Long time editor’s frustration with FCPX

[Oliver Peters]

[Scott Witthaus] “With this 4K job I am in right now (using X) I would have to do a lot of “drilling” to get to the files. With X, I can point to the folder and just tell it to not make collections from folders and it tosses all the XML files and just gets the media.”

Scott – in both X and PPro this depends on the camera SDK that is installed, whether it is third party or built-in. In the case of PPro’s Media Browser, there’s a filter to pick different camera file types instead of just generic files. If it is one of these choices – P2 or RED, as an example – filtering occurs without drilling into each individual clip folder. That’s why the recommendation is to use the Media Browser instead of import via the Finder. So basically the Browser works more or less like X’s import module.

– Oliver

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[Dennis Radeke]

[Scott Witthaus] “Doing it this way, I still have to drill down through the folder structure to get to the media I want to use, correct?”

Not normally. Media Browser is designed specifically for file-based cameras so that you can cut through the folder structure and express just the video essence that you care about.

In the image below, you can see what camera based formats Media Browser natively recognizes as well as how to turn ‘off’ this capability and folder dive if the need arises.

By selecting “file directory” (off by default) it allows you to see the folder structure. In this case, this is RED media. Look at the difference when I have RED selected.

It has revealed just the video media and none of the other file types that might be in the folder. If you import RED media, it also brings over any RMD data for color and allows you to access it in the source settings of RED clips.

Also notice on the left hand side of either image. You’ll see that I’ve got local drives (which can include network mounted volumes) and above it Favorites. The favorites option is to have folders of media you hit immediately at your finger tips to prevent diving down folders. To make a folder a favorite, right click on the folder you want and “Add to Favorites”

Hope this helps,
Dennis

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Lawrence] “Thanks Jeremy, really curious about your thoughts. Looking forward! :)”

I thought I could get this together today, but it will have to wait.

I will make the effort to come back to this.

[Scott Witthaus]

[Steve Connor] “Solved it!”

Exactly what I do. Or an event just called “cuts”.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Walter Soyka]

[Andy Neil] “I would love to be pointed in the direction of how this is done because that’s pretty amazing/scary if true.”

All Premiere icons are PNG files. They’re located in a PNG folder inside the application bundle on Macs and alongside the executable on Windows.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Richard Herd]

[Robin S. Kurz] “I find the whole personalization thing highly overrated “

Funny! The first thing I do is make “my” set up, and I save it as “Richard.”

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jeremy Garchow] “[David Lawrence] “Thanks Jeremy, really curious about your thoughts. Looking forward! :)”

I thought I could get this together today, but it will have to wait.

I will make the effort to come back to this.
“

Just checking in, I haven’t forgotten about this, I just can’t find the time to do it right!

[Darren Roark]

[Bret Williams] “Am I the only one who doesn’t notice any special performance increases? In fact it’s more like a 5-10 crash a day fest. Still as laggy as ever.”

Hi Brett,

I tried trashing the usual troubleshooting files on the multicam Red feature I’ve been working on and it was still torturously slow to open it. I tried project repair from Digital Rebellion and it got it back to normal. No more crashing.

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Just checking in, I haven’t forgotten about this, I just can’t find the time to do it right!”

Thanks Jeremy, appreciate it. Glad you’re busy and no rush! 🙂

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[David Mathis]

Thanks for sharing this. Preimere has made significant progress, now if I can get the mental block over rental only out of my head.