Chris Fenwick
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I thought I was going crazy but yes, I’ve seen the same EQ problem… if you just trust the eq is there, and don’t go into to double check it… it’ll hold its setting… but yes, is is clearly wrong.
I suspect a 10.1.2 very soon.
Chris Fenwick
Director/Editor
SLCE Editorial
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Hi… I haven’t posted here on the Cow in quite some time, maybe a few years, as a matter of fact, getting my password working again was a bit of an ordeal. As you may have heard me say on the show, if you’ve listened to it, I’m not to get at “internetting”.
The purpose of FCPX Grill is not to start fights or tell the world that they are dopes if they choose to use another NLE, although, some listeners have expressed that THAT sentiment is implied on the shows, I sincerely don’t mean it to be.
I’ve been doing this stuff for a long time. 30 years ago was the first time I (tried) to make money producing a video, I ended up having to drop out of school (the first time) in order to go learn more about what I REALLY wanted to do. The common theme throughout my career has been this… “You always have to take time to learn.”
Learning can be a drag… there is so much pressure and desire to move forward in this business that the time it takes to sit back, read a book, go to a lecture, crack open a manual or just plain bang your head on the screen is daunting, and it feels counter productive… COUNTER productive. At times I feel like i’m going backwards.
A great analogy is creating a Photoshop action. I’m pretty good in Photoshop, well, I’m good enough to do what I HAVE to do, I can do the things I need to do very fast. Sometimes, when you have to process a big load of images I look over at that damn Actions menu and I think, “Well… I COULD slow down for a bit, write an action that’ll do all these images FOR me and then be done with it. But then I think… “Hey… I’m a pro. I know my keyboard shortcuts, I’ll be done with this in NO TIME.” Stopping and writing the action doesn’t FEEL as productive. It doesn’t FEEL like i’m moving forward… the images aren’t changing in front of me and I don’t get the satisfaction of being a bad-a$$ while I hit all these keys so fast. But I’m being fooled.
If I were to slow down and make the action… I’d be done in LESS time EVEN THOUGH it feels like I’m not moving forward for a time there.
I remember the pain of learning Powerpoint when I was REALLY good with a Chyron, a production switcher and an ADDA stillstore. (Dating myself?). I remember the painful hours of wrestling with Premiere 3.0 and logging onto the AOL message boards to ask Randy Ubilos first hand questions about why I couldn’t capture video if the capture window wasn’t on my PRIMARY screen. I remember the time struggling with my first Avid in 1997 and my Media100 in 1998 (cuz I hated the Avid) and my reluctance to learn Final Cut Pro 1.0 because, “hey… I’m a pro!! I have a $30,000 edit system, I don’t need a $1,000 TOY application from Apple, it can’t even do a real time dissolve like my Media100 can.
But I learned it. I got on Ken Stone dot Net and I went thru the HASSLE of learning all new preference panes and all new keyboard layouts and a WHOLE NEW metaphor… (why the hell isn’t there an A and a B track… Media100 had them).
Everything changes.
if you dig thru my blog at chrisfenwick.com you’ll find plenty of posts with me truly angry at Apple for dropping the ball with FCPX. I was REALLY mad. I played with Premiere for a few months about a year before FCPX was released, I made a bunch of tutorials and then it REALLY bagged me a on a few jobs… (and YES, I DO understand that CC is better. And I’m SO glad that all those people now have my credit card number, but thats another problem.)
When I sat down with FCPX with a clear head I realized that in much the same way that I made a change between editing tape and editing on a computer, or moving from the A/B metaphor of Media100 and moving to the single track of Final Cut Pro. It wasn’t that the tool couldn’t do what I needed, it did it, it was just a little different.
I know what you’re thinking and what you want to say, I KNOW that you are sitting there trying not to YELL at your computer screen because I went thru ALL those feelings to. Its ok… take a deep breath, everything will be alright.
I believe we are due for this change. But what I “believe” really doesn’t matter.
I fully realize that there are people, and companies, and organizations and networks that have needs that are WILDLY different then MY needs. Our company is very small compared to many. But then its a lot bigger then others. What I DO know, is that this tool allows us to work faster.
My purpose for making FCPX Grill is to talk to people that are using this tool and to find out what they hated about it, what they love about it and what changed their mind. I get no money for doing it, although if someone wants to sponsor the show lemme know. I just want to talk to people and I figured if I wanted to HAVE these conversations that others might want to LISTEN IN.
So there you have it. My 2 cents. I gotta say, you guys like to write a lot. Talking is easier. You may want to start your own podcast, its easier then all this typing… but if you do, let me give you a pointer, turn on the “Category Podcasting” feature in WordPress, it’ll save you tons of troubles down the road…
Later…
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Just remember… when you export TO compressor from FCP… you can’t use all the cores…
i’ll tell you why i’m in the process of switching…
since 2005, i have yet to see any substantial improvements in FCP… its sad… last month Steve marched Randy Ubilos up on stage to show off the new iMovie… what the hell… the creator of Premiere 1, 2, 3, 4, 4.2, 4.2, FCP 1, FCP 2, FCP 3, FCP 4 and possibly FCP 4.5 is writing iMovie code??? that is a crazy waste of resources in my opinion…
I wanna see that guy writing PRO apps, not consumer apps… thats just my opinion… and Randy, if you are reading this and want to set me straight be sure to contact me… Doug Devour knows how to reach me.
SO, I want a company that is actively (i almost used ‘avidly’ but the pun was too much) pursuing making me a GREAT PRO APP… I’ve seen more advancement in Premiere in the past 12 months then I’ve seen i FCP in the past 5 years…
I HAVE TO be looking toward the future… and I HONESTLY believe that Premiere Pro CS5 is My future…
and… if i’m wrong and Apple ‘steps it up’ and knocks one out of the park with FCP8, we’ll ALL BE HAPPY..
Competition is good… right now… I believe Premiere is the competition..
Next week I’m doing a live lecture online for Adobe… you can read about it here…
https://chrisfenwick.com/home/2010/11/8/talking-about-x2ppro-is-fun.html
and follow me on twitter and search for the hash tag #X2PPro I’ve been making tutorials on my site about my observations about switching to Premiere Pro…
again… I MUST look toward the future… you can do what you want.
later…
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ah yes…the confusion…
I am NOT printing to video. i am rendering the timeline as is… (Animation Codec) and then my desire is to EXPORT that same timeline to an uncompressed Animation codec file… therefore it would seem logical, that the render files could be utilized in creating the EXPORT file. But this is NOT the case, even if the timeline has been RENDERED (in Animation Codec) it takes just as long to EXPORT (in Animation Codec) the same timeline.
There is no PRINT to Video in this particular workflow.
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tom…
very interesting explanation about rebuilding the GOP… best I’ve heard so far.
do you think it makes sence that it does this if the CODEC of the timeline is actually NOT HDV…
it’s a long story but my aquisition is HDV and the TIMELINE is Animation codec.
Anyway… i think you may be on to something about the GOP.
thanks
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Tom…
IN my experiment there were multiple cuts. but the point is that everything is rendered and in MY experience a Self-Contained export of a pre-rendered file in DV would normally go very quickly… HOWEVER. the same type of export of an HDV timeline makes for exactly the same export time whether or not the timeline is rendered.
strange.
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not to confuse things but… what are you gonna do with the extra 4 characters…???
Understanding has 13 characters
Integrity has 9
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hey JB… why do you call the technique of using a second mac the “rookie style” of streaming fcp thru iChat.
I’ve actually been using this technique since the introduction of iChat AV…
Of course, it requires that you have intellegent clients that use iChat.
I’ve actually done it while cutting a piece for Apple’s Science division.
I outlined how to do this on my VERY LOW TRAFFIC web site back in July 03
Anyway… I guess the cat’s out of the bag… next think you know producers will not travel to edit suites ever again…
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I have about 8 OWC Mercury drive enclosures and they don’t have fans either.
I have had pretty good luck with them BUT I know of two… one of mine and a buddies that all of a sudden stop Looping thru on the firewire ports…
One of the post houses I work has over a dozen Lacies, some of them 800’s and as far as I know, they’ve never had a problem and…Unlike you who, “occasional press them into 8bit work”, we pound the h