[Erik Lundberg]

OMF/AAF is surely needed from our viewpoint. Going to ProTools will persist. Soundtrack roundtripping… Not so sure. I’d rather see that they continue on the path they’re on, bringing in more REAL. Audio capabilities into the editor. It’s not done, but I’d rather have more of that than Soundtrack on the side.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

Something that could be a REAL feature would be an patchable audio mixer where you could assign one or several roles to one channel.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

[Kim Hill] “Different data structures just don’t map to one another. There are ways to bring FCP7 material into FCPX, but it’s a matter of how much organization you’re willing to shed, because there’s no way to map one structure to the other, 1:1.”

Agreed.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

Ah. Nevertheless, a good step in the right direction. Found a caveat in the manual concerning Custom Roles though:

Important: Create custom roles and subroles with care. Custom roles (and the names of custom roles) cannot be edited or removed from the roles list. However, you can change the role assignments of clips at any time.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

Where have you found colour coding of roles? I don’t see it anywhere. I can highlight a role (and it’s subroles) or minimize/expand them with ease, and turn on/off. But I can’t find any options of custom colour coding. Blues and greens are all that I get.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

And I find the Solo-buttons for Roles in the Timeline Index a very strong alternative to track soloing.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Still – I bet there’s a homebrew FCP7 XML import bridge in 36 hours..”

I’d be first in line (or maybe third or something) for the homebrew. As long as we’re guinea pigging, we can knock ourselves trying out most of the (even stupid) stuff that squeezes itself in under the door.

Oh: https://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/

Export to DaVinci, CatDV and Smoke. In the works apparently.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Still – I bet there’s a homebrew FCP7 XML import bridge in 36 hours..”

I’d be first in line (or maybe third or something) for the homebrew. As long as we’re guinea pigging, we can knock ourselves trying out most of the (even stupid) stuff that squeezes itself in under the door. Not that rudimentary FCP7 import is stupid. Absolutely not.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

I for my sake would love being able to do stem exports not only of media files, but of text based files. I would find it useful to (natively) be able to subtitle a show, and not only being able to export burnt in text, but export just everything “Roled” as ‘Subtitles’ out directly as an SRT or DVD subtitle file.

But other than that, in my test environment, Roles/stems seemes flexible enough so far to do real life work. Just remember to meta tag everything accordingly. But on the other hand, in FCP7 we have to tick tracks (video and/or audio) on and off (and remember when and where), and in really large projects with several editors involved using very different levels of organizational skills this can really be ranging from a headache to a nightmare. I guess it’s really equally easy to produce nightmarish scenarios with brand X. The difference, as I see it, FCP7 doesn’t give a damn if you’re organized. But you are severely punished if you’re not, when the going gets tough. FCPX on a level encourages the editor to organize. Still (I’d say) punishes severely for not doing it.

Um. Ok. So not QUITE on topic.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Erik Lundberg]

Out of curiosity, now that it does work for you, do the things not coming through the XML roundtrip for me work for you (any of you)? IE published parameters settings on custom Motion Templates? I have yet to try the built-in templates (still a bit afraid of them), so I don’t know if it’s just the home made ones.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden