John Heagy
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[Bill Davis] “QUOTE:
For us it simply gets in the way and adds a layer of complexity when in a large shared environment. The need to virtualize the media via aliases when linking to media is of no benefit.
(Bullet Point: It’s NOT perfect for my large facility)”Wow Bill, thanks for quoting and properly summing up what I really meant so concisely.
Clearly these are divisive statements that warranted you’re condescending and insulting response. My request for ideas that would help FCPX find a home in collaborative workflows aka: “niche workflows” has clearly upset you. Sorry about that!
I’ll also try and communicate the entirely of my thought in the posting subject from now on.
Happy Holidays
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[Jeremy Garchow] “With Events, I can import someone else’s organization and completely start over with my own (or add my own style or whatever)”
That’s a nightmare scenario in an organized shared environment! As I mentioned earlier a MAM is the only way I see us using FCPX and in that case changing the clip metadata in FCPX is pointless. A shared environment means sharing media with consistent metadata. Individual Events where people can rename and add metadata only to be lost when they import the media again from the MAM is waisted effort.
Apple claims that FCPX is all about ease of use. It is for “one man bands” but “facility” shared environments then have to work around all the hand holding with multiple “easy” steps that in the end add no value.
I don’t ever see Apple making it easy/direct for us at the expense of the single user.
John
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[Jeremy Garchow] “You can then…”
That’s my point. In FCP7 there is no “You can then…”
Events for the sole purpose of enabling a project to link to media is complexity with no value.
John
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We use a little know feature in CatDV to link media to thousands of “text” clips via Avid ALE exports. It’s based on the fact that CatDV will link to clips imported in CatDV via EDL, XML or Tab delimited and link them to “real” media already in the catalog based on TC and Tape/Reel.
For this to work you need the source media to have embedded QT Reel IDs.
John
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I would be curious as to how multiple users can work on one project in your current environment.
“We simply duplicate the project file and append the editors initials. No worries about access to media with FCP7.
John
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I wish Apple had simply put Motion in FCPX. That’s will be the only way to keep AE fans inside FCPX for simple effects and compositing.
John
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What frame size are your proxies?
If not 5K is it possible to relink 5K in place of 1080 proxy?
John
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Thanks for the suggestion didn’t know about DnX 45 but I think that will be too high a data rate.
I’m trying to fast import HDV but HDV is not listed in the Resolution pulldown. Is it possible to fast import HDV.mov or other wrapper?
Thanks
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Even more testing reveals that Premiere 6.5 reads the files that 5.5 couldn’t. That leaves Avid 6.5 as the only app having trouble reading TC in some of CatDV’s .mov exports.
Oddly it was only files with 1hr TC that had the issue. Not every 1hr “reel” but only 1hr reels.
I hate problems like this.
John
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[Shane Ross] “10:1m”
Ok now that’s back to the future!
We’d need an easy to encode to codec. Merdian omf is anything but.
I’m very surprised by the lack of a suitable 1080i proxy format.
John