T. Payton
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That is a crack up that the video look that we tried so hard to avoid just a few years aog is being used here as nostalgic!
Actually this isn’t that hard to achieve. Just shoot interlaced 29.97 with a tiny aperture. Using a little consumer HD camera should do it. You could probably get a decent simulation with a DLSR at F20 and the sharpness up all the way. Then in post blow out and oversaturate your whites. Lift your blacks to 10% or so.
There are plenty of free glitches around, or just make your own in motion. Here is a little tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybFfKeoLgc
Create the camcorder text with a LED font and a thick black stroke, with pure white fill.
Of course to make it truly nostalgic, nobody used to cuss in music videos, so you’ll need to loose the middle school potty language in the song and you’ll be good. 😉
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T. Payton
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I edit a bunch of different stuff. Pretty typical today. Mostly corporate video/documentary work shot on Canon DSLR. A smattering of green screen. Motion graphics heavy broadcast TV spots (varying formats), and I also work with some of my students on feature film length projects (AVCHD cameras).
Yes we used to order from Crucial, good stuff. However, I kinda like to support OWC because they are a Mac place. Plus OWC isn’t afraid to try to push the limits of a Mac. For example we have some older iMacs and in fact the MacBook Pro that I am typing on, that according to specs only support 4GB of ram, but OWC somehow figured out how to get 6GB to work. Our perspective at our office is to find a good vendor a stick with it.
Regarding an external drive, on a modern system you can really edit on anything. I have a number of Lacie drives that I use on set for backup as well as shuttling around to edit small stuff. However, even at USB3 their max speed is about 105MB/sec. Thunderbolt would be about 110MB/sec. That is about the max for a single sata drive. Using a single SSD would get you about double. I would consider a small drive like that perfect if you want portability, but I think you need some safety and speed for your main edit workstation.
A RAID on the other hand gives you not just great speed, but also redundancy. And frankly they are not that expensive. I run at RAID 5 which is a mix of speed and safety. You can loose a single drive and your data is still okay, plus you’ll get some striping which will give you 200MB+ in speed. Running at RAID 0 is fine, as long as you have a backup of all your data.
(One thing to note is that FCPX hits the hard drive pretty much constantly as every edit is stored there continually. Then if you start working with a 2 or 3 streams of decent data rate media such a 1080p ProRes 422, the 100 MB/sec speed of the single drives will quickly become a bottleneck.)
I have a pretty old setup (4 years) which is by no means considered a high end, and I needed to add an adapter to work with my iMac, but it works very well with decent speed:
OWC Mercy Pro Elite Pro QX2, 8TB (formatted Raid 5 to 6tb) $699
Lacie Thunderbolt to Esata $199https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/RAID/Desktop/
However, if I had to but something new today, I would look at a straight thunderbolt solution that should give about 300MB/sec using HDDs.
A8tb G-Raid with Thunderbolt for $799 (Raid 0 for 8tb, RAID 1 for 4tb)
https://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid-thunderbolt
Or the Lacie thunderbolt 8TB (Raid 0 for 8tb, RAID 1 for 4tb):
https://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10573
Maybe someone else can chime in on storage. Hope this helps.
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T. Payton
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FWIW we have several of the 27″ iMacs, all configured with 1TB Fusion drives. Following best practices from many people, we keep our media and FCP events and Projects on external RAIDs. Although you could keep things on the Fusion drive, the SSD portion is quite small, I believe 250GB, which allows all writes to be performed to it. Then after it is written the non-commonly used content is moved to the standard HD. What that said, while it will work, you are going to get better consistent performance by storying media on a speedy external RAID than a Fusion Drive. I just switched from a MacPro with esata, so I have a lacie thunderbolt to esata and it works great. I get about 220MB/sec on a OWC 6TB Raid. Even the USB3 to esata adapters work pretty well.
Plus if you think about what is happening with the new Mac Pro, the idea that Apple seems to be pushing is to have a small amount of fast on board storage and your large amount of storage is external, preferably safe in a RAID.
The Fusion drive is CAZY fast. I wouldn’t bother getting a pure SDD on the iMac.
My thought about the Ram is pretty simple. We only buy RAM from one vendor, OWC, because it is a bit cheaper than Apple. However, a good argument can be made for buying the Ram from Apple. If you have an hardware problems Apple will want you to remove all non Apple supplied Ram. Plus if you buy the Ram from Apple, if they swap out a machine, they will give it back to you loaded up with all the Ram you purchased it with originally. However, on the other hand OWC RAM has a lifetime warranty. So if your machine is lasted past the 3 years of Apple care, you could still get a ram replacement.
Hope this helps.
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Twirling down by hitting the right arrow key on the keyboard, left arrow to twirl up.
Therefore select as many clips as you like, and right arrow to twirl them all down.
BTW. If you add notes to individual keyword ranges on a clip, those notes as well as keywords will be carried through to your timeline. If you favorited those ranges, then the favorite notes done get carried to the timeline.
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Just to concur with others portability of projects is pretty fantastic in FCPX. I would recommend that you let Final Cut copy files to the event folder. It does create extra copies of media, but frankly that is a great thing, as the more backup copies the better. In fact right now I’m working on a large film project with another assistant editor and and we are currently syncing multiple audio recorders with the 1200+ shots. We have the event on an external drive and jumping between an iMac, a MacPro and a MacBook Pro without a single hiccup.
At my office we use sparse disk images, and any editor can open a project on an Mac in our place without trouble.
Speaking of render files, as you work with FCPX you might find that you don’t create them anymore. I rarely every do.
One thing to be aware of is that custom Motion Templates, i.e. custom transitions and effects that you might create or purchase have to be manually copied from machine to machine. It is not a big deal because FCPX will safely ignore them if you open on a machine that doesn’t have them, but it is a good idea to use DropBox or other cloud storage to keep a copy of our most recent Motion Templates. We use an app called “Folder Watcher” on the Mac App Store to sync between a “master” motion template folder on our server and also make a copy of it on our company Drop Box account.
By the way since you are new I would recommend spending a few dollars on training. rippletraining.com and larryjordan.biz are both very through and excellent. They will cover most all of these topics.
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Just wanted to chime in and say that something is definitely up with your system or perhaps how you are exporting. I have the same system and I do 2 hour projects routinely and and SD DVD for takes about 25 minutes to export and burn. BluRay takes some time and is just about real time. H264, faster encoding, is about 2x real time. I only use compressor for special stuff like x264.
When you say you are using Compressor 1080p HD, what codec. ProRes? H264? if h264 are you using best quality (2 pass) it will take considerably longer than faster (1 pass). If you are going to youtube, what happens if you use the built in YouTube share?
Also, 99.9% of the time I turn off background rendering and in fact never render. The only reason I do is maybe on a heavy composite, but I render just that composite. Render files are huge and most of the time unnecessary. I cringe every time I hear someone say that they are waiting for FCPX to render. My workflow is pretty simple, I work on one project, share to youtube or DVD for a proof and then move onto my next project while that shares are happening in the background.
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When FCP 1.0 was released it had a set of keyboard stickers. It was very cool. I just threw it away a month ago. (It had to go sometime).
I got out my trusty Contour Shuttle from around the same time period (1999) and made some new settings for FCPX, and it is actually quite usable for trimming.
If you are interested you can grab it here for the new 3.0 driver, as well as the old one.
https://forums.contourdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3440
(looks like the contour forum site is down at the moment.)
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Humm. Not seeing the issue on my end (as far as I can tell) tired a bunch of Apps.
As a side note. I had not idea how low res scopes in FCP7 compared to FCPX. Click to enlarge.
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T. Payton
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Mike,
Would you mind posting a file? Change the text around so it isn’t a problem with your project. I’m curious to see if I can reproduce it.
Maybe post a screen shot too.
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T. Payton
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So you can confirm that there is a color correction added with exposure with desaturation applied to the clip when it is imported?
Weird indeed.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
