[Jacob Brown]

I would avoid using compound clips unless you are really versed in how they work and sure you need to use one. For one thing they have the potential to bog down the system, but more importantly they complicate things in terms of what are global changes to the compound clip, to its constituent parts, and to the original media.

In almost all cases I find that simply duplicating the project is the way to go.

When working within a large timeline, another option is to simply copy the relevant piece of the timeline into a new project for safekeeping so that if you want to restore that chunk, you have it saved and ready to go.

Typically if I am re-editing a chunk of my timeline I will copy that chunk into a temporary project, edit there AND copy it into a project I call “old sequences” that serves as a backup reservoir for old edits. When I am done editing in the temporary project I copy the sequence into my main timeline and delete the temporary project. If I ever want to restore I simply copy the relevant sequence out of the “old sequences” project.

[Jacob Brown]

ahh i think the inexact range of what 40% would be was f-ing me up. thanks.

it’s a shot of a girl in a dress spinning, so i’m guessing blending will be better since its kind of blurry anyway. but am going to experiment!

[Jacob Brown]

right right. and then if i want to slow down further. something approaching 50%. should i just stretch it out with the retiming handles to whatever comes out to double the conformed length or is it better to not quite go exactly double?

[Jacob Brown]

interestingly i did reformat one of the SSDs as it was fat32. the other was already mac OS.

both had dropped frames (and yes i now realize was dropped frames as there are indeed missing frames).

is this something that the rental house should reasonable be at fault for?

also, the SSD reader they provided was super sketchy. is it possible that the problem is from the SSD reader and the copying? or is the fact that actual frames are missing in the cinema DNG folders proof positive that frames were dropped while filming?

[Jacob Brown]

Hey there Oliver. I’m editing a feature right now in FCPX on a retina MBP. So I am not having performance issues, but I think maybe you could try loading a ton of media and running some tests. And I would highly recommend keeping the RED files on a seperate drive that you can unmount when you are editing with proxies.

In general you should definitely try to work within FCPX for everything. The work arounds never work.

For example, you are going to have a really hard to time adding HQ audio in half way through the edit. There’s no easy way to do this automatically. Will be a manual process. By hunch is you will not see much of a performance decline working with synch’d clips.

As far as events workflow….I find that you are much better working with as few events as possible. Inevitably clips from one reel need to edit together with clips from another reel. Plus your keywords are event specific and if you get deep into keywording it really helps conceptualize the edit.

I’ve dealt with a million headaches over last 6 months and am wiser for it now and really loving X.

j

[Jacob Brown]

unfortunately i can tell looking inside the directory for these few clips that there are missing frames…ie the file numbers skips here and there.

i was on a sandisk extreme 480 which seems to be the most highly rated cards.

has anyone else experienced this?

is it possible that the equipment i rented was malfunctioning?

[Jacob Brown]

Yeah all sound like good advise. This was my first time working with a camera other than a DSLR without having a DIT.

Upon further educating myself and looking at my file structure I think I’ve got a lot of dropped frames and that’s whats causing certain clips to appear in Resolve as directories unto themselves (each containing an audio file and a mix of single frames and short clips).

How common is this problem with the BMCC?

I have abou 8 clips out of something like 40 clips with dropped frames. It’s not going to ruin the project, but it certainly will make me think twice about using this camera again.

Are there strategies people use to avoid this?

[Jacob Brown]

by the way here is a screenshot of the folder structure on my HD. as you can see everything looks in order…

[Jacob Brown]

I dragged and dropped from the SSD. I dont have access to files on SSD any longer.

Is there anyway for me to recover from this?

[Jacob Brown]

not to toot my own horn, but i think some of the vids i’ve done for Vogue with a similar setup and a higher aesthetic/talent level better illustrate Bill’s point…which is a good one besides his odd example….

these are done on two 5D cameras, edited and color corrected in FCPX. audio recorded externally, mixed, and then dropped into FCPX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQXPFzFU38&feature=share&list=PL3iNnDTc8WH2K9zih5WIl0HbW7OMbhGKd

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