[Mark Smith]

I’m an informal collector of working tape decks because of a Doc project that involves legacy tape formats from 3/4″ on up. That said nothing I have done has been delivered on tape since 2009. LTO doesnt really count in my view as tape delivery.
Functioning Tape decks are a growing concern in the sense that there are fewer places that can service decks and then there is the availability of parts. My concern is that there is going to be a big hole our collective archive of video material when it comes programming that was recorded on tape now that tape machines are dying out or being used up without a possibility of repair.

[Mark Smith]

I agree with Bill. Once I got my X organizational skills sorted out, I realized that i was doing a ton of productive editing pre -pro while screening and organizting my material. Then when it comes to assembling a time line I feel like i KNOW my assets and with the way X works I can assemble and play around with my material freely.

I have some fights with X from time to time over features that I wish it had, but for the most part now that I have my working method sort out a bit, I mostly find X gets out of my way and lets me compose with my assets in a way that is much less restrictive than Legacy.

[Mark Smith]

The lit of vocabiulary changes for X is pretty short if you want to think of it that way.
Also X upadted the now all but defunct film editing paradigm to the digital age, with a huge emphasis on leveraging organizational aspects of the editorial process.. There are significant advantages to using X the way its menant to be used.
You might want to start with CHarile Austin’s post about “Don’t fight the magnetic Timeline”. Charlie probably cuts a different way than you do but its worth a look.

[Mark Smith]

I have used a 4 core mini with 16 gb ram for editing off an on for a couple of years. If you are editing HD – most of my camera originals are C300 mxf’s- the mini ran FCPX rather well. Most of my edits were relatively simple cuts, dissolves, some graphics, color correction etc.

[Mark Smith]

so How did you set up your batch for export?
I tried this the other day with 5 projects that all needed to be exported and I could only select one project at a time and then share to a destination.
Did you drag project files into compressor or something like that?

[Mark Smith]

Can anyone here mouse and click their way through some complex audio filters faster than Michael Cioni?

[Mark Smith]

I just used both compressor and GP studio to crank out some image sequences from go pro and digital SLR sources.

That was so easy . Good tips Jeremy

[Mark Smith]

I will give both of those apps a look today. I have made shorter time lapses inside FCPX rather quickly but this particular one with a large amount of go pro stills has been vexing FCPX AND needs some stabilization, so my noraml T-L wokflow is breaking down at this point.
Thanks for the tips.

[Mark Smith]

Hmm. I could try that. I have a heap of go pro stills from a time lapse sequence that need some work…

[Mark Smith]

I still hear FCPX is like iMovie, mostly from people who have not cut a frame with X.