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Didn't read every posting in this thread, so maybe this was already covered. I mean the part about EditReady. There is a much more powerful tool that does a lot more. It's called Kyno. A beta version for Windows (free) is announced. Didn't look too spectacular to me initially, but now I've bought it, and I think it's fantastic. Plays all* media (you can filter by video, audio and stills), dives trough folder structures (called drilldown-mode), allows to import, trim (> subclip), batch-rename, tag (Premiere: mark), transcode, wrap and copy directly from card. Allows to send data bases to FCP (shift cmd f) and Premiere (shift cmd p). 
*well, no raw video for now, they're working on it.

That's correct: absolute power corrupts absolutely. History has indeed shown us that, and watch GoT for an entertaining version of it  
Regarding voting, I think it's probably best if we go back to all paper ballots vs. electronic voting machines. We could also use some kind of statistical and cryptographic methods to sample exit polls or other ways to verify that actual counted votes match exit polls or similar to prevent cheating/rigging. If bitcoin and cryptocurrency are truly safe, similar technology should be possible for secure voting that the public can verify without government involvement.
In order to prevent a global collapse, it might make sense to change the system in a major way to prevent a collapse. Meaning not waiting for a voting period. Historically, only a war or civil uprising has been able to effect that level of change. This could be the first time in history that we have a peaceful revolution, and best not to call it a revolution, or resistance etc., rather perhaps something like an Enlightening: have positive targets as goals vs. negative motivators (psychology: toward vs. away from motivators). For example, instead of "NO WAR" use "YES PEACE", because what we think tends to happen, so remove WAR from our thinking. Instead of "LOVE TRUMPS HATE" (political & divisive) replace with "LOVE & KINDNESS". In simple terms, message and think about what you want instead of what you don't want.
Regarding the debt, FED, China: it's all FIAT and make believe. We can do whatever we want to fix it: we just have to all agree, just as we do now with our fantasy currency system.
Regarding giving politicians more power: we should eliminate all politicians. Instead replace with short term private citizens who monitor the system through actual checks & balances (unlike the current system which is corrupt). Artificial intelligence 'big data' systems along with simulation technologies can do a much better job than our current corrupt system. This reminds me of a quote from a cognitive science course taught by Don Norman when I was at UCSD: "in the future, airplanes will be flown by computers, with a pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The pilot will monitor everything to make sure nothing goes wrong, and the dog will bite the pilot's hand if he touches anything" . This is based on statistics which show that most accidents are caused by human error. So we can apply the same principles to large scale systems such as government of resources and application of labor for infrastructure, etc.
Another concept for business in the age of machines / robots / AI is the cessation of competition. Machines and automation will provide plenty of energy, food, and water for everyone. So we can have a totally different society without competition which will really help stop division and bring unity. Alan Watts talked about this back in the 70's*! Think Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek.
* Alan Watts on automation and money (watch it!):
 

In my work (home for the elderlies) 90 % of the clients have dementia. They have forgotten the meaning of, well, basically anything abstract. Their imagined social status, their illusion of autonomy, their professional ambitions, their whole anxiously upheld public persona: gone for good. Emotions remain intact to their last breath. At some stage they have forgotten the words to express them. Have they lost their humanity? 
The ability to think, to mentally function, to use reason, is an extension of the brain. A relatively new tool in evolution. As powerful as it potentially is, it turns dangerous, destructive, genocidal, if it loses contact with the emotional core, the real needs of the individual. Everyone would agree.
How does this relate to filmmaking? Do we question this whole field of activity because being shown a video doesn't feed anybody? Why not? On the other hand, it's a means of communication with many connections to the subconscious. Less abstract in many ways than language. Do we question language? Sometimes we should. The sense for our own and our neighbor's needs is numbed. We should listen to the heart (as cheesy as this sounds) more often, and it communicates non-verbally.

We can be superheroes. Our power would be real empathy. This is the only way. 
That was what I was trying to say. I didn't mean to single me out.
No offence taken. We say sorry too often.
Did you read this between my lines? Then you have misinterpreted them.

The white privileged gear collectors miss the signs of the time, which, thanks to Trump and the like, have made people more aware of politics. Some (black) comedian said, we have a very good party now - with a lousy DJ. I have a book on documentary video, written by (black) Anthony Artis titled SHUT UP AND SHOOT - ANY CAMERA - ANY BUDGET - ANY TIME. The time is now. Or never. Aesthetic niceties have their reasons, but we tend to be on fixated on, er, visual correctness.

Found it on FAQ - FIRMWARE UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS:
Works.

We can be superheroes. Our power would be real empathy. This is the only way. 
That was what I was trying to say. I didn't mean to single me out.
No offence taken. We say sorry too often.
Did you read this between my lines? Then you have misinterpreted them.

That's a workflow decision. Not sure why you would store in folders outside of the library, probably some shared storage environment. I usually store inside the library, but don't have the libraries on my system drive. There are countless ways to do this. You could also wrap or transcode to ProRes with another app (EditReady, Kyno) and then leave files in place. 

Dick Sweeneys two films have a different effect (in whole) as cantsins and Kevin Mullins'. They look like very short, fast cuts. The other clips more have a flip-book/ULFR (ultra low frame rate) approach. There is a magic in seeing time chopped to it's key phases. As a 6-year-old, I received a Christmas present from my parents, which, unbeknownst to them, became my Rosebud:

I was obsessed with cranking the speed. Later my father bought me a used Super 8 camera with single frame mode, and I made stop motion films with plasticine dinosaurs in my big brother's model train towns.
In connection with the Hobbit-HFR-discussion, I exported the LOTR prologue in 12 fps, here, to demonstrate the opposite effect. I wouldn't like to watch a three hour movie that way myself, but I think this belongs into a filmmakers toolbox and should be used if appropriate. Surely it can be achieved with different methods (with slightly different effect then), and one should experiment with different shutter speeds also.
The opposite would be a clip at at least 30fps (clarity), very high resolution and extreme slow motion. Time almost frozen, a living painting. That's what comes to my mind when I read "cinemagraph" (TwoScoops). Now if you imagine a short film as a slide show of those cinemagraphs, the effect could be mesmerizing (given, of course, it's not about flowers and cats).

That the absolute number of pixels stored in the video file doesn't tell anything about the actual spatial resolution. Nothing at all, in fact. And for perceived resolution, that other factors contribute more than spatial resolution, because in the real world the latter never is true, but always scaled up or down.

I agree. For certain cameras, 4k is just the better HD. It should be labelled so. UHD. And I am about to borrow a Shogun in order to pixelpeep the differences. Limiting myself to static tripod shots is not the answer.

Of course you can.
The content was created to watch on a 1080 screen and the term used 'noticeable difference'. The difference is not noticeable watched at 100%. It's start to get noticeable at 200% and even more noticeable at 400%. ...however at 100% you will not be able to see the differences. On a 4K screen that means using only a quather of your screen.
So if you saw a difference you either where looking fullscreen ( and now your screen starts to create 4 new pixels for every one pixel of the content, for allready two different pics) or your screen has pixels that are somehow better then the pixels of a 1080 screen and in that case I for one would really like to see a screen shot of the differences you saw on the pixels of your screen, as I don't think that is even possible.
 

85inch is pretty tiny compared to a movie screen. And the content has been ready for that since the 20ths.

This sounds rather unlikely. You already said that the copy to library option was checked, but just to rule out one thing, choose the library and just import another clip. Does it say copy to library or copy to (i.e.) manueldomes media drive ??? You could have had the copy to library option checked in preferences, but this can be overridden in the library's inspector settings (>modify >storage locations >media).
If you read copy to library and if the library settings say in library, then this is a mystery and a mess, and you have every reason to be concerned. Then this probably is a very rare accident, I've never heard of this before. You should better post your request on 
http://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx
... where you will get help. 
EDIT: hold down alt + cmd when you launch FCP X (trash preferences). This sometimes helps.

Might be exhausted. Buy new batteries.

@BTM_Pix
This is a nightmare and paradise at the same time. 

For the Pocket, buy the Zacuto Pocket viewfinder. You can press the very big and comfortable rubber eyepiece to your eye and thereby have an additional stabilisation point. Use a pistol grip or screw together a grip to the side (like here, unfortunately the free Dropbox doesn't render image links any longer), which is better for heavy lenses (I recommend the Sigma 18-35 with Nikon Pocket speedbooster). Mounted on a QRP, steel parts and screws cost below 10 bucks.

What this demonstrates, imo, is that BlackMagic do their homework. They rewrite and optimize their software. Whereas Adobe doesn't. Shouldn't it be the easiest thing on earth to optimize Premiere for Macs? Known parts, drivers, OS. But still it ridiculously fails, by far outperformed by a free software. 

What this demonstrates, imo, is that BlackMagic do their homework. They rewrite and optimize their software. Whereas Adobe doesn't. Shouldn't it be the easiest thing on earth to optimize Premiere for Macs? Known parts, drivers, OS. But still it ridiculously fails, by far outperformed by a free software. 

What this demonstrates, imo, is that BlackMagic do their homework. They rewrite and optimize their software. Whereas Adobe doesn't. Shouldn't it be the easiest thing on earth to optimize Premiere for Macs? Known parts, drivers, OS. But still it ridiculously fails, by far outperformed by a free software. 

What this demonstrates, imo, is that BlackMagic do their homework. They rewrite and optimize their software. Whereas Adobe doesn't. Shouldn't it be the easiest thing on earth to optimize Premiere for Macs? Known parts, drivers, OS. But still it ridiculously fails, by far outperformed by a free software. 

It is good to see that I am not the only one thinking that Apple's both Magic Mouse and Keyboard are invitation to disaster in terms of ergonomics. I've recently purchased a 2017 iMac. Both wireless keyboard and magic trackpad 2 are still in the box, which I plan to sell them. If you are interested, send me a PM
Recently, while awaiting the iMac to arrive, I had to use an 2011 MacBook Pro 13". I couldn't believe how comfortable the keys were on that machine compared to my previous Retina MacBook Pro. It was as if I had typed on a flat surface for so long that I'd forgotten what it is like to type comfortably.
I've recently purchased a boxed Apple Wireless Keyboard from 2003 from Ebay. It is a temporary solution until I find a good mechanical keyboard.
Also, if you are using a USB keyboard or mouse, especially those with extra buttons and keys, make sure you check out USBOverdrive or similar applications to modify certain keys to your preferences. You can create custom profiles if you like. For example, when you are in Final Cut, you may choose to use certain macro keys to perform certain actions. You can create a dedicated editor keyboard  
 

@BTM_Pix
This is a nightmare and paradise at the same time. 

This is me with all the abysmal kit lenses that I've bought over the years with the intention of using them as a DIY rebate scheme by selling them off.
 

Both are fantastic, but since this is about cinematic grading, I do find something to gripe about in both. Here, the shadows are washed out. We can argue about excessive use of slomos, kitsch (but forget it, I do weddings and have to keep my mouth shut!) and other aspects forever, but you never get sth. like this through a quality control screening for a cinema release. It's very distracting and unnecessary. And you can always avoid criticism by claiming it was an artistic choice. There is art, and there is craft.