[Andrew Wright]

Thanks John. I have an NX5 as well but it doesn’t have the same issue. The NX70 will all me to turn off the “display” items so it doesn’t show on on the composite or HDMI output, but when “menu” items still show… it’s really weird.

The shoot has come and gone, but obviously this is going to come up a lot more. We ended up setting our shots and then not changing gain, shutter, or anything else in the menu system.

I’d love to talk to a Sony rep if there’s one reading these threads.

[Andrew Wright]

Funny you should ask, T. I exported FCP XML and opened it in CatDV! Within CatDV I was able to convert Markers (which come from keywords) in to Sub clips. I then exported the sub clips to Excel. This gave me a list of everything in the video, but not in the order that they were placed in the project. That I had to do manually.

I also tried exporting a CMX3600 file and opening in Excel. This was pretty good for matching clips to timecode, but it listed media files instead of keywords!

Back to the drawingboard!

[Andrew Wright]

View Source Clips would be perfect if it would show the sub clips (or keywords) rather than just the media file name.

I actually did all of the key wording and editing in FCPX, but it wasn’t able to create the script/outline I’m looking for so I brought it into CatDV. Within CatDV I used two steps to get me closer to my objectives: (1) I converted keywords to sub clips and then exported the sub clip data to Excel and then (2) I selected the sequence, viewed source files (which includes the times in the sequences) and exported to Excel. THEN, it was a matter of putting all of the sub clips in the correct order my looking as the list in FCPx — that was the painful part since I had about 600 clips.

Since we’re just dealing with data here, I’m a little surprised this isn’t possible. Even a CMX output would get me close, but I’d still be missing the keywords (which are my clip names that the clients needs).

How do other editors communicate with their clients? I post a video online and provide and excel “script” listing each clip number and the timecode where it appears. Then the client say cut clip 123 and move 456, etc.

[Andrew Wright]

So, here’s what we did. Obviously, I would love to always use XLR/Balanced, but we had to work with what we had. The GoPro Hero3 (black) did a great job of recording both mics using a stereo mini splitter — two mono inputs, one stereo output. I bought a couple different types since they had different wiring and one worked, the other didn’t.

It’s certainly not an ideal situation, but it worked. Unfortunately, we had some issues with the camera crashing but that’s a different topic.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

-Andrew

[Andrew Wright]

Nope, I’m in the US.