Brett Sherman
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IF all your material is 23.98 then you want to edit at 23.98. That way your dissolves and graphics will be the same frame rate as your source footage. Then once you’re done convert it to 29.97.
On the pull-down issue, these days TV sets aren’t natively interlaced. And web delivery certainly is not. I would output at 29.97 progressive if you are allowed to.
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I’ve not had a good experience with the automated FCP X backups. Especially in a network environment where multiple computers open the library. I’ve gone to storing the library files on the system drive of each computer with Time Machine backups. Then nightly synchronization to update to the latest library files on each computer. It’s worked quite well.
Of course, I’m storing media and cache outside the library which I highly recommend.
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Let me push back a bit on LTO. There are solid reasons I use hard drives over LTO for backup.
1. Universal accessibility. If it’s on a hard drive it doesn’t take special hardware or software to read it. What are the chances the hardware and software you use will be around in 30 years? Let’s just say it’s not a probability I’d be willing to risk.
2. Speed of access. If you are continually pulling material from your archives, you will waste a lot of time with LTOs. Not to mention it makes using a MAM impossible.
3. Tapes fail too. Enough said. But the other thing to keep in mind is that if you don’t have two tape machines you are lacking necessary redundancy to access your material.
4. Software failure. Mirroring hard drives is dead simple. Recording to LTO is not. I know of cases where the tape backup software failed miserably and resulted in data loss.
5. Ease of duplication. Without the original files, it’s a time consuming matter to make a new copy of the backup.
6. Large size volumes. That’s a little different with 6TB tapes, but tapes are always lagging hard disks in size. With smaller tape sizes, it’s hard to manage your tapes since you can’t have a one-to-one backup of a hard drive. And when you spread out your backups over multiple tapes, you’ve just multiplied you risk of data loss, because one tape going down will effectively destroy your archive.Yes we all know platter drives are volatile. And if your intention is to make a backup, stick it on the shelf and never think about it again, then LTO may be the best option. However, if you manage your disk backups and have a solid strategy, you have little to worry about.
My method is I have two hard drive backups. One kept off site at all times. Once a year I spin up all the drives (just in the off chance I didn’t access one throughout the year). After 4 to 5 years I copy my disks onto a new larger volume (this reduces the number of drives I have to keep). I currently have about 30 backup drives (60 because of duplicates). I have not lost any data yet.
Some of this is dependent on what your purpose for backup is. Prevent loss for the short-term? Long-term archiving with small likelihood of needing the material? Or long-term archiving with regular access? Is it mission critical to maintain access in 50 or more years? I’d at least consider a hybrid approach. LTO with a secondary hard drive backup.
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Sure you can. You just have to stabilize the clip WITHIN the compound clip. By it’s definition you can’t stabilize a compound clip as it more than often is not a single clip.
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Does anyone else find that anything but subtle curve adjustments in Color Finale causes colors to go really strange?
I want to love it. But still find it not terribly useful for taming highlights or getting more detail in shadows. Still using Hycolour Pro and my own Shadow-Highlight plug-in for that.
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Do you mean HGST 8TB He8? or WD 8TB Gold?
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[Andrew Kimery] “NeoFinder helps me keep that madness under control. It’s also helpful for when I’m working offsite and the client ask “Where’s that one thing you said was on the drive?”. I can just look it up in NeoFinder and then relay the location/file path to the client.
“Neofinder and Finder/Folder organization is basically my MAM at the moment. Neofinder even added filmstrip capability because of my suggestion. It’s great at what it does and is really fast. But it’s limited.
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Slightly off topic. I know this is really about editing application, file system metadata. But on the camera front, I find really almost all the metadata generated in camera useless. Frame rate? Not much there to sift through. This is what I would need at the camera level for metadata to actually be useful.
1. Location aware – few video cameras do this. GPS soaks up battery life and doesn’t work inside. Not sure what the solution here is. Tying to cell phone location data might be a solution.
2. Ability to enter metadata on my cell phone on the fly. There is no way in hell I’m going to attempt to enter metadata within the camera menu. Just forget it.
3. Setting a metadata expiration time/date. Worse than no metadata is the wrong metadata. And I can guarantee you once I enter specific metadata for a project. The next shoot I do, I will absolutely forget or not have time to change it.Interesting that all of these would be enhanced by a connection to your cell phone. I wonder why that hasn’t been really utilized. Imagine if one of the camera manufacturers created a really robust cell phone app. It seems to me they would have a huge competitive advantage.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I’d like to see better and easier ways of batch embedding metadata at the Finder level. In OSX we now have batch rename which is great, but what about batch embedding anything and everything?”
Exactly. While FCP X works well with media WITHIN the library. Once you get outside the library all that work you did painstakingly keywording evaporates. If you have to search for a clip where you don’t know what library it is in, you are SOL.
This is one of the primary reasons I don’t spend a lot of time organizing within FCP X. It just doesn’t have a lot of down the road advantages. It’s also why I use the folder level organization you describe, even with it’s flaws. Of course, I’m a bit of a weird animal on the board here being an institutional video producer. I actually have to care about footage and projects I worked on 5-10 years ago. I think too much of our workflows are centered around a once and done mentality. Maybe justifiably so.
At the moment I’m considering Keyflow Pro since it does seem to work with Finder level tags. And it would allow me to search across projects. One rule for me is not being reliant on any one application because in 20 years it’s likely that application will not exist anymore.