[Dyson2005]

No, we have an XSan as the scratch disk, so it always available.

To be clear, we may have had the project open for a few minutes or a few hours, editing away, when suddenly the media unlinks from the timeline. The media is still in the same place on our XSan and no one has moved it.

We never store media on the desktop, only the XSan.

[Dyson2005]

MM is a NIGHTMARE with speed fx & stills. I spend 1-4 hours EVERY WEEK fixing these problems in our episodic television onlines. We even discourage our editors from using speed fx at all, because this fault is so bad. Very frustrating Apple! Quite simply, the time I spend fixing this, is the amount of time I DON’T get to see my wife & 2 year old son every week. 🙁

[Dyson2005]

Fantastic news Martin.

I assume this is a stand alone app? Ideally we’d like a PC & a Mac version. (PC being the priority)

It needs:
* be able to read FCP generated QuickTime files (even PCs which normally need the .mov extention, which FCP does not put on to files.)
* large timecode display
* reel number display
* scalable & moveable interface (i.e. so a user can have it & Microsoft Word open at the same time.)
* to keep playing even if another app is being used. i.e. typing into Microsoft Word the shotlisting info

would also be nice:
* display PAL 16:9 anamorphic material in correct aspect for computer screens
* can be controlled (assigned) through standard keyboards with play/pause/rewind media buttons
* a skip back function – say 5 seconds? (or user set-able amount). ideal for transcribing content
* ability to time a section of media. i.e. set an in & out to see duration, for timing interview grabs, etc.

[Dyson2005]

There must be another solution out there. I don’t want to tie up an edit suite exporting burn-in timecode into files. In a networked XServe RAID an application should be able to read the code natively and display it in nice large numbers. QuickTime should be the answer. Or a small shotlisting/logging app. Not the full expense of FCP! C’mon Apple. 🙂 There is a hole in your XServe RAID / FCP pipeline.