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Dear FCP X, I QUIT!
I gave up on FCP X the other day after a project corrupted and the backup file would not open. The next day, I started a fresh project in Adobe Premiere 5.5. The project was going to be a simple, yet splashy, open for a web series of videos. I looked at the Premiere interface … WOW, this is just like FCP!!! How familiar, this is going to be quick and easy. I looked at the interface again ……………… where’s all of my media? Where’s all of my music?? How do I create a PRORES workflow!!!??? Where are my Motion templates?? I exited Premiere and started to assemble music, sound FX, colored objects created in Photoshop, titles, etc… Three hours later after browsing through thousands of sound FX, music, creating objects in Photoshop and researching a PRORES workflow in Premiere, I was ready to go. I setup a custom PRORES timeline, imported my collected assets and rubbed my hands together like a mad scientist. This is going to be just like FCP. YES!!!! Wait, this is more like a composite, isn’t it??? Then it dawned on me that I was doing this pro bono. I closed Premiere, open FCP X and my world was whole again. All of my assets were at my fingers tips. I opened a Motion template in FCP, modified it in Motion to fit my needs, added music, 15 sound FX from the browser and ten-minutes later I was done.
The end.
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I tried Premiere 5 a few times because I have it. Yeah, no. Not there. Powerful, but missing something. Oh, yeah. Just about any support for ProRes. All my ProRes stuff won’t play back in real time without lowering the quality. Mercury my a**. Looking forward to trying CS6. I figure it’s worth a rental. Literally.
As an AE user, and someone that is looking forward to color grading, I’m liking the idea of CS6, but the integrated idea of Smoke even more. I’ll be using it all summer I hope.
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Sad to hear that about your project.
Felt the same way back in 2010 to 2011 with a few Avid projects.
Un-playable due to errors even Avid couldnt explain.
But we moved on.
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So I wonder… projects are getting corrupted. But what about the events? Within the event itself you can create a new compound clip and copy and paste the contents of your timeline. Now you have a sequence that lives in the event, completely outside of the project. A backup of sorts.
Could also export an xml every day or half day just in case. It should import completely in tact I think.
I’ve been doing a little of both. I could duplicate the project at the finder level too I guess, but the other two are quick and I’m not grubbing around in the finder.
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[Bret Williams] “Within the event itself you can create a new compound clip and copy and paste the contents of your timeline. Now you have a sequence that lives in the event, completely outside of the project. A backup of sorts.”
I think this is a very dicy idea.
You’re taking a process with a defined metadata flow and trying to circle that flow back on itself.
And I think a workflow like this is going to cause you trouble in the long run.
If you want to make a persistent yet unchangeable copy of any Project – just use the Share menu to export one.
You can certainly pull that into a new subsequent Project if you like. But it’ll never have the flexibility or power of a project that remains connected to it’s original events and still has all it’s editable metadata connections in place.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Well the compound clip doesn’t cause any problems on it’s own, and it’s a completely viable construct of FCP X. Why would that be a problem? I’m saying that if I have Project A, connected to the Project A event, with a compound clip within Project A event which just happens to be the same as the project, and the Project file gets corrupted, then it would be pretty simple to recreate a new project of the same name, connected to the same event. Then open the compound clip in the event, of which all the media is connected to the event, and copy and paste the contents of the compound clip into the new un-corrupted project. No meta data is harmed in the making of said project. That I can tell. All the clips retain their keywords and connections to the event, etc. I would assume that if you go look in the event on the hard drive, that there’s a little mini project there. But I don’t know.
I don’t see how to export an editable project via the share menu. And since there’s no Save, save a copy, save as, or autosave vault, then it’s to the finder to duplicate a project in a safe place.
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[Bret Williams] “I don’t see how to export an editable project via the share menu. And since there’s no Save, save a copy, save as, or autosave vault, then it’s to the finder to duplicate a project in a safe place.”
Frequently duplicate your in-progress projects within FCP X.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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True of course. And I version them that way but not enough. I guess I was thinking the whole library was getting corrupt. It hasn’t happened to me yet. In legacy I kept the project on system drive where time machine backed it up.
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[shawn Bockoven] “I closed Premiere, open FCP X and my world was whole again. All of my assets were at my fingers tips. I opened a Motion template in FCP, modified it in Motion to fit my needs, added music, 15 sound FX from the browser and ten-minutes later I was done. “
Sound to me FCPX worked out for you!
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