[C. Park seward]

[Dave LaRonde] “It just so happens we have two rooms full of file tapes containing news stories on both 3/4″ and Beta SP, and the wheels have been put in motion to go both tapeless and HD origination-capable from acquisition to the transmitter.

However, I have NO clue if any consideration has been made for archiving the old stories.”

Right, Dave. A lot of tapes with little or no migration plan.

Most of the Beta tapes I have seen are in good shape. The 3/4″ tapes are not so good. Sticky-Shed Syndrome (SSS) is the biggest problem. They get so sticky the transport can’t even pull the tape through. Dehydration usually fixes the problem.

I have sent you an email.

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

[Tim Wilson] “FCPX is the first NLE in history to build itself around ZERO tape capture.”

Incorrect. From Apple: “Final Cut Pro X does support FireWire import for DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, and HDV.”

Tape archives will be around for many years. Until all the tape libraries go away, we won’t be able to get rid of tape.

I run a business that transfers obsolete tape formats. There is still a lot of tape out there.

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

“The overarching problem is that there aren’t any equivalent open standard codecs. All the open standards are compromised in terms of quality or in terms of their structure (interframe compression being the big gotcha).”

What about JPEG 2000? “High-quality frame-based video recording, editing and storage.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000

“JPEG 2000 is by itself licensed, but the contributing companies and organizations agreed that licenses for its first part—the core coding system—can be obtained free of charge from all contributors.”

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

Outstanding comments, Kevin. Apple should have your phone number.

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

There is no such thing as a “cross dissolve”. It should be called “dissolve”. I have complained to Apple about them making up names but, as you can see, it hasn’t been changed.

“In film editing, a dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another.”

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

Check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFacR9M6oXA

at 8:35. Ampex touchscreen editing with D-2.

And I have edited on Ampex ACE, Grass VPE-141, 151, Accom Axial, Sony RM-450, Quantel Hal and Editbox along with Avid and FCP.

Best,
Park

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[C. Park seward]

Ampex had a linear editor that was touchscreen on a 20″ monochrome monitor. It didn’t work since the editor had his hands in the air all day. The monitor was vertical. No keyboard.

Quantel uses a pen interface to move clips around and make edits by cutting (swiping the pen across the frame boundaries).

So it could be interesting by combining both technologies.

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

Also see using the “P”.

Izzyvideo at 9:50

https://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/8-tools-in-final-cut-pro-x/

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

Please see Izzyvideo at 9:50.

https://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/8-tools-in-final-cut-pro-x/

This shows how to turn off the magnetic timeline and position a clip exactly where you want it.

Best,
Park

[C. Park seward]

If you want to remove clips from the Timeline but still maintain the total project duration and timing, you can replace clips with gap clips. This method prevents any ripple edits.

Select the clips or range you want to remove.
Choose Edit > Replace with Gap (or press Shift-Delete).
Final Cut Pro replaces the selection in the Timeline with a gap clip.

That effectively disables magnetic timeline. Also, have seen demos where the magnetic timeline function can be turned off. It can easily be turned off by pressing the “P” button.

Best,
Park