Aaron Neitz
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After Effects Coin
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It works in FCP as a filter. it does cost a little, but there’s not many options that work in FCP – exporting and importing footage is a pain in the ass. You could probably use Motion to do rotomattes too, but honestly I’ve never liked that program in the slightest.
I use SFX ALL the time for small roto and paint jobs.
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There’s a plugin called Silhouette FX. It has a great paint and a rotomask function. But you’ll have to spend a little time learning the interface.
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that’s what assistant editors are for 🙂
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I’ve done loads of offline to online’s with FCP in the last couple years from editors outside my company. Here’s my method:
I typically ask for a copy of their FCP project file. I’ll go through their edit and pull all the problem clips to a high video layer. Then dupe that sequence and delete all those problem clips. These are typically freeze frames, speed ramps, titles, etc…. Then I’ll do a Media Manager on that sequence and it PROBABLY does a good job at creating a new project with unused media deleted and ready for a batch digitize. As soon as you hit “batch capture” you can usually see if there are missing reel names, or if it wants to digitize 30 hours for a 10 minute sequence…. at which point I go through the bins and try and locate the offending clip. Keep doing this until I’ve got a sequence which I can batch capture. And then go back to those original problem clips and bring them over by hand.
and sometimes when it just gets too rough, I make layer by layer EDL’s and bring those in. You lose a lot of data that way, but it’s faster to recreate things sometimes than spend hours trying to get Media Manager to bring things over properly.
Having said that, an offline which is straightforward cuts and dissolves will typically Media Manger OK right off the bat.
Time consuming as all get out. But it works and I haven’t pulled any hair out in the last year.
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You’re probably going to get flamed by some diehards, but I’m totally with you.
Makes me wonder – Color is great and all, but I would rather spend the $500 upgrade on some improvements to the core app that Studio is all about.
Media Manager has been completely broken for YEARS.
I said it before, I was at a “special event” at NAB for AICE editors where we sat with Apple “techs” and previewed the new Final Cut. When I presented problems that us editors deal with, I got a lot of “uh, uh… hey look at this Color program! You can even work in 32 float!” Great…. but what about Media Manager, any improvements?
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So you’re making an EDL per layer, correct?
I’ve had this happen so many times. Typically it’s a TITLE or a FREEZE FRAME that’s causing the hiccup. But not always.
Why don’t you just export and XML if you need it for archive? that’ll keep everything in one file, plus all the FCP settings that an EDL can’t carry/
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I really don’t know about automated programs… my 1st instinct is when you add elements, add them to a dated Folder, then you can simply copy those dated folders to the FW drive and copy them to the other RAID. So today for the 3 music files and 10 graphics files I imported, I’d bring them into a “9.11.07_additions” folder. It may not be as streamlined as having all the music in one folder, but it doesn’t really matter to FCP where the files are, so do all your organizing in FCP.
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I’ll add: Yes you can be an editor only, but you really need to surround yourself with specialists in other aspects of Post or you’re done. The boutique edit houses are a dying breed – if all you do is offline edit, be prepared to lose work.
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Yeah…. it’s a known problem. Has been doing that same thing to me for MONTHS. I’m still on 5.4 drivers myself, so I see they haven’t fixed it @ 6.4 either.
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It works great. I’ve used it several times to convert 1080/24 to mpeg2 – even feature films. Just use the presets and it will do a nice job.