[Craig Alan]

Thanks. So that has not changed but is there any way to do this isolation in the browser? Or to be more specific – I shot with two cameras one has the audio track and the other recorded with onboard mike as a reference track and I want to cut between using multi cam. So I was concerned that I should set levels on the two tracks before editing using multicam.

Not sure if that is needed or will I continue to be able to adjust the levels for each channel in the project rather than the browser?

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[Craig Alan]

[Todd Terry] “In studio, yes, definitely.”

My rep at kino flo swears by the new LED banks over the DIVAS.

What is your real world experience in a studio environment where the stingers are still annoying but hardly a deal breaker?

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[Craig Alan]

A stand will tip over in the direction between two legs (to one side of the load) not tip toward the point of a single leg. Two sand bags draped over two legs will secure any small load. Since the three legs are not an extension of each other but at 120 degree angles, no one leg will actually be a direct counter weight except if you place a bag on the gobo arm extended on the opposite side of the stand/load.

The longer taller leg would be the most difficult to tip forward but tipping happens at the point of
least resistance. The slight advantage of the longer leg is that it creates a foot more directly under the load but not by a whole lot. And the two other legs are lower and have a lower center of gravity when you place sand bags on them.

I just grab the stand and push and pull to see if it wants to tip. If it seems iffy, throw on another bag.

Are there saddle bags designed specifically for the legs of c-stands and/or baby jrs.? Mine tend to drag on the floor.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Jeff. I work very much as you describe. Even have the three labeled empty folders (FC BACK UPS, MEDIA, RENDER) in a folder on my desk top ready to copy into a new project’s folder. (It would be great if FC gave you the option to set this up automatically – Apple I guess assumes that their library system does do this). So I was surprised to find all my media and render files in one project’s folder in the finder. What I did not know is that consolidate leaves behind a copy rather than moves it. I actually would not mind that at all except in this case I now have to manually open each clip up and figure out which project it belonged to before trashing it. Either I was getting really brain dead when all these were set up or one of the FCP X updates messed with my organization. I really already have a back up cause I always save copies of the media cards (again in the same folder as the library and other folders associated with a particular project). With copies of the original media and FC backups having a history of the project’s edits, I should be able to reproduce where i left off if a library got corrupted. Just like legacy.

I don’t like the idea of everything being in the library, though it would make for a cleanly organized media raid. But libraries can become corrupted just like any other complex container – be it a drive or a sparse bundle or anything with a wrapper or directory of one kind or another. I feel like it doubles your chance of having a project become unreadable. I’ve never had an ordinary folder go
bad. Drives yes. Sparse bundles yes. Files yes. Libraries yes. Folders – not that I can recall.

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[Craig Alan]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/54/862133

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[Craig Alan]

If it does the app store makes a re-install of OS and any given app pretty easy. Annoying but fast. Hope it doesn’t come to that but feel like it’s always an update away.

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[Craig Alan]

THAT would be cool. Set an I & O and audio note auto applies to that clip. Would be very fast and give you ability too quickly find lines of dialog or whatever. You could always go back over them and revise to make notes more concise.

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[Craig Alan]

I remember reading, though I don’t have link, that 10.10.4 addressed certain graphic card problems. But I have also experienced problems that were solved with a clean install only to reappear after a certain amount of time. Apple is not always helping third party companies keep up with changes. I spoke to FSI about getting Aperture support for their broadcast monitors so I could use them for print work, color correction and second monitor. They told me that Apple would not give them the required specs or code or whatever to allow for this.

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[Craig Alan]

Same spec and vintage Imac. Tried three different units and intermittent very bad crashes. Always with a thunderbolt raid tethered, and FCP and/or Aperture, either active or in back ground. Tried clean install and that did not help. Testing now to see if maybe the power supply cord or thunderbolt cable might cause the crash.

Curious if your crashes are the same type as mine: screen freezes. keyboard and mouse will not work at all. Then system shuts itself down and then reboots itself. Once rebooted the thunderbolt media drive may or may not be back on-line and the library that was active may or may not be readable. A reboot again will bring the library back on-line even if after crash it was read as 0 bytes. Aperture will pop up window about directory corruption and will offer option to rebuild directory – which works. I thought this was a hardware issue but this has happened on three different Macs in the lab.

I’ve had some clues of possible causes and fixes. I’ll try a new power cord and thunderbolt cable. I bought unit home with me to test under different electrical outlet. And I just updated to 10.10.4. There was mention that these type of crashes were happening with jpeg files past a certain size being opened in preview. And also I read that certain graphic cards were having problems and 10.10.4 addresses these problems. Sorry can’t give links. I also did a goggle search for these type of crashes and found a bunch of 2011 iMac owners reporting the same thing. My repair shop also reported that this vintage iMac was not playing well with Yosemite and suggested I go back an OS. However, I need to keep OS current for FCP X. Aperture would be fine with Mav.

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[Craig Alan]

Why not try a single clip and see how it goes? Generally I have found that if Fcp can’t see a clip in its previous location I can reimport it and it doesn’t loose a beat. Further I. Can use inspector to consolidate all the media wherever I like. But given the size of your effort I can understand your need to be cautious. Also you need a backup of all this. Drives and raids can get corrupted. The directories can go sour. If they do software can sometimes fix them, disc warrior and the like, but too often not. Since you need a backup. You can test the workflow with the back up.

The part of your question that does interest me, particularly with the frequent updates, is how it handles clips that are renamed. Since you can rename clips within Fcp, does it keep track of the original names. Does it matter if the renaming was done upon import?

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