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Metaphors and terminology
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[Craig Alan] ” Who’s serving who?”
We’re here to serve Apple. I thought that we’d settled at least THAT much. LOL
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An interesting thread and some great points, the only thing I can add is that I don’t care what Apple chose to call them, it could have Hilda, Dennis and Gertrude, as far as I’m concerned. It took me about 10 mins to get used to the new names and that was that
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[Steve Connor] ” An interesting thread and some great points, the only thing I can add is that I don’t care what Apple chose to call them, it could have Hilda, Dennis and Gertrude, as far as I’m concerned. It took me about 10 mins to get used to the new names and that was that”
Agreed.
I’ve been thinking about using BBedit to replace every instance of “event” in the FCPX package with “bin” and see if that actually changes things, and if FCPX still works afterwards. Easy enough to reinstall. (…only half joking.)
If Apple gave editors the ability to modify interface names like it does key commands, a lot of folks might be happier with using FCPX. …OK, maybe not.
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“Library” in FCP X began as one master collection of all the projects (And I don’t mean timelines) on the root level of a drive. Since this was an impractical decision from day 1, a work-around was a virtual drive in the form of sparse bundles. But at least Library was what it sounded like.
So it was originally a library of all your projects and media — just like your mail is in a library.
Find and Open the Folder Where OS X Mail Stores Mail
To go to the folder that holds your OS X Mail messages:
Open a new window in OS X Finder.
Select Go | Go to Folder… from the menu.
You can also press Command-Shift-G.
Type “~/Library/Mail/V3”.The only 1.5 names I like in FCP X’s “Libraries” window (ok you can still open all your libraries in the libraries window.)
are folders and the new (Smart) Collection. I think smart is stupid, but ‘collection’ is a very easily understood name for a folder. It’s the only name I know for folder that does not reference a container that has a certain form in the physical world. That said, BIN has a charm to it, referencing the history of motion pictures-a container that held film. And container would work in the same generic sense. Bundle might work.
By default an EVENT will be named with the date you are creating it. Of course events take place on a certain date. But it’s very strange to create a new event in the NLE. It’s even stranger to create a new “project” when really it’s a timeline being used for the same project. Sure you get used to it because our mind can call anything anything but that does not mean it’s a good choice.
Way before FCP X, Aperture used ‘Libraries’ both in the app and on the finder level and ‘projects’ which were folders that you could import new photos into under the same library umbrella. It made more sense than in FC but was still dicey and made it harder, not easier, for end users to control their 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.
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Just a minor clarification: what you’re talking about are “Library Smart Collections,” introduced in 10.2. Standard Smart Collections can still be created at the Event level. They both can be extremely useful, depending on your needs.
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Yes, the SMART COLLECTIONS library one is created by default. For projects with a relatively small list of imports and media types, it’s very useful, saves a bit of end user organization while at the same time demonstrating the use of metadata sorting. And if you have your own way to organize its easy enough to delete.
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.
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[Tony West] “Some folks might get hung up on your choice also Craig, since the word “media”s definition has to do with mass communication, television, radio and newspapers.
We started using it a different way in our biz after digital card recording.
“I would have to disagree with your disagreement. 😉
Media is the plural of ‘medium’ (such as print, oil painting, photography, radio, TV etc.,) so more than one medium used to communicate to a broad audience (aka ‘the masses’) gets us the phrase ‘mass media communications’.
The term ‘mixed media’ has been around for a long time too and usually refers to using more than one medium in a visual art piece (such as mixing oil painting and photography), but mixing media is very much at the heart of editing. We’ll use some combination of music, video footage, photographs, graphics, etc., in nearly every edited piece. Even a hot-off-the-presses news package will almost always have VO and/or lower thirds to accompany the footage shot in the field.
To this point, FCP Legend’s Media Manager and Avid’s Media Tool both predate our industry going tapeless/card-centric by a number of years. Why Media Manager and Media Tool as opposed to Footage Manager and Footage Tool? Because both of them can track many types of media used (music, graphics, photos, footage etc.,) as opposed to just a single medium (only music, only graphics, only photos, only footage, etc.,).
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[Andrew Kimery] “The term ‘mixed media’ has been around for a long time”
Some good points but yes I disagree : ) People who have never heard of the “media composer” or Legend
use the word media as another word for “the press” and they would be right because part of
the dictionary definition is “b plural : members of the mass media”What you describe is there also, but you are outnumbered by folks that use the other definition.
My point was that “those” folks could be confused by the word being used as you described. People new to our field. They would get it as soon as it was explained to them, just as we did with event : )
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I thought the conversation was more industry-centric so my response was in kind. After you said,
[Tony West] “We started using it a different way in our biz after digital card recording.”
I assumed “we” meant people in the industry which is why I mentioned FCP Legend and MC. “We”, or at least parts of “we”, were using the word media to refer to media assets (as opposed to the press) long before recording to solid state cards became a thing.
[Tony West] ”
Some good points but yes I disagree : ) People who have never heard of the “media composer” or Legend
use the word media as another word for “the press” and they would be right because part of
the dictionary definition is “b plural : members of the mass media”What you describe is there also, but you are outnumbered by folks that use the other definition.”
Might be a regional thing as I grew up making mixed media projects in grade school art classes as well as having access to school A/V media labs (which housed things like video equipment, not the press corps). And, to boot, ‘multimedia’ was a hot buzzword when I was in college.
-Andrew
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