[Chris Hocking]

Because Final Cut Pro’s decode API is private – we had to just make do with the two public API’s we had access to – Workflow Extensions and FxPlug4.

We use the Workflow Extension API as our “user interface”, where users can select the footage they want to import, and preset any RAW controls.

We use the FxPlug4 API as our “renderer”. Essentially, BRAW Toolbox is just a Filter in Apple Motion, and an Effect in Final Cut Pro, but instead of “processing” the source clip, we replace the clip contents with the processed BRAW clip.

We use Blackmagic’s official BRAW SDK – so you get all the same colour science and processing speed as DaVinci Resolve.

[Chris Hocking]

The problem is that the FCPXML that’s coming from DaVinci Resolve has .braw files inside it, which Final Cut Pro can obviously not import.

What you could try doing is opening up the FCPXML in a text editor, and replacing all the .braw with .mov. This SHOULD now import into FCPX, although obviously all the media will be offline. You can then TRY and use the “Add BRAW Toolbox to Proxy Clips within an EVENT” tool within BRAW Toolbox. To be honest, I have no idea if it’ll work or not.

Feel free to email me the FCPXML and I can have a play/think too:

https://brawtoolbox.io/support/

[Chris Hocking]

Sorry to jump on an old thread, but just FYI – FCPX Hacks offers this functionality:

https://latenitefilms.com/blog/final-cut-pro-hacks/

CONTROL+OPTION+COMMAND+LEFT will select everything to the left of the playhead.

CONTROL+OPTION+COMMAND+RIGHT will select everything to the right of the playhead.

[Chris Hocking]

Sorry to dig up an old thread.

I’m curious – what solution did you end up going with Josh? Are you happy with the purchase?

This post always comes up when you search for “ISIS 5000” in Google, so I though it was worth noting one addition to Bob’s comments in case others are making a similar decision…

You can actually scale the ISIS 5000 from 16 to 96 TB (12 to 72 TB with RAID) or 32 TB to 192 TB (24 TB to 144 TB with RAID) and from 4 to 90 switched client connections with additional chassis and switches.

It’s also worth noting that Avid is currently offering some pretty amazing trade-in deals at the moment, so you can trade in your old LANSHARE dongle, and get a substantial amount off an ISIS purchase.

Bob has pretty much summed up all the big bullet points in regards to ISIS versus Terrablock – but to just play the devil’s advocate for the moment, I will say that a lot of the really big hire companies I’ve worked with that do big OB’s, temporary TV studio setups, etc. all prefer to use the ISIS, because it’s built like a brick, and is extremely reliable. You can also build a lot of redundancy into the system – so that if a chassis falls over, the end user doesn’t even notice. Because Avid only support a very limited range of switching and network hardware (Cisco and Force10) – it also means that once you build an ISIS system, it’s extremely easy to fault find as everything is very well documented.

That of course is not to say that the Terrablock isn’t used in these situations as well – because it certainly is – but I thought it was worth noting that on average, when I speak to technicians on the field, for mission critical jobs, they “trust” an ISIS setup over a Terrablock setup in most situations.

I think one of the reasons the ISIS is so popular, especially in the enterprise, big facilities and in television land is because people just trust the product. It may not be the fastest, and it certainly isn’t the cheapest, but Avid has spent many years improving and perfecting the technology to make it work perfectly with their editing software. Big businesses trust other big businesses.

That said… now days there are PLENTY of other products (such as the Terrablock) that are really giving the ISIS a run for it’s money. Almost every single editing storage solution offers the exact same “Unity-emulation” which wasn’t the case a few years ago. Editshare, Dynamic Drive Pool, FlavourSys Strawberry, xMCore… there are now a heap of systems out there. And now that products like Avid Sphere & Adobe Anywhere are starting the surface, this will probably change the game entirely once again…

My 2c.