[Alan Lacey]

So the answer to your first question Michael appears to be ‘no’

I’d like to be able to do this too and in FCP legacy there was a filter for 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]

Yes thanks Noah. I generally transcode to either ProRes422 (Edius & Mac) or CanopusHQ if PC alone. The beauty of ExFAT disk format is that these disks are equally at home on a Mac or PC with big files.

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 to you both that’s just what I hoped to hear. Actually the various types of media that I use, BPAV-XDcamHD-DSLR-Samurai ProRes-C300 all reside in their own folders on these drives along with the relevant Legacy FCP scratch disks, so knowing that I can link this media to the FCPX library on the disk an so keep it self contained is wonderful. I generally edit Edius/Premiere on the PC and these apps all have their own folders as well in the structure.

This way I can keep my old workflow while getting up to speed with FCPX.

Good news and many thanks

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]

So am I right in thinking that the Library is the top level of the heirarchy and if I put an FCPX library on each of the external disks, I could treat that like a good old fashioned project?

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 Noah but I don’t think these help an awful lot. They just tell me how easy and automatic it all is without giving any advice as to where FCPX stores the stuff and how to control it. I just hope I get the hang of it before I give up trying.

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 Brian, very helpful. It’s been a while since I’ve used c4d, I thought there was something like 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]

Thanks guys. Guess I’ll have to use one of the cameras, but I didn’t want to tie them up.

Cheers 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 Marek, but I’m looking for a small light solution to take into the field with tiny laptop.

Cheers 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 Marek, not too worried about hot swap on Mac, I’m pretty much PC editing these days, but can it be used externally via USB only? It looks like it needs a PCIE slot on a desktop. I don’t need PCI speeds, just compatibility. Do you use it with Sony SxS cards as well as SD adapters? If do you know up to what capacity SxS?

Many thanks for your help

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 response Adam, and I’ll certainly try again, but I’m sure that’s the first thing I tried, only to find out that the spline, on which the spine warp was placed, was offset from the axis, and it was this offset that I couldn’t negate when inserted, positioned and scaled in the second animation.

I’ve since remodeled the source so solved it that way, but being able to reposition the original world origin would have saved me a day!

Cheers Alan

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