[Max Frank]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I was trying to avoid the Shift-I//Shift-O and cutting part.
I know that once the in-and-out are set, you can hit Apple-c or Apple-x and the clip will automatically copy or paste. I was hoping
there was a shortcut to ‘isolate’ the ‘selected’ part of the clip.

As to why I’m doing this…

I’m doing because this is how I make selects of my B-Roll [and sometimes, interviews].

What I do is I put all my B-Roll on it’s own timeline [so I can see it all], and then I go though and ‘rate’ all the clips I like and may want to use by putting them either on track 2, or if they are really good, track 3, etc.

That way, at a glance, I can see all my B-Roll clips and, more importantly, which are the ones I want to use.

When working with DSLR footage, especially when any given scene is split across many, many separate clips, I find this an easier way to work and manage massive amounts of footage.
It may take a little longer in the prep phase, but when I’m in the actual editing phase I can see exactly which are the good clips and go straight to them.
And I can also see the other material at a glance without having to do 10 million ‘match frames’.

Hope that answers your question 😉

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Worst case:…

Since it’s a music video, you can make it an effect – use a nice glow filter to really bloom out the highlights, make it B&W if necessary and make a whole ‘look’ out of it.

W

[Max Frank]

Hi,

Gary, just some anecdotal feedback – I spent a few hours testing PPro CS5 on a Mac Pro 8-Core [regular 5770 card, no Nvidia] and it dealt with the .H264 files like a dream.

The same files in FCP on the same Mac literally made the machine puke all over the rug.

If I weren’t in the middle of a massive documentary with precious little time to learn a whole new workflow, I would have jumped ship to Premiere by now for that reason alone.

FWIW,

W.

[Max Frank]

If you have any H.264 footage in there that could be a major culprit.

Run the report through Crash Analyzer – free trial before you buy:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsmaintenance/

W

[Max Frank]

Curious, why not host it on Vimeo HD, and then embed that video in a custom created ‘Theatre’ page on your site. No mess, no fuss.

Just send Vimeo the best quality HD source you can [See some options here:

https://www.mcnichol.com/vimeo.htm
https://vimeo.com/2051588
https://eugenia.queru.com/2007/12/08/exporting-with-quicktime-in-720p/

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Thanks Jerry,

W

[Max Frank]

Shane,

Thanks – and it could be that I’m just not understanding the L&T workflow fully, so I’m going to look at it closer again [and watch your valuable tutorials again].

Thanks again,

Wayne

[Max Frank]

In the context of this discussion….

Am I a heretic [or an idiot] for bypassing the Log&Transfer protocol all together???
I find the whole thing incredibly convoluted and I don’t like how there is often a difference between the way FCP reads the meta data, and what the clips are named at the Finder level.

So, what I do with HDSLR footage is:First thing, change all the file names to something relevant to the shoot using Name Mangler [Eg. John_Smith_A_001, etc] : https://www.manytricks.com/namemangler/

Then I make a clone of the drive so that the clips with the new names are on the clone drive.

Then, I transcode using MPEG Streamclip to ProRes – keeping identical names as the originals [just in a different folder, obviously]

And edit away.

The upside is that from the get-go all the files have a discrete, unique and relevant name, and I can go back to the original H.264 source footage [with the same name] at any time if I need to.

The only major downside, that I haven’t been able so solve yet [maybe you have suggestions] is that obviously I’m not able to add Reel Names and timecode to the clips.
Now, I know I can add Reel names in the Browser, but without timecode it doesn’t help the ‘Duplicate Clips’ feature because all the clips start at 00:00:00:

But even without having Reelnames and timecode it seems worth it because I have clips with unique names that makes sense, even at the Finder level.

Now, considering the experts over here don’t work this way tells me that I’m probably doing something very wrong [or, at the very least, not ideal]. So please feel free to alert me to any potential problems or gotchas with my workflow – in the event that I’m deluding myself with this.

Thanks,

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Will check it out, thanks,

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Thanks, Gents,

Most helpful.

Wayne