[Joby Anthony jr]

Agreed; becoming more familiar with Motion’s capabilities would make me a better editor, even if for simple things like manipulating text. Larry Jordan and Ripple Training seem to be solid places to pick up tips, tricks, and formal paid-for training.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Kyrina, I owe you an apology. I think misunderstood your original question. I was rummaging through the various effects in FCPX and came across the water pane effect, and then it clicked.

I did some testing and it looks like that effect is locked to the orientation of the clip it is applied to (so if you rotate the clip 90 degrees, the effect goes 90 degrees as well). It does not look like the effect can be rotated independently.

One solution might be to use Motion. It’s possible it has a water effect that might offer more variables for adjusting settings. But how you exactly do that in Motion goes beyond my skill set at this time.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

The plan sounds solid to me. Keeping a set of the camera card originals (in their original folder structure) somewhere to refer back to can be helpful for all kinds of reasons. What to do with them once the project is wrapped for the purposes of archiving is up for debate.

Renaming those files to something useful prior to the project getting underway (i.e., editing) should be fine, but doing so after things get started could wreak havoc. So now’s the time to agree on a renaming and overall organization structure, and from there, stay consistent.

Some things to keep in mind. A mirrored RAID isn’t a back-up in the truest sense. It’ll keep you rolling when one of the drives flatlines (in most scenarios), but a true redundant back-up means you’ve got two 10 TB RAIDS, where one is an incremental of the other, such as every hour, 6 hours, night, week, etc. Whatever your risk tolerance is. My general encouragement is to always by harddrives in pairs.

That can be helpful for a variety of reasons, such as deleting something by accident, and needing to go back in time to get it back. A mirrored RAID will delete it in real-time and you can’t get it back.

If the 10 TB RAID is just there to back up the 4TB drive, so that the 4TB is the editing disk, be sure to keep roughly 85% of free space on the 4TB drive. Pushing it past 85% will lend itself to slowdowns and possible file corruption.

And lastly, for the paranoid, none of these HDs sit in the same building at the same time for very long.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

I’m definitely not the one to give advice for this topic, but I ran across this article today highlighted in the most recent Tao of Color Grading Newsletter:

https://www.studiodaily.com/2018/11/workstation-tips-puget-systems-founder-president-jon-bach/

He mentions the 7960X paired with a 1070 and 64 GB of RAM as a common configuration. Looks like the Puget website has a lot of articles benchmarking different apps and systems too. Might be a good resource as you research upgrades.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

See if Mail shows up in the list of apps under System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy. That seems to be where permissions are managed for one app to access another. Mail isn’t in my list, I’m guessing, because I’ve never generated a permissions request (such as from FCPX to Mail), but other apps are there like Contacts and Facebook.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Ha! I see that now; thank you Michael! All the years I’ve been using the program, I’ve just skipped right past that option for some reason–never made the connection. Definitely would have come in handy for some of the bigger, more complex projects.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

David, you mention organizing keywords into folders. Is that Smart Collections?

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Joe Marler’s excellent explanation:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/52517#52614

And the link he refers to about Multicam vs. Synchronize:

https://www.fcpworks.com/sync-or-multicam-clips/

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Once a clip is in the timeline, it won’t refresh with changes made to that same clip in the Browser. For those changes to appear, they have to be newly added to the timeline. In some instances, you can just drag the clip from the Browser on top of the clip in the timeline and Replace it. But this won’t work once the clip has been cut on in the Timeline.

I believe the only instance it’ll work is if you still have the very beginning of a clip intact in the Timeline (Replace from Start). Actually, there’s also a Replace from End (of the clip) as well, so two instances it would work.

Unless someone else knows of a bit of magic I’m not familiar with for this scenario. But pretty sure the only time the Parent/Child relationship is retained is instances of Multicam clips. And I recall reading somewhere on the forums here recently that many advocate using Multicam clips to sync audio instead of the Synchronize Clips feature, in part, because of the flexibility Multicam clips. If I run across that thread, I’ll add it to the discussion.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

It probably won’t look great, but trying one of the methods may at least get it slowed down to look like normal speed. Definitely some troubleshooting, problem-solving, and testing involved to find a solution that’s somewhat acceptable in trying to salvage things. But agreed, with so many frames missing, it’ll be rough. Maybe there’s a compromise at 30 where it can still look normalish but not too jittery.

— Joby.