Allan White
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“The Worker is a truly powerful, and mis-understood, piece of the CatDV family. It’s the engine that “gets things done”, once you dig in.”
It’d be great to see more examples of what Workers can do on the Squarebox site; I know about ones that do encoding but that’s about it. This is a very worthy, but under-marketed tool/system in my opinion.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Great question. XMP is most commonly used with image files, though I know it can be extended for use with video.
A great feature request if it’s not already in there. Standards are a good thing.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Great point re:comparison w. Premiere. Seen the “Mercury” engine demos? Impressive performance. Mac editors deserve better.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Thanks for your insight, Walter. I’ll be considering that when we hit the upgrade.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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I’d very much like to see some interviews with those former employees as to why they were cut. They’re probably under NDA agreements though. I wonder what their roles were.
What I hope is the case: Apple has finally ported FCP to buttery 64-bit Cocoa goodness (or better, rewritten the foundation completely), and requires fewer engineers to maintain the resulting (cleaner) codebase.
Worst case: they’re putting the pro apps into the fridge and winding them down. Or, EOL like Shake (may it rest in peace).
Crazy awesome case: iPad is the future of Mac computing, and they’re creating the multitouch future of FCP. Probably won’t see anything like that for a few years (no, um, 30″ iPad yet).
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Messrs. Weiss & Biscardi – thanks for your useful suggestions and “edit wisdom”. I’m sure it’s hard-won.
Just my take for future readers, but I think wiping the OS is a bit extreme when upgrading FCP. For workstations – such as in an edit facility – that have no other roles than editing, I can see this making sense.
My workstation & laptops are broad-spectrum content-creation machines, doing photography, web development, multimedia, presentations and more. Reinstalling the OS is simple (though time-consuming), but re-installing all the other stuff would take a very long time. I know it’s “all that other stuff” that can cause instability, but unless I get two of every computer… it’s gotta be there. =)
I do like the middle-of-the road solution: use the FCS “Uninstaller” and re-install from scratch. That seems like a practical balance of the two. I also run a utility called Onyx, which does a lot of OS X maintenance, before doing system upgrades. Keeping a clone of the boot drive is also solid advice that all editors must do!
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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I did search the forums first. The results are all over the place, deal with issues that aren’t restricted to FCS3, and I wanted to hear from the community some concise analysis.
If you don’t have anything constructive to add… =)
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Bryson, that is some very useful information. I wasn’t even thinking about the 64-bit transition (uh, huge for software!). Thank you!
Rolf, sending an email with some screen grabs right now. Thanks again. Looking forward to getting back to work!
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Feature request: I’d love to see Bulk Edit become more powerful, and rely on tokens or keywords for a powerful find-and-replace or string-building tool. As it is, I can do it but it takes 2-3 passes at the naming (pulling from other fields) to make it work.
Also: the Auto-numbering feature isn’t the smartest (file_2009_001 gets renamed file_2010_001, for example). Improving this feature catapults CatDV further ahead of the other video DAM solutions.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, MetaSAN, CatDV Server
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Hey John, I have to deal with this a lot. The markers-to-subclips features is priceless!
The quickest way to have complete control over that: after your markers are set, open the Tools > Verbatim Logger. You’ll see all your markers with timecodes and text.
Copy & paste into your favorite text editor. Find-and-replace to your hearts content. Paste back into Verbatim logger, then “update markers”.
Munging your clip names further after the subclips are made is, as you pointed out, much easier with the Bulk Edit tool. That’s what I do, and it’s usually pretty quick. It helps me keep my final filenames much more organized.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, MetaSAN, CatDV Server