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That’s pretty dang cool.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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What I’d love is for roles to be automatically assigned from the media browser and take advantage of iTunes metadata. Right now it brings in all iTunes as music, which is annoying when we have our sfx libraries in there as well.
Remember when our biggest gripes were ‘no broadcast monitor support?’ Life could be worse :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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One time I asked Don to read so gritty he would ‘make babies cry’. It came out awesome.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Here’s a funny little thing. We totally don’t care about roles anymore since X2Pro pretty much automates everything for us. I suppose if we really cared and had a huge edit we would feel more motivated to work with roles. Then again, even a sizzle that we worked on for 2 months and delivered last week – never touched a role in it.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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It has no effect on pro tools for us. In actual editing though, as you saw, we do whatever we like on the creative edit and when we deliver a final we detach all audio and bring in the mix. This is the exact same process we’d do if sending to resolve or color, etc. We’d just delete the lower layers of video at that point as well. You’re doing it all up front, and we’re doing the same thing but at the very end of the process. I think ours has less steps, but it’s your journey man ;).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Look, you guys have lots of options to Rube Goldberg X up all you like, detaching audio and doubling clips et al, but if all you’re trying to do is keep video straight up with tightened audio beneath, just splice the video and audio however you’d like the audio to be, and then trim the top layer of video/audio back like it was and pretend the 2nd video clip beneath is just audio. While your mouse is on the master clip, you can either mute the top layer audio using the volume bar, trim it to where you want it coming back in, or just turn it off in the ‘inssssspector (you have to say that with a lisp)’. 17 different way to accomplish the same underlying goal.
X seriously doesn’t care if the clip with the cut up audio is blue with video or green with none. What better sync marker on Earth is there than the actual video attached to a clip you’re treating like just audio?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Jeremy, thanks for giving me something easy to correct you on.
You cannot assign specific roles before bringing a clip into a timeline. You CAN select clips in the event browser and hit Modiby/Assign Roles and you’re off to the races rolewise before a single edit is made.
Look at me, I’m smart!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Slightly off topic, but this week we got a note about a character’s voice being out of sync in a rough cut. We were all mystified because we don’t typically break apart audio. We checked our comp and the clip was not in fact detached.
Turns out that whoever edited the episode delivered a final to the network with that character’s bite about 6 frames offset.
They should have used FCPX :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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You’ll be editing to an external, but things like Photos, iTunes, and it’s associated content will be internal and will fill it up faster than you expect (I’ve got about 1 TB of iTunes for example). You may choose to load all your DVD’s into it and discard the old media (especially if you grab an Apple TV, which I suggest you do). You’ll load all your CD’s into it. Then scan allllll your pictures from your life to it. You’ll keep that internal because it’s more secure that way. All our little phones and cameras for personal use consume a surprising amount of storage space over time.
Fusion is worth it for sure for storage, and it’s super fast when opening applications.Once the sting wears off tomorrow maybe you’ll get some ideas like hiring an editor friend to work for you and offering to cut your next shoot on it. That’s a brand new revenue stream that could end up being a whole business for you.
If it makes you feel better, I’ve been barely holding myself back on ordering a second one because I love it so much. I’d really love to toss all our other macs for new iMacs just for the new display and ease of use with thunderbolt. As you say though, it IS 3k :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Ned, I’m going to try to channel the spirit of Bob Zelin here.
In 2009 I got an iMac and went for all the cheap options. That iMac is now our slowest computer and is completely unusable for anything other than email and surfing. I wish I had bought all the upgrades but I thought there was no way an iMac could be a professional workstation so I went with ‘good enough’.
You work in video which eats up copious amounts of storage space. Get the 3TB fusion drive – people that don’t have it don’t understand how solid Fusion is. Stop being scared of UPS – It’s not like best buy floated the box to their store on angel wings :). You can upgrade your RAM later when you realize that your mac would run better with it – the hard drive will be stuck with you for life.
And seriously, if you got the fully loaded iMac (which I have) with all the extras (except RAM, it’s overpriced), you will be able to write it off at the end of the year. It’s literally the easiest and most justifiable write-off you can have. Why not swing for the fences instead of giving it to the government?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.