Mavericks experiences (good or bad) with FCP X

Having updated to Mavericks today, I am happy to report that my mac now behaves soooo much better under heavy load.
As it has been often discussed in this forum, low free memory used to slow down everything, and in particular FCP X.
Memory management has been significantly overhauled in Mavericks and so far it seems this is a great improvement.
In my unscientific tests, even loading some big applications when free ram was already depleted resulted in no spinning beach balls at all. I was able to continue work with no significant slow down.
I would like to hear any reports of your experience with FCP X under the new OS.

… hmm, if THIS is reasoned by Mavericks, it is marvel:
The coach of my soccer-kids asked for a 'multi pip version' of our games - all 5 perspectives simultaneously in one 1080-video…
Only the material in window 'main' was optimized; all others were NOT imported to an FCPX-Event, just the original h.264 stuff; plus a time-code as 'title'.
I knew, this would need a lot of time on my under-powered MacMini/2.24/8GBs ...
pt.I took 14h for a 35min video …………… I'm in no hurry.-
pt.II was a lil' different: a) in my first attempt, for convenience, I 'compounded' each 'track'… in pt.II I sticked/synched the parts together manually; and, in pt.I I forgot to add a plain black as background, so, theoretically, the storyline was transparent.
Aaand, pt.II now with Mavericks
=> 6h! yepp, this is a six, not 14h!
this is pure anecdotical, I changed too many parameters btw I and II to call this a 'test' …
but I'm flabbergasted!

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Shane's Stock Answer #20: Using iMovie to Capture for use in FCP.
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FCP unrendered to Compressor 2?
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Jerry
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fundoo77 wrote:
Not sure whether it was a good choice to select 32 bit OS -> Comments please.
IMNSHO, always go with a 64 bit OS. With Win 7 32 you will probabaly be able to use all of your RAM, but if you add more RAM at some point you won't be able to use it without going to a 64 bit OS.
A 32 bit system can address 4G of address space but Windows tends to reserve the top 1G (more or less) for addressing installed (and future) peripheral devices and graphics card RAM. Any RAM above ~3G simply goes to wast.
Just my $.02. You asked...
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Hello I was thinking of purchasing a firestore FSC (tapeless recording) but two things consern me...How does it work with FCP..?(Good or Bad) And also (a little off topic) how is the battery life on it? I see that it comes with a 90 min battery or 180min...Anyone used one and can answer this question for me...
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We see alot of Lacie issues here and elsewhere.
Drives fail... period. I believe you hear more about Lacie drives failing because they sell a ton more of them than many other suppliers. I've got 8 of em sitting right here on the desk and two more at the second station. I've lost one since I started using them years ago (and it had problems right out of the box) and I use them pretty heavy.
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The guy said the G Techs were a little overkill for his needs. Lacie doesn't pay me. But if someone asks "how are Lacies?" I'll tell them they've been great for me and many others I know, especially if your requirements are capturing DV.
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What Studio said, well he gives out some of the best advice on this board
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