[Andreas Kiel]

I forgot to mention that there is also an app which allows to export subtitles from FCPXML.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTE/XTE%20Install.dmg

There is also an additional subtitle template which can be used to setup subtitles for HD using the European (EBU) rules. It allows to show the EBU standard vertical cell height. This way when using a certain font the font size and paragraph leading can be adjusted to match the rules.

So for ‘large’ subtitles you setup the lines should cover 2 cell heights, for ‘small’ subtitles it should cover 1 cell height. For both including descenders and paragraph leading.
The ‘grid’] ‘cell’ rules only apply to burned in subtitles for standard broadcast. Web based broadcast does have different rules. But the lines are also a good help here to set up subtitles – never go into the bottom or top cell.
Here some screenshots from web broadcast.

Download template here:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTI/EBU%20TextUp.dmg

The reason I did this template is that Apple is going towards to support system wide the WEBVTT and TTML standards.
With X 10.1 they did the first step for FCP X.
Using the right subtitle template each position can be extracted to make your subtitles fit the needs of the delivery format.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Have you tried my X-Title Import app. It supports Subrip SRT, Youtube SBV and Spruce STL.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTI/index.html.

Works quite easy and painless and comes with some title templates which are designed for subtiles.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Do it like Bill suggested – but with angles of the multicam.
Drag the multicam clip 3 times to the sequence each with another angle.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

I’ve updated SCDI to make “Paste” working.

-Andreas

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/createDiskImage/CreateDiskImage.dmg

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Sascha,

There might be more com.apple.FinalCut.plist files. Here an example:

com.apple.FinalCut.plist.1imNFpc
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.7QAaP3r
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.bvqlrcc
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.hrZz0Yi
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.K9kb6pB
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.pUIixS5
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.Rek3Pyq
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.YyE7jU5
com.apple.FinalCut.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist

All those with the cryptic extension after the .plist are saved from a crash as backup.
So even if you deleted the current com.apple.FinalCut.plist FCPX will search for the last saved prefs file and use it – and this pref file might be bad.
Remove all of them.

Next step is to look where you 3rd party plugins are installed.
It might be in the user folder (which I always think is a bad idea) or it might be in “/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro”. Check the latter one for read/write permissions.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

If your card copy app can make the first step faster and more bullet proof, I’ll give it a try.
It depends on you. If you check the ‘verify’ option it is definitively safer but a bit slower compared to a Finder copy. If you use the backup option additionally it will faster to create two copies of the card since the backup is created from the verified copy on your hard drive and reading speed will be much higher – and it is only one click.
The reason I use ISO as backup is that this will work with any OS not only Mac.

One small request on your sparse bundle creator app…
I will do that in the next weeks and also add some features of my X-Files P add to the app.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Kind of summary.

I personally always would make an ISO copy of the card as well. Maybe some files are corrupted and you don’t realize immediately then the issue is hard to fix.
Having an ISO copy you always can copy that to a cam card and have good chances the camera fixes the issues.
You can use my copyCards (https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/copyCards/copyCards.dmg) to make save verified card copies in one step.

With P2 media you can use either the Pana editor (and I agree it is ugly) , Calibrated plug in, MXF4mac plug in (which are kind of pricy, but can make the workflow much faster) or finally FCPX.

FCPX will wrap AND copy the media in any case.
With X 10.1 in most cases (I don’t why sometimes not) you can choose a folder where the wrapped copies can be stored.
There is some weird thing though, the wrap/copy can change the dimensions viewable for other apps outside FCPX. A common example 1440 x 1080 will be 1888 x 1062. That might affect some apps.

Both of the plugins require an app to create an XML to transport the metadata. But in both cases the files can be left in place. Using the XML route can have another option. If you recorded external sound and have TC (LTC) and want to ignore cam sound it will save you a lot of time.

Having libraries finally is a good thing. So any customer project (not the FCPX ‘project’ – I hate the naming conventions in FCPX) can be easily carried around when all media are in the Original Media folder. The can be opened anywhere without problems – as long the other system has all external effects installed. But they might become huge and difficult to transport. So the option to leave the media in place will make them smaller. But often not small enough. There are still Proxies, Optimised media and render files which could use a lot of space. Latter can be cleared directly in FCPX. For the others there are apps available to clean up to make the Library “upload ready”.
I personally use some script-chain to handle Proxies and Optimised Media same way as Media. After running the script all Proxies and Optimised media are in external folders.
Thats where Sparsebundles come in again. You can put the whole customer project on one Sparsebundle to move it around.
With co-workers once they have the original Sparsebundle only the “cleaned” Library has to be exchanged. All file paths will stay the same on every machine. That makes FCPX way faster on launch and doesn’t require any reconnects by the user.

My 2 cents
-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

You could use the Panasonic ingest tool first instead of doing it directly in FCP X.
https://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/sales_o/p2/cms/

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

That won’t work with P2 media.
They will always be copied to the Original Media folder. P2 media carry video and audio in different files. Thats why they are wrapped in to a new file.

The way could be to import and then consolidate to another folder.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Why not exporting a couple of stills for reference and then import these. From there you can easily somehow use the method Jeremy suggested.
Show the the Event Viewer and compare.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil