[Alan Lacey]

Beg your pardon you are quite right. I guess that’s why I didn’t consider it a PS competitor. Still really pleased I’ve found it though. I’ll check out the photo.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

“how do I do (create burnt in clip TC)

Not an unreasonable, or particularly professional, request.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Having purchased this recently I don’t see it as a serious contender to PS yet – if ever. But it’s certainly a great & easy vector creation prog. Having used Xara on the PC for more years than I care to remember now, it still remains one of my absolute favourites. Sadly not available for the Mac. Affinity is practically Xara for the Mac and I for one am very grateful to have it.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks for the workflow Jeremy. Looks to be straightforward, I’ll give it a go. Yes most of the media will be ProRes from Samurai Blades, with some c300 and DSLR thrown in.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Okay. Do you think you could do this with proxys and also how would you go about linking?

Sorry to be a pain but I’m totally new to X.

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Do you think there’s a way of using the timecode text generator in Motion to read and display clip timecode in FCP? I don’t know enough to experiment with this.

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Jeremy,

In answer to you questions:

Importing stills, these are of varying size, all jpgs and generally 4:3. Currently they are exported pages from various PowerPoints. Both ‘fit’ and ‘none’ spatial conform lead to them being stretched to the 16×9 timeline.

So no random sorting in the event? I guess I’ll have to name them 00**, 01** etc – what a pain.

3rd party plugins: I was primarily thinking about this clip timecode problem but am sure there will be many more utilities I’ll find absent.

So if ‘open in timeline’ each clip then apply the TC generator I get the clips timecode as opposed to the timeline TC?

Thanks for your help

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Hi Noah,

I buy these drives to mount a) in Atomos devices for recording then b) transfer to external caddys that have eSata for PC laptop and usb3 for the mbp. Generally 1TB is generally enough per project and I have an identical one as a mirrored pair for backup. One of the beauties of Edius is that the project will open directly off either the main drive or the backup, so even if I have a drive failure I can editing immediately. I archive these pairs, not reusing, and buy new for each project so I guess I’ll be looking at bigger drives in future depending on the prices.

I don’t like Lacie drives, I’ve have many disasters with then.

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks guys for useful info. Peter that’s such gratifying info, is there a way of setting this subsequently after import as well as a batch.

Cheers Noah, yes I agree and would do this but as I said on a previous posting that you responded to, these files are on a single ‘shared’ disk (Nearly full 1 TB) that flips between Mac and PC laptops and I just didn’t have the space to do that.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Not to worry, just discovered FCP doesn’t like these files at all so re-wrapped to mp4 via Handbrake and all is well.

All I have to do now is work out how to handle hundreds of stills, of varying resolutions while maintaining a par=1 as FCP seems to want to fit these all to the ‘canvas’

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK