[David Eaks]

I realized the reply I was about to post basically came straight from this podcast-

https://moviola.com/webinars/demystifying-codecs-and-encoding/

Its $3 to rent, available for 30 days or 48 hours from starting the video. I’m not affiliated in any way, just don’t want to be a jerk and post the info I just paid for yesterday.

[David Eaks]

Dave, do you find that using both the compressor and limiter is better than just enabling the limiter built into the compressors interface? Because that’s what I’ve been doing.

[David Eaks]

Hi Dwight,

As an ex-FCP 7 user who is “extremely happy” with FCPX, I’m curious if you’ve given FCPX a truly fair shot? If there is a major feature still missing that makes it absolutely unusable in your workflow, obviously its not a good choice for you. If not, the learning curve is not that bad and once it clicks, its a very good app. There is a ton of free and paid training and the FCPX Techniques forum here on the COW which is an incredible resource.

Like Shane said, FCPX is Apples new NLE. Apple seemed to make it pretty clear that FCP 7 was DONE. Dead. Forever.

I couldn’t possibly imagine Apple selling off FCP 7 to be rewritten and updated by someone else, to then compete with FCPX.

Remember the rumors that Apple was going to license OS X to only HP Workstations because Apple, “the mobile phone company”, gave up on the pro market and would never release another workstation machine? Nonsense. In my opinion, any thoughts of FCP 7 rising from the grave should be considered the same, nonsense.

But what do I know, I’m just some guy on the Internet. Stranger things have happened. Maybe Jony Ive will answer his own question… “hey, where are the tracks? Are you insane?”

[David Eaks]

I agree with Simons comments overall.

Here’s what I do in a nutshell:

-Original camera cards are copied to a drive dedicated to only original camera card backups.
-Clips are log and transferred to Prores on RAID media drive as needed.
-Camera card backup drive is ejected.
-Edit.

Of course this example doesn’t cover the backup strategy (even though there is already one level of media redundancy, its not enough on its own to “call it good”) and my actual workflow is a bit different (working in FCPX and camera cards are just backups of actual recording on AJA Ki Pro), but the idea applies just the same:

Make Perfect copies of all your original camera cards to a dedicated drive. Import clips from that drive to the media drive, then eject it the cards backup drive.

[David Eaks]

I totally agree with Bill. Even though most of my work does not require me to use much, if any, of the organizational tools in FCPX (I just import to event, add to timeline In chronological order, trim, tweak, title, export). It wasn’t until I understood how these tools worked, that I was comfortable enough to not need to use them.

[David Eaks]

Ahh, when all recorders are stopped and none of the clips time info matches… Whats an FCPX to do??

I think base track was a good term, or I was able to understand what you meant by it at least. I just meant that I never have one long audio track to sync all my video clips to. Main audio is on-camera XLR.

So, you used each of the three audio clips as a base track for the corresponding camera clips, to make three separate Multicam clips. And all is good?

Even though you got it covered already, it should be able to sync it all at once automatically. Have you tried with all settings automatic except for clip ordering set to content created? I shoot the vast majority of my work, most is multicam switched live and recorded to KiPro. When I am shooting for post multicam switching I am admittedly pretty care free with start/stop on unsynced cameras.

Also, I really prefer to work with Prores for multicam edits. Maybe it’s just my old Mac Pro but it seems like even though I can skim around and make cuts fast enough. At some point through the workflow something will make me wish I just optimized in the first place.

[David Eaks]

I’m still on 10.0.7 but whenever I’ve had any problems with Multi cam not automatically syncing and laying out the angles properly, I simply make sure the the camera name and angle fields in the inspector are filled in for each clip. Then the automatic sync behaves as expected.

Doesn’t really sound like that’s your problem, but its worth a shot.

FWIW I’m not sure that I’ve ever worked with a base track, all my multicam projects have been synced on a clip by clip level with automatic and sync using audio settings.

[David Eaks]

I used a LaCie Blu-ray burner with toast, compressor and DVD Studio pro etc. on my Mac Pro for over a year. I’ve since given the lacie away and bought two more LG external Blu-ray burners.

No problems with any of them.

[David Eaks]

Basically there is mini sas in there already, you bypass the logic board so the internal drives go to the new card. but its in the front of the mac, so you need the extender to reach that far- $87

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/MaxUpgrades/SZDCMSASR2MS/

Quote below from- https://blog.macsales.com/12247-upgrade-your-06-08-mac-pro’s-internal-bays-to-sata-3-0

“How does it work?
The backplane (where the drives in the bays are connected) consists of four pass-thru SATA connections which are, in turn, connected to the SATA controller on the logic board (located near the front of the Mac Pro) via a mini-SAS connector.

The great thing is that mini-SAS is a fairly common connector for PCIe SATA controller cards. The trick is to find one with that mini-SAS connector on the inside. Fortunately, the Newer Technology MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-1e1i controller card happens to fit the bill nicely. Not only does it feature an internal mini-SAS port, it also has a built-in (hardware) RAID controller which supports RAID Level 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 along with individual drive support and disk spanning, as well as an external port for more expansion options.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves; let’s concentrate on upgrading those drive bays.

What’s involved in the process?
Once you install the MAXPower card in your Mac, you’ll notice that the mini-SAS cable that connects to the logic board is located near the front of the Mac Pro and the internal port on the card is located near the rear – much too far away from each other to connect. This is easily remedied, however, by using a mini-SAS extender cable to bridge the distance.

Once connected, the four drive bays in the Mac Pro are now being controlled by the RAID card, making it capable of both high-speed data transfer and more advanced RAID options.

At this point, we run into a bit of a problem; the MAXPower card isn’t bootable in a Mac. You will need to put your OS on a drive installed in one of the optical bays.”…

[David Eaks]

If you’re just picking up FCPX for the first time, I’d say that watching some of those more basic, introduction type videos is a good idea. There are some key concepts that if you don’t understand, simple tasks will become very frustrating. For example, connected clips and their clip connections and when and how do secondary storylines come into play? And overriding clip connections? There are so many little things that are different and new in FCPX.

While John Davidsons “compounds as projects” method may be great for some people, I don’t think it’s a good way to start out when learning FCPX. To me it seems convoluted and unnessecary, but thats just me working with attached/internal storage and not in a multi editor environment (thats not to say John isn’t innovative in making FCPX do all kinds of things he wants it to do and I’d recommend watching more of the Magic Feather FCPX videos). Instead I would suggest to start off learning the way FCPX “expects” you to work, creating a new event for each job, and a project for each timeline, duplicate project as nessecary for versioning and organize projects into folders in the project library. Use Event Manager X to “hide” events/projects you don’t want to load unnecessarily when you open FCPX (I keep everything I’m not currently working on hidden from FCPX).

The macbreakstudio episodes on YouTube have lots of good tips.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL607BE2B2BFE9BE1A

The first FCPX related episode is #129, lots of good Motion-for-FCPX stuff mixed in there too. Look through and watch a bunch of them. Also izzyvideo is good, I’d go watch several the teaser tutorials from each site and decide which one you like the most.

I’m very happy with FCPX, now that I’m fluent, going back to Legacy is painful.

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