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Native OMF export support needed
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[Oliver Peters] “Someone at ProApps engineering just threw up in their mouth. ;-)”
Yes, yes they did. I don’t know what ever happened to these guys: https://www.xmil.biz/
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I don’t know what ever happened to these guys”
I believe it’s still in development.
I recently went through the exercise of trying to get a number of developers interested in producing a utility that would take an XML or EDL and relink to new media that had been renamed and trimmed by the render output of a grading app. Relinking would be based solely on reel ID and TC (ignoring the name). Everyone – except one – felt the market was small and not worth the effort. Most said it couldn’t be done.
One said that too, but hacked around until he came up with a workable solution. Still in a rough beta and may never become commercial, but ultimately some of these things are such a small market, that only personal curiosity drives the development. EDLs fall into that category.
– Oliver
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[Oliver Peters] “I recently went through the exercise of trying to get a number of developers interested in producing a utility that would take an XML or EDL and relink to new media that had been renamed and trimmed by the render output of a grading app. Relinking would be based solely on reel ID and TC (ignoring the name). Everyone – except one – felt the market was small and not worth the effort. Most said it couldn’t be done. “
What I like about RCX, and I know it’s specialized, is not just the color correction and color metadata control. There’s plenty of ways to grade a raw signal, even Color will accept Epic R3D now (thanks to Red).
What I like most about it, is that it’s a transcode and interchange powerhouse, you can also import and EDL and spit out an XML, or vice versa, you can from one place to another, and you can do it with the raw media, or transcoded media, and you can even sync audio in a batch. You can send timelines, you can send bins, and can spit out both of those, you can even do very rudimentary editing. This “holy grail” is certainly what Premiere is missing.
It would allow trimming/consolidate, XML, EDL, OMF, AFF, whatever. You could sync audio, you could make tc window burns, you could edit metadata, assign reels, you could even standardize around a frame size and frame rate. It would have to accept a giant number of camera native formats and be able to make sense of all of that, and it would also need to somehow keep track of it all so that if you ever DO need to go back to the cam original for whatever reason, it’s not a painful journey.
We’ll call it, “Glorious”.
Jeremy
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Jeremy you speak perfect sense. FCPX has some issues to work out but so do all the other NLE’s. I’m learning Premiere, Media Composer, Smoke, and Lightworks but the one that has me editing the fastest is FCPX so I keep coming back to it, and it’s a 1.0.x release!! Metadata, roles, trackless timelines etc., it’s going to take some time for developers to adjust but I’m willing to bet that they will catch up. X2Pro does say AAF media handles are coming in August and Apple has announced audio enhancements coming this summer. I think taking the chance and completely rewriting the NLE was a good idea.
instant gratification needs a new publicist
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[Oliver Peters] “[Jeremy Garchow] “I don’t know what ever happened to these guys”
I believe it’s still in development.”
EDL-X is done, and waiting for app store approval. It works really well. 😉
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[Charlie Austin] “EDL-X is done, and waiting for app store approval. It works really well. ;-)”
What’s the workflow?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Charlie Austin] “EDL-X is done, and waiting for app store approval. It works really well. ;-)”
What’s the workflow?”
export fcpxml, open in EDL-X, edit source tables if needed (awesome feature BTW!), choose audio, video or both, save EDL’s. EZ 🙂
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Do they have an OMF button?
😉
What about consolidate? Will it copy the media somewhere for you?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Do they have an OMF button?
😉
What about consolidate? Will it copy the media somewhere for you?”
Yes, it has an OMF button. It also demagnetizes and puts discrete tracks back into the FCP X timeline 😀
… It just makes EDL’s, no consolidation. But the EDL’s work just fine. And being able to edit the source table is a nice thing to have when 8 out of 10 of your sources had no reel numbers logged to the file and are all ID’d as 001. Don’t ask me how I know.
But I’ve said too much. 😉 Keep an eye on the app store, hopefully it will appear soon…
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Thanks, Charlie.
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