James Sullivan
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I just had to make corrections to a FCP X timeline for the first time. I have not worked in FCP X at all so I am a biased FCP Legacy professional. It is very hard to look at the new timeline and understand how the previous editor got there. Did he decide to expand audio clips? Is there mixed resolutions and framerates hiding all over the place. How will subtitles and adjustment layers ripple as I start mucking around?
I am also an online editor and if you think I get mad when an AVID editor stacks up more then three tracks imagine the ulcer that FCP X produces.
Tracks help editors organize. Sound design requires lots of tracks.
Can’t we all get along?
James
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Can you try importing the XML into final cut 7 and then export and edl from there? You might have to collapse footage into one track to make it useful.
James
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Howdy. I too have done my first c300 job with the native MXF files. Did you have trouble with realtime? My system would bog down before edit points and then pick back up again. I am running two GTX 580’s on a Mac Pro 3.1 tower. So slowest mac but enough GPU action?
I was able to pull some sky’s back that would have been gone had they baked it to prores or any other codec.
Thanks for sharing,
James
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For some reason the Resolve and the decklink card want to see a “Live” video signal to be able to see the deck and switch over to let you lay off to tape. I have been trying to lay back to a AJA kipro Rack. I put on bars and tone and set the resolve up to edit to tape. Once the software thinks for a moment it sees the deck. I then turn off bars and tone on the Kipro and Resolve will let me set in and out points and start to insert. However I cannot get my playback to not drop frames yet. I find the decklink card to be very touchy feely compared to my experience with AJA cards and software. I wish there was more feedback that it has locked to the deck and that the sync is right.
James
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Just make the changes in Premiere and re-xport a second XML. When you bring it back into the same project you graded the video inside Resolve all of your grades should come across. This is assuming your footage had reel numbers associated with them. If not it should be easy enough to copy the grades over. Or render out the sequence with enough handles to make your changes.
James
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Pile on!!!! I would @#$$ a brick if they could make a HD legalizer with a nice soft clip in it. Would be better if I just bought a baby Terenex and it had a legalize button on it. How awesome would that be?
very,
James
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Once you get used to it I think using a pen and tablet is so much better. You develop muscle memory for where effects and menus are located. IF you tablet has a scroll wheel you can scroll with your left hand and land on clips faster. I am a klutz so I have both buttons on the pen activate the right click for all of your contextual menus. There are soooooo many mouse clicks in editing it is not even funny. The stress on your wrists and fingers should keep the carpal away for a bit longer. That and you get a pen to flip and play with…I have the “Medium” Intuos 4 at work and the “Large” at home. the smaller is better for editing all day.
Just my two cents,
James
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So if I have a full set of panels are the six way vectors mapped across the knobs once you tab into that section? Or can you not map the six way vector on any other panel then the full set of Resolve panels. I use a wheel chair and cannot get under the full set as they are too fat. I was hoping the mapping for the element series would be good. I still think it would be nice to remap each panel.
James
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The test I ran on some old dv footage this weekend revealed that the new final cut does not pick up the reel number!!! You will have to add a reel number back to the footage if you need to keep track of that kind of thing.
James
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Look at CAT DV it has the ability to link time coded transcripts to footage
James