Jason Porthouse
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Seconded. The system I’ve been cutting on, an uber iMac with i7 and the big graphics card was using most of the 20 gigs of RAM installed, so this is one of those cases where ‘more is more’…
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Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Oliver, I totally agree. EDLs have saved my bacon on a number of occasions, and anything that helps X to play nicely with the outside world is to be applauded. Sometimes simple is best.
Still want a T-bar though.
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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With the ever increasing convergence of home/pro tech, do you the ink there’s a market for dummy gear – you know, stuff that looks really complicated but doesn’t actually do anything? Might mean that we can hold on to the cache of being very clever people who do very complex things with equipment you’ll never understand in a million years. Clients will love it…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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No problem Duncan, just be very methodical with how you store the backups as all projects are called the same when you get below the project folder. I also make sure, if replacing a file (either project or event) that I move the existing problem file to the desktop, replace with backup, make sure the new file is working within X and then trash the original moved file.
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Great, we can go back to large desks full of switchers with massive T bars. They always made me feel kinda like a pilot. Impressed the hell outta clients, much more than an iMac does now. They were far more likely to sit on the sofa in silent awe of my technical prowess, instead of asking if they can get that software on their Macbook…. *sigh*
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Duncan,
You can have far more than 9 keywords – I don’t think there is a limit. The misconception of 9 comes from the fact you can have those assigned to shortcuts, but they’re changeable and not fixed.
I’ve just finished a fairly major project on X – 20 odd short films for a tourist authority. Shot by 2 crews on a mixture of XDCam EX, 5D and GoPro. About a terabyte of media in all, with maybe 50 -70 keyword collections (bins) and a fairly typical smattering of graphics, narration, music and ambient SOT. Typically I was able to cut these about 30% quicker with X than 7 I reckon, and I really liked some of it’s features. Some drove me up the wall.
Media management wise, I would copy the project folders at finder level each night (only changed ones) and then discard the render files from the backup projects. A little time consuming but not too bad. I’d also backup the event file (not the entire event) in it’s own folder, dated and timed, to ensure that backup was there.
This saved our bacon once, when my client, trying to copy a project over from her macbook pro as I’d been doing (AirDrop the project folder, place in correct drive location with FCP off, fire it up and away – worked a charm) BUT she copied the wrong thing and tried to import the project within X rather than at finder level with X not running. Result – all keywords collections (essentially all the logging) and most projects gone. We replaced the current event with the backup from the Friday before and replaced project files from the backup , restarted X and fortunately all was well. As someone who’s well used to mucking around at finder level and quite disciplined I was confident we’d get the project back, and I think that the underpinnings of the database in X are quite strong, but there does seem to be a few too easy ways of it screwing up if you’re not careful. Couple that with seemingly random corruptions and crashes that people like the OP have had and it makes me nervous – not to the extent that I won’t use it, but enough to make my backup regime thorough.
In the 1 or 2 cases where the project (read sequence) became corrupt, or at least wouldn’t open (we used Neat Video on a lot of clips and it was a little unstable on occasions, especially with Skimming on) then removing CurrentVersion and replacing it with a renamed backup (copied from the Backups folder and renamed CurrentVersion) it never failed to get us back on track, and in about the same time as Restore would on 7.
I’m back cutting on 7 now, and already I miss some of X’s features – skimming (after hating it initially), the fluidity of the timeline (although I still think tracks are necessary) and the overall speed of the app. I’m rooting for X as I think it has the potential to be great and it will definitely be in my editing toolbox (along with 7 and Avid) for a lot of projects.
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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That’s brill, thanks Simon. I’ll give it a go.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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That’s really interesting Aindreas, I think X will be ideal for that – essentially short form high production value stuff cut quickly, then assembled in to a final program. I’m cutting 4-6 min pieces at the moment (for the web but they could just as easily be for broadcast) and I’d say I’m maybe 20% faster to finish to the equivalent standard in X as I was in 7 – and I know 7 well. The more I use it the more I like it, even if some of the glaringly stupid UI issues leave me apoplectic with rage in a John Cleese/Austin 1100 style. I can see it working well.
Now, where’s my CV – time to send it to yer man… shame I can’t convince Panorama to do the same…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “cheers, am indeed, me particulars are below there –
soon to include ‘seeks avid brain transplant’.”I’m having one of those at the moment, along with a dose of ‘X’ for good measure. I’ll be fine, so long as they keep the meds going…. *twitch*
I don’t know of any serious stuff going on in Premiere at the Beeb, Bristol are still FCP (I’ve a friend who trains there), Norn Ireland are all Avid (though when I was there last one of their technical guys committed heresy by buying an iPad…) and I believe Cardiff are too.
Ahh well, they say variety is the spice of life…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Jim,
Is it just hanging on starting the share? I had that last night, and you end up with a process in share monitor that won’t cancel.
Try restarting your machine, render the file first, then on sharing make sure to select background rendering on this machine. See if that makes any difference – it worked for me.
Cheers,
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*