Keith Koby
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[Andreas Kiel] “There are no roles in Motion XMLs, though you can apply a theme.”
I wasn’t referring to motion xmls. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. I was referring to Motion generator fcpx templates when talking about the lack of role support in motion.
As for XMLs I was referring to fcpxml and problems with text formatting.
Keith Koby
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We also need motion to be aware of roles so that custom roles can be assigned to templates and carried through into fcp x.
(I’m leaving extra space so this sinks in bc it is so important…)
There are companies making tools to manage sharing and organization via xml. The big issue here is that not all information is accurately carried in the xml – the biggest problems for us are font, font position, justification and even sizing.
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We’ve tried the symbolic link workflow. It works, but it’s not great. Anytime a system adds a plugin for example, the rest will get a message on next startup that fcpx is restarting to reflect changes. It makes you nervous as an admin. Anyone might, at any point, open up the template to edit something and adversely affect the rest of the facility. Better to have them actually live local.
We are now creating installer packages with the motion template folder and any fonts that are used and letting the editors install individual templates themselves. All of those components are stored in the editor’s home directory so no admin credentials are necessary. We keep the installer packages on the san and make a link to them on a wiki so that updates can be tracked.
It is useful to have one person be the master creator of motion templates so that naming conventions and theme naming conventions are consistent.
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If you use AJA products, please also provide feedback to them about this. This was one of the supposed features in control room (being able to route audio out of fcpx via roles to specific channels on sdi out. You’d still need a de-embedder to get those channels to your mixer, but conveniently, AJA makes those too (HD10AMA and the FS1or2).
I think everyone here at work agrees with you though, it would be incredibly convenient to have the option to have roles going to channels of output. We keep kicking around the idea of a role mixer and say that it would be something we’d like to see in fcpx. However, when you start thinking about how it might work (does it mix down all dialogue roles to one track? if you have a ton of roles, do they each have their own mixer track? do they appear and disappear as roles are present in the timeline?) it easily gets overly complex.
Keith
Keith Koby
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AJA VTR xchange, black magic media express or you can also pay for something like the tools on air just:in or softron stuff. Or you can still use fcp7 for capture and layback.
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It’s pretty good now. We are using it and happy with it for the most part. I think most people who give an honest assessment in here will tell you they like some things while other things need some work. Just approach it like a completely different app when you pick it up to do work for the first time. It certainly can do broadcast work at this point. Sharing of projects back and forth is possible, but it does require some thought because the setup is different.
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “- If you scroll trough with JKL keys, and you do it very quick, you hear the audio pitch-perfect for the first seconds, and then it disappears. It would be great if it would stay like that. “
I’ve noticed that with growing files. The actual movie file exhibits the behavior described above, however the reference movie of that file fast-forwards fine without dropping out after a couple of seconds.
Lots of other good suggestions in your post. Reference files out of the app probably won’t happen because of security concerns.
I saw batch exporting mentioned above. Batch selecting timelines or compounds or even clips or keyword collections to export would be good.
More important to us would be the ability to create a bundle of quicktime by role saved user presets. For example you could simultaneously export mixed and split audio or texted and textless masters.
Sometimes I think a role mixer would be good. Basically – a tool to bus roles. But when you start to think through it, you quickly run into problems and it seems less helpful…
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We find motion templates as fcp x generators very easy to manipulate and powerful and as a consequence, we use them more everyday.
Finding a good strategy for distributing motion templates in a facility is the real trick to making it a success.
AE (and C4D) still does the bulk of our creative animation work, but motion is nice as a partner app.
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Thanks James. Thanks Jeremy.
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It could be a game changer for news where image quality takes a back seat to content. But in the field – in news, you are often editing things shot along side you in the field. You aren’t typically in a baghdad starbucks editing file footage back on the anywhere servers into your report on a whatever. You’re editing you’re footage of the event and the reporter to submit.
And for creative post, image quality does matter as does external video. Color is one thing, compression of the image is another.
I’m more pleased with the project sharing in roads they’ve made in anywhere than the “anywhere” part of it.
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