[Thomas Morter-laing]

If you’re interested in using it frequently, I gather a lot of professionals who edit this style of programming use this: https://www.nattress.com/Products/filmeffects/G_Film_Flash.htm
I’ve used a few and its one of the only ‘authentic looking’, nicely timed versions of it (it actually looks like a white burst, rather than a simple colour dip).

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Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.uk

Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

I think you may oddly find that actually its not that much of a step up-
On papers its a better spec machine, but only just. YOu have to remember that they’re mobile parts in the Macbook pro as well. For example, we have a 2009 Mac Pro in the office which still outperforms out 2010 2.93Ghz i7 imac with 16GB RAM. We can’t work out why, but it just does.

Having said that I can understand the allure of thunderbolt, when they start shipping more peripherals for it!
The one thing I WOULD say at the moment is avoid SS. As it stands its a pretty big gimmick. YES it will turn on faster, and YES it will open apps faster, but thats about it. And to get an equivalent size you’re paying £880!!!! You’re better off looking for a third party 750GB 7200RPM drive and installing that in my opinion. For the price, SSD is not that fantastic. I had a custom installed iMac which had a 60GB SSD boot drive (and a bigger drive for the scratch) but it made no difference to anything which actually requires processing.

Incidentally, even if you have been sucked into the craze of solid state at the moment, you can get it cheaper than from Apple- and installing a hard drive into a macbook pro is both simple and doesn’t void the warranty, as far as I’m aware. 🙂

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Tom Morter-Laing
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[Thomas Morter-laing]

To elaborate on what I think Daniel Sametz is saying above- in Library, Application Support, Final Cut Studio are the library and media files for Motion and Soundtrack Pro (assuming you installed all of it)- they take up like 30GB or something. You can move those onto a drive and tell Motion and Sountrack Pro to ‘find’ the media you have moved.

Just be careful you dont move EVERYTHING in that folder- sorry I cant remember what you can move etc- Google will be your friend here 😀 (Try a search like ‘move motion library onto external drive’ or something).

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Tom Morter-Laing
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iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

IMO send to compressor is a better idea. Better integrated and marginally better compression.

In FCP- Click File, Send To- compressor. Compressor will open.
Compressor has a great Youtube preset to be found in ‘Other Workflows, Web, youtube sharing. As a default it is 720P.

-If you want full ‘1080p’ then you need to right click on the youtube sharing preset, then click duplicate. It will create a copy.

Then Just click on the little button in the inspector which looks like a bunch of shapes (one to the left of the small cog thing) and then where it says ‘frame size’ just choose the 1920×1080 option.

Then drag and drop that setting onto the video at the top and hit submit.

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Tom Morter-Laing
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Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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[Thomas Morter-laing]

I have 10.0.0 and it’s not updating? It wont even show up in Software Update. Any ideas? Or even better, is there a way to manually download the update somehow?

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Tom Morter-Laing
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Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

As far as I’m aware- you can’t. Think about the technicalities of that. The video IS a certain resolution. In a way photographers understand-HD is sort of like having 25 (depending on where you are) 2.07 (ish) megapixel images every second. There is no way of increasing the resolution (well, not actually- there are a few ways of tricking it with various plugins, but most are pants). Unless you shot with film, which is a little different.

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Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.uk

Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Oh no wait, sorry just saw the ‘on order’ bit…

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Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.uk

Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Is this not one? https://www.dabs.com/products/apple-final-cut-studio-upgrade-6KGW.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product+search&utm_content=Q200

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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
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http://www.depictproductions.co.uk

Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Which is frankly silly. Although if it’s taken you 2 years to upgrade, then there must be limits to how much they can be blamed…

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Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.uk

Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.

[Thomas Morter-laing]

For non professionals FCPX is probably perfect- its more of an ‘iMovie Pro’. Just as long as you don’t say to a professional editor ‘come and edit on my system, I have FCPX- because I know I for one would look at you funny 😀

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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor,
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.uk

Sony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.