John Burgan
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Just in case this is not clear – Skype already gives you direct transfer capability “out of the box” without the need for any other app, as long as the person on the other end is running Skype as well. Whether this competes with FTP is another matter but ultimately file transfers are only limited by bandwidth and hard disk space. It’s a pretty useful add-on to the free telephony/webcam app.
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Even on the alpha app you can get a pretty good idea of how it’s supposed to work. I look forward to checking out the updated version.
Cheers
John B
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Thanks for the heads up.
I’m already a Skype user and found this link to a download of a demo version.
This is a pre-release alpha limited to two clients & two movies that come packaged inside the app for testing purposes.
I’m in Berlin, Germany and just tried it with a friend in Amsterdam. It worked as promised, more or less. We were able to play the demo clip in sync, add markers and comments and chat live as we were doing it. Playback on both of our machines was not so smooth unfortunately, but my pal thought this might because of the H264 codec on the clips which is apparently fairly processor intensive. OTOH they play fine in QT player (on G4 PB 1.25) annd we were both on DSL. It may be the alpha release, after all.
Neat. I bet we’re about to see a whole slate of apps like this.
BTW Skpye (free download for Mac, Windows, Linux etc) has a file transfer facility identical to iChat, but has the advantage of being truly cross platform. Windows already has video chat, Mac to follow in this quarter.
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If it’s “tons and tons” of subtitles, then you’d be strongly advised to invest in Belle Nuit. Once you get over the learning curve you can really work at speed with great efficiency. It also can be used as a standalone app to do the spotting offline, freeing up your main editing machine. Highly recommended.
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You should check the size of your project file. If it’s above 10-12Mb you need to slim things down and adopt a different workflow.
Break the project down first into Media/Edits, then further down into chapters/acts/interviews, whatever seems most logical. Also weed out redundant edits by archiving them, keeping the project with your main edit up to date and as lean as possible.
There’s no problem for FCP to have multiple projects open simultaneously, you can copy, cut and paste between them.
Also, make sure that you regularly save your projects using the “Save As…” dialogue, forcing the whole file to be re-written from the ground up on a regular basis. Apparently months of saving to the same file is a recipe for corruption, and simply backing up a buggy file is no insurance against losing your work.
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It’s probably the Broadcast wave (BWF) format, so you’ll need the BWF2XML utility to import them into FCP with TC
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/
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Several UK based editors on the Cow’s European FCP forum – try a repost there.
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Also check the size of their project file. If it’s above 10-12Mb (easily achieved on docs with multiple versions), you need to slim things down and adopt a different workflow.
Break the project down first into Media/Edits, then further down into chapters/acts/interviews, whatever seems most logical. Also weed out redundant edits by archiving them, keeping the project with your main edit up to date and as lean as possible.
There’s no problem for FCP to have multiple projects open simultaneously, you can copy, cut and paste between them.
Also, make sure that you regularly save your projects using the “Save As…” dialogue, forcing the whole file to be re-written from the ground up on a regular basis. Apparently months of saving to the same file is a recipe for corruption, and simply backing up a buggy file is no insurance against losing your work.
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[Joe Shapiro] ” It’d be a great feature for FCP if one could take an EDL and a bunch of files with media that covered the timecode in the EDL and just say “hook ’em up.””
I recall that this feature was available on the (then) Lightworks editing system a decade ago; it compared reel numbers & TC and if they matched it would “fill” the edit as far as possible.
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[Walter Biscardi] “See my profile for an example of a system description.
“So where are the “pizza on the grill” ingredients, huh?
