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Why FCPX?
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[Darren Roark] “Such as? “
How did using FCX save so much money over the other NLEs? What specifically did you avoid spending money on that you would have been “required” to with the other NLEs?
Basically…HOW did this save money…what was done with FCX that the others would have required more $$ to accomplish?Shane
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[Charlie Austin] “Sure, if the tracks are all set up correctly, and everything is split correctly, and the sequence is set up correctly etc. In X none of that matters, only that Roles are set up correctly.”
What’s to set up? you get the audio stems from the audio mix and drop them into their prospective tracks. Would be comparable in time to setting up each stem with a ROLE.
Because the audio mix is not happening in Avid…and I doubt that it happened in FCX on that feature. Unless that is one of those details that saved money…no ProTools or LogicPro or DAW mix…
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “What specifically did you avoid spending money on that you would have been “required” to with the other NLEs? “
Labor.
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[Charlie Austin] “he’s probably not up for the arguments that would erupt”
You mean the arguments that have erupted right?
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[Shane Ross] “What’s to set up? you get the audio stems from the audio mix and drop them into their prospective tracks. Would be comparable in time to setting up each stem with a ROLE.
“Like I said, I can’t speak to this article. But in the case I laid out, sure, You get Stereo Stem from a mix. Drop them into your MC tracks or into X and set Roles. Then, you need to export 3 or 4 different Audio configs, different audio tags, different layouts, mixed mono and stereo, going to different channels to different versions on output. Dead simple in X, from one timeline. I’ve done this in other NLE’s Been doing it for over 20 years. It’s easier and faster out of X.
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I know what you are talking about. And that really takes no time at all. Maybe 15 min if you go slow about things. So if FCX takes 5 min, and Avid takes 15…heck, 20. Not sure how much money is saved in 10-15 min.
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[Shane Ross] “I doubt that it happened in FCX on that feature. Unless that is one of those details that saved money…no ProTools or LogicPro or DAW mix…
“We needed more time in editorial so I did a test turnover to the mixer so he would be comfortable with less lead time to prep the mix. That bought us a couple weeks.
Similar situation with color.
However, Runway unlike many large scale places has a pathway to ingest footage in Resolve from a drive rather than their server.
For v12 of Resolve (and so far v14) this was extremely important as the sync’d ‘container clips’ need to be in their original directory structure for the XML import to work smoothly.
Most places require the footage to be put on their server first which leads to the relinking nightmare.
The main thing was Runway was great to deal with in that way where as long as it would work the way I said it would, they were on board.
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[Shane Ross] “So if FCX takes 5 min, and Avid takes 15…heck, 20. Not sure how much money is saved in 10-15 min.
“Again, I’ve digressed here, so this isn’t about this article, since I had absolutely nothing do do with it. But, in the versioning example above, It’s a much bigger time savings than that. Particularly if you have 5 or 6 spots, that need 5 or 6 versions each, with different picture versions for each, different audio configs, possibly different audio versions (tags) etc.
For this scenario, Roles crush tracks and mixer panning and track enabling/disabling 6 ways to Sunday.
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We are in different fields, you are short form, I am long form. So I don’t have to deal with what you do. I can see how that’s a huge time saver for you though….
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[Shane Ross] “We are in different fields, you are short form, I am long form. So I don’t have to deal with what you do. I can see how that’s a huge time saver for you though….
“True, and yes… It’s huge. 🙂
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