Andreas Kiel
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Saw this topic by chance.
Bill explained perfectly how to work.
There was SCDI mentioned (I’m the author) and want to give a little comments about the tool. This free app allows to create and optimize Sparse Disk Images with a few clicks.
For P2 card backups you also can use my good old free copyCards:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/copyCards/copyCards.dmgcopyCards is a simple application to copy camera card content to a disk and to create ‘.iso’ disk images from the cards — which is recommended.
CopyCars currently is not a fancy app in a way it way that it uses multi-threading.
But it’s a safe and kind of ‘don’t worry’ app. It always copies the complete card (as long the card is FAT-32 formatted). So whatever you select on the card the app will always find the mount point of the card and will check it. So you can’t get a bad card structure. You also can create safe ISO images which can be read on other platforms or the camera itself when written back to a card. This is a good option when the original card had errors – in most cases they can be re- paired by the camera.
For convenience there are options on how to handle cards and what can be done af- ter a transfer was successfully done. The ‘Auto scan for new volumes” will automatically check for available disks on your system. If there is a new one which is a FAT 32 format and does contain files or folders, it will be added to the source path list. A known issue currently is that this function won’t resolve ejected or cards modified while they are already listed.The “Unmount volume … ” will automatically eject the card — but only if there is a verified copy which is either a verified HFS copy or a disk image. The “Erase volume … ” will automatically delete all files on the card (it won’t reformat the card) — but again for security reasons it will work only if there is a verified copy and the card is not locked.
CopyCards also takes care of duplicate file names on the destination volume or destination folder. Any loaded card will be checked for modification dates and time of day. This will be appended to copied card’s name. This way the beloved ‘No Name’ cards won’t be overwritten. In case there is a real duplicate the app won’t overwrite it and will write an error log to the desktop and the card’s path will be left displayed in the source table view.
Once the app is started it creates a new ‘session’. Therefore you can’t copy a card twice even if you change the destination. You have to quit the app and relaunch. This will change in a later version.
You can drag cards, files or folders onto the app’s source path table view as well – this might be handy.
For the more technical educated user or the daring minds: You can run multiple instances of the application to acclaim higher speed by using Terminal.app. In a Terminal window type: ‘open -n ‘ Then drag the app’s icon onto the Terminal window and hit Enter. To make that working properly the “Auto scan” has to be switched off. With all in- stances the preferences will be shared.For more things I will have a new app later this month available.
You can have a look at the announcement.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/X-Files/index.html– Andreas
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[Oliver]Right now all the PAL folks are rolling on the floor laughing at us 😉
Yes we do. 🙂The problem seems to be the TC (QT32,QT64 or AV foundation stuff)
FCPX doesn’t like TC and doesn’t handle it neither correctly nor flexible (like FCP mostly did using QT). Next problem is relinking — FCPX is very picky with that.Jeremy did send me some files.
The XMLs are okay.
The source is somehow correctly flagged as 23.976, but a bit different from the way it was done in the old QT days.
That might be the reason why Color does interpret/write the wrong TC track.Using Cinema Tools as test app, you can’t conform FCPX ingested files, while you can do that with files from Color or AE or whatever.
– Andreas
Spherico
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I wouldn’t recommend moving stuff manually unless you exactly know what you are doing (and what FCPX is doing). Even Event Manager X can cause trouble if event/project relations are not correct.
– Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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yes disk warrior is defiinitively a must have!!
andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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Even though it’s self promotion here some tools of mine (most are free)
Motion Template Tool for Apple’s FCPX
Is a small donation/freeware which allows to install custom Motion Templates in an easy way for FCPX users. It also allows to analyze your template setups.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/MTT/index.htmlCreateDiskImage
This little free tool allows to create and handle disk images — this can be helpful when working with Apple’s FCPX (and other applications as well)
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/createDiskImage/index.htmlTitleExchange
Is a small donation/freeware app collection which allow to juggle subtitles within several applications including FCPX. It comes with 8 free Motion Templates ready for subtitling.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/index.htmlAndreas
Spherico
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I’m not sure whether Smoke accepts FCPX XML at all – it will work with FCP 7 XMLs.
Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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Jeff I. Greenberg’s suggestion is the best way.
Working with sparse bundles allows to keep all related events and projects together and making them visible or invisible with a click without the need to know how they are related to each other.Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
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[Brett Sherman]
… Or throw my mouse against the wall when I realize the FCP 7 preferences had reset and my last backup is an hour ago.It’s a kind of personal prefs.
I nearly never used the automatic backup of FCP, but used the “save as …”
Doing something similar in FCPX is not that easy as “cmd-shift-s” it requires more clicks (and thoughts) cause of the way FCPX works.Duplicating a project will give you some options which look easy and logical at the first glimpse — and do work in most cases. But there are things you have to be aware. This is not the way to make a backup unless to use “Organize Project Files …” after that.
Using “Move Project…” for backup can be resulting in a kind of disaster since all media files are really moved and other projects which rely on these media will loose the connection to these files.Auto-Save and Auto-Backup are not well thought at the moment with FCPX, was better with FCP. And preference corruption does happen to both of them as with any other app as well.
Over the weekend I made some little changes to some projects, which turned out to be corrupted this morning, same as the backup files. I’m the lucky one who has his own backup workflow — therefore nothing serious happened.
– Andreas
Spherico
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become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -
It’s not totally true.
A QT 7 reference can point to any media, and more references can be added easily, like crop masks or subtitles.
From there you were able to send them to compressor and making different versions and use an end script to upload or email.– 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 -
I’m totally with Jeremy.
It can make perfect sense as you don’t have to juggle with source media — except maybe with media which are copied or converted by FCPX automatically.
So convert the media upfront put it on your RAID and from there create your events and projects. Sounds a bit tedious but makes sense as well.And make sure to have a backup of your media.
Andreas
Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools