Darren Roark
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Oops, I tricked my brain into thinking it already existed.
The fact they are going to charge for it is going to upset some people.
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The Arri Amira shoots 4K.
Depending on your needs, the BMPC does a darn good job for the money.
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I just don’t understand why Sony, Canon, Panasonic and others I may be forgetting don’t make this easier.
All the hoop jumping just trying to find the current plugin in order to play the footage is such a pain.
The weird naming choices, all the extra text files that come along for the ride, all the weird things you have to remember as not to screw everything up on import, so overly complicated.
Working with Blackmagic or Alexa prores files is a dream. All the metadata comes through embedded into the clip file, no muss no fuss.
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[Paul Neumann] “I prefer ingest with Prelude with custom batch renaming (no transcoding) send to PPro.”
I agree, Prelude is really useful.
I’m just trying to see if I can live without the subscription with Adobe alternatives. If my workflow does suffer for it, I will sign up, it’s been pretty smooth since 10.1 came out.
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[Gary Huff] “I really don’t think there’s any disagreement about this aspect. I think it now boils down to whether or not you want tracks.
“I disagree, the most popular reason people don’t like it is because they heard somewhere it sucks. The second most popular is that Apple is untrustworthy and could just EOL it at any second, third most popular, the interface is too cute and toy like, fourth, no tracks.
OK fine, it made the top five. I take back my disagreeing.
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Yeah, it is unfortunate that they don’t offer a way to have it either way. When I adjust time and date created there is an option to also change the files as well.
I use A Better Finder Rename, it’s pretty great as you can quickly add sequential suffixes or prefixes, remove things from multiple files, pretty much anything you can think of.
It would make roundtripping much easier if we could just change the file names in FCPX though.
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The effects stacking issue, I wonder if that’s a new automatic behavior added. As in the order in which the effects are stacked give very different results with certain effects.
It’s like how if you are on a 23.976 project, and you add 25p footage it automatically adjusts the frame rate without warning.
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[Bret Williams] “It’s still unclear if you realize that X does this, or if you just don’t think it does a good job of it. “
Ahh, I wasn’t clear at all.
I did know that it does make the backups, but for peace of mind, doing it by hand is good for me. With that extra app you can add notes to the backup archive and label the revisions, this has helped me stay organized.
There is also the ‘I have been doing it this way for a while and so I’m not going to change.’ factor going on here.
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It’s the 7-Eleven model, convenience is key.
It makes it easy outside of FCPX to make incremental backups of libraries that take up minimal space.
In FCP X you can do this simply by duplicating events and projects to a new library, but the app takes it’s sweet time making copies. This instantly makes a copy of the library and project and event files without any footage or cache files.
It’s worth it.
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It’s like the quote from “Jurassic Park”, just because we don’t have to save our projects doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. (OK, I think they were talking about making dinosaurs walk the earth again, not the same thing.)
I recommend using “Backups for FCPX” You can make tiny library backups that don’t have any media in them so even the largest projects only reach 200mb or so.
This is one of the “making it too simple” issues I have with FCP X. You can duplicate projects into new libraries easily now, but the function of doing this to make a backup isn’t clear.