Bob Woodhead
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[Tom Brooks] “When both the V.O. and the B-roll are connected to gap, if you cut or change the V.O., the temporal relationship with the B-Roll changes.”
Sometimes when I’ve decided to work off the Primary for whatever reason, and have a situation like this, I’ll Group the offending clips. So if the Primary is a gap clip, and you’ve got broll & VO hanging off it, and want to edit the VO so that the broll moves with your edits, start off by moving your connected VO clip so that it’s the bottom-most connected clip above the primary gap clip. Select the VO and all your associated broll. Group it. Open the group and you’ll find that the VO has become the primary storyline in your grouped clip. Slice n’ dice VO, broll moves along with it. Step out of group, et’ voila’.
That said, it is a sin against all things holy to edit with a gap clip as your primary storyline. So when editing in this style, tell your friend he must say 5 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys after closing FCPX. 😉
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Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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FWIW, I found it took about 6 months before I felt I was approaching the speed and comfort of Legacy. In the ensuing year or so, I believe I’ve gone well beyond the maximum “productivity” of Legacy, as pertains to my workflow needs. As others have pointed out many times here, there are those whose workflows are not conducive to X. Perhaps as X evolves, it will cover those needs as well. Perhaps not. Use the tool that fits best.
But I feel what’s most important in trying to switch to X is to work with it on a regular basis for an extended period to come to your own decision. As you have done, it is critical for experienced editors to watch basic X tutorials. Both of these factors are needed as X has opted to break with many established editing “traditions”. Use the Cow’s amazing resources to get past those brick walls you’re pounding your head against.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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[Herb Sevush] “. Lightworks has lots of tools for feature editors, not so much for anyone else.”
!!! But isn’t this the qualification bar for a truly “professional” NLE? At least, so I’ve heard. If it’s good enough for a feature to be edited…
I humbly submit we change the forum name to: “Lightworks, No Question About It”.
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Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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[Bill Davis] “If you’re going to Share out to a variety of formats including larger raster options as well as smaller mobile friendly versions – having that available pool of ProRes is particularly important if you need to scale things UP as well as down.”
Yup… I was suggesting that creating proxies, then editing, then creating transcodes would keep the Library size down until it was time to “finish”.
OT, has anyone else noticed the Effects panel seem to load & search faster in 10.1.1? Still wish they’d give an option not to show the silly thumbnails… think that would be MUCH MUCH faster.
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On the other hand, I just edited something where the camera files were about 33GB, but the optimized & render files were 85GB! (mostly optimized) So proxies first, optimized later.
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One of my clients, a very large corporation, has firewall issues with Google Drive. Better success with Hightail (though not perfect). I think Google gives you more for your $$. Hightail lets you see when/if the file was downloaded. Uploading with Hightail is the best, as it’s “fire and forget” – don’t need to keep a browser window open. Google Drive has all more options/flexibility beyond simply file transfers.
Bottom line – if I could get my files to my client via Google, I’d drop Hightail. But not because I’ve had issues.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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It’s been years since I’ve posted this, and seemed like the right spot to post it again, in it’s updated form. Originally it had more folders, but over time I’ve grown to prefer fewer.
I use this system for a few reasons….
#1: after every project gets transferred to archive drives (RAID 1, 2 drive sets), it gets databased using Disktracker (this enables offline searches). Having files grouped into standard folder structure makes it blazing fast to find (and sometime not find (! grrr) files years down the road. eg; find client ABC’s logo from 3 years ago, but don’t know the filename. ok, search for client name (always in the top parent folder name), and look in folder “Art”. Or, show me every file whose ancestor’s name is “client name” and “VFX”; that’ll return every After Effects, Motion, 3D, etc, project.
#2: having a “Do Not Archive” folder saves space & “file noise level”, also lets you make that decision as you add files, not at the end of a project, when you’ve had quite enough of it, don’t want to see it again, and could care less if you really might need that photo years later.
#3: aren’t editors always looking for yet another way to sort stuff?
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Ordered my 6 core/D700 a couple days ago. Got the keyboard & mouse today. Tube…. March. sad. panda.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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I agree with external media. Even if you don’t need to share that media between Libraries, it’s more easily accessible if external.
Only reasons I can think of for internal (others will likely add better ones!) would be 1) it’s the easiest to be “transportable”, that is, if you work the job totally internal to the Library, just moving that one file around moves it all, no relinking. 2) Less things for unknowledgeable fingers to muck up. Neither one of these have any interest to me – those are the only pluses I can think of.
Reading Michael’s post above, I’d add that the pref for internal managing many types of media for me isn’t desired; I keep a set of template Finder folders that encompass all types of media used in a project (eg; stills, audio, text, renders (from AE/Motion), 3D, etc etc). Makes it much easier to database the final archived project for future asset retrieval if it’s not stored in a package file.
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I’m a fan of Smart Whatevers, have used a few in Finder sidebar for a while, but this was a really nice heads up! Now I can see all Libraries (sans backups) in one place for easy opening. schweet.
