[Bob Pierce]

I’m having the same problem. I’ve seen lots of posts all over the internet and no solution. Did you guys sort it out? I just did a full uninstall and reinstall of FC Studio and it’s still doing this.
Thanks!
Bob Pierce

Director of Photography • Editor
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[Bob Pierce]

Hey Guys,
Thank you for your good ideas. I ended up sending the camera to Canon’s repair facility in NJ. They told me they sometimes give customers a month or 2 grace period on the warranty, but mine was too far past the date.

If your camera is getting close to the 1 year period, I’d recommend everyone put a lens cap on it and shoot a long time exposure and look closely for any bright spots. Much better to discover this before it costs you money.
Bob

Director of Photography • Editor
http://www.lightstreamassociates.com

[Bob Pierce]

HI Peter,
Thanks for responding. Yes, I tried that but apparently I’m one of the unlucky ones. Hot pixel remains. I was wondering if anyone here had this experience and had their camera serviced?
Bob

Director of Photography • Editor
http://www.lightstreamassociates.com

[Bob Pierce]

You know, shooting at f16 is not giving you the best performance out of these lenses. Try shooting at f4 – you might be pleasantly surprised.
Bob

Director of Photography • Editor
http://www.lightstreamassociates.com

[Bob Pierce]

I’m in the same boat – only with an older Mac Pro (mine’s a quad core 2.66 1,1). I wish someone would test out these configurations and give us some sense of who Premiere performs with various Mac Pros. The current towers are expensive, haven’t been upgraded in over a year and don’t offer CUDA cards. Us Final Cut folks have suddenly been plunged into a lot of uncertainty.
Bob

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[Bob Pierce]

I’ve never understood why people always say compound clips are the answer. For one thing, it’s a non reversible range selection, so it’s limiting that way. Also, when you’re logging, if you create a compound clip, it’s true you don’t have to leave the keyboard to type in notes, but you then have to reselect the original clip and find your place. Still – no good answer for this most basic editing function. Maybe it’s there, but after two weeks of trying I’ve given up.

Bob Pierce

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[Bob Pierce]

One of the many “features” they need to add is a logging function. It’s fine if it’s keyword based, but it needs to be easily viewable and flexible. I’m optimistic that they’ll eventually get this right, but the more I work with this the more I think it’s got a very, very long way to go.

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[Bob Pierce]

Nope, doesn’t work.

Smart collection is a search tool, which is fine for creating a list of keywords. Keywords are great for classifying things, which is fine for basic organization, such as separating b roll from interviews say. But if you want to apply information to a specific range on a clip that is unique and easily viewed you are out of luck. If you’re logging an interview say, and someone says “FCPX is a debacle”, you can enter that phrase as a keyword, which is searchable, but so what? I want to be able, at a glance, to review all the notes from an interview. Databases are fine, but that’s not how you edit a film – at least not me.

I’ve literally spent a week obsessed with this problem, and I’m kind of amazed that it can’t be done. In the info viewer – nope, the metadata has a gazillion options, none of which is keyword. I the timeline – nope. In the “Notes” field of the event browser – nope, that applies a note to the entire clip. I keep trying because I simply can’t believe anyone would design an editing program that doesn’t do this. Incredible.

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[Bob Pierce]

To me this is one of the greatest shortcomings of X. If you’re the kind of editor who just skims over clips and bangs them into the timeline, great. If you need to carefully review footage and make copious notes, not so good.

The only way to log footage in X is through keywords (creating what we used to call “subclips”), which can then be brought into keyword collections (this would be the “bin”). OK, fine, but then go to view the keyword collection and you’re faced with the choice of either seeing the clip keyframe (with no information), or in list view, a listing of clip names with the all important keywords hidden. You have to manually, one at a time, click the little triangle to see your notes. Did they ever talk to editors before they designed this thing?

Proponents will say that keywords are infinitely flexible, but editing is visual – if I can’t view my logging info what good is it? If it’s going to be a usable program the must be addressed.
Bob

Director of Photography • Editor
http://www.lightstreamassociates.com

[Bob Pierce]

Thanks David for the suggestion. But, aren’t you really logging the clips twice?

I’m using keywords for logging, which I guess is the only way to do it (other than favorites, which don’t seem very useful to me). What’s kinda disappointing is the lack of flexibility in viewing the keyword collections. When you select it, you see either the thumbnail, no description (the descriptive keyword), or the list view which shows the name of the clip and a little triangle to reveal the description.

I’m a visual person, as I assume most editors are. I want to log the material, and then be able to visually assess what I have to work with. You know, a bin. I’m trying to stay open minded, but I’m starting to feel that FCPX wasn’t designed with editors in mind.

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