[Mark Dobson]

[craig slattery] “We basically listen to the interviews and marked out the various subjects. The Early days, old work, new work etc. I created new projects for each subject and as we go through the interviews we add other contributors talking about the same subject to the existing projects. When we start to edit the material down I would firstly duplicate the project to retain a long cut of each subject.”

Thanks for that Craig.

It’s always really interesting to find out other editors approach their workflows.

A lot of the interview material I use is heavily edited to compress meaning, get rid of hesitation, remove ‘ums and ers’, generally get the best out of people, so the newly designed compound clips come in useful, edited passages become compound clips in the event browser.

I look forward to watching your programmes as they roll out.

Mark

[Mark Dobson]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the post about how you are getting on with FCPX at the BBC.

I was just wondering how you deal with interview material.

Do you fully transcribe?

We split interviews into sections by creating favourites and then type a synopsis for each favourite.

Be interested in how you go about it

Thanks

Mark

[Mark Dobson]

[Terri Lynn Link] “I think I could also move them in as a compound clip and then break them apart.?”

Hi Terri,

I think your methodology is a good one. Create a compound clip from each of your 3 projects and then edit them into a new project. You can then either break them apart or leave them as they are and if you need to make any amendments open them into their own timelines.

Which ever way you do it you will find that the new project will need to re-render which, at 80 minutes, could take a while.

I have just used this method to combine 7 programme segments into one.

[Mark Dobson]

Hey Tracey,

Thank’s for that. Looks like a useful plugin.

Anyway to try before I buy?

Thanks

[Mark Dobson]

[Jim Giberti] “We built several miles of hiking, riding trails through the 200 acres and that’s where I have my business meetings.”

So that’s a sort of walk ‘n talk meeting . . . . I looked up Mt Olympus on google and I’m sure that one thing you are not short of is firewood.

And as to Vermont. Us Brits are still smarting from the outcome of the Battle of Bennington in 1777.

[Mark Dobson]

Thanks for that Jim.

Just a couple of very non technical questions. The first is, what part of the USA is the farm located in? And are they really all your dogs?

Wonderful – must be a very peaceful place, apart from the dogs!

Happy New Year.

[Mark Dobson]

Well – that takes me back. I remember ‘classic’ mode.

If FCPX had had a ‘classic’ mode switch it would have been better received.

[Mark Dobson]

Yeah I’ll second that Steve – Happy FCP Xmas to all

[Mark Dobson]

[dan crouch] “As an editor I am always paranoid about losing great cuts, moods. Sometimes I need to refer to a cut that was recorded to DVD weeks earlier. I therefore keep loads of sub edits in a bin for safety.”

Hi Dan,

Could I suggest that you duplicate your projects on a regular basis. To save space don’t duplicate the renders. You can place these projects in a folder in your project library.

Another method would be to create compound clips of bits you want to save, maybe creating and saving them to their own event.

[Mark Dobson]

[Michael Hadley] “Big picture, I’m pretty sure the 3.2 or 3.4 iMac will be beefy enough for our needs. We don’t do 4K, Red, etc. Mostly C300, XDCAM, DSLR these days.

But really wish I knew what the roadmap is for towers. I know if I pull the trigger I’ll have buyer’s remorse. That’s always how it goes…”

I’m in the same situation but think that I will hold out a bit longer for the Mac Pro tower , that is if it is a tower, it could be a rack mounted slab, or an expanded Mac Mini type of thing.

I almost bought a Retina MacPro but again I think I’ll just hang on.

I just wish Apple would get a move on. And the trend is that things are starting to pick up with Apple, their support for FCPX has been really good and the new products such as the new range of iMacs and the MacPros are also really solid.