TouchEdit for the iPad

[Chris Harlan]

Dan, its a cool looking device, especially for the price, and I’ll definitely be giving it a try when you add AFF. It may not work for my little niche–because of the time to transcode–but I certainly appreciate what you’ve achieved. The tutorials, btw, were quite useful.

Since you’re here, I have a couple of quick questions if you’ve a mind to answer:

1) You mention it being used on the set. How does that work, transcode-wise? Is it a separate feed coming off the camera and capturing h.264 in real time while embedding TC? So that you are not transcoding but matching time code to a similar file? You could probably load that up pretty quick, I would guess.

2) The 8 frame poster makes a lot of sense if you are working @24fps. Is there or will there be a way to adjust to a 10 frame poster for those of us who spend much of our time at 29.97?

TIA, and congratulations with this. AND, break a leg.

[Dan Lebental]

Thank you for the intelligent questions.

What I am suggesting is that we transcode straight out of the camera. The DIT station could handle the transcoding. In the case of Cannon 5Ds and 7Ds it can play the files directly but would still need a transfer station. I am told that cameras are coming out that can make simultaneous proxies as well. Your suggestion of an H.264 recorder off the camera feed would work as well, possibly out of video assist. The real magic will be posting footage on the cloud via dropbox so I can get it simultaneously in the edit bay and have instant access to comment on coverage or eye lines etc. I will be doing a Pilot next month and I’ll let you know how we set up exactly.

I did have it in my spec to have the filmstrips adjustable for frame rate but had to put that aside for now as not to go down one of the many rabbit holes that we went down the last year and a half. I would like to reexamine this once we get past the critical features.

Dan Lebental ACE

[Lance Bachelder]

Thanks for the info Dan – I just picked up the 128GB iPad yesterday just to try out your app! Hoping to use it on my next feature 🙂

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Dan Lebental]

Lance. That’s fantastic. Thank you for being an early adaptor. I promise that you will see more and more robust and collaborative features.

Dan Lebental ACE

[Chris Harlan]

[Dan Lebental] ” I will be doing a Pilot next month and I’ll let you know how we set up exactly.”

I’d love to hear about that. Will you be implementing AFF for it?

[Dan Lebental]

Yes. I will have AAF by then.

Dan Lebental ACE

[Sandeep Sajeev]

The real magic will be posting footage on the cloud via dropbox so I can get it simultaneously in the edit bay and have instant access to comment on coverage or eye lines etc.

This sounds fantastic.

I will be doing a Pilot next month and I’ll let you know how we set up exactly.

Looking forward to this. Will pick up a copy of the app in the meantime.

Best,
Sandeep.

[Dan Lebental]

Thanks so much Sandeep.

Dan Lebental ACE

[Steve Knattress]

There is an interesting article at https://postpost.tv/2011/09/fcpxml/ where Jonathan is creating xml manually.
He adds a %20 for a space in file names, perhaps that what adobe etc do?

Steve

[Rick Lang]

Lance, looking forward to a future post of your experience with TouchEdit on a feature! If you can find the time, that would be quite the proof of TouchEdit’s facility within a large workflow and an accomplishment for the iPad to support. Would be very interested in how you manage space requirements on the larger iPad as I may upgrade from the 64GB version this year. Thanks for the post.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB