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FCPX rendering help

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will waters

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Jul 19, 2011
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Hi
I have final cut pro X on 2 machines, a laptop (which is not meant to be compatible with FCPX) and one of the latest most powerful iMacs, apple say that you can use both to render a project or similar, so how do you do this? i have them bot on the same network, what else do i need to do?

Any advice would be really useful as my laptop is struggling, which is what i use for some ( as it is portable)

Thanks:)
 
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bluap84

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will waters said:
Hi
I have final cut pro X on 2 machines, a laptop (which is not meant to be compatible with FCPX) and one of the latest most powerful iMacs, apple say that you can use both to render a project or similar, so how do you do this? i have them bot on the same network, what else do i need to do?

Any advice would be really useful as my laptop is struggling, which is what i use for some ( as it is portable)

Thanks:)
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dont quote me on this, but i dont think its for rendering. I have only noticed that you can share the exporting. havent really looked into it to be fair, as i only have the one comp
 
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OSMac

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You can transfer the project and events between machines,
not aware of being able to distribute the rendering across multiple machines.

If you want to use the laptop ,
maybe doing a remote session to your desktop assuming your at home
would be better than running FCPx on the slower laptop?

Just a question, is FCPx crashing on you?

I had numerous beachball hangs/crashes and worst of all auto save has failed more than once.
Actually really like the program for my uses otherwise.
 
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mBox

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Jun 26, 2002
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will waters said:
Hi
I have final cut pro X on 2 machines, a laptop (which is not meant to be compatible with FCPX) and one of the latest most powerful iMacs, apple say that you can use both to render a project or similar, so how do you do this? i have them bot on the same network, what else do i need to do?

Any advice would be really useful as my laptop is struggling, which is what i use for some ( as it is portable)

Thanks:)
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Are you wanting to let the iMac do the rendering? you can move/copy your project and event to another system. simplest way is to make sure you start the event/project on an external drive. but its possible if you didnt. there's a few tutorials out there on this subject. one I think is at http://www.fcp.co

Good luck!
 
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OSMac

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mbox - do you mean just unplugging the external drive and moving it to the other machine. is it as simple as that was thinking of getting a 1TB self powered drive if it is?
 
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mBox

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Jun 26, 2002
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OSMac said:
mbox - do you mean just unplugging the external drive and moving it to the other machine. is it as simple as that was thinking of getting a 1TB self powered drive if it is?
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Yes it is.
Im using a few G-Tech mini for numerous projects.
Funny cause FCPX is starting to act like Avid media databases.
I hated that on the Avid side and now FCPX is doing it too.
Oh well hard-drives are so cheap.
 
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mBox

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Jun 26, 2002
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OSMac said:
Just a question, is FCPx crashing on you?

I had numerous beachball hangs/crashes and worst of all auto save has failed more than once.
Actually really like the program for my uses otherwise.
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Yea this one puzzles me cause it hasnt happened to me yet. Im using it on a 2009 Uni 17" MBP and a few MP 12 cores.
I do have it on a MP 2008 box but I dont have a clone of me to test this week :(
 
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will waters

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 19, 2011
155
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Great Britain
OSMac said:
You can transfer the project and events between machines,
not aware of being able to distribute the rendering across multiple machines.

If you want to use the laptop ,
maybe doing a remote session to your desktop assuming your at home
would be better than running FCPx on the slower laptop?

Just a question, is FCPx crashing on you?

I had numerous beachball hangs/crashes and worst of all auto save has failed more than once.
Actually really like the program for my uses otherwise.
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yes final cut does crab a fair bit, i am sure it will be fixed with a later release
 
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mBox

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Jun 26, 2002
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will waters said:
yes final cut does crab a fair bit, i am sure it will be fixed with a later release
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The only issue I had so far was FCP7 itself was acting up. I read about the problems and didnt see it for weeks till I installed FCX3 on a new MP along with FCPX on top.
Just audio hiccups nothing drastic.
So far 3 systems have both apps running fine (except for that audio hiccup one).
 
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