Jason Jenkins
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[Lawrence Eaton] “My one (and only gripe) about FCPX compared to Legacy is the ability to ‘wrap’ up a project and move it lock, stock and two smoking barrels to archive it. NOW, saying that and realizing that FCPX is built around the core of a dB the relative ease of moving projects+events is not the same. Probably why a good many people have had initial ‘issues’ with FCPX. So, the move project option or the duplicate project option is satisfactory as it is. It is purely a matter of getting my mind around the dB side of things and how that works.”
Lawrence,
You should check out this article on using disk images with FCPX: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html
It’s an easy way to control which events FCPX sees when it launches and it is super easy to move, duplicate and archive the disk images.Jason Jenkins
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I have a lot of experience with the GH2, so you can ask me specifics about it; but I don’t have any hands-on experience with the 60D.
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[Luke Hale] ” Great! Thats what I am looking for. Now, how do I acess the plugin from compressor?”
In the Inspector set the file format to Quicktime Export Components and the encoder type to Windows Media.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “But if you go over 20GBs?”
I haven’t run into that yet, as I make my images with room to spare at the outset. This is what Wikipedia says:
“When the sparseimage file is not mounted, the .sparseimage file may be resized using Disk Utility’s Resize Image function.”I just tested this out and there seems to be a bug with the Resize Image function. It resizes the disk image but not the partition within it, so after resizing, you need to mount the image and go to the Partition tab in Disk Utility and drag the partition out to the full image size. That works, so it’s easy to resize the sparse disk image if needed, but it won’t automatically expand beyond the original size.
I like having a whole project bundled up in one place. It makes it really easy to move it around, backup and archive it.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Again, no offense, but this way is very limiting as you have to set a size right off the bat.”
From the article:
“One really cool feature of Disk utility is the ability to create what are called “Sparse Disk Images”. By choosing this option, if you created a 20 GB image, and only used 5 GB of media, the Disk image would only take up 5 GB on your drive. As you add media to your Event Library, the Disk Image would “expand” to include the additional files (the resulting DMG file would grow larger in size). This way you are only using the Disk Space you need.”Jason Jenkins
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[James Mortner] “No, I dont want to move files around to stop my NLE seeing them. No ! Naughty !”
Using disk images has been working well for me:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.htmlJason Jenkins
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “why would they? apart from anything else its crappy, buggy software that is barely fit for purpose on any professional level.”
I’ve made quite a bit of money editing on FCPX so far. I find I can get my work done faster with it.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “FCPX was expressely designed to monetise iMovie users. That is its reason for being.
that is what Apple chose to do with FCP – monetise their iMovie users.”I’ve never used iMovie.
[Aindreas Gallagher] ”
It is not an application built for, or intended for, anything we could vaguely describe as the professional market (say where your Job depends on its capabilities and reliability): it is intended to take three hundred dollars out of the pocket of the casual enthusiast”I’ve got six figures worth of work lined up for next year. Based on my experience with FCPX so far, I anticipate using it for the majority of that work. Not bad for a casual enthusiast.
Jason Jenkins
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[Mark Suszko] “BetacamSP, to be more perceise. YES, some stations and networks still ask for this format.”
For $400, this must be a gold-plated BetaSP tape. Perhaps the rappers hang it on a chain around their neck for some extra bling.
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[Walter Soyka] “See, this is what I miss about Mac OS 9. It crashed just the right amount: not so frequently that you couldn’t get anything done, but not so rarely that you missed out on good reboot coffee breaks.”
And with a solid state system drive, a full reboot only takes about 50 seconds… It’s a good thing I don’t drink coffee, because I wouldn’t have the time!
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Flowmotion Media
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[Chris Harlan] “Bill, I agree with pretty much everything you said there.”
This is unacceptable, Chris. This is a debate forum!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!