[Ron Whitaker]

I have a somewhat dumb question. I notice so many, if not everyone, saying that you need an external storage device. I take it that means a Thunderbolt RAID system? What is the purpose of that? Just to save your bacon if you internal HD goes down?

Also, do most of the Mac Pros (older ones) come with PCI-E cards? It looks like that is needed for Thunderbolt and USB3.

[Ron Whitaker]

John:

Thanks again for your helpful response!

I spent the afternoon studying FCPX and the verdict…as soon as I can I’m getting a Mac and going full FCPX1! I love what I’ve learned and it looks like an awesome NLE. One of my big things I want to do is full color correction/grading WITHIN the NLE. Just seems like a pain to export footage, bring it into Resolve, grade it, then export it back into the NLE!

I learned this afternoon that Red Giant makes Colorista III now for FCPX, and the cool thing I learned, is that there’s a plugin called Slice X, which is a motion tracking plugin that you can use in conjunction with Colorista, so you can, for example, create a mask (like a power window in Resolve), track a person’s face and have the color grading apply only to that! Love it!

Lots of way cool/awesome plugins for FCPX as well.

When I get to that point, I will look at OWC as well as ebay. Would a Mac Pro from 2010 be okay? I’ve seen some that have 32GB RAM, 8-core for reasonable prices. What is the minimum GHz you would recommend?

Thanks again for your help on this!

Ron

[Ron Whitaker]

Thanks so much, John! That was helpful!

I’m a bit confused as to what the difference is between Bootcamp and VMWare? Have you had any problems with speed for anything else while running SVP on your Mac Pro?

Also, does FCP X have a large learning curve? My brain is just so full right now and I’m so used to SVP, I thinking about having to learn a new NLE. You have said in the past that it’s quite similar to SVP, though.

Thanks again for all your helpful answers. I just might take you up on that offer to help me with any ebay listings. But then again, I went to OWC and they look pretty good and apparently are reputable.

Thanks again!

[Ron Whitaker]

John:

Could you define “heavy” editing? I’m wondering how a Macbook Pro would work with heaving editing?

For example, I found this one on ebay. Would this Macbook Pro handle heavy editing, in your view?

Also, can you do Bootcamp on a Macbook Pro and then have SVP running? Also, if you use Bootcamp, do you then need to purchase Windows to run within Bootcamp. (I’m confused as to how that works.)

Thank you for your assistance.

Ron

[Ron Whitaker]

Thank you for your response!

When you say “heaving editing” on the Mac Pro, what do you mean that “heavy editing”? Lots of effects, etc? Can a MacBook Pro not handle heavy editing? What about a Retina Macbook Pro?

I’m somewhat confused on the specs right now. Moving to a Mac would definitely be a different ball game! So, sorry for all the questions.

I do like the “small-ness” of a laptop. Can a Macbook Pro running VMWare or Bootcamp running SVP smoothly edit 4k footage? If so, what are the specs that the Macbook Pro would need?

I’ve seen quite a few Mac Pros on ebay at reasonable prices. What should I look for (spec-wise) and what should I avoid? Same goes for used Macbook Pros?

I just looked on ebay and noticed this Retina Macbook Pro. Would something like this handle “heavy” editing? 4k editing? I’m actually surprised at how inexpensive it is.

Thanks for your help.

[Ron Whitaker]

How do you get to the Edit Details tab?

[Ron Whitaker]

Great question! I just learned yesterday (since I fortunately subscribe to No Film School’s weekly newsletter) that YouTube now offers a free music library for those who want to use the music in their video projects.

The URL is https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music.

You’ll need to create a Google account if you don’t already have one.

Some of the music will require attribution. Some doesn’t.

Currently, they have over 1000 music files for download.

[Ron Whitaker]

I’ll try that. Thank you.

[Ron Whitaker]

OK. Here’s the scoop that I received from Sony’s technical support department:

Subclips do not support saving tags. Tags can be applied to a subclip for short-term organizational purposes, but due in part to the way subclips work (they don’t exist as files on the hard drive, but rather are loaded into memory as references to their respective parent clips) those tags are not stored between sessions.

Saving tags for use between sessions is supported for normal clips.

I was pretty disappointed! What’s the purpose of tags if you can’t apply them to subclips as well as regular clips!

Hopefully an enhancement in the future.

[Ron Whitaker]

For me it’s not working.

Looks like someone else is having the problem, too:

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/Forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=4&MessageID=916135

I opened a ticket with Sony Creative and hope this gets fixed. I NEED to tag my subclips.