[Cee Dee]

i think my cd audio is all at 44.. but doesnt it render it to 48? maybe not eh? hmmm should i do all that stuff in peak, a little batch convert perhaps. thanks

[Cee Dee]

yeah it did help… thanks a lot… hopefully theyll pay more attention to improving the database issue and less on making phones 😉

[Cee Dee]

ok im done with this post.. i just need to learn this software a bit more… end of it.. thanks for the replies

[Cee Dee]

yeah i tried that.. i guess it was a render issue… People do get defensive… I dont think there is anything wrong with pointing out flaws from someone who is used to working on another system. I’m asking for work arounds here… And i have the final cut book for avid editors but it doesnt mention everything..

heres another “flaw” in fcp 🙂

Import cd tracks with no title names and youll have the generic track 1, 2, 3.

import about 5 more but place them in another folder…

So your bins and filenames are

MUSIC/XXX ARTIST/track1.aif
music/crappy artist/track1.aif
music/blah/track1.aif

then do copy media and project. now all the media is in one folder… so when you open up your sequence and it looks for the specific track1.aif it will link you to the incorrect track1.aif

For those saying theres nothing wrong, please promise me youll never upgrade 🙂 ok back to fcp, ill use this forever, i just want things improved.

[Cee Dee]

haha, i know im upgrading storage as we speak.. however, this is my point. in the past i have used xpress pro cutting dvcprohd on a single 7200rpm sata drive. same thing with uncompressed sd. i dont want to compare but when i started to use final cut with the SAME storage configuration and less performance outcome i asked myself what was going on.

[Cee Dee]

i get that its more intuitive… Initially my complaints were something like… trying to matchframe freeze frames, trying to match frame and its not working, getting underruns cutting dvcprohd media on a single sata disk.

im going to be more open about this software. Im still curious about the for every advantage avid has fcp has 10 (or something like that). I cant wait until fcp adds metadata or a database for all the media.. its only a matter of time i guess.

[Cee Dee]

im happy with that response 🙂

[Cee Dee]

Yes we all complain. I dont know one avid editor who is happy enough with fcp. The reason I’m using final cut is because i need to output an hdcam master. My mojo doesnt output hd (pathetic!). The problem is, we have the same standards with the software. I just dont get some of these problems that im having with fcp. A matchframe should be a match frame. Drive speed requirments seem to be higher in final cut (you need to raid or youll get underruns). and the rest is above. I want to love final cut, and im tired of people telling me to request a feature. hhaha 🙂

[Cee Dee]

Why not dub all of your masters to DV and cut in Express Pro and finish on a Nitris?

Actually a better workflow would be to cut in xpress pro using dvcpro hd media and downconverting to sd via mojo. Then Consoidate the mxf folders on to a drive and load then into the nitris (symphony or ds?).

I can give you great advice if you have workflow questions with avid. I am asking for workflow questions with final cut. It never fails, compare the two and get critisized for it. next please…

[Cee Dee]

and more more thing… in avid you can hit play a few times and it plays the timeline and clips faster by inceasing the pitch. its great because you can understand what people are saying (in a chipmunk voice of course). fcp however, skips frames to play faster making it impossible to understand what is being said in highspeed…

no ego here, in fact, i want to be wrong. i hope that im just a moron and i dont know how to do what i want to do.