[Craig Alan]

I think when you make a change to a compound clip that you have used in other timelines, you should get a dialog box of all instances of its use and you could check which ones you want updated and which to be left unmodified.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks. I thought it was an on-going concern. Guess I wasn’t paying attention to the date of posts.

what about this

https://www.hdwarrior.co.uk/2013/07/21/shocking-discovery-with-fcpx-no-complex-timelines/

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[Craig Alan]

I thought it was an on-going concern – corrupted projects and the like. Good to hear. Like the feature. Thanks.

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[Craig Alan]

[KrickeT Ro] “This computer will not be changed for another 10-15 years (I’m not kidding). I want to make sure that if we do get a computer it will take us at least 10 years before we notice any problems.”

There is no such animal. 5 years is pushing it for pro apps.

The mid-2007 iMac is the oldest Mac that will run Mavericks. FCP X 10.1 will not run on any OS other than Mavericks. We’re a few years away from mid-2017. I would think you could get away with 5 years. If you are really expanding your use of video maybe there is a way you could make some money to keep the upgrades coming. Also don’t forget to figure in the cost of external storage. I assume your church does weddings. I assume you or someone shoots the videos in order for you to have footage to edit. Do a couple of weddings a year over the next five years and bingo you can upgrade when needed.

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[Craig Alan]

I would tweak it some more. You want to see the catch in both eyes. It’s ok to have an aura around your subject but overexposed is not a good choice. Try lighting your background with more diffusion. I think that will even out the b.g. so you don’t have the shadow creeping up from the bottom. Get your subject further from the background. Use a back light to get a glow around the subject’s head. A 300 watt fresnel should do the trick. Play with color correction in post – you might be able to improve this shot a lot.

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[Craig Alan]

Standard-speed HDMI cables are rated up to 1080i. They might do more than this, but they’re just rated for 1080i. High-speed HDMI cables are rated above 1080p. The cable does not determine the

[Krzysztof Lorent] “signal output”.

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[Craig Alan]

I understand that in 10.1 you are allowed to store your media where you like. I’d like to hear what your organization is. Where do you store it and how do you organize it? Or anyone that is reading this thread and has an effective system. Also what do you find lacking in the library system?

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[Craig Alan]

Here’s a question: is Mavericks a kind of horse, a surfing location, or a type of politician? Will the next Mac OS be called Abaco Barb or Jaws Beach or the Original Tea Party? And what number OS will that be?

Here’s my take. I love that Apple prides them selves on thinking different. But thinking different than what? Calling an OS a Tiger or a timeline a Project is just plain stupid. And when I say stupid I mean counterproductive. Now you hear a conversations about installing Leopard and then 2 minutes about which number OS that was. And now in ( ) that you meant actual project not a timeline. You get to name Asteroids when you discover a new one; you don’t get to rename an old one. Yeah we live in the future where relearning is a requirement. But let’s leave the relearning to things that are new.

I can see calling the browser a library – after all in FCP X in the Library window you not only browse for a piece of media but you begin to edit it as well. Sort of like finding a book and taking notes on it and combining that with notes from other books. And like a library of old, you can find the piece of media by searching for it using key words like you did with the card catalog. But a book within the library is a book not a library. And the new Library pane in Final Cut Pro X 10.1 is on the left, and the Browser is on the right. So you edit in the half that’s called the browser?

And lets take a step back. Apple came up with ‘event’ from iPhoto where consumers would come home from a party or a vacation or graduation etc and ingest the event, which would be auto-organized by date. Pros and serious hobbyists would use Photoshop so that wasn’t an issue. It made sense in a family friendly way and when you added things like face detection so you could find photos of the same person across events it made some sense. Not so much for someone who just liked to shoot photos; but it wasn’t too distracting to call a day’s shoot an event.

Video is a different beast. A documentary is not an event. A scripted film (short or long form) is not an event. A commercial is not an event. A PSA is not an event. A promo is not an event. Yes there are videos of an event, but they usually contain B-roll that did not take place at the event. An industrial is not an event. An instructional is not an event. They are, however, all projects. And for theater, movies, and video shows, an ‘event’ is called a ‘scene’ – something that takes place at one time in one location.

The first version of FCP X assumed that editors wanted access to all their clips all the time. But you also store music in your “event” browser. That makes little sense. Or stock footage in the event browser. No. Stills that may or may not have been shot during that particular shoot. No. To me it’s a media browser. The composition takes place on a timeline. I like to keep all the components of a given project in a project folder but I’m aware that others need to organize differently. And I do also steal media from previous projects but most often these are small files that I can copy over to the new project and close the old one.

The problem I have with “library”, and it’s much less of a concern than “project”, is a library implies a collection of diverse subjects and diverse projects and diverse media. So your projects might be stored in a master folder called the library, but you wouldn’t have a library containing only one book or one film or one of anything. Again library came from apps, which span your entire life collected in one folder/file: your contacts, your email, your bookmarks, your photos … it’s the master folder not “one event.” And when you call it a library book it implies it belongs to the library or to the public and that you do not own it. It does not imply that it’s one kind of book.

Then again Apple wrote it so I guess they get to name it. And I’ll use it but I’ll continue to call it a project that I edit on a timeline and store my media on my media drive and in FC’s browser (which is the finder within the app). When I read the tutorials I know that each project will be stored in its own library and the media can begin to be edited in the browser. And that timelines are stored there too but they’ll be called projects. But I won’t get too used to this cause Apple will need to rename these things when .2 comes out and I’ll still call them projects and timelines and browser and if they want to call the viewer a black hole and the timeline a current and a clip a denominator and the inspector the reformatory which contains the transformer, I have no problems with that.

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[Craig Alan]

got it. Thanks again. That would be useful and have a small footprint.

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[Craig Alan]

Great thread, Bret. Like the old saying, the first step in finding a solution is asking the right question. Quick question, can’t you use the blade tool to create trimmed versions of the clips you want to save in their own library or am I missing the purpose of a trimmed collection. Forgive the newbie question but when our lab gets set up I’m going to be dealing with all these issues and I’ve got a lot to learn.

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