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6 months in with FCPX… my feature requests (FWIW)…
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Man I’m so bummed to be leaving on vacation Thursday.
I love a good re-run.
And this sure reminds me of the good old days.
New guy stumbles into the neighborhood chock full of “expertise” he’s sure nobody here in the minor leagues has ever had before him, and proceeds to school everyone on how editing is supposed to work and why the gizmo we’ve been using ain’t worth much to a “real” serious type editor like him unless they “fix it” to be more like what he expects.
It’s like the WayBack machine has dumped us all in 2012 all over again!
Might even entice me to log in from the beach now and then.
Have fun.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Then I guess that can be the only version.
*cough* (https://www.clipexporter.com/clipexpor… oh never mind…) *cough*
“Welcome back Robin 🙂
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[Bill Davis] “Might even entice me to log in from the beach now and then.
“Surely not? Take some time away from the war on FCPX complainers Bill, you’ve earned it!
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[Charlie Austin] “The amount of info you can include in a 40 year old format is incredible.”
Really? You feel that way even considering that you have a limit on the number of edits in your sequence, you can only use transitions in track V1 (i.e. the primary), have to join through edits if you have them, are limited in the number of audio tracks you can use, can’t rely on audio mix levels let alone any form of keyframing, have to avoid nested sequences and any nonstandard video transitions, can’t use or at least have to be careful when using still frames and speed settings and probably a slew of other things I can’t remember?
Personally, if someone asks for an EDL, I tell them “no chance”, since I have no way of knowing what will even show up on the other end and won’t go through the above checklist for them just because they’re stuck in the 80’s. 😛 Aside from pretty much every major app that I know of or deal with (aside from Avid… of course) can do some flavor of XML as well, so why would I use an EDL.
– RK
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[Robin S. Kurz] “so why would I use an EDL.”
Because the client, who is paying you, requires it.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “You can choose to link footage manually if you want even if the names don’t match. I have done that a couple of times in X. As I recall you have to do it one by one and it worked for me.”
Im lazy I just re-import to get automatic links.
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[Charlie Austin] “Because the client, who is paying you, requires it.”
For which task and/or which app?
Because in my experience 100% of the time (the last 3-4 years at least) has been, that I’m only asked for an EDL out of pure habit. Blissfully ignorant of all the other, far superior options they have. Like XML.
– RK
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“For which task and/or which app? ”
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re-conforming DAW work to your new edit
most tools that do this compare 2 ELDs2:
puling used shots.
don’t ask me why, but a facility recently told me that an EDL was better for pulling the media needed for a conform.
the XML was of course better for the conform itself.nick
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[Robin S. Kurz] “For which task and/or which app?
“lol… doesn’t matter, Post houses here in LA want what they want, and still have a kind of monopoly hold over us all. Hollywood isn’t well known for embracing technical innovation on the post side very quickly. We were still getting material on tape until fairly recently. 😮
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I’m still using 7.5 and after reading this thread I’m more horrified than ever at the thought of moving to X!
I’m by no means a big-time hollywood editor. I’m a busy “multi-media specialist” with a non-profit medical center. I’m getting too old for steep learning curves but I guess, I can fake it till I make it for another couple of years.
The screen shots look more like iMovie than FCP but if I just let go of the past and embrace the zen of FCP X I guess it will all work out.
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