[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “I can’t get the majority of clients to understand how to properly use Frame’s system or even send me a shareable DropBox link on the first attempt. So good luck with that remote part ☺”

I have the opposite experiences. I work with a lot of agencies. Some of the rising creative directors come from a post background, in that the used to push the buttons now they tell people to push the buttons what to do. In that process, the conversations we have are creative as well as technical. We can talk big picture, and we can talk software process. There are clients out of town that want to reach through the phone and work my computer. If we had remote collab, we could do just that. They show me exactly what they want, or get it started, and I finish. It could also help in our own edits where the clients, like yours, aren’t as familiar with process. We could collab, under the same roof, or remotely, and help each other.

No, not every client is like this, but more and more will be.

Side note, frame.io is not user friendly until you show someone how to comment, and then it’s very user friendly, at least that’s been my experience. The comment action isn’t obvious to everyone who has not used it.

There is simultaneous need for local and remote collab.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tony West] “I have Jeremy and that’s part of how I came to my conclusions. This video with Jonathan Morris on “collaboration” in X is a perfect example.”

I skipped to the end, and yes, no doubt shared & centralized storage does change the way you work and definitely eases some aspects of collaboration. But then after you get used to that, you realize there could be more…

[Tony West] “The elephant in the thread is, is the future trend working in groups in the same building or remotely?”

There’s a kinda flippant, but easy answer, and the answer is, “yes”. ☺

As entities (corporate, agency, whatever) gain in media requirements, usage, and delivery , a central pool of media and access to it, is more and more necessary as the ‘media department’ takes on more and more responsibility. But you may also need freelancers or outside agencies that will need access to that data as well, pulling from the same content and making all new uses with it. So it really is growing in both directions.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tony West] “I think their aim has been empowerment of individuals first, and so much of what they do points to that. Hopefully they will add it, but like you, I’m going to keep on with it either way.”

There has been a shift, though, of Apple talking to the serious professional.

The landscape is different since the last time Apple brought a true upgradable workstation to the table. Collaboration is nearly everywhere. Platforms like frame.io, Slack, Google Docs (Or Apple Docs), even Vimeo, or Microsoft products these days, but collaboration and team participation is almost a must. It is also sometimes, a mess. Large Slack groups can become nearly impossible to find that one document, or link, or note or conversation that you need.

Sure, editing is different, media is different, but how different? Postlab makes what I assume to be, the best solution out there right now for FCPX, and it is great for ‘distributed’ teams and presents an easy interface and trackable database of who is doing what. On shared storage where editors are in the same network, the permissions are handled already by the OS, so Postlab Cloud, while still cool with a very easy way to keep things organized, becomes less necessary. Postlab Cloud is a cloud based product, showing it’s biggest intended audience.

I don’t know if you have watched many of these influencer videos on the MacPro unboxing’s and all that, but these teams of people shoot on Red, have networked storage, and require a few people to work on what amounts to, 30 minute informercials. These seemingly ‘self-powered’ simple productions are somewhat involved. I would imagine multiuser collaboration would be very welcome in FCPX for even the Youtube influencer.

In our productions, there is more of a need to get a piece out quickly as a teaser, or a need to send a few clips to someone else, or get media out for transcription nearly immediately, before we even start organizing for the job we were initially contracted to do. It’s a bunch of pre-post production, if that makes sense. It requires more than one editor, and it would be really welcome to see multiuser collab in fcpx on networked storage for people who work in the same building so that initial busy work can be done at the same time as the work being started for the flagship pieces that will eventually come out of that production. More and more finishing and audio are accepting fcpxml as well, which helps keep things streamlined with easy interchange.

FCPX is really creative software. I’ve tried and tried to like other programs that have collaboration features, but for all of us in the office, it’s hard to step away from fcpx. Although, I do wonder at some point, if multiuser collaboration doesn’t show up, when will we obsolete ourselves?

[Jeremy Garchow]

What color space is your monitor set to?

Is it grey in waveform too?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Here’s a write up of it:

https://bombich.com/blog/2019/09/12/analysis-apfs-enumeration-performance-on-rotational-hard-drives

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ted Irving] “In Catalina that isn’t there. So, how do I get FCPX to detect and use my external GPU?”

Use the FCPX prefs and the “Render/Share GPU” in the “Playback” section.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tony West] “Do your part, get out and then the next person comes in and so on.”

But what if someone could be editing while you are organizing?

Also, we often work on the same “job” with multiple people. There might be three or six different finished exports that come out of one job or pool of media.

Many times in spots we make :06s from the :15s from the :30s from the :60s from the :120s.

It would be great if all of that could be done inside one library instead of duping a library and keeping track of which cut is in what library.

It’s not a deal breaker, in no way shape or form are we switching to Pr, but multiuser collab would be very welcome and would sell a boat load more Macs.

[Jeremy Garchow]

As an antithetic, I’ve been using a 16” MBP side by side with an old MacPro tube.

The 16” blows the trash lid off the MacPro Tube and it’s hard to go back to the Tube (in X and Pr). I would hope the new Mac Pro would be even better.

That being said, there’s some weirdness with SMB shares that I am experiencing that may or may not be due to Catalina and I don’t want to try and roll the laptop back to Mojave as it shipped with Catalina.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “Catalina has a unique bifurcated (that’s”2-way” for the rest of us) folder structure that I think is part of the reason it behaves so badly with older software that wasn’t written for it. “

APFS (the newish disk format that Catalina requires, as opposed to HFS+ that earlier Mac OSes used) allows what amounts to multiple partitions or Volumes under one “Container” that is presented to the user (i.e. Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD – Data).

There is now the system side, and the data side. The system side is read only, data side, is not. So yes, if the plugins aren’t ready for the structure, that makes sense that they don’t work. And cloning an hfs drive to an APFS drive also isn’t possible. Bombich has a great write up of it: https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/working-apfs-volume-groups

It’s part of then new security features of the macOS, something that we as Mac users were not privy to since we used to be such a small part of the computing populace. It is weird to have to “allow” and “accept” so many actions that we used to take for granted.

[Jeremy Garchow]

A few things.

Sometimes, FCPX will not finish importing a file off of a camera, but still preview the media anyway. This leads to the ‘media not found’ you experienced. The file usually has a white dot, or partial white dot on it.

An easy fix to this is to go to File > Import > Reimport from Camera/Archive

If your camera files are on a hard drive (and not mounted on a camera card via USB or whatever), then you have to put the folder that the footage is located in the “Favorites” section of the import window by dragging it there from the Finder. (Kind of a weird process in that you open the Import window, then command tab to Finder, then drag the folder to the “Favorites” section of the import window).

If this doesn’t work, open a new library, import the offending file, then send it over to the current library.

As far as the other problem, yes, sounds like something went wrong with the Project. You did the right thing by copying and pasting to a new Project, which usually shakes loose any weirdness.

Jeremy