Anyone still using Grinder with FCPX?

[Oliver Peters]

[James Taylor] “Is there any reason to still use Grinder with FCPX? Does FCPX take care of everything now?”

Yes. Editing natively with H264 non-timecoded media is still a bad way to edit. The performance is poor. You can, of course, opt to have FCP X create optimized media, but then you have no control over most of the parameters. Grinder or MPEG Streamclip/QtChange are still better workflows for HDSLR projects, unless you are just trying to get them out the door as quickly as possible.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Jeff Kirkland]

I prefer my clips to have timecode so I still use Grinder for import. I also use it’s proxy files with burnt in filename and timecode a lot for client previews.

Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia

[James Taylor]

Thanks for the info!

So do you back up the original files and the Grinder files when you complete a project? Or do you just archive the Grinder files?

JT

[Oliver Peters]

[James Taylor] “So do you back up the original files and the Grinder files when you complete a project? Or do you just archive the Grinder files?”

Back up both.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Shajan Karottu]

Not sure if you figured this out or not.

Since I purchased grinder last week, and ran into this problem…let’s just say I wasn’t feeling so great.

I think I figured it out though.

To use grinder, do your thing with grinder and save all your files in a separate folder. Open your project in FCP X, and transcode one clip. Let FCPX make the TRANSCODE folder in the event’s folder. Once it’s done, quite FCPX.

Now, go to the TRANSCODE folder FCPX made under the EVENTS folder, and transfer all the clips that you had GRINDER export into that folder.

Restart FCPX and your should be able to change your preference to use proxy clips. You should have struck gold at that point.

Hope I’m not responding to something that’s already figured out. If this is a poor workflow, fill me in!

[Shajan Karottu]

Ooooh K.

Maybe it doesn’t work. I posted that too soon. It appeared that FCPX read it, but when I placed it in my timeline, it does not want to play back.

Hmph….this sucks.

Sorry for filling your emails with this wasted response!