[Bob Woodhead]

Brilliant! Better than FCP.

Since I’ve got you on the phone, how about searching for all instances of a clip name (or subset of a name) in the timeline? eg, Find & Select all clips named “slide” in the timeline, then once all selected from the search result, paste effects onto all.

Can’t find a find command in timeline.

(I know… stupid FCP cutters…. lol)

[Bob Woodhead]

sure sure sure….. and next thing you know, before you get on the plane home, your proxies are “in the cloud”, being rough-cut by an editor in Bangladesh, effects added by a chick in Moscow, and all that’s left for you to do when you’re back in the home suite is link up full rez media for conform.

but how the heck do you 1099 them? it’ll be a nightmare, I tell you….

(oh yeah, the most important bit of kit in the edit suite will be the Windex)

[Bob Woodhead]

oh funny! my old boss at HBO, and I recognize the editor too. (Charles)

“Constituo, ergo sum”

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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[Bob Woodhead]

wow…. I bet you & I are in a very small crowd… those who’ve edited on both ACE & Editbox/Henry. I used to have a bunch of CMX editors looking down their noses at my ACE suite, but when I showed off what I could do with the ACE programmable touchscreen macros (hooked into Ampex D2 machines, triggering hexadecimal machine commands that were part of the edit template), that turned some heads! lol…. the old days….

and remember what it was like when you were in a hurry & ended up with like 20 or so versions/precomps on the Quantel desktop, BEFORE they came out with the visual clip naming? trying to figure WHERE THE HE## that clip is??? lol….

“Constituo, ergo sum”

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Panasonic HPX500/AF100

[Bob Woodhead]

I want electrodes into my brain that are installed by a Genius at the Apple Store in the mall. Then I’ll float weightless in an isolation tank with a curved display screen filling the top, and magically magnetically shuffle clips at astonishing speeds. Just change my water on a weekly basis…..

[Bob Woodhead]

“…. in a World…”

I’m misty-eyed already… 😉

[Bob Woodhead]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “I’m calm – I’m moving on -“

lol… you’re in denial…. we’re going to have to stage an intervention on you! make you sit in a field of wildflowers with no Net, no cpu’s, maybe just some storyboards you can shuffle on a pegboard…..

😉

“Constituo, ergo sum”

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Panasonic HPX500/AF100

[Bob Woodhead]

Shake and Motion are two very distinct beasts, and Motion was hardly a replacement for Shake. But that’s not the point.

The point is whether Apple wants to maintain and grow market share in the professional venue.

From Apple’s actions EOL of Shake, Color, Server, DVDSP, CinemaTools, the removal of FCS3 for sale at the launch of XFCP, and now, the comments of someone who was on the inside of Apple’s decision-making process, it appears the answer is NO.

[Bob Woodhead]

https://digitalcomposting.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/x-vs-pro/

That is the most “inside” view I’ve read of Apple’s relationship to the professional world. And everyone here should read it. Thank you Jeremy for linking it.

“Constituo, ergo sum”

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
Quantel-Avid-FCP-3D-AFX-Crayola
Panasonic HPX500/AF100

[Bob Woodhead]

Does “Raylight” ring a bell? It creates QT reference files from P2 media (card or disk). One thing that doesn’t match what you said, is that they are very small. But when you move the P2 files from the location they were in when the QT refs were made, it breaks. Need to rescan using Raylight again.

If you haven’t spent a huge amount of time editing the project, it would probably be better for you to go back & do a Log & Transfer in FCP. Otherwise get Raylight.

As for Dropbox & compression…. the short answer is “no”. You cannot make this stuff smaller (much) without sacrificing quality.

“Constituo, ergo sum”

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
Quantel-Avid-FCP-3D-AFX-Crayola
Panasonic HPX500/AF100