FCP X 10.1.2 released…

[Craig Alan]

Can’t we already store optimized media at any location? All my libraries use aliases.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Tim Jones]

Be sure to backup your library bundles before you upgrade as there’s no turning back once the library bundles are “upgraded”.

Where I come from, a feature change such as this should get the middle number changed, not the last number:

Version number . Feature Level . Bug Level

For most apps, changing 10.1.1 to 10.1.2 indicates that a bug (or three) was fixed, not that a major feature change was made…

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[Robin S. kurz]

“Can’t we already store optimized media at any location?”

Erm… no. Until now ALL optimized AND proxy media went into the library. You’re confusing it with ORIGINAL media.

[Robin S. kurz]

It has never been that way with Apple. Aside from there actually being very little (i.e. nothing) along the lines of “majorly new”.

[Craig Alan]

Yes, I see that now. We have been using P2 footage throughout our transition to FCP X. With P2, there is no need to transcode, only rewrap. If optimized is selected in the import window, a transcoded version is put in the library in the Transcoded>High Quality Media folder. However, FC would actually use the original media rewrapped as QT outside the library in whatever folder is selected upon import. I know this by choosing ‘reveal in finder’ in the inspector. The high quality version has larger file sizes even though both are QT. There is no difference in quality. I have checked with many sources and was told AVC-Intra 100M 1080p30/24, Linear PCM is a perfectly good codec for editing – no advantage to transcoding to prores 422. Fortunately, we left optimized unchecked in the large majority of imports. The rest can be erased. When I erased the one import where optimized was selected by mistake, no files went off-line. No need to relink anything. So in 10.1.1, FC already had the ability to use alias files and reference media outside the library. And in fact would do this by default regardless if we optimized or not.

The above worked this way with a library that had already been updated to 10.1.2 before I did this test. I will check if this is the case with 10.1.1 when I get to work on Monday. I need to go through all our raids and back-up projects I think need to archived and trash the rest anyway. As I do this, I will trash any transcoded versions of our original media.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[James Ewart]

I’d quite like to be able to store my proxy media in the managed library and other media elsewhere however.

Nitpicking I know. Media Management is beautiful unfortunately in the UK the Avid community have seen the early release as an opportunity to go back to what they know.

So much negative stuff from editors who have not taken the trouble to learn it.

FCPX is dead in the water here pretty much apart from a very small community

[Robin S. kurz]

Stope??

And you might not want to carelessly apply your immediate surroundings to the rest of the world as some sort of global or even vaguely representative yardstick of an entire industry. FCP X is lightyears from “dead in the water”. If anything, then that actually describes Avid quite fittingly IMHO. They are way out of the loop and have been for a very long time. I work for and with a lot broadcasters and schools throughout Europe. Avid is not even a faint consideration for any of them for the future. Most haven’t even updated the MCs they have in years. It’s FCP X and/or Premiere all the way.

[Craig Alan]

you can. First set your storage location in a folder outside the library then consolidate the proxy files in the library.

or import to your normal out of library location and then import again setting in library for proxy.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[James Ewart]

Apologies “Store”

But yes in the UK I have found only one facilities house taking it seriously and most editors still seem to have jumped on the bandwagon from the very early bad press from the initial “Beta” version.

I am using FCPX and enjoying it but I assure you in the UK people are very wary (as they were with FCP1 thru 3) and perhaps being typically British and conservative about it.

As regards ‘Dead in the water” unfortunately that seems to be the case here at the moment.

If you know different could you name some facilities houses and broadcasters adopting it in the UK because that would be very useful to me.

[Robin S. kurz]

No offense, but, as I hinted previously, to take what is happening in your immediate vicinity as any type of a yardstick for an entire industry is rather short-sighted and a tad arrogant, don’t you think? I’m pretty sure any American alone (especially if in L.A. or N.Y.) would scoff at that notion either way. And why is the broadcast industry in itself any deciding factor at all for the popularity, let alone usability of any given NLE? Broadcast makes up only a tiny percentage of the entire media/editing/NLE using market and your share of it even that much smaller. I don’t see why I as an end user should really care either way, unless of course I’m in fact working FOR or directly WITH them and they require I use something else. Which has yet to happen to me personally. FCP, all versions included, is still the market leader by the way. I use what offers me the biggest bang for my buck, and that’s currently FCP X by a long shot, as it is for many in MY vicinity.

But to answer your question, there are many. The currently most prominent of course being The E. W. Scripps Company, Azteca and others.