John Rofrano
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[Don Cobble] “I was not so much wanting to randomly shift the lanes all around as much as work in a group of clips that are a layer above the next group of clips below that are independent of each other.”
Do you use Secondary Story Lines? It seems that would be the grouping you are looking for. Just select all of the connected clips that you want to group together, right-click on one and choose Create Storyline ⌘G. That will give you a new connected storyline that you still edit in while maintaining a grouping.
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[Richard Herd] “Well not exactly because in real life, we also have monitor mix, sends, fx loops, and a drummer who keeps yelling at us that she doesn’t want to hear the guitar, only only the bass and vox — and d a m n it, it should be a dry mix. ?”
Who listens to drummers anyway (except for the bass player). They are always taping on things while you’re trying to talk. lol ?
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That link doesn’t work for me but if you are talking about the separate ProRes installer, it was removed because it got included into the regular QuickTime for Windows installer so it’s no longer needed. That ProRes installer only gave you the ability to read ProRes. If you install the latest QuickTime for Windows you will have everything that was released for Windows by Apple including the ability to read ProRes formats up to the time that it was discontinued.
~jr
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[Charlie Austin] “Secondaries work great if you need everything in a line…”
Yea, the whole notion of a Primary storyline with Secondary storylines is a very natural way of telling a story.
Tracks are such a foreign concept to telling a story. Tracks make sense for audio because that’s how you physically worked with audio in the studio. You have a 16 track recorder and you record everything on it’s own track. You have a 16 track audio mixer and it has both tracks and summing busses. This is how we’ve always worked with audio. Now we have something similar to an audio bus in FCP X.
Video has no notion of “tracks” in real life so introducing them was a “forced” approach that always seemed unnatural to me. I guess that’s why I love FCP X. (free from tracks at last) 😉
~jr
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[John Romein] “Does anyone know if UltimateS is going to be updated and if so is there a rough timeline? Are we talking days or weeks or months?”
As the author of Ultimate S Pro I know. ?
We are working on making the necessary changes to make Ultimate S Pro and our other plug-ins compatible but we do not have a date for the completion of that work yet. We recommend that you use Vegas Pro 13.0 if you need to use our plug-ins until they can be updated.Â
Best guess, it will be on the order of weeks to a month… hopefully not longer. (definitely not days)
~jr
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[Mark Raudonis] “So if you call it a “lane” it’s NOT a “track”. I see what they did there!”
I agree with Charlie it’s not a Track but for a different reason. What it really is is a Group. If it were a Track, every audio clip would be in a separate lane but they don’t behave that way.
For example, if you have 3 “dialog” audio clips stacked on top of each other, in a track based NLE you would have 3 tracks. In FCP X you would have 1 lane called “dialog” with the 3 clips still stacked within it.
So they are not like Tracks at all. They are Horizontal Groupings by Role and can be moved as a group and manipulated as a group. Tracks don’t behave that way. More like audio buses than tracks. It’s a rather brilliant when you think about it.
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[Jon Muro] “QuickTime 7 will not play it. “
Since Vegas Pro 13 and earlier use QuickTime, there is no way that Vegas Pro can play it if QuickTime can’t play it.
I would download the trial of Vegas Pro 14 and see if it fixes your problem.
If you want to post a clip to DropBox or something, I’d be happy to see if it plays in Vegas Pro 14 for you.
~jr
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I had pretty much the same MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with 16 GB RAM and 1TB SSD running El Capitan without any problems. I was using FCP X 10.2 then. Performance was fine. It may have even been a little better than Yosemite.
I’ve since upgraded to a MacBook Pro Mid 2015 running macOS Sierra with FCP X 10.3 (as of yesterday) and so far so good. I’m also running macOS Sierra on my 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core, 24GB memory, without any issues. Sierra’s been pretty solid.
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[salim samou] “what would you guys think I should do here, (for next time I know not to film pro res 4k for windows) but its a 15 min short and it looks like is gonna be a headache to edit as is (almost 1 tb of footage), any tips ?”
If the file loads into Vegas Pro 12 then I would convert it there into a Windows friendly format that Vegas Pro 14 can edit.
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[Ross Stark] “Can client A share the link with Uncle Bob and Aunt Sue, or would they actually have to download the file, upload the file, then share it? I know that nothing is fool proof, I just want to make it as practically inconvenient as possible to share.”
Yes, the client can certainly share the link with others. If you password protect the link they will share the password too. There is no way to protect digital media unless you add DRM and a player that only plays valid media locked to a specific device or account. Trust me, no one will buy your videos if you do that. I have professional videos I bought from Amazon.com that I can’t watch anymore because the computer I downloaded them to is long gone and they were locked to that computer. I won’t buy anything that has DRM or that I can’t remove the DRM anymore.
[Ross Stark] “What bit rate do you recommend? “
It depends on the content. Fast moving content with a lot of detail will require a higher bit-rate. I would deliver 4Mbps – 6Mbps.
[Ross Stark] “Would you say that 400MB for a 10 minute clip is the norm or is that a huge file size?”
That sounds about right for a 5-6Mbps clip.
One thing you could do is deliver on a USB drive. They have plenty of space and 2GB-4GB thumb drives are around $3-4. Then there is no easy download link to share. You are back to physical media just like a DVD. Just add the cost to your price. You could also give them a data DVD. Just use the DVD as a 4.7GB thumb drive and place the files on it as media.
~jr
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