Debe
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This also might be old school, but I wouldn’t leave the app running “for days on end”.
A quit and restart every morning might clear up some of your crashing problems if you must leave it running overnight for rendering.
debe
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If I forget to write it down, I can always go back and check the autosave vault to determine start time. Just subtract the autosave length from the time stamp on the first autosave file of the day.
For example, say your autosave is set for every 30 minutes. If the first autosave file of the day is at 9:32am, that means you started working on it at 9:02am.
Then go to your working project file, and see what the time stamp on it was when you closed the file. There you have the length the project was open.
Whether or not you were actually working on during that entire time, well….render file time stamps can help fill in those gaps sometimes.
Having a piece of paper handy and just joting the time you start and stop down is a lot less time consuming, though. You can create your own timesheet in a spreadsheet program if you really want to.
debe
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I am a long-time Avid user. I started learning Avid in 1993. I picked up FCP in 1999 and wrestled with teaching myself until 2004. I banged my head against the wall so many times the wall has head-shaped dents in it to this day. It was unfair to myself to spend so long trying to force FCP to do things the way with which I was comfortable, with my Avid and digital linear background. It was also unfair to my clients. Actually, I really didn’t have very many FCP clients in 2004. Now I know why.
I finally cried “uncle”, and I took the Apple certified FCP course at a local training facility, and the difference is night and day to me now. I no longer try to force FCP to do things “the way Avid does it”. Now that I understand FCPs architecture, I can easily move between the two editing systems without very much trouble. I still have “keystroke amnesia”, and try to use Avid shortcut keys when I’m using FCP, and vice versa, but I find the customized keyboards help give me a visual ground as to what I’m editing on, and reduces the number of wrong keystrokes.
You don’t necessarily have to take a class to do this. If you can do self-directed training and can work though the PeachPit Press FCP book, that is essentially the training course I took. I know myself, and I took the course because if I’d just bought the book, with my busy Avid editing schedule, there would be no guarantee that I’d find the time to crack the spine on it. Signing up for the classes required me to make the time.
Most training facilities also teach the “FCP for Avid Editors” book, too. I have not used that one, though, so I can’t have any first-hand input there, although I hear it’s excellent, as well.
Now over 75% of my business is FCP. In two years the percentages flipped. It used to be only about 25% FCP, and 75% Avid.
debe
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A google for “Macintosh Error List” gets you this:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=9805
Is this what you mean?
debe
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Nah—with all the acronyms that fly around us, it’s perfectly reasonable to go down the path you did!
That’s why we’re here… to point folks in a different direction when they head down the other road!
debe
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Compressor comes with FCP.
“AFAIK” is shorthand for “As far as I know.” It’s not a part of the product name.
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Might I suggest a different way of thinking for you.
You are not selling them a disk. You are selling them your services. You want to get paid for your time and effort, not for the disk you hand them. The disk is not the product, what’s ON the disk is the product. Get paid for that!
Like the others’ said, give them one copy when they pay the invoice for the work you’ve done, (hopefully an hourly or day rate), and make the additional per copy price low enough that it makes it easier for them to pay you to make copies than it is to make their own.
Don’t forget to archive or somehow store a copy that you can easily make copies from. Having to ask them for the copy you gave them so you can make your additional copies would be embarassing!
Having a direct on disk printer and being able to give them nicely printed disks will encourage them to come back to you for the copies. Many folks won’t have a printer like that, and that’s what sets you above the “home-burners”.
debe
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It’s not going to work like Avid. There are some things I find frustrating about FCP that Avid does so simply. Then again, there are just as many things FCP does that Avid hasn’t gotten a frim grasp of, either.
Try using the All Tracks Forward tool, or “tttt”. This lets you select everything on your timeline from where you select to the end of the timeline. Pick up the entire selection and drag it back to overwrite the clip you want to delete, or if you’ve already deleted it, to close the gap.
If your tracks are staggered, you might have to play with snapping, shift & control keys, and which clip you actually drag from to get it to work smoothly, but it can be done. It’s a different way of thinking. Instead of wanting to ripple-delete, you want to move everything back.
If you’re a keyboard editor, it’s a bit of a drag, but I’ve learned to use the mouse, keyboard, and Wacom tablet in a way that greatly reduces the strain and fatigue on my hands at the end of the day. I really don’t think anyone should strive to be a mostly keyboard, or mostly mouse editor. A good mixture of both is better for your wrists, in my humble opinion!
debe
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Mine was an 8 day turn around last month. I sent my 5.0 disks insured from the post office, and the new disks came back via UPS.
debe
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…oh, yeah, THIRD drop-down….
Thanks, Rennie!
debe