” to be a VERY relative term. Just with this issue alone you’re obviously wasting time you more than likely wouldn’t have had to waste if you were in fact using a regular Mac and therefore able to simply update when and as needed. So unless you’re not paying yourself anything (for your time), I’d venture to say that using a hackintosh will in fact cost you MORE in the end either way. It’s clearly slowing you down in more ways than one.
But to each his own I guess…
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Well, a Mini is pretty much the lowest possible minimum for FCP & Co., by virtue of its (non-existent) GPU alone. So maybe that’s why. It could also be user/account related. In which case I would try setting up a brand new user and trying with that on the same machine. Unfortunately something I, too, am dealing with at the moment, only in a different area. Something that’s messed up with one user is completely fine with another.
Either way I would suggest sending feedback.
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Not sure how “Because I’m running a Hackintosh” and “Never change a winning team.” go together. Contradiction in terms if you ask me. Not sure how you could be “winning” if you can’t even do a simple update/upgrade.
[Sascha Engel] “Is the 10.0.9 upgrade still online?”
Again… if you try to update (or re-purchase) and have an OS <10.9 you are only offered the highest compatible version for your OS, which in this case would be 10.0.9.
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And you’re sure it’s DV not HDV? Being able to connect but not getting a picture sounds a lot like it.
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[Bill Davis] “You’ve probably seen web videos of how they animate hollywood characters by putting the actor in a key color full body suit that has “target balls” in strategic positions. “
That of course being motion capture for subsequent CGI replacements and the likes. Not something you’d use for matting.
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[Bret Williams] “if you can put on the time during the shoot and plan on using more basic tools like green screen or the talent wearing very bizarre bright colors that don’t exist elsewhere in the scene.”
Exactly. Unless that’s what you did, you’re stuck with roto as your only possible option of singling the subject out from the background.
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[Anna Possberg] “So you either upgrade FCPX (which yes, implies an upgrade to Maverick) “
No, not true. If you do not have Mavericks installed you are offered max. 10.0.9 until you update the OS. There is no need to upgrade to Mavericks.
[Sascha Engel] “But doesn’t 10.0.9. still work with OSX 10.8.?”
Yes, it does. Only versions 10.1 and higher require OS 10.9.
Question is, why don’t you already have 10.0.9?? It’s been out for ages and is free. 10.0.9 introduced XML 1.3, which is why it’s not working. Resolve only caters to the most current version it knows of. I’m not aware of a way of “downgrading” the XML output to earlier versions.
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You’ll want a newer version of FCP (i.e. FCPXML), which is in fact free.