[Glenn Grant]

Thanks Bret. I only need to do this a few times a year, and it’s getting less frequent. For some reason I thought you couldn’t do it.

[Glenn Grant]

It seems to me that this is a good way of clean up and organizing material. I wouldn’t upgrade in the middle of a project anyway. Unless there is some new feature (Or new MacPro) that you just have to have.

I have a few clients that I have ongoing projects, I will update there stuff to a new library and I think the little bit of extra work to update seems well worth it in the long run.

If all your files are online and you only have the events and projects your want combined available, then the process is automatic.

[Glenn Grant]

Thanks Mathieu.

That does solve the problem of using FCP7 to capture to avoid having original and optimized media in the event folder.

[Glenn Grant]

FCPX only gives you one scope at a time

[Glenn Grant]

Instead of the app you have there you might try “mpeg stream clip” https://www.squared5.com This is a free download.

That will allow you to convert to Apple Pro Res with the .mov extension. As long as you have enough memory and a fast enough drive, you won’t have any issue speed.

[Glenn Grant]

Interesting theory. I think the fact that they have taken the monitors off the site means we can expect Mac Pros This Tuesday.

Next Tuesday the 17th would be nice because that’s my birthday. It would be like Tim Cook and God got together to say “We love you Glenn”

[Glenn Grant]

[Tim Wilson] “(“Wholly troll-y” is almost as good as “echo chamber of bitterness,” right?)”

Isn’t that from a Neil Diamond song?

[Glenn Grant]

Create Disk doesn’t really have any options except under the file menu in list a handful of recent files. If you open one nothing seems to happen, but if you insert a blank disk it will burn it. You don’t get any window or options, it just burns it the same way it did from FCPx. When it is done, then you get the window asking you if you want to burn another one.

But the only way I found the application was I selected it in the dock to reveal the app in a finder window. Searching for Create Disk, does not reveal the app.

Considering the create disk options are obviously saved and the encoded files are saved, it seems like an easy fix to be able to come back and burn more disk.

[Glenn Grant]

I don’t do a lot of 4K work, but what I have done in the past is edit in a 1080 project with proxy media. Then switch to original/optimized before exporting.

This should keep your system moving fast and you will not loose any quality if you reframe your shots and cut into a close up.

[Glenn Grant]

Thanks David. Normally I would use DVDSP, but I was just expecting this to be a one of a kind deal. I ended up burning 2 additional copies of 6 DVDs each about an hour and half, so I didn’t want to have to start from scratch.

I was able to open the “create disk” companion app and open the files. It was a bit of a work around and I don’t think it saved much, if any, time.

I submitted a request to apple to include that option. Considering the fact that it save the encode files, I would think it would be that hard to go back and burn more disks.

Your way of brining the encoded file into DVDSP would have been faster. But I could only imagine the disappointment on the clients face when the new DVDs didn’t have the same generic menus!

Cheers,
Glenn