FCP and xgrid system?

I am new to FCP and xgrid and I am planning on getting FCP later in the spring. My question is, for someone who has expereince with xgrid, how well does FCP utilize an xgrid system? Also could an xgrid system be possible over a wireless G network or is this way to slow? I have a powerbook as my main computer and I could utilize a mac mini, iMac G5, and some windows computers (if possible) all as clients on the xgrid system... IS this possible?
Also if you just have an xgrid system please elaborate about its infrastructure/setup, how well it works, opinions, etc...
Thank you in advance,
TM

FCP at the present time makes no use of the xgrid renderfarm capability...
Patrick

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Xgrid systems, please share experience

I am interested and learning about xgrid systems, does anyone have such a system setup in their home? If so can you please elaborate on the infrastructure/setup, how many computers, how well it works, what apps utilize it, etc...
Anyhting and everything so I can learn about the xgrid system
ALSO, I want to setup a system for FCP or other processor heavy apps such that my powerbook is the master with a mac mini, imac, and windows pcs (if possible) on the network as well, via a wireless G... is this possible or is wireless G to slow (incomparison to gigabit ethernet) or to little of computers to notice anything?
Thank you for any and all info!
TM

Have been playing around with Report Designer and I found it useful for basic formatting but not for the one's you had mentioned in your post.
SAPs suggests you do all the data manipulation in the Query Designer or Infocube and use Report Designer for just formatting the data. In the past we had issues where we could not certain calculation in query designer and have used Crystal Reports along with BI data for similar kind of things which you had mentioned in your post (using sub reports and report level data manipulation). Report Designer unfortunately does not provide any of these functionalities.
I have seen comments from SAP saying Report Designer will be developed further, not sure of any specific functionality whichis coming in. I think it is SAPs first step in the formatted reporting area and may be in the future we will have a tool which can handle much more complex scenarios!
Thanks.

Pre-setting up xgrid system Qs

I am very interested in setting up an xgrid system to improve or give a slightly added boost to my powerbook when working on FCP projects. I have several questions concerning xgrid before I start to purchase the nessisary hardware and software.
1) Is there anyway to run a xgrid client on windows xp machines?
2) I have a Powerbook (which will be the main one), iMac G5, mac mini, and a P4 2.6 Hyper-threading windows computer. What would be the recommended setup? The mac mini as a rerouter and the other two computers as slaves or whatever they are called
3) Is it worth setting an xgrid system up? I have a wireless G network which I know is slow compared to gigabit ethernet but would i noticed any performance boosts to my powerbook using xgrid? Or are my computers to slow or is the network to slow?
Thank you,
TM

1) I haven't seen any windows xgrid clients.
2) The server needs to be connected to the network all the time, so that discards the powerbook. The server doesn't need to be the fastest machine, but if it is going to be used for calculations it is a good idea. So, I'd use your iMac as the server.
3) It is worth it if you have needs/software to go with it. The speed of the network is not much of an issue, the successful Xgrids in the world (Stanford, etc) are running across the internet so... The key point to understand is that a grid is a VERY loose version of a cluster. In a cluster you would use the fastest network available because the computations in the nodes are tightly connected, that is each node needs to know what is happening in other nodes pretty often. A grid works best when the nodes calculate stuff on their own, returning calculations everyonce in a while (at least seconds). That leaves time for the passing of files across the net, the server accomodating many nodes, etc.
Also important, if you use regular software you are NOT gonna see any improvement in your powerbook. You need Xgrid enabled software, and I am not aware of a lot of that so you'd have to develop it.

Fcp and motion 3 with Yosemite

I Recently upgraded the operating system of my 2009 Mac Pro to Yosemite and consequently FCP and motion 3 no longer work. Can I do a clean install of Mavericks on a spare hard drive, install FCP and motion 3 on it and not have any conflicts with the other hard drives?

HHi Nick, thanks for the response. My question however was : can I have one hard drive operating Yosemite and another operating Mavericks with FCP and motion 3 without conflict in the same computer? Any ideas?

Help with FCP and long project editing - Thanks!

I have posted several questions in this discussion group and in the iMovie group to no avail. I get a lot of answers, but not from anyone who has actually done any of the editing I am seeking. So if anyone has actually done the editing I am describing below -- I appreciate your help. Yes, I have searched the archives -- but again, I see a lot of confusing feedback. I have been working on this for three days now and it's driving me crazy! I have discovered that iMoive is $#@% -- and does not work with a long project, (40 minutes) so I am thinking about switching to FCP-HD. Thanks.
Here goes:
1: I need to transfer original master footage, 1080i HDV from a Sony HDR-FX1 to an editing program, edit the tapes (over 5 hours total) into a 50 minute "program". I then need to "share" or export the footage back to a new tape, using the Sony HDR-FX1 as the receiving camera. Simple enough.
2: I need to make sure the outgoing footage is of equal quality as the original footage taken from the camera. I am guessing here, that the footage can be edited in FCP-5 as "native" -- then transferred back to the Sony?
3: I am assuming that the native footage is just that -- and will not require the long process of converting to another format, e.g., ASI that takes hours to
render. (as in iMovie).
4: I am assuming I can edit and view HDV as native footage in FCP in real time, like iMovie, via firewire from the camera?
I really appreciate any assistance.
Chance

Welcome to the family, you'll be joining us soon.
The FCP product page says: > It features powerful new multicamera editing, native HDV support, ... edit everything from DV and SD to DVCPRO HD and fully uncompressed 10-bit high-definition video. Or work with new formats like native HDV (long-GOP MPEG2) and 50Mbps IMX... HD editing requires a 1GHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 and 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended).<
You seem to have the hardware including the Flux-o-pator, but, really, you want to talk to an Apple reseller who handles FCP and understands HDV via Sony. I don't like the way you're using "I am assuming..." You can't assume anything. Give them a chance to sell you FCP or Studio and go demo your camera on their system. You will have concrete evidence of the minimum machine specs and how well you can get your files in and out of the application.
Call you local Mac user group and try to locate other FCP users.
Try also the creativecow.net forums for Sony HD products.
Google your camera model for support groups.
bogiesan

After recent QuickTime updates fcp and QuickTime will not open .mov files captured on my FS-H200. Iran

After recent QuickTime updates fcp and QuickTime will not open .mov files captured on my FS-H200. I put this onthe quick time thread and they sent me here.

and NEVER do a software update unless you've got a clone of your startup drive so you can restore your system to it's working state if something goes wrong.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2494

Audio Interface for monitoring, mixing 5.1 St Surround in FCP and Sd Tr Pro

I'm a fairly newbie with FCP and Sound Track Pro, and I am doing mostly long form, live event HDV recordings and editing. I'm about to start doing 5.1 Stereo Surround shooting and burning to Blu Ray. What do you recommend for an audio interface for my G4 PowerBook running Leopard w/2GB ram, to monitor/mix my 5.1 audio tracks in Sound Track Pro (since I can't monitor 5.1 in FCP?) I will likely be recording the tracks on the new Sound Devices 788T and inporting them into FCP and/or STP via firewire, but I need to monitor my mix before I burn to Blu Ray discs using Toast 10 and my LaCie BR burner.
Also has anyone found a way to use Bose 5.1 monitor speaker system? It would work fine for the BR player, but what about using with the Mac G4 PowerBook - do I need a digital audio - audio interface?

You'll need an audio-interface with at least 6 outputs. They should be connected to a surround processor or AV-Receiver with multichannel inputs. In line with your budget you could use M-Audio, Focusrite or Apogee products for that, they work with STP & Protools.
When monitoring, you cannot use the Bose system, because S/Pdif is for encoded audio only.

FCP and Avid

Does anyone know if you can use both FCP and Avid in the same MacBook Pro?
Right now I have FCP in my MacBook, and I'd like to ad Avid Media Composer to the same
MBP, but don't know if I'll encounter compatibility issues, or if both in the same system will
screw up something.
I'm not planning on using both programs at the same time.
I'll have one program closed while I use the other.
thanks!

I run both on my Powerbook G4. Just gotta make sure that the OS version and QT version is supported by both platforms.
I have OS 10.4.11 and QT 7.4.1. Running FCP 6.0.2 and Avid Media Composer 2.8.3.
Shane

FCP and the QUAD

I have the latest version of FCP and just downloaded the update. Does this update allow FCP to take advantage of all the Quad's processing power?
Thanks!
david

It depends on what you are doing.
I have been doing some testing on a quad this morning. If it simple stuff like Colour Grading, or some filters, then no worries. It will go flat out.
If you do something like drop a basic motion project (10 seconds) into the timeline, and render it, the whole thing will grind to a halt. Do this, and pull up the activity monitor, and you will see the system trying to pick which processor it is going to use. it will swap processors about every 4 seconds, while the other 3 processors sit idle. fun fun fun.

FCP and Xsan

Is anyone working with FCP and XSAN?
I working on building a new Server, XSAN system and I am curious on how your workflow is working.

Our workflow is working fine. This discussion is best left for the XSAN forum.

FCP and a stuck force quit

hello
i have the final cut studio 5.1. it has been working ok on smaller projects. now however ti won´t work properly giving me beach balls at least 4 times a day which results in the only way out to force quit. Which works.
however - it will keep its little triangle icon in the dock and thus won´t allow for me to reopen the app.. the only thing i can do is to reboot the whole machine - which is really annoying... trying to force quit again won´t help - and even apple alt esc will find fcp and will take it out of its list if i press force quit there - but the app keeps coming back to the list...
this problem has been bugging me for days.. .is there any other way of killing it so that it is truly dead? via terminal? maybe? if so, how??
thanks for all help!
enno

> i have 1.5 sure i could stack it up but it should work
with just 1.5 as well...
Oh - I see . . .
So Apple are just kidding when they say 2 GB minimum?
(I don't think so)
It may not be the actual cause of your problem but it certainly isn't enough RAM - and RAM problems can cause many faults.
Are you running two external HDs at once?
I think your System is under powered for what you are trying to do.
You don't have enough free space and you're just asking too much of it.
Remove all Firewire and external devices, and try running something easy, like word for an hour or so. If all goes well, try a different App (but just one App at a time) gradually building up to FCP last.
If all seems to be OK, reconnect some hardware one at a time. If you hit trouble, you know what to suspect - so re-start the test, but this time, using the suspect App or Hardware first. If the problem re-occurs you should be able to prove what's causing it.
Andy
G5 Quad 8GB. 250+500 GB HDs. G-Raid 1TB. FCP 5.1.1. Shake 4.1. Sony HVR Z1E Mac OS X (10.4.7)
"I've taught you all I know, and still you know nothing".

FCP and Grass Valley K2

Hi All
The educational institution I am working at is considering upgrading from Grass Valley Turbo, to the K2. has anybody out there had any experience with the K2 and FCP interface?
the website says the workflow is flawless, but I want to know from someone who's actually used it. The main points is how easy it is to move media back and forth between the systems, and what kind of codecs that can be used.
We shoot lots of stuff on P2, edit in FCP, and want to move the exported projects into the K2 for use in a TV news/current affairs studio production. We also want to record programs in the studio onto the K2, and move these recordings on to FCP for further editing. In the past we have used the Turbo for this, but the process has been very clunky, unstable and complex (for our students).
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
cheers
-j-

Not really David, the K2 is essentially their video server storage system and in the context of the question it seems pretty clear our poster is talking about hanging his FCP off that storage for transfer of media to/from his FCP system(s) and/or using it as a SAN for edit in place via iSCSI connection.
Jokke, I work in a K2 SAN environment, and I work with FCP and EDIUS but our K2 system would need an upgrade for us to take full advantage of the latest capabilities, including the GV FCP Connect Plug-in so I'm afraid I can't give you first hand knowledge of the system of the current functionality ... I have researched it somewhat tho, and could probably fill in some blanks for you ...
For example, support formats for edit in place w/ FCP are currently DV (25/50/100), IMX-D10 (30/40/50), XDCAM HD/EX/HD422 (25/35/50) and read only for AVC-I (50/100)
... but I can't tell you as much as the man with the plan regarding FCP/Edius K2 integration. Grass Valley's Regis Andre is the man to contact, he's extremely knowledgeable on the subject, and if you throw him a curve that he can't answer he's quick to dig the info out for you ... for a whole lot more info and contact details of the man in question, check out his (official and) excellent "Editing on K2 San Blog" at http://k2san.blogspot.com/
Best
Andy

VTR not seen by FCP - seen by System Profiler

I'm sure this HAS TO BE some silly setting but it's driving me crazy!
FCP doesn't recognize the VTR (camera) when I'm trying to capture - but I've captured hundreds of times before. I've tried every preference setting I can think of but to no avail.
System profiler sees the VTR (Sony HVR-M10E) no problem.
I get exactly the same result on my G5 2.0 Dual (also running FCP 5.0.4) and the same result on both computers when using my Sony HVR-Z1.
4 x 2.5 GHz G5 Power PC. 8 GB DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.5) FCP 5.0.4 (FC Studio)

Upgrade Quicktime recently? Even if not, try this:
#30 - Deck recognition after Tiger Upgrade:
Shane's Stock Answer #30:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1063600&#1063600
The credit for this goes to Bob Sidebotham:
I was just walked through a repair procedure by an Apple Care person, and it fixed my camera recognition problems (I have a Canon XL1 and sometime after installing Tiger, then 10.4.1, various patches (including Quicktime 7.1) and the latest Desktop Video patch, I've been unable to use the camera with Final Cut Express, and attempts to capture would result in a FCE crash).
The workaround is to download Quicktime manually, after removing the "receipts" which indicate that it is loaded. Specifically, I was told to do the following:
1. Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder).
2. Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where "*" is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed.
3. Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/downloads and click on the "download Quicktime" link. DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC UPDATE UTILITY. Download QuickTimeInstallerX.dmg. Double click this file (probably on your desktop) and then invoke the installer by double clicking QuickTime701.pkg.
4. After your computer reboots, you should be able to restart FCP and see your camera.
Shane

Problems with FCP and my second display

Hi everyone !
I'd like to use for my editing and color correction a second display. I bought the JVC DT-V24L1D monitor, and plugged it into my MBP through a matrox mxo.
When inside FCP, I cannot find a way to display the canevas into my JVC screen, it displays the whole screen i already have on my laptop. I read the manual a good hundred times, and by following what is written I just got nothing. Can please somebody help me finding a way to set FCP ? Thanks.

You are probably better off posting this in the FCP forum, where there are several Matrox MXO users, but since I'm one, I'll give it a go.
When you install the Matrox software, you should have a whole new group of easy setups in FCP using the Matrox. If you are working with standard DV footage, choose the appropriate Matrox setup; i.e., Matrox MXO DV NTSC 720x480. There are also setups for HDV, etc.
After choosing an easy setup, and starting a new project, go to the view menu, and set your external video and audio to the same settings as the easy setup, if they aren't already correct.
Using Command/F12, you can switch from your regular display on the 2nd monitor to the FCP canvas.
A couple of other things to mention: for existing projects, you can change all of the above in your sequence settings, and under the View/External Video settings.
And, in system prefs/displays, set up your external display so that it is not mirroring the desktop; then you can create a dual display window arrangement in FCP, so that when you're not using the Matrox for viewing the canvas, you can have an expanded timeline, more space for your browser, etc., etc.
You can save your custom window arrangement, and toggle between it and the Matrox canvas view with the above mentioned Command/F12.

Optimizing FCP and the studio

Hello,
I am a user of FCP and the rest of the Studio, but I only use the "consumer" version. I use it for professional purposes ( I work for PCTV) and I wanted to know if anyone who uses this stuff professionally has any advice on how to make the system more powerful and usable. I find it hard to believe that Peter Jackson's crew had to wait 14 hours to render and compress a few minutes worth of graphics or compositions. What do I need to buy to make the system faster and more capable? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt

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