Fabrizio D'agnano
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[Andy Neil] “You’re not prompted regarding your cards because you have a camera format that requires the clips to be rewrapped as a QT. So that’s why you need to assign a place for media in the Library inspector.”
Yes, it’s the same card I had before, but I did not need to assign a folder before opening the import window. I could choose it right before importing from the dialog window. I hope this new process is good for the majority, because it seems a huge step back for my workflow. I’ll admit I did not have much time to find a new importing, naming and backup strategy, being on a work trip where I have just enough time left to collect the dailies, but what I see is I can’t send my imported files to appropriate folders without entering the Library inspector (and I hope there’s no problem when consolidating). Before, I used to send some of the media to some folder, some to another, so that I could easily keep, at finder level, an archive or backup copy of what could be used for future projects (landscapes, underwater scenes, etc), and and do something different to clips tied to the very project (interviews etc). I’d like all the naming process to be made within FCPX, but there’s no “rename file to clip name” command, so if I rename the clip in the browser I will still have clip001 or such in the finder, and a round trip renaming/relinking. Maybe I’ll need to find a new workflow.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
David, it’s not always easy to read and write in a language different from yours, so I can’t catch if there’s irony in the last part of your post. Just to make it clear, I never wrote or implied that Americans are naive, nor that Europeans and latins love corrupted ways. I am not that dumb. Since some were asking, I was just trying to explain why we, in Italy, and many other people in other parts of the world, accept a sport where athletes are taught how to fake a foul or pull a dive by their coach since they’re in the junior series, where referee blow wrong calls and maybe not for real mistakes, where important teams get more “respect” when it’s down to assign a penalty or not, even if we don’t like it. Unless, of course, it’s in favor of our team. And once the game is over, the debate over the referee call that decided last match can go on on on dedicated radios or tv channels or newspapers for one week, until the next game. By the way, a lot of people are invoking the instant replay to be applied on soccer, but the keepers of the game prefer to keep things this way.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
What in N.A. is called “soccer” is a complex thing, that involves more than sport itself. You can’t really look at it like you do at what you call “football”, nor like entertainment. I think our football is a representation of what the world really is, while American Football is what we would like it to be. If you read the Odyssey you can see that the concept of valor is “aretè”. The hero tries to achieve victory by any means, using lies, fraud, and whatever. No Knights, no stainless honor. The hero cheats and fights his way to success, no matter how he gets it. Ulysses does not fight Polyphemus in a loyal fight like a knife with his lance against a dragon. He cheats. Like he does with his wife, spending years in a way back home that could have taken much less if he had not stopped to lay with a nymph, a queen, a banshee….. The Olympus is filled with gods that can be jealous, build trouble for somebody they don’t like, in perpetual jealousy with each other. And so is soccer. Powerful gods will help some teams and try to drown others. But David can beat Golia any time, due to the low score, while Serena Williams will beat n° 100 of the ranking 98% of the times. A referee can accord a penalty that can maybe decide the match because somebody with enough influence wants it to be that way. But a team that has shown to be much weaker can still win the game if they’re lucky enough. In Italy, soccer is very important. I keep for a team that is on the wrong side, and gets defrauded by the system every year. Still, I like it, even if I get angry most of the times, just like the keepers of Croatia did yesterday because Brazil could not really loose the first match as they’re the home team and social problems are occurring. In Europe, the top three or four teams of each National League win a money prize that will help them to enlarge the gap with the others. So they can buy more players, even just to keep them from playing with another team. The strong one gets stronger, and tries to make the weak weaker. I know American Football is much different, but maybe real life is not.
By the way, what was written in a previous post about offside is totally wrong. You can’t pass the ball to a player of your team that is the nearest to the opponent team goal keeper, but you don’t have to wait for anybody if you are just faster than the defenders and you go alone towards the goal.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Yes, you can. I do it most of the time. In order to save disk space, you can choose not to transcode the clips. I found both my 2008 MP and my 2011 MBP can deal with non optimized or transcoded AVCHD media with no problems, at least for documentary style editing. It’s a huge saving on disk space.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
I had a similar dilemma. I wanted to be able to edit at home on my 2011 MBP every now and then, so I was about to buy an OWC external bus powered two drives USB3/FW800 RAID. My MBP has no USB3 port, but I could use my Belkin adapter at home, and the FW800 when on a ship, on a train or on a shooting mission. It’s about 220 MB/s USB3 or 85 MB/s FW800. I already do very basic cuts from 1080i AVCHD footage on an external FW800 drive, so it would do. As a different and maybe better option, I had an idea I could replace my current second drive (1TB 5400rpm in place of the optical drive) with a 1 TB ssd. So I ran a BM speed test on my system Samsung 840 EVO 250 Gb ssd, and to my surprise I read a very good 480 MB/s read and write at first test, then down to something like 35 MB/s write and 80 MB/s read on further readings. I don’t know if it’s a problem with my drive or if it’s normal, but all my other external drives offered more consistent results.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Thank you Franz.
I had found an interesting set of 2×2.5″ drives, bus powered, USB 3.0 + FW800, fanless: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/RAID/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
But the seagate seems to be a perfect solution. The only problem would be that I could not use the FW800 port on my 2011 MBP for editing on a train or in a remote location without the need to plug my Belkin adapter like I would with the OWC. However, I’ll update the laptop very soon and the problem will be gone.
Instead of working on a single RAID0 array, plugging it alternatively between the MP and the MBP, I could build and keep sync’ed the media folder, and exchange the library containing the project. I already run some test and it seems to work fine, FCPX recognizing the files on different drives without the need of reconnecting them.The USB 3.0 would provide enough speed, and 4 Tb would be more than adequate for my standard project (2 Tb would be good as well, 1 Tb a bit to tight). It’s a bit more tricky than just plugging the array, but it should work, and the bus powering should make it very portable. I hope temperature issues are not affecting reliability too much.
Kind regardsFabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
Why, did I write something wrong?
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
The multitrack file is a great idea. It’s nearly like having another copy of the project. I always exported one HD file with the total downmix and an aiff with the voiceover off for international versions, but dividing Music, Dialogues and so on is much better. thank you for the tip!
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
As Eric told you, the single drive data rate is a bottleneck for sure. If you go for a single drive there’s no big difference between a FW800 (about 85 Mb/s) and a USB3, e-sata or Thunderbolt, as they can at best allow the single drive to express its max speed, usually something around 100/120 Mb/s. However, if you use the external drive for media, unless you’re editing very heavy files, its performance should not affect FCPX speed that much. I often edit first cuts on the field on a FW800 external drive with a MBP, and there’s no problem at all with native AVCHD. I can hardy see a difference with my fast RAID’s, as far as it’s plain cuts and transitions. Of course things can get worse if you edit uncompressed HD files, that may tax less the processor but require a high data transfer speed. I don’t know the Mac Mini, but could it be the slugginess is not storage related?
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3 -
It seems it is something that has to do with permissions. I am deleting the files and replacing them with other I kept on another drive and they seem to work.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3