Darren Roark
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The DCP on a Red feature I post supervised is being made today. I could write a small book of pitfalls to avoid but I’d mostly be plagiarizing Michael Matzdorff’s.
Couple things,
– Oliver is right, SnL makes single cam files as compound clips, ideally they should be broken apart before going into Resolve. They do hold sync.
– When I started the feature in January the version of SnL was having a problem retaining reel and take info. That was fixed but it still caused issues with multicam clips at the end linking in Resolve.
Now for the FIX.
Resolve doesn’t like anything sent to it to not be the root instance of footage. It seems to strip the reel and file name info. When you consolidate your library, make sure you make your XMLs from a project that is referencing that library only. This is not the fastest way to do this, but it takes the guesswork out.
– Make a transfer library of your project.
– Make a consolidated media library.
– Eject any drives except for the one that holds the media you will be handing off to the finishing place. (VERY important.)
– Drag the consolidated media folder from your shuttle drive into the library.
– In the event with your project, select ‘file’ then copy event to Library ‘consolidated media library’. This will refresh all your clips AND multicam clips to reference the new volume.
– Export your XML to Resolve & enjoy.
*Edit
I also suggest having the reference QT overlaid at 50% opacity with the audio rendered out. That way you can do as Jeremy said and detach and delete the audio from your duplicated project.
Also, if you have exported the XML from FCPX from a project referencing the shuttle drive you are sending, you can either leave “Import automatically into media pool” on or off. It won’t matter. I seem to get better results in that case with leaving it on.
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On the feature I’m finishing up right now that was cut in X there is a Spanish and an english version cut by two different editors.
It was required by the producer that they cut in FCP X. The english version editor has been cutting movies since the film days, the other is one of the most respected editors in Mexico. The 30 year vet was cursing at the computer for about a month until she realized she had the hang of it.
Now she is on a TV show back on Avid, she texted me “I thought I would never say this but I really miss working in FCP X” The Spanish version editor told me he isn’t looking back and is going to cut in FCP X from now on.
I can say that by cutting in this saved the production a lot of time and extra steps. The color facility tried to charge a lot of money for two conforms, I told them I had done them already, many condescending were said by them until I sent them a screengrab of a fully conformed reel in Resolve complete with a reference quicktime.
Once producers find out the time and money advantages, it will start to take off.
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When I work with people in their early 20s and sometimes ask why they are called bins in Avid they rarely know why unless they went to film school.
By that logic, a project or a timeline should have been called a reel. Ha!
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To add to this, a friend of mine had his R4 lose everything as it could no longer see the partition. I brought my enclosure to him to see if that was the problem, it wasn’t The support there was unhelpful and they had no explanation for what happened.
Then a month later my chassis died, because it didn’t power on at all I couldn’t get their software to see the R4 so they weren’t going to RMA it. Then it was like playing a logic game with them “If I can’t give you the error codes because the drive is not working, how can I give you the error codes?”
That went on for a few minutes.
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[Bret Williams] “Am I the only one who doesn’t notice any special performance increases? In fact it’s more like a 5-10 crash a day fest. Still as laggy as ever.”
Hi Brett,
I tried trashing the usual troubleshooting files on the multicam Red feature I’ve been working on and it was still torturously slow to open it. I tried project repair from Digital Rebellion and it got it back to normal. No more crashing.
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[John Davidson] “By my estimation it pays about 30k more than most craigslist jobs.”
Ha! So true, so wise John.
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[Noah Kadner] “Please write the tutorial.”
Buaaaahahahahaaahaha!
Too good.
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For editing, the 8c is the one to get. For multiple simultaneous rendering or transcoding tasks, the 12c is the one to get.
The clock speed on the 8c is higher than the 12c so overall editing tasks will be faster. For transcoding jobs, the 12c can do 24 individual simultaneous tasks, the 8c can do 16. Unless you are transcoding dailies with quick turnarounds often, the 8c performs really well.
And what Noah said, the D700s are a great deal especially compared to the PC equivalent price. FCP X will use as much GPU as you can throw at it.
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[Oliver Peters] “I tend to find it’s often more unintentional. “
Again agreed, but it’s usually unintentional as a result of being unaware of the impending wasted resources.
It’s especially bad with commercials as the production company usually has nothing to do with post, the ad agencies usually handle that portion.
I think it takes a long time for new realities to sink in and become normal. I was working at one of the studios last month and a multicam horror film being cut across the hall had three assistants manually syncing dailies which took them 14+ hour days usually. I asked why they didn’t have a convenient jam sync situation on set, the editor replied “I never trust timecode to be in sync.”
I had to just change the subject after that.
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[Oliver Peters] “But I’ve also had the other experience, where in spite of my requests, I didn’t get the ideal out of the sound team. Editors can only ask and suggest. “
That is the sad truth in many cases. Producers trying to save a buck, understaffed crews, operator error and good old fashioned murphy’s law.
The big problem I see is that by the time the line producer comes in on a low budget film they use a ‘paint by numbers’ approach. “This is a low budget indie, no need to spend money renting a device when an unpaid intern can sync everything for free.”
It’s maddening.