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Cutting a major Hollywood Feature on FCPX
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[Marcus Moore] “Sorry Charlie, it doesn’t matter if people are cutting features in X, it only matters if they’re NOT.
Wait… what?!
“Working on something that’s prestigious and well received will always get bonus points when it comes to PR, but people that actually care about editing and workflow won’t be distracted by the Rotten Tomatoes’ score. The was a COW interview/article with the editor of Sharknado 2 not to long ago and a couple posters were completely dismissive of it because it was Sharknado 2 (which is unfortunate because they missed out on an interesting article).
What’s funny is that while some overzealous PPro and X supports will keep jumping up an down going , “Hey! Hey! PPro/X just edited a Hollywood feature film! Look at us! Look at us!” they will ignore that Avid has been used to edit so many feature films that it’s just assumed that if it’s a big Hollywood movie then Avid was used to cut it. If that fact is brought up then it immediately turns into Avid only gets used because of fear of change, gear-nepotism, conspiracy theories, etc.,. and the fact that Avid MC might actually be a worthwhile NLE never enters their brain.
Lunatic fanboys make their own reality.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Sync-N-Link X is essential if you wan’t to give your sound department each lav mic on its own track which is something they expect you to do.”
Sorry, but this isn’t true. Sync n link makes a lot of things easier, but it doesn’t make multichannel export or interchange out of X any more or less possible.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Lunatic fanboys make their own reality.”
Actually, that was my point in my original response above. 😉 No matter what NLE/OS/Automobile etc the lunatics are fans of.
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It reads track names in BWF-Poly files and convert them to subroles.
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[Charlie Austin] “Actually, that was my point in my original response above. 😉 No matter what NLE/OS/Automobile etc the lunatics are fans of.”
Yeah, Just riffing on what you started. Creative COW word Jazz.
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Yes Sync n Link makes good use of metadata, and places it in useful metadata sections in X.
This doesn’t extend any functionality of X, but uses fcpxml to organize audio and video in X very easily.
Are you saying subroles aren’t possible without sync n link, because it’s not true.
You can give the sound dept each lab on its own “track” without sync n link, it will just be less convenient. That is to say, you can assign roles and subroles in X without sync n link.
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Feature film editing is relatively obscure corner of the industry. Few people know what exactly in an NLE is for feature film.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “That is to say, you can assign roles and subroles in X without sync n link.”
Could you please describe your approach to assigning roles to individual lavs in a few thousands production sound takes?
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Could you please describe your approach to assigning roles to individual lavs in a few thousands production sound takes?”
I can’t speak for Jeremy, but I’d buy Sync n Link. 😉 Having said that, I don’t generally need to do that, so the tools in X are just fine. I don’t need the kitchen sink built in, and If I do, it’s easily available to me.
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[Bill Davis] “I posted much of this based on a conversation on one of the Private FCP X boards where this particular CC forum was getting TRASHED as one huge “insiders” mess where FCP X gets belittled at every turn. A conversation NOT in 2011, but last week.”
thats a little bit of an exaggeration no? I see plenty of people going to bat for FCP X here and the flat out “it sucks” comments havent been around for ages.
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