[Ben Mccarthy]

Why not let the editors use what they want to use, there’s ways of getting FPCX projects into Premiere and Visa Versa?

[Ben Mccarthy]

FCPX will work best with a AMD RX480 8GB, which will also fair well in Resolve from my research, about as good as a Titan X from this forum post:

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=49713

[Ben Mccarthy]

I’m guessing you’re not on Unity or ISIS, but we recently had problems moving either from Unity to ISIS or from 5.5 to 6, the difference was in the MXF bin I had to change all of the 1, 2, 3 folders to computername.1, conputername.2, computername.3 etc.

So I’d play around with that.

Try to change the folder to 1.1, 2.2, 3.3 and also try the computername.1, .2 etc

There’s also a command in console to force AVID to look at all of your drives, USB keys, FireWire drives etc as possible media drives.

Go to Tools, console and type: alldrives

No space, and hit return, restart MC

Also, if you didn’t give your files tape names you can cause lots of problems, you can also shoe reference clips in your bin and see which drive they’re supposed to reside on.

[Ben Mccarthy]

Sorry your right, I meant restart Avid, almost as annoying as a computer restart…

[Ben Mccarthy]

I think everyone’s forgetting about the upgrade costs to Avid every 6 months somewhere in the vicinity of $500, with point upgrades that Avid calls features like being able to tick a checkbox for AMA importing without having to restart the computer.

Not saying that FCPX can be used on everything at the moment (reality TV, multiple cameras, manual grouping and sharing amongst a large number of editors and producers, comes to mind 🙁

[Ben Mccarthy]

thanks a lot Zak, I really appreciate it.

I’m thinking about going for a Canon EF-S 17-55MM f2.8 IS USM Lenses to start off with as I’m think (aloud) that I might try and do some nightclub photography/Video, therefore I was reading that the extra stops would help in the low light.

[Ben Mccarthy]

Thank you guys this is valuable information. Zakaman does your information mainly relate to photography or video or both

[Ben Mccarthy]

Thanks for the responses so far, it seems that I’m stuck with a manual method for now.

After a bit of searching I found this software that uses the XML format to approximate the values. Unfortunately i found discrepancies with the results, have emailed the developer for possible causes on my end.

https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/SoundCount/

[Ben Mccarthy]

Yes you’re right hoping someOne has come up with a method to find the exact timing of the tracks. I think everyone here knows what I’m trying to do. I understand what an EDl and XML is, just looking for a good workflow.

[Ben Mccarthy]

Thanks Andrew, I’ve found a great tool that could potentially save a lot of time.

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

It uses XML instead of EDL. After testing I’ve found the timings to be a little inaccurate but this might be user error in my part.

I’ll investigate further