[James Ewart]

Does it really matter exactly what the budget is?

[James Ewart]

Indeed… but Aindreas has been on a personal crusade to discredit FCPX for as long as I have been checking these forums so I don’t really take anything he writes seriously any more.

Why does the majority of the professional editing community in the UK seize every opportunity to do this?

Some people are slagging it off and migrating back to Avid (ay there’s the rub… is this all some sinister pro Avid anti Apple conspiracy?) who have done no more with FCPX than launch it, see the interface looks a bit like Imovie and jump ship.

Maybe Larry just made a mistake.

[James Ewart]

Do you think Apple are not committed Oliver?

[James Ewart]

Hey not at all – I just assumed it was some kind of really intelligent thing that I did not understand!

[James Ewart]

Many thanks.

…which does beg the question why dos i allow you to create a blank Smart collection in the Event Browser.

Anyway not to worry.

Thanks for the tip about project size.

Yes I was told from the outset by somebody at apple in the Netherlands to always optimise and create proxies. I know some here edit “native” but I’ve never trusted that workflow much, so proxy it will be in ten or fifteen minute chunks.

Is it the number of clips in the event that’s the problem or the sheer amount of stuff.

Ho Hum.

I usually have a “mother station” facility in London I use for these bigger projects when they come along and let them take care of finishing and audio etc but alas they all seemed to jump ship about a year ago to Avid (a bit premature?) but London facilities love Avid and don’t much like change (a British thing).

However I have found a company who are dipping their toes in called Preditors who have a couple of systems up and running with FCPX so might be best to user their servers before lopping it all together and maybe even having different Events for Archive and new footage to keep Events down a bit.

In fact great idea.

One Event for Archive makes sense anyway as there will be a considerable amount. And another for all the other stuff. Makes sense.

Many thanks for that.

[James Ewart]

Thanks

Many thanks and…just to be absolutely clear and call me paranoid but if I change a bunch of clips names to start with “Interview” for example I can then create a new smart collection for all clips with Interview in the name.

So it is definitely 100% absolutely fine to rename clips because if ever I have to relink the clips for some reason FCPX will be able to relink based upon other metadata, as it does not rename the source files??

This is a paranoia I no longer have to live with that I had in legacy?

Really and truly?

However I do not be able to create a new blank or empty) smart collection and add stuff to it after the event.

Back to the tutorials!

People said FCPX was no good for “big” projects but as I am now on my first”big” project with it I have realised that in fact this is one of its strengths.

[James Ewart]

By which I mean transcode will remain greyed out obviously if he has not physically selected the clips in the browser first…just wondering I’d the solution might be the obvious one.

[James Ewart]

Understood but in this instance I’m not sure that he has said that FCPX does think his footage is already optimised unless I have missed a post.
And I think that was his original question. Are we making an assumption here?

[James Ewart]

what software does the Pro tools link please…what about Logic?

[James Ewart]

Pardon me for stating the obvious but you can transcode at any point after capture. You are aware that you can select all the clips in Event browser and go: File – Transcode Media aren’t you?

Then just check optimised pro Res.

N’est-ce pas?