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Do I use X for a 1/2 hour broadcast doc. ?
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The new extreme sport… cutting serious stuff on FCP X 🙂 certainly gets my heart racing…
j.Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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With the release of X2& at least we have a parachute now!
“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”
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Indeed that is a good point. Notes that are transferred in the timeline index right now are only clip notes, not the favorite notes. Granted, you can rename favorites or actually put a note on a favorite, but they won’t show up in the timeline index. There are notes for each favorite in the timeline but those are not transferred to the even browser. 😉
My suggestion at this point would be that if you need notes in the timeline index, and therefore the timeline, to put the notes in markers within the favorite selections, as you are just at the first stages of your project.
If you already have alot logged, you’d think there would be a way to copy the notes to markers automatically, and while it is possible via FCPXML, there are no tools for doing that right now except for maybe CATDV. You could try a demo.
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Jonathan, I produced several broadcasts with X already. I even covered our first one in a blog: https://fcpxmegatest.blogspot.com/
If you say you don’t want to go back to 7, then don’t. There is no reason anymore to use 7.
X will help you to finish faster with higher quality. All the QC feedback I got was “superb” and I didn’t even use Color or Resolve for those pieces. I used the built in colourboard and audiotools and it works great.
I recommend to “copy” and “optimize” on import ( turn everything else off). That way you have a slick Event that can be copied and (partially) moved.
Depending on the size of your even make sure you got tons of RAM! Once you reach several thousand clips your machine needs lots of it.
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Forgot to add: i did also output OMFs and did it via FCP7. Since i had the mix done the audio department complained, because it was premixed, but once they heard it they were pleased. I did limited testing with ADuck and it worked fine, but i didn’t try it on a big timeline yet, only a few minutes with about 8 layers of audio.
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Just an update on the 1/2 hour doc. progress…. I find X to be stunningly fast for editing, we have a pretty good first assembly of the programme within 3 days editing… the director says she’d never work with any other editing package and can’t understand the negative statements she’s heard… I’m also cutting another project with another director who is equally won over…
I don’t want to be too cocky as I’ve yet to finish them including OMF export, downscaling and layoff to digibeta (which I plan to do with FCP 7)….but so far so good 🙂
Any ideas of a good downconversion path from 2k to SD Pal for digibeta (10 bit uncompressed).. I plan to use compressor.. (in the past I would output from my MXO box with hardware downscaling but it doesn’t handle 2k)..
j.Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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[Jonathan White] “Just an update on the 1/2 hour doc. progress…. “
Thanks. I’d be curious to hear your feedback after you start dealing with any effects or grading or titles. Also your strategy for handling multiple cuts, versions, etc. as you move towards a locked picture.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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I’ll keep you updated 🙂 Part of my plan is to use x27 so hope it works!!
j.Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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[Jonathan White] “Part of my plan is to use x27 so hope it works!!”
I’m testing it now. Hit few a minor snags, but no deal-breakers. I have an e-mail in to them.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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