Charlie Austin
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[Noah Kadner] “I find more than a few snapshots to be a waste of energy as you rarely go back to any but the most recent.”
Agree, but I think it depends on what you’re cutting. For me, I’ll go down a road, and then maybe completely change the whole thing (snapshot) work, change the music (snapshot) replace some shots, or replace a gag or a scene (snapshot) I’ll end up with at least 3 and maybe a lot more snapshots depending on the spot.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Basically, it’s the reverse of how I used to work in FCP7 or Pr. In those programs, I duplicate the timeline and then work from the duplicate.”
Kinda the same here. Work on V1(or 2,3 ,4 etc) with WIP appended to the name, making snapshots as needed. The WIP collection only has the current versions of cuts, snapshots go into one place, and I can see everything in “All Projects” (or the Library Project Collection) When a version goes to the client, remove WIP, add “sent” in the notes field, and it goes to the “sent” collection. Get changes, snapshot the sent version, change the version # and add WIP and delete the sent note… repeat. So mostly it’s all automatic. Works great.
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[Bret Williams] “FCP X can call them projects, but I refuse to.”
lol… well, whatever you call them, Smart Collections sure do make it easy to organize them. 🙂
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[Bret Williams] “Gonna steal that.”
Feel free. I have an “project” event that organizes everything for me. Love smart collections. 🙂
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[Patrick Donegan] “”In the old days” I could manage them all in a Bin or folder.
What can I do now?”
Smart collections. Here’s what will collect all snapshots, (nicely misspelled lol) you could make a collection for separate project snapshots, whatever… 🙂
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Do you not think there is a remote possibility that the reason they chose the word Event was to maintain continuity with iPhoto (and iMovie) where it was and is the main organisational term … rather than that, quite fortuitously and without remembering that they’d already coined it for iPhoto, they came up with the same naming convention because it was so obviously just right for video editing?”
Actually, I think that’s exactly what happened, 🙂 I’m sure they ultimately wanted it to be the same across all their “visual media” apps. I was actually going to edit my post, but now I don’t need to!. lol
I still do honestly think it makes sense, in all those contexts really. But I plan to keep arguing, because it’s fun. 😉
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[Michael Hancock] “Although folder would probably make more sense if we’re changing the nomenclature to reflect the new digital, computer age and not something that heralds back to the film days.”
Or, if we’re really being all modern and digital, we could maybe use something like keyword collection or tag. 🙂
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[Herb Sevush] “I have one library in my house. The Library of Congress is one library. Library implies a singular all-encompassing collection.”
But I think you just made my point… You may not have a lot of libraries in your house, but that’s stretching it. the Library of congress would be a feature, the library in your house would be a cat video in comparison. 🙂 And you use the contents of these Libraries to create projects right? Strictly using the actual definitions of the words, the terms are correct.
[Herb Sevush] “So now, somehow, a sense of history is a bad thing.”
Of course not, but things change. Do you call your automobile a horseless carriage? 😉
[Herb Sevush] “What doesn’t make sense is calling it an ”event” unless you’re a wedding videographer.”
Why not? if you’re shooting a feature, each day on set is an “Event” which generates dailies that are associated with it. I agree it is all semantics, but event, as it’s defined, is a correct term. In fairness, if you’re not actually shooting and dealing with dailies then event is as accurate as bin, meaning not accurate, but it’s probably more accurate than bin these days.
[Herb Sevush] “It’s not a single “occurrence” because it doesn’t occur just once. Your collection of data is not something that is happening, they are objects to be acted upon.”
That’s why you can have multiple Events in your Library. And Event isn’t always in the present tense. I went to an event last night, it’s in the past, but it was an event.
[Herb Sevush] ” As for how unmanageable your work-space is, well maybe you should review your work habits.”
Nothing to do with work habits, it has to do with the amount of different sources I have and how easy it is to get to them. The browser in X is exponentially more efficient than dozens of hierarchical nested folders. As I’ve said before, I keep X open with a mirror project when I’m in Pr because it’s much quicker to find/audition stuff in X and then just go right to it in Pr. If you don’t have a lot of mixed media maybe it’s moot, but I have a lot of different media. Music, SFX, GFX, multiple features, dailies, VFX, reference material etc etc. X is much better for this.
[Herb Sevush] “In order to have the simplicity of a magnetic timeline to avoid clip collisions Apple created a multiplicity of everything – storylines, playheads, timelines – that introduces a whole level of complications no tracked NLE has. “
We’re just gonna have to disagree on this. It’s not really complicated at all once you get it, and gives you way more flexibility than any track based NLE in this regard. And in any case, Every “pro” NLE is complicated at first glance. I started cutting on MC, and used it for years, I never thought it was complicated. Now, since I don’t use it regularly, when I open it it up it just baffles me. If I needed to though, It’d take a week of messing with it to become less complicated again. Like riding a bike. 🙂
[Herb Sevush] “FCPX has the most complicated toolset ever made for an NLE, but it allows you to use them in the most simple, constrained, way to accomplish your complex goals.
“And this is a bad thing? You’re only constrained if you A-want to be or B-need a feature that isn’t there. Which I sometimes do FWIW. X is not all rainbows and unicorns (at all), but for me there are more of these in X than other NLE’s.
[Herb Sevush] “In a vacuum it would be. In the highly evolved world of media editing, it’s a baffling PITA”
No, it isn’t. To me anyway. 🙂 EDIT: On further reflection… can we maybe just agree that all NLE’s are a baffling PITA to a greater or lesser extent. 😉
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[Oliver Peters] “I just wonder what others think about this and FCPX’s positioning versus “establish” concepts, terms, analogies, and metaphors.”
I wrote a long winded opinion post about this here if you’re bored. I do think it makes sense FWIW. 🙂
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