[David Eaks]

Jeremy says- “When I say original files, i am not talking about the camera masters. You never trash those. I am talking about the original files in the “Original Media” folder in the fcpx Event. Depending on the source material of your footage, (that is, what kind of camera it was shot on) fcpx puts a rewrapped copy of the media in the original media folder.”

There it is. That’s what was confusing me. Makes perfect sense. Reading that earlier post, I was afraid that someone out there was going to end up deleting their original camera masters after optimizing. Thanks for clarifying, for their potential sake.

You are definitely giving solid advice.

[David Eaks]

The nice thing about working with optimized video is not only improving performance compared to original AVCHD or the fact that you get to work with high quality video the whole time but you don’t need to keep the optimized files around once the project is complete. You can freely delete the optimized files. You get the drive space back and your edit remains intact. Then, if you ever need to go back and make a small change, you don’t even need to optimize again. Just make the change and export from the originals.

FWIW

Jeremy, your comment about trashing the originals and not the optimized files confuses me. I can’t imagine the reasoning behind trashing the original files. Those files are, comparatively, very small and can NEVER be recreated once completely deleted. Optimized are large files and recreating them in the future is a trivial task at worst. I must be mistaken, so it’s possible other people could be too.

This workflow (based on the intention of archiving the project once finished) is detailed in this episode of Macbreak Studio-
https://youtu.be/Kr3nKp5d0dg

My apologies if I’m missing something, it’s is 6am and still up on vacation in Hawaii…

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[David Eaks]

Add a couple more thumbs up to the FCPX specific user group!

Could you create a shared iCal Calendar that we can subscribe to (or be invited to)? It would be great to have these events automatically added to all my devices through the cloud, then maybe I won’t miss as many (like so many of the moviola events I’ve missed, as one example).

[David Eaks]

I thought the same thing for quite a while, “why did they have to change the names?” (of projects and sequences). I’ve come to the conclusion that it needed to be different because they are not the same thing that they used to be. In that case, keeping the same naming convention would be misleading.

For example, If I sold beverages and decided to release a new and improved version of water… but it was actually vodka. It might be quite the unpleasant surprise when you go to take a nice, big, refreshing drink of my new bottled “water”. Different things NEED to have different names.

That’s my take anyway.

[David Eaks]

And if it still doesn’t show up, try trimming the audio a little one way or the other and the audio fade handle should appear.

[David Eaks]

“Save as” has simply been renamed “duplicate project”. ; )

Performance of FCPX on Mavericks discussion is nearly non-existent on the Apple Dev Forums (though its been a while since I looked). Sure would like it if we could get a bunch of COWs over there testing and discussing! Even if Mavericks will be out relatively soon, at least just to get the ball rolling for future releases.

[David Eaks]

Like John, like Jeremy, I use it when needed. intending to run as maintenance but usually forget. I do have a pretty low tolerance when it comes to deciding if its needed.

After a few times needed I’m approaching clean install territory. I usually time it out so the clean install coincides with an OS or FCP update (after the update is “approved” of course).

I didn’t know it shouldn’t be run on RAIDs, I’d like to learn more about that.

[David Eaks]

See either my or Marks last post in this thread-

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/20650#20651

Is this the problem your having?

[David Eaks]

You might try having your client connect their Blu-ray player to the Internet and check for updates.

[David Eaks]

Thanks Morten, now I know what a carbonated beverage feels like in the sinuses. None to pleasant.