Tony Silanskas
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OWC just came out with one. Goes up to 8TB.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/External-Drive/OWC/Elite-Dual-RAID
tony
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The “Compound Clip as FCP 7 Sequences” has been discussed a lot on here. It took me awhile, but I finally found a big flaw, for me at least.
FCP X autosaves after every change you make. But since your Projects and Events are separate files it only autosaves the file it needs to. EX. You make a change in the Event it autosaves your Event; you make a change in a Project it autosaves just that Project.
The issue of having Compound Clips as sequences mean that every change you make to the Compoud clip it autosaves the Event file since there is no real Project file. And since Event files are always much larger than project files, FCP X will dramatically slow down on average systems on large Events with this approach since it’s constantly saving a big file after every change.
If someone has figured out a way around this, please share. SSDs would help but are too expensive an option right now.
tony
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For your first question, have you tried the “send to compressor” route and delete your render files before hand so it re-renders with whatever settings you choose in compressor? Not a fan of “send to compressor” as it crashes on me all the time and it’s slow but may get you uncompressed. Haven’t tested this though.
tony
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Sadly my 2009 maxed-out 17in MBP is not very smooth with FCP X. I would even say it’s mostly unusable with this current version as it skips/crashes and is just downright slow on even the simplest projects. FCP X has so much (mostly unnecessary) eye candy that my GPU doesn’t seem to be able to keep up.
Curious if the first update will fix some of the slowness I have or just confirm that only 2011 Macs and beyond are suitable to use FCP X effectively.
tony
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I personally think syncing the audio first is the best route; you don’t have to waste time meticulously trying to sync it at the end, especially if you have a ton of cuts, and you know during your edit if there were any problems with the separate audio instead of finding out at the end.
tony
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[Rafael Amador] “How you see that?
rafael”When paused in the canvas you don’t see the two fields like usual, just a single frame like all progressive footage. I even captured the footage through the composite input to bypass firewire to get the interlacing in the footage. Then I threw the deinterlace filter on that clip and it looked exactly like the DV/firewire clip without any filters on it. Weird. =)
To be honest, I’d rather have it deinterlaced for the project I am doing but just wanted to share my thoughts as I have never noticed this before. Thanks for responding, too.
tony
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Get your 16mm transfered to tape at 1080i25 to match the rest of your footage and just edit in a 1080i25 timeline. Then down-convert to SD PAL when your finished either through compressor/Kona Card/another company etc.
tony
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My friend has the 2011 17in MBP and has been using FCP 7 on it for months with no problems. Don’t know about FCP 6.
tony
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From one Tony to another, thanks so much for testing this. I have to say that being unable to reconnect clips has reared its ugly head too many times this past month because of not being able to do anything with those files outside FCP X. From the forums the only way to mostly eliminate it is to have FCP X COPY all your media to its Events folder and never reference it. To me, this is not an option as that would mean DOUBLING my already massive storage needs (files just for FCP X and files for using in other programs). I could only copy the files I need for the other programs instead of all of it, but many times it’s most of the footage.
I know there are some workarounds, but it’s far too easy to make a file offline and nearly impossible to get it back… as of now at least.
tony
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Sorry as I should have been a bit more specific.
– It could save me space to not have to make Proxies of everything but only the clips that wouldn’t play back in realtime. Right now it’s all-or-nothing since when you tell FCP X to use Proxies and you haven’t made a Proxy of a clip in the timeline it will make that clip offline whether or not the clip in question was playing back just fine without a Proxy.
[Eddie McFly] “You can always reconnect or “modify referenced events” (in the inspector tab when project in the project library are selected) to modify which version of the clips you want to view”
The problem I see with this is that you’d have to organize/keyword your footage twice, once for each Event let alone trying to keep them in sync if you add more footage.
tony