I'm a filmmaker, looking for an external drive for my workflow. Anyone one knows if this works fine with Final Cut Pro X for editing. Speed wise.
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I use with Logic Pro handles it. It's all in the hook up USB 3.0 or better is best
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I have successfully edited videos on these drives using iMovie with my 2008 iMac.
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All of these drives are good. It depends on the usage. I use mine in a Drobo array for video editing. They are fast enough, but not super fast. The more data you have stored, the slower they run. Probably need to make sure future drives are "enterprise" models.
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The files it creates is yes. I use two of these in a studio and edit in FCP X
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We think so but not sure..with final cut pro you can download any file as long as it is the right format. We know it works with Adobe Premier.
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I edit in Adobe Premiere CC, and from what I understand is, is that Premiere demands much more hardware intensive components to work better. FCPX is a bit more optimized for Macs from Apple, if you're looking to replace this in a Mac Pro/iMac/MacMini/etc, this will be perfect, I have 0 issues with this drive for editing, render speeds are fine, playback is smooth, 0 frames dropped, export is relatively fast. If this is going to be a scratch drive, this larger the capacity, the longer it will work before it goes dead, which is nice. Buy it if you can, or go for Samsung Pro SSD, which are better, but cost more. Hope this helped, message me if you have anymore questions. I edit in Adobe Premiere CC, and from what I understand is, is that Premiere demands much more hardware intensive components to work better. FCPX is a bit more optimized for Macs from Apple, if you're looking to replace this in a Mac Pro/iMac/MacMini/etc, this will be perfect, I have 0 issues with this drive for editing, render speeds are fine, playback is smooth, 0 frames dropped, export is relatively fast. If this is going to be a scratch drive, this larger the capacity, the longer it will work before it goes dead, which is nice. Buy it if you can, or go for Samsung Pro SSD, which are... » Read More I edit in Adobe Premiere CC, and from what I understand is, is that Premiere demands much more hardware intensive components to work better. FCPX is a bit more optimized for Macs from Apple, if you're looking to replace this in a Mac Pro/iMac/MacMini/etc, this will be perfect, I have 0 issues with this drive for editing, render speeds are fine, playback is smooth, 0 frames dropped, export is relatively fast. If this is going to be a scratch drive, this larger the capacity, the longer it will work before it goes dead, which is nice. Buy it if you can, or go for Samsung Pro SSD, which are better, but cost more. Hope this helped, message me if you have anymore questions. « Show Less
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I am currently running 10.10.2 on this system. I do not use Final Cut Pro 10, but I certainly believe you will have no problem.
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I have been using San Disk for years. The Extreme Pro works lightning fast (i.e. 12 FPS) in my Sony A77's. I have never had shutter lag or buffer fill. I wouldn't use any other memory card than San Disk. www.budralstonphotography.com
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That is one of the reasons I got it. I'm a professional photographer and this is such a better deal than a Mac, performance per $. Very upgradable too. Ditch the HDD and get another Solid drive. Runs Lightroom and Photoshop like a boss. It's also great for video, runs Davinci Resolve and Premiere great.
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It will run Adobe Photoshop (I have CS6 Master Collection installed). The external resources will be limited by the single USB port and the speed. Your cache settings in PS Preferences will be limited as well with only a 256GB internal drive. You can specify the alternative cache area for your external drive in Photoshop, but once again the speed is limited by the USB interface. If you are a photographer and in the field, this will work until you can get back to your desktop. I found the screen too small to work with the precision required for Photoshop. Lightroom might be the alternative if you are just fixing photos.
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That usually means that the software bundle is for those platforms. The hardware should work fine in a Mac with SATA ports or in a SATA enclosure. James Fields has an article on Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro Website titled "Blu-ray with Final Cut Pro, Compressor and Encore" which uses this very drive (URL: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/blu-ray_fcp_fields.html ). The Mac Pro has six SATA ports: 4 for the drive bays and two as options for the 5.25" bays. Apple however doesn't support those extra two ports and some claim to have problems using them (from my experience I think it only wants one of them to be in use at a time). You could get an ATA-SATA adapter or an internal SATA card to use it internally. I think you'll need an adapter for power either way, unless it comes with one. If you're using any other current model Mac, you'll need an external enclosure, preferably with multiple interface choices (USB, FW800, and possibly eSATA). You will have to remove the front of the tray to use it internally in a Mac Pro; it won't clear the case bezel otherwise. You may want to hold onto that part if you plan to move it to another system or its own enclosure. Apple's software does tend to prefer Apple-supplied drives with Apple firmware to enable burning, but last I checked Apple's offerings didn't support Blu-ray burners yet anyway. You can use Final Cut's Compressor to encode the streams, but you'll need other software (such as Adobe Encore CS3) to master Blu-ray disks. I'm told this drive also burns all standard DVDs and CDs, including rewriteables and DVD-RAM, though Amazon's information and the reviews here don't mention this. Playing movies, last I checked Apple's player could only play HD DVDs mastered with Final Cut Studio (i.e. unencrypted), starting with Leopard. I don't know of any other software players.
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It's a great little unit. Be aware it DOES drift out of sync over time. You can use third party software to correct for it in editing or speed up the audio file in your editing system by 100.008%. Not a problem for videos less than about 15 minutes...no corrections necessary. Anything longer and you'll need to compensate for it. Otherwise it's a very useful and versatile device....I love it.
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I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec. Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that has taken decent bite out of the drive, I don't think there is a 200gb reserve or system partition on a 3tb...
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If you buy it new from Digidesign/Avid then the answer is Yes. But it is much higher than ebay/street price. Most of the ones on ebay do not have Pro Tools. It will work without it but the full editing and importing must be done in the plugin in Pro Tools. When this first came out it had PT 8 LE. Some on ebay have PT 9 included. Many people just kept the PT license and sold/resold the Eleven Rack. Make sure that you get it with the Expansion Pack. New amps and effects. The Multi Delay is the same as PT and is worth the price of the Expansion. If you buy used be sure to get the license and disks or a way to download them. And DO NOT do a hardware reset to default settings on the rack or you will lose the expansion pack. Otherwise, I recommend the Eleven Rack. I use it live and in the studio and I like it alot.
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The fan issue regarding the X4 I believe is actually moot because since the reviews that stated any fan issues, we changed the case and went with a much more efficient and ventilated case, as well as having an extra case fan now. There is room for a second... and 3rd (I just checked) DVD drive and is this the best we have for Photoshop work... no. Our technical best would be the AAC-T7S but that is not available on Amazon yet. We currently have a model called the AAC-X8 which we have in stock that would fulfill photoshop work VERY well. It has an 8 core 8320 processor, 16GBs RAM, a 2 TB hard drive and everything else that come standard (card reader, DVD drive, 3 year warranty.) We are working on getting that up and running on Amazon's catalog.
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i use Final Cut Express on my Mac. for the PC, I've used Pinnacle Studio. it's not nearly as good, but it'll get the job done.
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I use the 4GB flash drives to upload 1-2 GB videos to and have been pretty happy with them so far. The videos are QuickTime Movies exported from Final Cut X. The flash drives are then inserted in a western digital player and played continuously from the drives for a month. So, in short I'm asking a lot of these drives. They have been good with no issues.
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Yes and no. Here's why: Yes if you are storing your FC project on the drive for long term storage or archive. In this way, you'll used the Macbook's internal drive for editing and the external drive for archiving. No if you are directly editing video files on the external drive. In all cases, the resolution of your video files will dramatically effect how your machine/drive responds.