Bill Davis
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Yes.
It’s been rock solid of me so far on both my machines.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Greg Andonian] “Is there ANY WAY to turn off that “filmstrip” look that all the clips have in FCPX? Because having to look at that mad jumble of images you have there along with 12 clips playing in the monitor would drive me bananas…
“Sorry.
After so long here, I just assume that people understand how X works, and that’s usually a huge mistake on my part.
You’re looking at the Angle Editor. It’s a separate workspace in X for multi-cam preparation. It’s the place where you can re-name, re-position and look at your individual camera shots.
It is NOT where you switch your program.
That’s done by dropping the multicam clip into a single timeline, then you can switch shots by clicking on the angle display to make your shot selections.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Oliver,
Yes and No at the same time. (sounds like typical live recording, huh!)
The band was iso’d to six discrete tracks, Piano, Kick, Drum Overhead, Sax, Guitar amp – then Bass direct. The recordist delivered those stems plus a Stereo temp mix.
So that initial mix went into X as a “draft performance track” and has now become the timekeeper for video sync and edits.
(as an aside, it was kinda fascinating listening to all the direct audio takes from the different cameras and listening to how their positioning and enclosures affected the audio they recorded – but that wild audio certainly wasn’t good enough to use for anything other than sync)
Anyway, the sound recordist has a copy of the discrete music tracks and when I’ve selected the actual performances, he’ll do a proper mix down of the song finalists for audio replacement.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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John is right, but I have to say that as both color balanced fluorescents and LED units continue to improve, we may get the added benefit of being able to schlepp smaller gauge cable around.
My LED units came with 18 gauge power cables (18 footers!) that make it a real joy to transport them.
I’m probably saving at least a pound per cable over my old stingers.
Which is REALLY nice when it comes time to travel.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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In X there are transcoded files and then there are transcoded files.
If your machine is working fine with original media that’s not Optimized to ProRes, then you can safely dump any ProRes files and X will happily continue to function using the original camera masters that the editing engine points to.
However, if you’ve built “Proxy Media” (another form of Transcoded file) and wish to do throughput intensive processes like complex multicam or lots of clips and composites in your projects, tossing THOSE proxy transcoded files will send your clips Offline and require you to re-encode them should you elect to work in Proxy mode after trashing the originals.
It’s never destructive since X is just doing metadata links to versions of the originals, but if you toss something that X requires in order to display what you’re asking for, you might find yourself facing an annoying render session to get back where you were if you throw the wrong files away
My advice is test first on a subset of your clips. If things are OK, proceed to trash more.
For what it’s worth.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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This is personal opinion only – and comes from a guy who wrote an article about Demo Reels 11 years ago for Ken Stone’s fledgling FCP site – that still ranks as the single most read and commented upon thing I’ve ever written – including the many dozens of columns I wrote when I was a Contributing Editor for a national magazine.
Once upon a time, a demo reel was an actual reel. In order to deploy it, you had to create it in advance, lock it down, replicate it, and send it out en masse.
That’s just not at all reality any more.
Today more than ever, you can keep a file of demo clips and rapid assemble them into anything that best matches the needs of whoever you’re pitching to.
That’s my recommendation.
If the potential client asks for something long – send them something long.
If not, I favor general demo’s that are no more than 2 minutes long – and, in most cases, 1 minute is twice as effective as 2 minutes.
The vast majority of the people who are going to book you will know in the first minute of seeing your work if what you do matches the quality and sophistication they need.
Everything else is secondary.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Richard Herd] “Watch out for Bill’s comment. He might state something to the effect of “events are not the same as capture scratch.” And then he might explain the databasiness.”
A) nothing is the same as anything, anymore. That’s the problem and the opportunity.
B) databasiness is akin to magneticosity – only more subtle.
C) I’m too tired to explain anything – and if you ask a certain group of people here, they’ll likely swear on teetering stacks of bibles that I’ve never actually properly explained anything to anyone on any subject – ever.Such is life.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Actually saw her in the NewTek booth again this past NAB.
Thankfully, some nice traditions seem to persist in life.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Craig Seeman] “I’d have to disagree with you. It was the Toaster’s Kiki wipe that was best. I think Kevin Monahan posted it elsewhere in the thread.
Sooner or later some company is going to make it for FCPX and it’ll corner the nostalgia market.
“Disagree, Craig.
The Kiki wipe made feminists look at you like you were somehow being misogynistic.
But tumbling sheep?
Brilliantly weird while simultaneously totally non-offensive to anyone except a very small sliver of the general population who might be sheep fetishists. And nobody pays any serious attention to those folks outside the medical and rural agricultural communities.
; )
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Maybe we should spell them Xips but still pronounce them as Tips?
Separate the “insiders” from the “outsiders” like the pronunciation of Gila Monster, Sault St. Marie, and bologna!
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor