[T. Payton]

BTW. That was h264 footage, non optimized, with a color correction layer and titles and Playback set to high quality. Hence the skimming was a little sluggish.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Saw your video. Thanks for doing it on your iPhone to showing the beach ball actually spinning. Something is definitely going on. Here is some hope for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r84wSFWWcs

BTW. I also have open: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, FileMaker, pages, Text Edit, OmniFocus, Safari, Mail, Messages, Preview, Transmit, MPEG Streamclip and a few more apps.

2006 MacPro
13GB Ram
1 TB Startup Drive
6 TB Radi via eSata
Radeon 5770, 2 monitors
10.7.3

Perhaps we can screen share on iChat and I can troubleshoot your machine directly.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Can you post a screen cast of an example of this?

I’m personally not seeing this kind of delay even on my really old machine. I have FCP X on it’s own “space” in Lion and it is immediately responsive.

One thing to note about 10.0.3. Apparently Apple retooled many of the elements of the timeline including redrawing, and it appears they also changed how saving is performed to the database. I’m sure it was a valiant effort, but on my machine some of the basic editing functions are now much slower than it was in 10.0.2. Alas, a couple steps forward, but several steps back.

I’m doing a multi language video today with Chinese and English Subtitles and it should be a good workout for 10.0.3. I’ll report back anything of significance.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

The 5770 is a beast. Look at this, 3 displays at the same time on my 2006. The VGA monitor is via a mini display port to VGA adapter I got at the Apple Store. I’m sure this uses up quite a bit of GPU VRAM as well as GPU Cycles.

BTW. I got this in hopes of setting up a client monitor that is a mirror of my second display. If you option drag one monitor over another it will mirror. Here is some more info on that:

https://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/1570-how-to-setting-up-a-client-monitor-in-fcp-x#1638

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Can you post a screenshot of your timeline?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Hi Bill – actually they “look” like they are all done in motion, but there are few you can’t “open a copy in motion”. Slide and Page Curl for example. 🙁

Although there are definitely some gotchas with transitions in FCP X and they are far from perfect, but simply the concept of having editable and built-your-own transitions is incredible. If you ever tried to create an alpha transition in FCP 7 you will be in awe of the power and simplicity of FCP X and Motion.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Use “Edit > Lift from Storyline” or option-command- up arrow. Works every time.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Great job! You nailed it with the shot of the fellow in front of the tunnel. Your opening title, especially using off yellow type is perfect.

I would be careful to try to not do any effects or motion graphics that wouldn’t have been possible back in the 70’s as to help sell the look and feel of the film.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Can you clarify, do you mean adding transitions on composite modes of compound clips?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Well before you go and buy an ATI card, could you create a quick screen capture of what is happening, perhaps as unpublished on YouTube and then post it here. I’ll then try to recreate what you are doing and we can compare to see if this can be fixed with a graphics card.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque