[Craig Alan]

[David Jones] “with a blimp and windjammer”

I have one Schoeps 641. Love it. could you give me a link or specific model numbers for the blimp and windjammer. We have a rycote shock mount and the mike is really small so wondering what fits.

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[Craig Alan]

[David Jones] “all the interviews with a hidden lav mic”

Interested, hidden how?

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[Craig Alan]

Yes. I get students editing rough cuts in 2 minutes. Then fix audio levels in another 2. Add titles … Transitions … Even transforms … Speed changes … Music etc.. The basic stuff is just really easy to learn. I’m talking kids who have never edited before.

I don’t see this as a threat to pros. Just a generation will grow up on it and some will dig deeper and do long form or edits with greater complexity.

The one thing I do get asked — is there a program like this on a PC.

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[Craig Alan]

“why, exactly, was pro apps struck dead from the core apple statement again?”

Here’s my take: aperture and iPhoto are now becoming one app. That’s does not mean in apple’s mind that pros can’t use Photos app. It means it’s not exclusively for pros. Why develop two apps when you can develop one and people can grow with it? Ms word is used by pros and nonpros. So was Fcp 1-7. The fact that’s its easy to use on a simple level and it can grow with your skill level is a good thing. My only complaint in apple’s approach was some of the dummy down vocab rather than making pro concepts accessible to beginners. No reason to have this wasteful divide between pro and consumer in many things we use. Most of the stuff they sell to consumers would be better served if they used pro standards. We would all be better cooks if we had pans that had good thick metal instead of thin crap that burns the food. Doesn’t mean we make a living at it.

I think we’ve reached the agreement that Fcp x is a pro app. But my video Hs students can begin a rough cut after a quick two minute lesson. That’s very cool . No threat to anyone here. By the time you rig out a computer with a ton of ram, external raids, high end graphic card, broadcast monitor, hours and years learning color correction and theory, knowing how to pace a story and use beats, etc etc etc then yeah your kinda like a pro if you can find paying gigs which a whole other skill set. Ok Fcp x at 300 bucks may seem like a lot when iMovie would do but it’s been 300 bucks for a few years now. It’s a pretty cool app for anyone that’s wants to edit video. As long as features cont. to be developed for pros it’s a win win and even pros got their start as nonpros. So right from the get go they were developing skills that would pay off later in their development. It’s both and not either or.

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[Craig Alan]

Sure.

read this:

https://www.larryjordan.biz/fcpx-when-to-optimize-media/

The system drive is the drive that is installed in your computer. The media drive is either an internal drive in a computer that can house more than one drive like a tower computer or an external drive that is attached to the computer with an interconnect such as usb, firewire, thunderbolt. A raid is seen as a single drive but is actually two or more drives that have been raided together. This marriage can be done either through software (apple disk utility can do it) or hardware where they are housed in a unit. Raids can edit faster and handle more streams of video than a single drive of the same capacity. If you are buying a new Mac they come with usb 3 and thunderbolt. The advantage to thunderbolt is they can be daisy chained so that each device is connected to each other and connected to the Mac with one input. Thus a chain.

So lets say you buy a 4 TB raid and it gets full but you are still working on projects on it or need access to the media on it. You can then buy a new one and connect it to that one. Viola, you now have 8TB. Keep in mind that raids like single drives should not be more than 75% or 80% full. On the low end this is a solid choice:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/METB7DH4%2E0T/

and here’s an overwhelming list of them: https://eshop.macsales.com/Search/?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne=8050&N=4294967255&N2=4294967255&Ntt=thunderbolt

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[Craig Alan]

Leave room in your budget for an external raid. Look at owc for these as well as ram. You can go thunderbolt or USB 3. Thunderbolt is great if you will be daisy chaining addition drives or other add-Ons in the future. Which I think you will since cheaper high end codec cams keep coming out. Thus massive amounts of media.

You most likely do not need that big a system drive. Although you don’t need a SSD at all it does speed up loading apps which when you use it feels very nice. FC does seem to load fast anyway but there is this delay in a regular drive when you double click to load.

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[Craig Alan]

No major issues but need to reopen FC more. Weird behavior solved at relaunch.

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[Craig Alan]

Yes. If it does succeed watch for other app makers to join in. Bad enough with cable.

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[Craig Alan]

Fcp x is very strong in sorting labeling organizing clips. Decide what Nle you will use and go from there. That said David Lawrence posted a while back on just what your asking. Using x as an organizer.

The clips have a ton of metadata built in. You could just go through them and use this metadata to label the clips in the finder. But if someone else will be editing then I would choose the editor first and ask them what would help and what workflow to use.

Choose someone whose style you like not what nle they use.

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[Craig Alan]

Make a clone of your system drive. If your computer or system drive dies you won’t miss a beat. Try CCC.

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