[Andy Neil]

There was a post about Music a day or so ago and someone linked a quick tutorial to do exactly what you’re talking about.

Here it is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKlD6kGHjU

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[Andy Neil]

I don’t cut with it anymore, I just don’t want to get rid of my disks. They cost me $1200.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Bret Williams] “While $500 is pretty cheap, your math is suspect. It’s only $400 ($397 actually).
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My math is always suspect.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

You need Motion to build this effect and save it as a lower third title in your title browser. It’s worth having Motion if you like to make custom gfx like this for your projects.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[greg janza] “I have no issues reading any kind of drive on the PC side”

Wait a second. Windows can read Mac OS formatted drives now? Then that’s your solution. Format your RAID for the Mac and then you can use it on both systems with no issues.

[greg janza] “Let me work in fcpx a bit more so that I don’t sound uninformed. Perhaps the list is shorter than I think.
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I thinking you may be right. I work with both. There little that Premiere can do better and more intuitively than FCPX (keyframing comes to mind), but I don’t find either deficient in capabilities. Also, there are several things that FCPX does much better than Premiere. Bottom line, they’re both fully capable in a professional work environment. I’m a pro and I have both. I usually work on FCPX at home because I like editing on it far more than any other NLE.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[greg janza] “They are ntfs and I wouldn’t imagine that it would be an issue at all in FCPX but it is.
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I don’t have any NTFS drives to test this, but if true, that’s a semi-legitimate complaint. But still it’s more or less the price of doing work on both PC and Mac systems. It’s a pain, I know, but at least Mac can view files on NTFS and ExFAT and FAT32 drives. PCs can’t read any OS formatted drives and never have been able to. In my mind, it’s the PC that’s the real problem here.

[greg janza] “exporting a H264 with detailed compression settings like bitrate limiting. And i know i can push it to compressor but then another app purchase needs to be made. Kind of a slippery slope if you want to think of FCPX as a bargain app.
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There is no slippery slope here. There are two additional apps that are HIGHLY recommended if you’re using FCPX professionally: Motion and Compressor. They’re $50 each which brings your total FCPX suite to $500. From there, you only need to purchase additional apps for specific workflow needs. Personally, the most helpful is the X2Pro for getting audio to pro tools. But now I question how necessary that is with the newest version of Resolve, and it’s audio editing capabilities (which can read FCPXML).

Are there any other “no brainer” things that premiere does better? I’m just trying to see if there’s an aspect of FCPX you’re not aware of because you’re more versed in Premiere. You mentioned a list of things.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[greg janza] “I have two OWC Thunderbay raids that are pc formatted because I primarily edit on a pc so the raids are connected to my mac through ethernet. Can I use these raids with FCPX? Nope. At least not easily.”

How are your raids formatted? Are you using ExFAT? If so, then they can be used with a MacOS as long as you format with the cluster size below 1024. I’ve read up on that recently for a friend who received RED footage on PC formatted drives. But this is an OS compatibility issue, and not one related to FCPX (unless you’re referring to something else). I don’t think it’s fair to blame FCPX for not being able to use your OWC raids if you’ve formatted them for PC. I mean, if I handed you a drive formatted for the Mac, would you blame your PC premiere for not being able to work with the drive?

[greg janza] “I’ve yet to get FCPX to successfully export a master file. It goes through all of the motions just fine but the finished pro-res is unopenable in any and all apps.”

This is not normal. I can and have exported master files all the time on FCPX. It’s bloody easy. Even easier than Premiere I’d say. Without knowing what you’re going through, I can’t tell if the problem is operator error or something wrong with your install of FCP/other computer problem. But there’s definitely nothing wrong with exporting master files for me anyway.

[greg janza] “However, I’ve scoured the features of FCPX enough to know that there remains a list of things that are virtually a no brainer in Premiere and previously the old FCP, but in FCPX require either helper apps or workarounds to accomplish.”

Such as? Keep in mind, that you pay $400 one time for FCPX, and you pay $50-60 for Premiere every month, so not having things like OMF export built in isn’t a huge deal for me, since I can just make another one time purchase for the plug-in app that gives me that functionality. Apple chose to focus solely on the editing with FCPX and since the INs and OUTs of cooperative work would change constantly, leave that compatibility up to third party makers. It’s a decision you can agree or disagree with, but I actually like the fact that it’s built the way it is and I don’t have to pay for features I never use. What features are no-brainers in Premiere and not so in FCPX. I’m honestly curious because I use both and I struggle to think of much that Premiere does intuitively better than FCPX.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Shouldn’t be too difficult. Just build the finished flow diagram using shapes via the shape tool. Use a large canvas so you can drive around the animation and not see every node at every moment. Put the whole thing in a 3D group and animate a camera to fly from node to node, following the animation of the shapes and lines.

At least, that’s how I’d approach it.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Jeff Feaz] “Is anyone aware of any way to actually track the progress of the camera import and get confirmation that it’s done?
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You should be able to track the progress in the Background Tasks window (CMD+9).

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Ok, your original SD card media won’t be deleted by this process. What WILL happen depends on a couple of factors.

When you imported, did you: Copy Files to Library or Leave Files in Place?

If the former, you’ll have duplicate media for all your imported clips which will exist in the library. Those clips will be moved to the trash. But these are copies. The original SD card media exists on your drive wherever you put it.

If the latter, only the links to the original media will be trashed. The original SD card media again won’t be touched.

If you transcode Optimized and/or Proxy media from your imported files, those transcoded files will also be trashed. But again, these are transcoded copies of your original media.

You’ll get a warning when you attempt to delete a clip that tells you that original files on the drive will not be touched.

Andy

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