What was your biggest bottleneck in 2013?

[Tangier Clarke]

Biggest bottleneck = my Mac Pro. It gets sluggish to the point of making it hard to edit.

Mac Pro/ Mavericks 10.1/ FCP X 10.1.1/ 2 x 2.26 Quad Core Xeon/ 16 GB RAM/ ATI Radeon 5770/ Blackmagic Multibridge Pro 2/ Drive bays running 7200 RPM Hitachi Drives / Always use Pro Res (optimized)

Our iMacs with less RAM but equal VRAM are much faster (i5 processors)

Tangier

[Shane Ross]

Network Executive Producers.

Shane
Little Frog Post
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[Paul Neumann]

So now ask Developers what theirs are. You see where I’m going…

[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] “What was the thing that slowed you down the most? “

Timeline rendering
Corrupted project files
Rendering review copies at .h264
Creating review DVDs
Program crashes
Ranting on the Cow

I do think it’s time for me to leave both Legacy and my MacPro behind.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Franz Bieberkopf]

Walter,

On my last project, the edit was started May 2012 and we delivered in August 2013, cut in FCP7 using ProRes transcodes from many formats (primarily RED 5K, and C300 MXF, with heavy doses of XDCam).

Transcoding was a minor annoyance (RED was done via a Red Rocket card), but getting a handle on the back-up strategy took some time and energy until it had the momentum of a habit.

Translation and subtitling can also be very slow, clumsy processes.

The major bottleneck was the conform, which we took on ourselves before delivering to the lab. We used Resolve to relink and deliver camera originals, and it was not an ideal process (though a useful experiment). I think if I were to use a similar workflow again, I’d use Premiere and deliver DPXs.

Franz.

(Edit: Dates)

[Simon Ubsdell]

AMA in Media Composer.

Way out in front as the worst offender. Countless wasted hours. Grrrrrrrrr …..

Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Shane Ross]

My biggest issues last year were Avid related…Avid Pan & Scan kept losing connections to the pictures…even when relinked. And I needed to almost relink all manually. Not much better with the Moving Picture plugin. Those are the biggest pains in my side. Thus why I miss FCP, and want to use it again…or PPro. But not CC…

Shane
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[Clint Wardlow]

Been shooting a project the past year that uses an old Super8 camera, old VHS camera, an old Sony HDV camera, and a new Sony Nex. With all these formats my biggest bottleneck is just getting the footage off the cameras and onto the computer. And sadly, I don’t think it is going away.

[Bill Davis]

[Clint Wardlow] “Been shooting a project the past year that uses an old Super8 camera, old VHS camera, an old Sony HDV camera, and a new Sony Nex. With all these formats my biggest bottleneck is just getting the footage off the cameras and onto the computer. And sadly, I don’t think it is going away.”

Clint,

Have you looked at the little BlackMagic Video Recorder – it’s just a small dongle thing, but it does a simple analog to digital conversion with H-264 native on board.

I use it all the time when I have to digitize old analog sources. It’s just a couple hundred bucks and works very well.

(This presumes your analog playback machines are stable, or you can find a TBC somewhere -but the gizmo does the actual digitizing really well.

FWIW.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Michael Garber]

Shane Ross FTW.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X