Brett Sherman
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Every time FCPX would backup a 4TB library would take a few hours. There’s a reason why the backups are so lightweight.”
Agreed. But you don’t need proxy or render files to rebuild a project. Apparently and oddly, you do need the alias files, so it should be backing those up. And they are minimal in size so it would be logical to be able to back these up. This is one reason why I never liked the whole alias file business. Is it really hard for an event to contain the location of an external file? Requiring alias files just makes the system less reliable and more prone to disaster.
[Jeremy Garchow] “I also think Sparse Bundles complicate things, but I understand why some need to use them.”
Agreed. But I have no choice at this point. No way to open a library on a NAS server. There is a lot I like about the library structure. It just seems haphazard and not well-planned. Had FCP X had the file organization structure right from the beginning I think we wouldn’t be in such a an immature place with library files. Heck we’d probably have externally located render and proxy files by now. Gripe of the day!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “A backup file has nothing in it except the guts of the Library. It does not keep the aliased files, this makes the backup very light weight.”
Hmmm. So I have to have a backup strategy outside of the FCP X backup. That’s dumb. Ironically, my protection against failure was much stronger with the Event and Project structure. I’m a lot more nervous now.
Backups should be protection against all sorts of failures including hard drive failures, lost/deleted alias files, corrupted sparse bundles, etc.. It seems the ONLY thing this protects against is library corruption. I don’t think alias files really take up a lot of space. It would be nice to have the library backup include those or at least give you the option. Looks like I’ll have to use a third-party solution. Pro Versioner didn’t seem to quite do the job with libraries. I’ll check out Backups for FCP X.
I’d have to know what files are in the project to be able to drag them in one at a time. And that would take forever. For some projects they are scattered all around. Others would be easier.
From what I could tell, selecting all either showed one file or no files. It seems to have lost all connection to the original files. Separately from this problem I’ve had weird missing file problems where it tells me the file is missing. I select Relink… Then it tells me the exact path to the file. I manually navigate to that same path to relink it. If it can tell me where the file is why can’t it reconnect itself?
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It definitely worked differently than 10.0.9. I liked being able to just drag a clip and append it on the front of the secondary timeline without changing the timing. Looks like it will be Command-G from now on, but the clip will have to be in the right position first so it’s a bit more work.
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[Charlie Austin] “I wish there was a “don’t warn me agin” checkbox in the dialog, or the ability to designate a “source library” or something. I’ve whined at Apple about this…”
I just started on 10.1.1. This is driving me batty. Every edit you have to click “Okay”. I completely agree it’s got to go.
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That’s it. Nudge up and nudge down. No wonder I didn’t find it in the commands. I had to change the keyboard layout though since the way I use it is to hold the mouse button down while I hit the keys. Since I’m right-handed I had to move my keyboard hand to the right-side of the keyboard to do it.
I changed it to Option-A up and Option-Z down.
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I find it nice to have a knob you can reach quickly. If you need surround sound, you’d have to get something fancier like the Focusrite unit. I have a Mackie Onyx Blackjack now. I used to use a Presonus Firestudio 26×26 with remote control unit, this was the best solution for audio monitoring for video I’ve ever seen with instant switching between 3 different sources, surround sound, controls located as far from the unit as you want, mono button, and mute button. But, unfortunately they abandoned the product.
On using a consumer receiver – Does FCP X actually output a Surround Sound encoded signal on the TOSlink? It would have to be an encoded signal (DTS or Dolby) for the receiver to recognize it and most editing systems like to output discreet channels, but maybe Apple has added this feature. Even so, I would be hesitant to trust an encoded signal for monitoring. But maybe that’s just me.
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The only way I know is to have a separate partition with Mountain Lion installed on it. You can’t install 10.0.9 on a Mavericks computer as far as I know. The Apple store doesn’t let you download it. This has also been an issue for us. We’re now almost converted over to 10.1.1 but the new structure has made this transition incredibly time-consuming and painful. I think we’re on almost a month of working on it.
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The FCP X users here are pretty open-minded about Premiere. I wish the converse were also true. 🙁
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OK. Wisdom of the crowd! 6/32/700 it is.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “It’s odd you should say that – I do find FCPX incredibly inefficient vertically as a timeline. Even the guy on FCPX grill made the point that the timeline was very vertically bloated. Also the fact that you can’t do a true overwrite of a connected clip etc – it always felt a bit stupid and skyscraper-ish as you just keep pressing Q, and it keeps heading higher.”
I’d say my experience is based in the real world as opposed to theoretical discussion. It probably depends a lot on how many tracks you use. I tend to be Primary A-Roll, B-Roll Secondary, Lower Thirds, Music and the occasional audio effect. For this type of editing it is better vertically than FCP 7 without question. One track for stereo. Audio combined with video. It always makes it vertically as small as possible when clips don’t overlap. And in fact, some overlapping clips can occupy the same space with J and L cuts. None of this was possible with FCP 7. If you had an overlapping stereo track, you had to create two new audio tracks.
Like all editing programs, if you’re sloppy it gets worse. Nothing about FCP X requires you to be sloppy.
I’m not sure that I want to get in the weeds on music editing. But, yes it’s much easier for me. It’s not music videos, it’s editing music to fit documentary-style editing. There are so many more options than a track-based system. And once you know how to work it, it is very efficient.