Douglas K. dempsey
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Go Giants! Two stunning Super Bowl wins over the Patriots. Was Manning “down” before the miraculous Escape and the subsequent Helmet Catch to crush the Perfect Season dreams of the Patriots? We in New York say Hell No!
Now, to keep it all relevant… does NFL films use FCPX for any of their pop-culture productions? The quick tailgate party sequences shot in the parking lot, cut and uploaded as part of their avalanche of imagery and filler outside of actual on-the-field coverage?
Doug D
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Hahaha, that was great! Better than the bland local cable ads for locally grown food, here in CT.
“Letting their freak flag fly” as we used to say. And isn’t micro economics good, material to easy and cheap to produce (sorry for the pun) that if it gets a hundred of their best customers and website devotees to come out for the weekend sale, it’s pure profit.
We shot a piece for “Eco-Lan” many years ago, about a biodegrade able moisture covering for sprouts on an organic farm. It was boring, 16mm and nearly every penny went into film and lab costs. Camerawork free for us kids who wanted to practice operating while exposing someone else’s stock. Without benefit of internet, I don’t know who ever saw the thing.
This is all about “how we do it now” and I like it. Put me down for Psychedelic Psound Man!
Doug D
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Rick, thanks. Yeah that’s why we still have the iMac running Snow Leopard. I also have a 17″ MBP running Snow Leopard, “frozen” with nothing being updated, just to have a solid Final Cut Studio machine. If I make a DVD it’s on that machine. All the old Legacy projects that I need to access are via that machine. I did demonstrate for my son, taking one of his FCP7 projects and using 7toX to translate it. A couple effects fell apart, and the titles all had to be redone … but tracks-to-roles wise, it worked beautifully! So he may ease into X while deciding when to learn Avid.
Doug D
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Thanks guys. Earlier, I ran Legacy on a Snow Leopard machine, with X on a small Mt. Lion boot partition, with no issues. So I’ll just reverse things here, preserve a Legacy partition under Snow Leopard but put all the other app and everyday stuff on Mavericks, with X available.
This is for my son’s iMac; he is interning in LA for the first time this summer. He knows Legacy, hasn’t used X much, Premiere not at all… and is now going to meet a bunch of guys his age or slightly older who will doubtless say, “Avid, man!”
Doug D
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Good to hear. I have found the proxy really helps with multi cam editing on a (recent) MBP. But as per your comment, definitely ingest and look at the stuff natively before making a transcode decision. I regular shoot verite style, which means the camera may run for 6 hours but with one pass I can find the bits I will likely use, and have .5 of selects, to be eventually chopped to a 6-7 minute piece. And if its light on effects, no multi cam, I never transcode to ProRes at all — until the final output.
Doug D
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People on this forum are probably tired of my opinion on this, but here it is again: if you shoot documentary and have enormous shoot-to-use ratio, it is time-consuming and storage-space prohibitive to “optimize” everything you shot. FCPX will handle the AVCHD and similar formats well enough to play back and make some selects. You can convert the selects to ProRes. HOWEVER, if you have a multi cam shoot or want to composite, title or effect the shots right away, you’ll want to optimize. Unless you have a lot of CPU horsepower, the h.264 codec is very demanding.
Doug D
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BTW, in the old FCPX 10.0.9, before the new Library/Projects and Snapshot structure … I was using Compound Clips to “version” my edits, by making an edit I liked into a CC, then making a “new parent” copy and editing that as the new version. I would eventually export as Master File when done.
However, Oliver and others on this forum warned me off of that practice, noting CC were often unstable when used that way.
I don’t know if that is still the case in v10.1.1 — and I no longer work that way, now that we have the new structure.
Doug D
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Right. It is not a “render” file that needs to be located. However, it SHOULD show up within the Event, in your Browser window, with the unique Compound Clip icon. THIS is where you can select the CC, and create a copy with new parent, e.g. so that you can make changes to the copy without touching the original. This is useful when you work out an effect or title that you like and want to re-use it in different sequences … while keeping the original as a “template.”
Doug D
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Yikes, that sounds like something wrong in the system or set-up? Or maybe it just gacks on the C300 footage?
I seen plenty of beach-balling when the CPU cannot handle lots of h.264 or 4K material, or layers/multi-cam of any non-optimized footage.
But I haven’t seen the other interface oddities like Range tool etc.
Doug D
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Unfortunately I think Walter’s scenario is the most likely. X is a cool idea, I love using it, but I think what we see is what we get. I doubt it will dramatically evolve beyond its present concept, any more than iMovie has changed by leaps and bounds since the big shift years ago.
Unless there is a change from the top — someone at Apple who suddenly, Jobs-like, decrees “How did we become last in the video editing race?” — we will mostly see only minor features and tweaks.
What would motivate a Jobs-like outrage, followed by a rapid, comprehensive expansion of pro features? Well, if Jobs were alive and perceived that Resolve 11 seemed to be taunting him, he might throw more resources behind X. But Tim Cook doesn’t seem to think that way.
Doug D