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Have you tried to create previews with it? It’s surprisingly fast.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[Craig Seeman] “I think in general they should consider how to handle codecs not part of AVFoundation. “
They do actually. The solution is so simple. I’ll be showing it off Monday4/18 @ FCP Exchange at 3:45.
There also may be free beer. Maybe.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Actually it can create low res preview files of media so you can review it even if the archive drove is offline
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Keyflow can tag these and make them searchable for you however you want, it just can’t preview them directly. You can open them from within keyflow, which opens the application that manages those particular file types.
To a bigger point, if your current organization method consists of having to mount and open every single camera archive you’ve created in 5 years to find a single shot, you’d definitely be a strong candidate for tagging these files for faster searching to at least help narrow down that process.
Good feedback though. I’ll think about that when I prep the presentation.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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It previews video using AV foundation, so it’s viewing capabilities are similar to Finder. FCPX is better suited to preview FCPX Camera archives.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I’ve been helping them for about 6 months. They are very dedicated to making it great and have upgraded and fixed many of the problems I had. We use it for almost all our media now. Some sweet improvements are in the next update which should be out soon.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I am. Apparently I’m giving a presentation on it at FCPWorks. There will be some cool stuff to share. Big update coming very very soon.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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We had been getting little clicks and pops at the end of some audio files in projects that wouldn’t necessarily fade off regardless of what we did. Overall there was a mix of mp3, wav, aif, and AAC for any given project. So we went back to high quality sources everywhere we could and converted them to 320kbps 48khz AAC files with loudness adjustments (so they peaked at the same level). No more pops and clicks so far. Now we use this to batch convert WAV and AIF files automatically and dump them into Swinsian’s Watch Folder, which then loads them into the Swinsian managed library on the server.
We find the quality is better. MP3 to AAC doesn’t necessarily bring audible improvements, but I think having things in the same sample rate across the board improves performance.
One other fun fact – part of the problem was we thought that FCPX was automatcially converting MP3 files to optimize them for editing as default behavior. We were getting duplicate files on the server which was just a waste of storage space. Turns out it was how programs like Swinsian – and pretty much every other non-itunes audio library program – were written. So I reached out to the developer of Swinsian and he worked on it and gave me a beta that allows drag/drop into FCPX by creating a shortcut to the original file vs FCPX optimizing it and putting it in the optimized media folder. Swinsian isn’t on the mac app store, but it’s a great program and IMHO a bit more robust for ridiculously large libraries than any other option.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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A significant part of this is how your footage is shot, macro focus, etc. Build some glitch effects in motion where you double your footage and mask it, then do extreme fast directional blurs with exposure flashes, and other weird things like that.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Thanks Kevin. Hopefully the fix will incorporate Metal support. It’s been a long long time since mac users felt the love from adobe.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.