Winston Cely
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How much will this affect render times? Seems like it would take twice as long to render since you’re rendering both graphics and the clips.
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I thought that FCP would eat as much RAM as you could throw at it? BTW, what page of the manual is this all listed on? I hate wasting people time here. (I assume it’s early on).
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Or you could run out and buy one of those new fangled Intel-Macs, and then get Ultra 2. That way you can run that Windows program and FCP on the same computer. Of course, you’d have to wait for the new Power Macs to come out first….
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Groovy. Thanks for the suggestions! Of course, I’m not the money man, so it depends on what will be the best ballance between price and quality. I’m checking out your suggestions right now….
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So was I wrong in thinking that RAM will make the render go faster? (I have an X800XT card and 4.5 GIGs of RAM that we’ll be maxing out to 8 soon). We have Magic Bullet Editors 2 as well, and it’s done a good job of crashing FCP 9 times out of 10.
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Graphics cards in most (if not all) of Apple’s recent PowerBooks, iBooks, and portables in general, have their Graphics cards “hardwired” in. So there’s no safe, economic, or practical way to upgrade graphics cards. This is a bummer, yes, but I have heard rumors of hackers out there successfully upgrading their cards. This, of course, means that these guys have spent hours learning how to read diagnostic diagrams, soldering techniques, and a bunch of other stuff that’s impressive, but non-the-less out of the reach of most of us.
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You’re probably soing this already, but if you (while in FCP) change the Alpha of the Motion files from Straight to Black, there’s a huge quality increase. Also, render times seem longer if you use a .motn file in your FCP timeline, than if you import a .mov file with an Alpha channel.
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I follow this method as well, and though it is time consuming, it’s the safest way to make sure you’re “legal.” I rarely ever use just the broadcast safe filter, though I have from time to time, i have used just the 3wayCC filter. I think, if you just drop the broadcast safe filter on it, your image can get a little “flat.” Maybe I’m wrong……
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I had tried that with the last card, and didn’t see any change. I am, however, going to try that again this weekend. Would lowering my monitors resolution have any noticeable effect on performance?
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I agree. I happen to love FCP, and from my fairly limited experience (I’ve only been doing broadcast editing for 2 years) FCP does everything I need it to and more. I feel the best thing about FCP is it’s ability to have workarounds for just about anything. Maybe it doesn’t directly work the same way other NLE’s do, but I bet more often than not, there’s a workaround that will get you the same, if not better results.
That being said, I’m not a big fan of nesting either, but like I said, there are workarounds.