Jon Chappell
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[Bret Williams] “You’ll notice it says Final Cut Studio, NOT Final Cut PRO studio.”
It was always called Final Cut Studio. There was never a Final Cut Pro Studio.
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Bob, it only backs up your projects and events.
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We’ll look into this for the next update.
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That’s correct.
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Ah yes, currently Dropbox backup directories display as UUIDs only.
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[Michael Garber] “You have to use the program to manage and restore backups. It assigns a UID to each project/event backup, so it’s not in plain English.”
On an internal level it uses UUIDs but we use a trick to make the project name appear in the Finder. The project names should be showing, even if you are not using an English language. What functions do you wish to perform at a Finder level?
[Michael Garber] “Be careful if you use the backup to dropbox functionality as projects/events can mushroom in size when backed up 10 times each.”
I recommend selecting “Delete synced files when I delete them locally” as it will automatically delete backups from Dropbox when local backup management kicks in.
[Michael Garber] “This feature may be customizable, but it shows a growl message each time it backs up.”
This can be switched off in the General section of preferences but I personally like it because it gives me peace of mind knowing that the backup was successful. I have used other automatic backup software that stopped working for some reason and I didn’t realize it until weeks later.
[Michael Garber] Also, it take screencap every time it backs up. However, it’s a screen cap of what project you are working on. So it might backup 6 projects, but it will show a screencap of the time of the backup. So that can be confusing.”
This is unfortunately a side-effect of the way FCPX works. It frequently writes to project files that aren’t even open, which triggers Pro Versioner, and there is currently no way to detect which is the current project and which are ones that FCPX has updated for no reason at all.
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I suspect that they may be issues within AV Foundation rather than FCPX.
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QT Edit can fix all of those problems:
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I just wanted to mention that the Pixel Aspect Ratio field in QT Edit is editable so you can enter 10:11 manually and it will work.
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I played about with one of the files earlier and the structure seems to be all wrong. I was able to get it recognized as a playable QuickTime movie but it was just displaying noise, which leads me to believe that either the sample index is screwed up or the frame data has been lost and the file is unsalvageable.
Media Salvage would normally be able to tell you for sure in a situation like this, however it doesn’t support the Blackmagic 10-bit codec. You might want to give these guys a try:
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