[Jeremy Garchow]

You have to track the tv and attach the image to the track.

Check out TrackX plugin. If that isn’t enough, look at Mocha which has a steep but valuable learning curve.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Transcripts depends on the project.

I am working on a massive doc, with 30 hours of interviews from 15 people, and counting. Transcripts allows me to review the content much more quickly. It also allows a search of words and phrases. Unfortunately FCPX is bad at getting to a specific word from a transcript. Yes, sometimes there are instances where a phrase on paper isn’t like as good in video, but with transcripts I can easily scan or search to see if the subject comes up again.

Also, since this doc is already a year in the making, transcript allow a quick refresh of the material, especially when it’s not the only project I’m working on. It also helps in keywording in FCPX much more quickly. SpeedScriber allows adding favorites so even as it’s being transcribed, I can start the organization prep. I can easily get from favorites to keywords in FCPX.

I don’t get transcripts on every job, but I appreciate it when I do get them.

And now that FCPX has a caption option, my guess is that we will get very quick transcript to caption handling (or text box) in the future, which will be very helpful and useful.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Hancock] “This is niiiiiiice. Looks like you can string Name and Notes and a few other things together too.”

Yes, as well as any tags that you want to keep instead of all of them. 🙂

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “3. Is there a way to always have FCPX reflect the correct project name in the Share menu? When you change the project name in the browser or metadata pane, it does not automatically also update the name used in the Share menu.”

Yes.

Select the Project, open the inspector and find the share prefs (looks like 3 arrows pointing up). Change the Name field to Name and you should see it auto fill with a name parameter (blue text bubble).

You can also delete anything else out of other fields and it will remain blank. You can save this view as a default. But as you see, if you rename the export in the share window it changes. The trick is to make the export after the share window (where you choose the destination in the finder). So File > Share > Choose settings and hit “ok” or whatever the blue box says, then the finder window opens. At that point you can make the file and it will not change future share window exports. Hope that makes sense.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thanks for the report, Tony. Always nice to see what is going on out there.

DJI has a good foothold in modern (non live broadcast) mobile rigs. I have been wondering when they are going to start making an RC car that can handle one of their cameras and/or gimbals. That rig you sent looks amazing. Is that a commercial kit or did someone fabricate it?

[Jeremy Garchow]

And the Tilden key keeps connected clips in place while you adjust clips on the primary.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Gissing] “Not really correct. We do have behavioral genetically inherited traits for reciprocity which is based on recognising others of our species as having a shared sense of equality. Reciprocity behaviour is at the heart of social primates. “

This is survival. Yes, primates are social. This is to ensure survival of the group. The food is here, the water is here, there’s a threat coming from over there, one ape is bigger/stronger/younger and therefore takes charge in a pecking order or hierarchy. Survival is certainly encoded and theoretically, any ape (or male ape) can challenge any other male ape for control.

When you are born in to a lower caste, this has nothing to do with your biological ability to survive, level of intelligence, or potential. Caste is a belief system created by humans in order to control populations. You are born in to a caste system because society said you are, not because it is genetically encoded.

I don’t think Harari is discounting this as evolution, he is accounting for how society got to where it is, and that is the ability to create fiction, and is a big evolutionary separator from other primates and ancient/ancestral humans, and why Sapiens have thrived for now.

[Jeremy Garchow]

You would need to use firewire to capture video in FCPX and DV.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Nathan Kendall] ” Is there a way to move the project over to FCX. I am not positive that I have a complete project file I have all the catch folders and what looks like few code files. “

You would need FCP7 to open those “code files” (which are probably FCP7 project files), export an XML of your timeline, and then use SendtoX from the app store to convert your FCP7 timeline to an FCPX Project.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bill Davis] “And the scary corollary now, is that if you can successfully manipulate people into accepting an fictional reality well enough – you can manipulate their behavior in reality, in return.
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Harari proposes that most society is based on certain fictions or myths, or imagined realities. He talks, specifically, about sapiens and what differentiates us from other less civilized human siblings (and apes).

There is no genetic code for equality, or freedom, or money, or class/caste. These are not elements of our biology. When one is born into wealth, that status is not encoded in to the sapien DNA. The status of wealth in that newborn baby is an accepted fiction that is perpetuated by all other sapiens. Ants or bees, for example, have their roles biologically encoded. Drones are drones, workers are workers, queens are queens. There is no “law” in those societies where a workers gets a “fair shot” or opportunity at being queen. So, we as humans, create the fiction or intellectual myths, that everyone deserves a chance to be whoever they want. That is unique to sapiens. So on some level, we are all manipulated and manipulating. So while one’s “reality” may be influenced by other myths, it doesn’t mean that your reality is any different. It is still a myth that was created in order to organize and classify a group of sapiens. Yes, this can be used for nefarious purposes, but it is also used for good.

And to Andrew Kimery, the answer if Jif, obviously.