Charles Roberts
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Hey Tom, nope the initial batching of clips logged in Log and Capture directly seems to work fine. the problem only seems to crop up with stuff brought in from Batch Lists. At first I thought maybe it was because some columns were missing in the spreadsheet (technically FCP only needs Name Reel Media Start and End), but it even does it if every column is there and and you don’t change the spreadsheet in Excel. XML also seems fine and captures no problem. If I could make spreadsheets with Excel I’d be all set. Looks like I’m going to have to find a copy paste intern!
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now that deck control showed up (update reversed my Start/stop detect checkbox), I was all psyched and did an immediate capture nd every single clip cam in as a single frame. All batch capturing captures is a single frame. Worse still, it actually changes the Media start and end properties for the clips you’re batching! Logging and capturing a single clip captures correctly. Capture now operates correctly. But Batch capturing only captures the first frame. Sweet Jesus, this is not helpful. Nobody else doing batch recaptures with 5.1.2 on JVC 24P?
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I’m with you. I just did a short roto project as a test run twice, once with Commotion and then again using Sillhouette (demo admittedly) in FCP. It was still faster, even though I had to go to another app, because of the stuff that Commotion automated and that the Sillhouette demo couldn’t do. Its cool, but it ain’t commotion. For those who say “But you don’t have to leave one app to roto,” I say “you don’t know how to leverage Open In Editor!” I’ve been using Commotion as a plugin inside FCP since like 2001.
Since this summer I have been screaming in the ear of every contact I have at Avid from ground tech support to marketing guys and coders to invest in it. My assumption is they (still) don’t want it competing with other Pinnacle products like Liquid. But I don’t want Liquid. We’re still using Commotion in Tiger and on Dualies and will continue to do so till it just won’t work anymore. We get the occasional minor crash (I’m assuming it has to do with memory management and cache leveraging which has changed a lot since 2002), but its still a champ. XML Export died (the first of its kind, way before Autoduck mastered the market of metadata), and I miss it. I’m gonna cry now…
I once tried to start a grass roots campaign to buy Commotion from Pinnacle, (sort of joking, sort of not) in a kind of class action. You know, if enough users kicked in 100 bucks each and offered to buy it lock stock and barrel, they’d know what they were losing and maybe wake up. Funny thing is Avid is more likely to respond to a trick like that. But who’s got time for organizing political stunts like that these days. I’m just hanging on for dear life with 4.1 and hoping some little upstart like Puffin will again storm the market wth a tool as streamlined as Commotion.
Don’t get me wrong guys, and Sillhouette-Mokey-Curious-God Knows-What-Else users, I’m glad you’re happy with what you got. But between FCP and Commotion and Shake, I need nothing else (on the low-end anyway)
Kepp the faith and keep letting Avid know we want it, even if its only an updater for new OS’ !
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uninstaller
Even Microsoft Word has an uninstaller…
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Hey Tom and Peter!
I wouldn’t call this one of my top ten (more like a true uninstaller, a more reliable media manager, render controls that don’t resemble a flight computer, ditto sorta for multicam viewing options, yadda yadda), but if you are used to Avid flow, and many of us are, the nesting thing probably should be the option not the default. Hey, at least it ain’t Media 100 A/B Roll ;0) I gotta say that the Meaney crew is fixing stuff slowly but surely. Its come to be one hell of an app, even if it has some damned odd pathways.
I guess it boils down to whether you value FCP more for its AE-like behavior or its Avid-like behavior. Might be cool if they built an uber switch for Edit or Effects, that laid out a different workflow depending on what you’re doing- ooops, there goes the Avid thing again! See ya~
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Grab one sequence, Command-Shift click and drag into the next sequence, inserts all clips without nesting…
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and it needs a board on this forum! For those of us who can’t afford both Curious and Silhouette and wonder why we shouldn’t have both toolset under one roof anyway, in an app we already own, crying out loud!
Hey Ron! I keep shaking in my shoes with every new release of the Mac OS and its still there in Tiger. Please do NOT eliminate this board. Mind you I’m not being cheeky, but I just strolled through a few boards in the list that have nothing but “New Forum” postings, and which AFAIK have no community. Things might be low key here, but this board is important. CCow has the honor of being the last support site for probably the strongest roto/paint tool that ever cost less than $1K. Please keep it alive, at least until we can force Avid at gun point to do something with Commotion other than scratch their heads and wonder what a B-Spline is (if they even got that far!)
The length of this thread alone should convince you of the level of lurker traffic it gets. Community isn’t always “MY TRACKER WON’T TRACK!” posts. Thanks dood.