Charlie Austin
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[Michael Aranyshev] “It is different.”
Yes, it is.
[Michael Aranyshev] “You use mouse and zigzag all over the place.”
No, I don’t. I prefer to skim because it’s easy and I don’t need to press anything, but one could just as easily use arrows and JKL.
[Michael Aranyshev] “Basically picture and sound are always miles apart in the list.”
If the clips have random names I guess they would be. It’s really not too difficult to fix that, especially if you’re charging the client for an extra week! 🙂 It wouldn’t take a week and then you could take a vacation. 😀
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s not a mess.”
It most certainly is not. I’ve gotten compliments from mixers on the track organization of stuff I’ve sent to finish. These guys get stuff from MC, and 7 all day every day, and most of it is completely disorganized because you have to do it manually. These days, very few people bother anymore, so mixers spend the first part of the session cleaning stuff up.
Since I used to mix, I’m one of those who do split stuff out in 7 etc. However, I prefer doing it by simply pressing a button. 🙂
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[Michael Aranyshev] “I won’t play cheap tricks of omitting the necessary steps so description will be long”
It’s definitely more than 2, but It’s really not all that different. Sort A/V in Browser in whatever order works. Time, take name number, whatever. Set synchronize prefs to use first marker in clip. Skim to clapper in pix, L/R arrow to check the frame, mark. Skim to clapper in audio, check frame, mark. select both and right click or KB shortcut to synchronize. New clip uses pix name unless you change it. Rinse repeat.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “I know how I’ve been doing it in FCP since 1999 and it’s completely different.”
How?
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[Michael Aranyshev] “The irony is track names in BWF files is metadata. It is there to grab and use for any app.”
Not having one in front of me I can’t be sure, but if the channels in the BWF use the track names, that would carry over to any exported clips as well. It won’t change the roles, but the track name will show up on the exported clips in the DAW. Maybe… lemme dig up a BWF with named channels somewhere…
EDIT: Nope. the BWF Metadata isn’t preserved, unless I’m missing something. Feature request time! 🙂
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[Michael Aranyshev] “[Charlie Austin] “you could do the exact same thing in X. Disable un-needed channels, Cut, re-enable and export.”
I wasn’t clear enough. In a track based editor I don’t disable and enable channels in individual clips. I mute tracks on the timeline (once) and set track arming in such a way that channels I don’t want to hear are edited to the muted tracks. Then I unmute (once) before export.
Look, people, you must have titanium wrists with kevlar nerves to do so much mouse–clicking.”
LOL. I’d agree, except for the fact that it’s the same in X with components. If ch-1 is the mix, you select every audio clips (thousands if that’s the case) and disable everything except ch-1 Same amount of clicks as doing so with tracks. Cut. When you’re done, select all multichannel audio in timeline, re-enable it all. done.
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[Bill Davis] “So I think this is one of those “mountain out of a molehill” things. “
Yes and no… exporting audio to protools, while it does require X2Pro, isn’t really in question. In fact, it’s really simple and powerful. In 7 or Pr or MC, I have spend a bunch of time properly splitting out my tracks for a mix. In a perfect world they’d all be organized as I cut, but that never happens here in “need it yesterday” land. With X2Pro and Roles, That work is done before I start cutting.
I think this is more about assigning Roles to components in many clips at once. Can’t be done in the browser yet, to get to the components each clip needs to be opened in a timeline. So sync n link really is a huge timesaver.
But, you can rename Common components in as many clips as you want at once in the Inspector. Being able to assign Roles to common components in the same way would be really great. Send yer feedback! I have. 😉
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[Michael Aranyshev] “With a track-based NLE you just mute the tracks unneeded mics fall to and go ahead. Then it’s time to export you unmute all tracks and you’re done.”
I don’t deal with production audio much, but I do deal with multichannel sources on everything i cut. from 4-8 channels usually, sometimes more if it’s a surround source. In any case, even if you never assigned Roles you could do the exact same thing in X. Disable un-needed channels, Cut, re-enable and export. The nice thing is that in X, you don’t have 4-6 or more disabled channels littering the timeline. And if you do assign Roles, you can do lots of other useful things globally.
Different tools, same result. X is “cleaner” to me, but it all depends on how you like to work really.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Could you please describe your approach to assigning roles to individual lavs in a few thousands production sound takes?”
I can’t speak for Jeremy, but I’d buy Sync n Link. 😉 Having said that, I don’t generally need to do that, so the tools in X are just fine. I don’t need the kitchen sink built in, and If I do, it’s easily available to me.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Lunatic fanboys make their own reality.”
Actually, that was my point in my original response above. 😉 No matter what NLE/OS/Automobile etc the lunatics are fans of.
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