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Long format project – anyone done one yet?
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Hey Nicholas,
First off thanks for the reply and advice! One quick question. When you are saying get you like footage into compound clips quickly, can you elaborate a bit more on how you are using compound clips in your workflow? Are you just using it for string outs of similar footage. For instance if putting each interview subject into a compound clip.
Thanks again!
Michael W. Towe
President M2 Digital Post
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I personally have found that once you get used to how powerful FCPX can skim through footage of any size in a particular clip, the harder it is to ever consider going back to double clicking through single clicks. So while Keywords can work for things like interview, B-Roll, etc you can also take say one interview has 15 clips where the camera stopped and started. Highlight them all Opt-G and make a single Compound Clip of the entire interview, then make markers on it, not the individual clips and tag it with a Int keyword. Or say B-Roll for a particular day shoot, or event. Truncate the potential hundreds of clips into a single or few Compound Clips and fly through it. So much faster… obviously depends on the needs of the project, but hopefully that makes some sense.
Director, Editor, Colorist
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Absolutely makes sense and falls in line with what I was thinking you were doing. Again thanks for taking the time to advise and elaborate!
Michael W. Towe
President M2 Digital Post
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Okay, just got my 32 gig’s of Ram from Other World. The 12 I had was in 2 gig sticks so by keeping some of it in I am now running 40 gigs of ram. I am floored by how much smoother and faster FCPX runs! And how much faster it starts up.
Michael W. Towe
President M2 Digital Post
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Hmm that’s interesting. I have 32 gigs in my nehalem my pro and still feel like it runs slower than my 16gb MBPr. But I admit I didn’t do a ton of experimenting with a big project on the Mac Pro once I realized all this. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!
Director, Editor, Colorist
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I don’t know how well comparing an older MacPro with the newer iMacs or MacBookPro is going to be. I can tell you that our second edit system here at the shop is a mid 2012 iMac and with 16 gigs of ram and thunderbolt connected storage. I am convinced it runs circles around my MacPro when it comes to FCPX.
Michael W. Towe
President M2 Digital Post
http://www.m2digitalpost.com
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