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Music & Sound Browser Rocks
I love the Music and Sound browser in FCPX! I created a playlist in iTunes called “SFX”, into which I dumped my thousands of sound effects (I have iTunes set to NOT copy added files to the iTunes folder); then I can just select my playlist in the Music and Sound browser and type in a keyword in the search field below. When I find what I need, I just drag it to the timeline to use it. It is automatically added to the ‘Original Media’ folder for the current event, which is great because I like having all the assets for a given project in one location. It’s never been easier for me to find and use sound effects.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Yeah, and hopefully you won’t end up listening to music on your ipod and suddenly be listening to “footsteps over wet gravel.”
Do you have all of your sfx on an external volume? Do they just go away when you don’t have your media drive hooked up, and appear back when the drive is mounted? Or do you have a standalone edit station?
My problem is that I use my laptop for personal use as well as all my editing. I also have several external drives, separated by clients. It’s easy enough to use up a few dozen gb on a drive, and keep all of my sfx on all of my drives, but the drives all have different names.
I suppose I could create a partition on all of my drives with same name just to hold a copy of sfx and production music, but doing that on drives that already hold lots of media probably isn’t practical.
You see where I’m going.
Perhaps this is also where we can have all sorts of metadata tagging sound effects by the kind, and just create an event for sfx. It would be instantly searchable, and I could create a copy on as many drives as I want to. It would be fairly instantly searchable by starting to type in a word to filter. Maybe I’ll try that.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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[Mark Morache] “Do you have all of your sfx on an external volume? Do they just go away when you don’t have your media drive hooked up, and appear back when the drive is mounted? Or do you have a standalone edit station?
My problem is that I use my laptop for personal use as well as all my editing. I also have several external drives, separated by clients. It’s easy enough to use up a few dozen gb on a drive, and keep all of my sfx on all of my drives, but the drives all have different names.”
I have a “Media” drive that has all my SFX, stock footage, etc. I’m on a Macbook Pro, but I have an external, sledless esata bay for swapping out project drives and an esata toaster for plugging in my media drive, or whatever else. If the media drive is not mounted, the Music and Sound browser will just give me an ‘unavailable’ error message when I click on a sound file.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
[Jason Jenkins] “I have a “Media” drive that has all my SFX, stock footage”
Yeah, I get that. I’ve been tempted to get me one of those punky little usb drives at costco for $60-70 and just use that for sfx and production music. It’s easy enough to carry around, even when I’m portable, and I can always turn on the “copy” option when importing it to my project.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com
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