[Jenn Lindsay]

Okay, you guys have emboldened me!!

I’m meeting with my camera guy and he is going to show me the Sony and Panasonic you all recommended. I am totally up for doing what it takes to get the best video and all the gear I need for $3500. A little scared about changing stuff over and working fast but, if I figured out the T5i so quickly, how hard can it be?

Thanks again for all your input ☺
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Thank you so much to all of your for pitching in with your advice.

I have to work too quickly to handle a whole brand changeover right now but I am convinced by now that at this point the 7D Mark II makes the most sense.

Someday hopefully I can move toward better Video brands or maybe Canon will come up with a really great video DSLR with full HDMI out that justifies the lens changeover. It seems like getting the 5D Mark III or even making a huge plunge into a 5D Mark IV is hard to justify.

But it seems pragmatic to go with the sensible 7D right now ☺

Thank you again to you all for taking the time, I learned a lot looking at all your suggestions!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Yes, thank you so much for your help!

I am getting paid to do this work; I work as the documentarian for a research institute and once this contract is over I’d like to continue making short ethnographic films for classrooms and pursue video journalism. I’ve also been acting as DOP for a start-up that is making commercials for web apps. We did alright with my T5i in the last shoots, but I’ll look forward to having something nicer to work with.

The reason I want HDMI out is that I have a Black Magic recorder/monitor with focus peaking and it will only record the audio with full clean HDMI. The T5i allows me to use it only as a monitor now, but not as a recorder.

I already have a Sennheiser boom mike that I plug into the T5i but if I need something cleaner/closer I use my Rode lapels with my H4N Zoom audio recorder. The setup is efficient but a bit cumbersome, and I would appreciate more ability to get decent audio with “run and gun” situations.

I have three EF-S lenses compatible with the T5i’s APS-C sensor. If I went with the 5D Mark III, I think I would not need to replace my nifty 50, and the full frame sensor of the 5D Mark III can buy me some time replacing my wide-angle lens, but I’d certainly need to replace my 70-300 Tascam zoom.

My current budget is $3500 (which is why I am jumping at the used 5D Mark III for $1300, though I’m unsure about buying used).

I look forward to hearing your thoughts! Thank you again!
Jenn Lindsay

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Jeff, hi! Thank you for your help. I’m back in front of my poor bloated desktop after a trip out of town.

I’m looking into the fcp library manager app and I’m not quite sure how to access it or if it something I need to download. Can you please help me figure out where to access it? Perhaps you are using the Artic Whiteness software?

I’d also like to know more about handling opotimized media more efficiently. I was learning more about FCPX through a Ripple training course and they recommended importing everything as copy/optimize/proxy, so I consequently have a huge glut of files and so much optimized media. I see now this wasn’t completely necessary.
* is there a way to convery optimized media into proxy or somethign smaller?
* if I import only with proxy (not copying originals or optimizing) from here on out, will that change how the files or projects look against the original stuff?

Thank you!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

I’d also like to add that I don’t think the original footage or SD card was corrupted, because half of the footage on one of the SD cards imported and remains in the library just fine.

Anyway, I created a new library and I’m importing the problem footage right now. Fingers crossed 🙂
Jenn

PS: I’m including a screenshot of what I see in the original library when I open it after rebooting, just FYI.

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Hi Eric 🙂

Actually, thank you for necro-ing this event. It’s happening again for me. I created new libraries, re-imported a lot, etc. But there are two SD cards in particular that I import, they play fine, etc. But when I quit FCP and open it again later, the files are always disconnected. And when I re-import and put the files in a new project and create an XML to sync with external audio in PluralEyes, it won’t work because the files are “decoupled” from the project.

Why aren’t the files going into FCP like everything else I filmed in the exact same way????? Gah.

I guess I will try consolidating to a new media location (external to the Library).

If anyone has any other thoughts, I’m up for hearing them!
Thank you!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Awesome, thank you to both of you for this help. I just bought PluralEyes after looking at what it does.

If I just have one cam and one source of audio, do I need to create a multicam clip? Or do I just dump aaaaaalllllll the video clips and high quality audio I need synced into one project and export the xml?

I watched the PluralEyes tutorial but it’s not really clear to me why I need to create a multicam clip.

Thank you again!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Okay, awesome. Thanks for this. I’ll go ahead and move the beast on over and hold my breath until FCPX finds the media on the external drive! Thank you!
jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Thank you Bill! This is super clear. I appreciate it!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX

[Jenn Lindsay]

Hello!

Well, I figured out the easiest thing, which is how to open and save the library on an external hard drive. I’m wondering if I should import the media as “optimized” to avoid the sluggishness I referred to earlier (I filmed on a Canon EOS Rebel T3i and from how quickly the SD cards filled up the files seem to be pretty huge). This project at the end will be pretty long (50 minutes) with some animations and effects. I’d like to know if the video/picture quality will be preserved if I import “optimized” and if there is any downside other than a long import/transcoding time.

I could still really use some help with the other tasks:
2) set up second external 4TB G-drive to back up first external 4TB G-drive
3) moving the library / fcpx files of the other enormous / sluggish project to the external drive and keeping it all intact.

Thank you very much!!!!
Jenn

http://www.JennLindsay.com
iMac 27-inch, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7. 4GB GPU.
FCPX