Jeff Kirkland
Forum Replies Created
-
I think we’d want to know what CPU, GPU and amount of RAM you have. Plus what sort of RAID is the footage on and how is it connected? Some third party effects can also cause a bit of beach-ball pause so it’d probably be worth mentioning those as well. And too many nested compound clips might also lead to some beach-balling.
Of course, if none of the above apply, then yes, you may need a beefier Mac.
I’ll add that I don’t have any beach-balls on selecting clips with my low-end 2010 iMac, 2012 iMac, or even very often on my 2006 Mac Pro so the issue should be solvable.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Make it an audition and switch between them?
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Create a compound clip of either the whole project, or just the audio if you prefer. Apply a low-cut/low-pass filter to the compound clip. Export again.
As to rules… get some decent studio monitors so you know what you’re listening to and accept the fact that you have no control over the end user’s listening environment. Listen to it on as many speakers as you can. Not only does speaker quality vary widely but you have no idea what weird ‘enhancement’ they may have turned on.
I personally usually cut off bass at about 60hz for broadcast if it’s mostly music and 80hz if it’s all spoken word. Not a rule, just a preference.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
As Andy says, there are some codecs that have to be rewrapped to use. I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone else wanting to work directly from the initial card structure in any NLE.
Is there a particular reason for having to do it that way? Storage is cheap and the risk of losing your media seems way too high
My personal workflow is to clone the original media to an archive drive then copy / rewrap / convert the media from the clone to shared storage. That way I have control over the folder structure, file naming, etc. That’s the minimum number of copies I’d feel comfortable keeping as far as having backups is concerned.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
That’s the simplest method I’ve come across and is working fine up to and including 10.9.3.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
FCPX already does most of what I want so I don’t really care about new features. Not that I don’t like getting them and I do have a list things that’d be cool to see but nothing I can’t work around. I’m not in any rush.
What I do want though is bug fixes and stability. Make what’s there right now stable. Take as many updates as you need to do that. Then bring on some new features. Not a dozen new things that introduce a zillion new bugs though… Just one or two and then concentrate on stability again.
I’m very happy with those ‘boring’ updates. Bring ’em on.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Good to hear it’s even better than before. It was always my go-to noise reduction plugin for simple stuff in the past.
For anyone thinking of giving it a try, there’s a knack to using Soundsoap and even though the interface looks simple, I’d often come across people who hadn’t read the user guide or watched the tutorials and so weren’t getting the best results.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
If anyone does give it a whirl, please post the results. I used to use Soundsoap all the time but now I have both Audition and Izotope RX so I haven’t felt like parting with the upgrade price just to see what the new version is like.
Some good noise reduction that I could apply directly on the FCPX timeline would be handy though…
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Nope – the timeline doesn’t scroll. Feel free to send a feature request to Apple 🙂
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
I have hard drives. Lots of them. I keep a copy of the original camera card files and a copy of the project library with render files, optimised media, etc deleted. Each drive is duplicated so there’s at least two copies of everything on separate drives.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland