[Stephen Hopes]

I’m in sydney but I would be happy to help… send me the FCP 7 project and I will give it a go..

stephenhopes541@gmail.com

Cheers, Steve

[Stephen Hopes]

Hi Duncan,

A bit late to this thread but it just caught my eye. I have several mics including the ME65 MKH40 MKH416 Sanken CS1 and a couple of new Rode mics. And I have to say that the ME65 has worked well for me a few times admittedly in fairly ideal conditions… I often use it as an on camera scratch audio top mic and it is great at that and occasionally the sound mixer in post has used it for ambience. Anyway yes they exist and yes they work! NO BS!! hahahaha maybe prosumer might be a better description that ‘student’ I know several students that might be offended by that lol!!

[Stephen Hopes]

Hi Gary

If deleting all preference files didn’t work I would export an xml of the final sequence and import it into a brand new project…

good luck with it

Steve

[Stephen Hopes]

Hoping this will reach Kristian Lam,
Just bought intensity extreme thunderbolt – works with 5d Mk 3 although not at 1080 25p but 1080 50i …
But will not work with my Canon C300 Mk 2 – this is extremely disappointing – new retina MBP with ElCapitan
No matter what I try just cannot get a picture…
Any help much appreciated
Steve Hopes
Austraya

[Stephen Hopes]

Hi there Rainier
I have a 12core macpro with Yosemite 10.10.5 … I have installed the latest Areca driver for Yosemite … I have bought an 8bay iStorage pro with 8x2tb WD black drives and an Areca 1880 card…
Wondering if I could get a ‘for dummies’ instruction on the basics of setting up a raid 5… I am not a complete novice but I suppose that it would be good if I could get some advice on the possible pitfalls of setting this up for the 1st time
I think that I will be ok installing the card and the drives but from there I’m into the grey… I think the GUI is in the MRAID folder but any help in first steps from there is very very much appreciated….
Cheers and thanks in advance
Steve – from Sydney Australia

[Stephen Hopes]

I too have had major issues with much the same gear setups as most of the previous posts….Big revelation yesterday MAGIC BULLET LOOKS…doesn’t work with Blackmagic or Kona cards! It took a lot of digging but on the red giant support site in a compatibility tab there it is…we do not support blackmagic or kona cards…

[Stephen Hopes]

Hi Shane,
I agree with you but….. having run many many stable FCP systems with all sorts of raids and firewire drives etc….I have to say that having spent a lot of money upgrading to our latest systems…(3ghz intel macpros with FCS 2, BMD HD extreme and ATTO scsi raids) no other uses for these machines but video editing… I’ve had nightmares that you would not believe…and I am a virgo and really vigilant about what plugins that we add and all sorts of other maintenance regimes to make sure that we have optimum systems at all times… this is what we do, so forgive me if I say that I find the tone of your response a little patronising…

I do not solely blame FCP but it’s the hub of all this activity and there doesn’t seem to be much recognition from apple that there are some MAJOR problems here and sorry but it ain’t all down to me….

Steve

[Stephen Hopes]

Hi Mike,
Wow I feel like I’ve found a partner in the horror movie that is FCS 2 Intel Macs and the various cards etc that are required to make these things work…
I recently hired out one of our FCP suites for an on-line that was budgeted for three days, five weeks later the guy had a master…Please see below one of my responses to your original thread about the 4G’s of Ram…oh and by the way both our systems have 4Gb’s of ram…

Name: Stephen Hopes
Date: Oct 20, 2007 at 7:02:05 pm
Subject: Re: Do you have 4GB RAM? Are you crashing?

Hi Walter,
It’s so gratifying to read these posts…My life has been a nightmare for months, pretty much since upgrading our two edit suites to FCS 2 and 3Ghz Intel Mac Pros.. We use ATTO with Huge Systems and Blackmagic HD Extreme all with the latest drivers.

We make long form documentaries 90 minutes average and rendering is exactly the same as everyone is describing.. I’ve taken out all 3rd party plugins tried several reinstalls of everything and nothing is working, my partner and I have to sit through these hellish renders (2 or 3 minutes at a time) overnight usually, sometimes to find that the render files have all disappeared the following morning.

I can’t export a sequence with Compressor, I have to export a reference movie and put that to work in Compressor…And nothing from Apple on this…

I got so fed up recently that I bought a G5 2.5Ghz quad on ebay and went back to an old FCP5.1 project file of our current project to see if it would work ok…and voila not even a hint of instability, overnight renders perfectly and then working for days with no crashes at all none….So we have a brand new Mac Pro sitting in the corner doing nothing, with 4Gb’s of ram I might add, and we’ve had to redo all the editing of the project twice because the 6.01 project file isn’t backwards compaptible…
If you have any sway at all with the powers that be at Apple can you try to get some movement on this…
We’re seriously considering moving to the other side….AVID…aarrrrrgh!!!

Steve Hopes
Sydney, Australia

[Stephen Hopes]

Hi Walter,
It’s so gratifying to read these posts…My life has been a nightmare for months, pretty much since upgrading our two edit suites to FCS 2 and 3Ghz Intel Mac Pros.. We use ATTO with Huge Systems and Blackmagic HD Extreme all with the latest drivers.

We make long form documentaries 90 minutes average and rendering is exactly the same as everyone is describing.. I’ve taken out all 3rd party plugins tried several reinstalls of everything and nothing is working, my partner and I have to sit through these hellish renders (2 or 3 minutes at a time) overnight usually, sometimes to find that the render files have all disappeared the following morning.

I can’t export a sequence with Compressor, I have to export a reference movie and put that to work in Compressor…And nothing from Apple on this…

I got so fed up recently that I bought a G5 2.5Ghz quad on ebay and went back to an old FCP5.1 project file of our current project to see if it would work ok…and voila not even a hint of instability, overnight renders perfectly and then working for days with no crashes at all none….So we have a brand new Mac Pro sitting in the corner doing nothing, with 4Gb’s of ram I might add, and we’ve had to redo all the editing of the project twice because the 6.01 project file isn’t backwards compaptible…
If you have any sway at all with the powers that be at Apple can you try to get some movement on this…
We’re seriously considering moving to the other side….AVID…aarrrrrgh!!!

Steve Hopes
Sydney, Australia