FCP for DS and Symphony User

[Walter Biscardi]

[Francois Stark] “Walter

One of the big issues regarding this process is the fact that upon reconnecting the clips after the media manager process, many clips with speed effects applied will reconnect wrong. “

With this process? Opening multiple projects at the same time? I’ve never had an issue with clips that are already online having speed effects issue.

Once the clips go off-line EVERY speed effected clip will be completely screwed up. Not sure if this is addressed in FCP 5 but I sure hope so. I had a 3 hour project last year which probably had about 50% of the shots speed effected (car show) and when I redig’d the project, every single speed effected clip ran 200% in reverse. Took over a week to fix all the speed clips.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Annaël Beauchemin]

[quote]I’ve never had an issue with clips that are already online having speed effects issue.

Once the clips go off-line EVERY speed effected clip will be completely screwed up. Not sure if this is addressed in FCP 5 but I sure hope so. I had a 3 hour project last year which probably had about 50% of the shots speed effected (car show) and when I redig’d the project, every single speed effected clip ran 200% in reverse. Took over a week to fix all the speed clips. [/quote]

Since v4, there was lots of issues with speed change. 4.5 has prety much corrected it, but I still see it from time to time. I’m not sure it has to do with the speed change effect itself… the bug seems to be related with the way FCP constructs the timeline. For example, problematic clips would also misbhave with motion blur effect. It seems that at some point, FCP can loose track of the clip’s timecode.

I whish they fixed those bugs, because otherwise the new “workgroup editing” will be buggy as hell. There’s some hope… (quote from apple) “Improved Media Management Tools provide support for reconnecting and managing file across large Xsan environments, budgeting your real-time effects according to available Xsan bandwidth.”

I whish that “Improved Media Management Tools” means they reworked the core of the MM and cleaned the bugs out.

[Martin Baker]

Yes I’m listening Paul, just a bit of a delayed reaction!

The good news is that FCP is very similar to DS in a lot of ways so it’s a relatively easy transition. If you want to pop round for a chat, drop me a line martin(at)digital-heaven.co.uk

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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