Final Cut Pro 4 Quirks and Caveats

[Richard Brown]

The question becomes, does FCP4 allocate RAM differently based on 
project size? All my edits are long form, 30 to 120 minutes, each 
culling from its own truckload (20-60 hours) of online footage. The 
first job brought in was at 25 minutes at the time out of FCP3. During 
that job, I checked the RAM allocation, and the 1336 MB was the figure 
for FCP4.

The overview given by TomMacs  on the MacWorld forum makes me think he 
is an enthusiast, but not really checking RAM allocation. How much less 
memory? And doing what?

I've been hammering FCP4 since before it was in general release (well, 
by a day or so) and so far it looks spectacular, overall, but in need 
of updates. Typical of any new software release. The edit I first 
worked upon had enormous amounts of multilayered 3 Color Corrector work 
(2-5 iterations in notches) where the new and improved smoothing tools 
redefine color correction power. And CLEAN at the edges, even soft, 
moving ones. Very nice. These tools made it possible to match outdoor 
scenes shot hours apart (totally different lighting conditions) with 
quite acceptable results. And the tweaks were faster, to be sure.

Richard Brown

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 05:29 AM, Chris Searles wrote:

>
> On Samstag, Juni 28, 2003, at 08:31  Uhr, Richard Brown wrote:
>
>> 1) FCP4 likes to gobble RAM, 1336 MB out of my 1500 MB.
>>
>
> Interesting comment, but from this recent posting on the Macworld 
> forums you get a completely different impression: