[Alban Egger]

yes, we use ipads as secondary monitors.

here is stage 1….
https://vimeo.com/26342577

tonight we upload stages 2-4.

[Alban Egger]

We posted a new entry, finally have internet again.
https://fcpxmegatest.blogspot.com/
This entry is a lot about features we like and features that missing or not as we would like them for our working-speed.

There will be a clip soon.
We are well over 1500 clips that have probably turned into 7.000 keyword items already after 30% of the shoot.
We are mixing XDCam, DVCProHD, h.264 (DSLR, GoPro), framerates from 25 to 60 and edit on relatively old Macbooks at 1080p…….so far so good.

[Alban Egger]

Yes, we do just re-wrap. Sorry for the wrong terminology.

In FcpX at import we “Copy to Events Folder”.

We then create a backup for the original files and a seperate backup for the “Event” and” Project” by dragging the directories in the finder to other drives.

[Alban Egger]

You can make a black frame or gap in the beginning, just a few frames. Then connect the music to it. It will be locked. Now you can use the primary timeline.

Or you put the music in the primary timelone and add only connected clips to it.

[Alban Egger]

Every NLE is one workaround after the other if you look at it with the eyes of yet another NLE. Any Avid editor will tell you that about FCP7 and vice versa.

The trick is to find your way of working for your projects with the tools at hand. And you need to choose your tools according to your work. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, so does FCPX. But from my limited experience with it, it saves so much time on the basic tasks, there is easy time to break up a compound clip, adjust it and put it back in compound mode. it´s only two clicks. how many click did every “Trim-Start” use in FCP7?

[Alban Egger]

Well, actually the whole setup witha Event and a Project should mean there is no such connection between a Project Setting and a Synchronized/Compound clip that STAYS in the EventBrowser for the time being….

Anyway, I tried it: copied the two files (h264 file and wave) to the desktop and unmounted the disk. Then clsed FCPX. Opened it again and started a new event and a new project with the setting it should take the format of the first imported clip.
Then I imported the h264. The project became 1080, 29.97 ok.

Then I made a synced clip….and it again went to 720p, 23.98

go figure. i need to test it more.

as i said the 720p does´t really matter for now, because when I drag it into a 1080 timeline it doesn´t need to be upscaled…it is what it is after all. the compound clip is merely a database connection, not a destructive transcode….

[Alban Egger]

Wow…keep misspelling:
So original is 1080/29.97
The snyced clip is 720p/23.98

The timeline is 1080/25fps

The timeline shouldn´t matter, because I never even got the footage there. The synchronized clip apperars straight away as 720p. But I tried this before and it worked, so there is something weird going on.

[Alban Egger]

FCPX accepts all files that FCP7 created; ProRes is the best since it is an Apple codec.
The only problem comes with RefenceFile, quicktime-files that were not selfcontaining, I believe i was not able yet to import thos (or create those, which was always a nice way to save space).

So yes, you can import your old edits and also the RAW material from those projects, if you have to rebuild them.

[Alban Egger]

Hmmm….just tried this. Somehow it is not polished yet. Definitely only works on one clip at a time with me. I also hoped I could select a range of clips and tag them (which will automatically create a collection for those clips).

hope this gets fixed in 10.1

[Alban Egger]

You can tag new keywords within the timeline. And you can put shortcuts to certain keywords.
Every keyword is a new bin, so it is at least as fast as i any other editor.