[Craig Alan]

Both good. Like ripple because they stay more on point. Larry tends to cover things with side bars which allows him to teach editing concepts but for me i usually want to learn a function to get Back to work. would like a step by step written summary of steps after seeing video cause rewatching stuff is tedious. Both have gotten better but sometimes after first being folksy they cover important steps a bit too fast. But that’s because I’m more of an on demand style learner and not great at auditory discrimination and random processing. Never paid for ripple so not sure if step by step summaries is part of package? Apple help files help too at times. Particularly if you know something and forgot which menu it’s in or an update changed something. But very vocabulary centered . IOW know what they call it and help will find it. Sort by reel or new “project” for simple examples.

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[Craig Alan]

The Sonnet is rock solid, cheaper and faster with thunderbolt. However if you do not have thunderbolt it’s not a choice. And for anyone reading this Thread, sometimes when you update the OS, the card readers stop working but often fixed by re downloading the driver.

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[Craig Alan]

You can’t use any flavor of FC on a PC.

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[Craig Alan]

What if you over write the modified image to replace the one on the time line? I’ll be editing with a lot of stills soon and want to get a head up on a solid work flow. I’m sure once I see a sequence, I may want to modify my still edits.

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[Craig Alan]

If you get a new thunderbolt raid, the Sonnet occupies no jack on the Mac. You would plug the thunderbolt cable into your second thunderbolt port on your raid. The Sonnet has a solid low profile. It is much faster than the Panasonic usb 2 that I used previously. Have not tested it against the usb 3 unit. It was cheaper than that choice. I can’t imagine needing to be on an OS before 10.9. You use a PC to import the P2 cards but edit on FCP X? Does that work well?

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[Craig Alan]

That inconsistency based on context is a design trend that Apple has slowly adopted. The consistency between how the finder and almost any app on a Mac worked was one of the things that made me an Apple loyalist at least in turns of my choice of technology. They rightfully used to claim that their interface was “intuitive”. I always felt, at least for me, that there was nothing truly intuitive about using any computer program. How it worked was up to the programmers and it had nothing to do with intuition. And if you used both PCs and Macs, you learned just how arbitrary the UI was. Command modifier on one computer was the Control modifier on another. Still is. What does control and command mean? Personally I would choose any of the names that are used on these keys, only call them all the same name adding 1,2,3, … to differentiate them. mod 2, alt 2, command 2 control 2 opt 2. And color code them (and be consistent) And I’d add enough of them to cover all needs leaving shift to stay with its tried and true job. Or better, call it the CAP key. However, Apple’s consistency in design did make it feel intuitive based on prior knowledge of other Mac apps. The only time I felt that a digital device and its interface was actually intuitive was the first generation iPod. I picked it up in the store, turned the big wheel like a wheel, cause what else would you do with it, instantly saw it scrolling down the list of songs, pushed its inner button when I wanted to select one, cause what else would you do, there were no other choices. And I did this upon picking it up the first time I had ever used it. Kind of like turning something on by using the on button or knob or pressing the metal thing in the middle of the steering wheel to beep someone or a door knob. Those things ARE intuitive. You know what else is intuitive scrolling the wheel on the mouse down to see what’s on the bottom of the page. Yes I follow Apple’s logic in theory that the thing that moves is going in the opposite direction as your finger but my eyes are going down the page not up because down is where I am looking for the thing I’m looking for. Further, its the way every other digital device scrolls so I am used to it. Its a gear. I’m pushing one down so the other will go up and bring me DOWN. Leave it alone. Apple to their credit gives us the option but their default is over thinkingly stupid. I know I’m rambling but Apple is also becoming much more like the old MS. They are doing things for us rather than leaving it up to users to learn the UI and do with it what they want. All that said, I still prefer Apple’s UI cause by comparison I still have a lot of pre knowledge on how they work.

[Craig Alan]

[Keith Mullin] “which I would probably alter if I did another stop motion”

what would be your new work flow?

but thanks for the details. becoming confident that this will be pretty painless.

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[Craig Alan]

check out Ripple Training .

1. X has the best organization tools ever. There is not right or wrong way.

I organize initially by copying my media cards to folders in the finder that I label with scene and “reel” .
I then import into FCP X. The result is it goes into the same event as the others but will import with the name of the finder folder. This can be used in a sort of the media or merge with other media if you use a different sort.

Plus now I have some redundancy – the original card files and the media copy in FCP X.

Then back up your entire project to another drive and you have at least 3 copies of your media and FC auto back ups the small file that stores the edits.

I use keywords for fine tuning organization once I am editing.

I use different events for different media types.

A lot depends on how complex the project is.

2. Don’t need to skip a step. FCP will only transcode as needed upon import though the latest version seems to be spending time transcoding which i didn’t see before so maybe its less automatic than is was. Not sure.

3. Yeah its auto save and it works great. A crash is about the only time that I lost and edit or two. But for the most part its incredibly reliable. and command z will undo all the way back to the start of the session. so no worries about experimenting and only saving if you sure you like it. experiment away and can always undo.
or dupe it and try a different approach.

4. you are getting on board at a good time. lots of improvements in the last update. Feel its come of age and Apple isn’t getting rid of it any time soon.

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[Craig Alan]

thanks

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[Craig Alan]

mine might run in the 1000s. What was the resolution of your still exports and/or import from still camera card to FCP X?

Large stills used to really muck up legacy.

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