Michael Garber
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You can always go with a used DSLR, like a GH2, and a Zoom H4n audio recorder. Depends on how much you’re willing to spend. Craigslist could be your new bestie.
Michael Garber
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Thanks for clarifying that, Bill. I think it’s always best to speak to the top of your intelligence and to that of others.
When I post on the Cow, I specifically want to speak in editor/techie lingo. I’m here to get answers from people who are working at my level. I want to talk to others in a way which I know the top techies will understand me. At the same time, that’s also how I wish to be understood.
The thing is, I don’t think you need to protect anyone when you write on these forums. While it’s a forum that anyone can access, it’s also not an intro guide. I think that it challenges people to learn more when they read threads that speak, as I just wrote, to the top of their intelligence.
The other thing is that you should be responding to the OP, not to the world. I think this is where you pick up a lot of grief from others. My reaction to your response was, in a way, the same as what you are trying to avoid. My feeling was that, ugh, someone reading this thinks that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I’m being told very basic stuff.
All this aside, I’ll post my workflow in a bit… It’s pretty straightforward.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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You don’t want to edit from a mirrored drive set. That will slow you down. Best to edit from either a RAID 0 or a RAID 5.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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Well, maybe the groundwork is there. But the generator still only shows project-based TC. Opening the TC filter in Motion shows the same choices in X. Hopefully there’s a very awesome person out there who can make this work!
Michael Garber
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Have you done a speed test on the Caviar Black drive? You might be better served with a raid of 2 or more drives.
I could be wrong, but I believe that FCPX uses the CPU for thumbnail cache. You can also try deleting your thumbnail cache and starting over. Sometimes that can get corrupted.
But in general, even on a fast Apple-built system, FCPX tends to get sluggish with thumbs and waveforms. For instance, it is constantly redrawing waveforms in the timeline (although I have yet to test with .8 to see if it fixes any of that). This constant redraw can be a headache when editing.
Michael Garber
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Hey Bill – As always, thank you for your input. Your recommendation on putting the interviews together in a compound is already something I was considering.
I’m well versed in X, now. So, at this stage of the game, asking me if I have keyword strategies sounds a bit like talking down. I know that’s your style when you write and not your intent (and we met in LA, so I know you’re a good guy!). But sometimes it just comes off like talking down.
I have a solid workflow for building news stories, now (which is what I’m working on). Happy to share that with you if you think it might help your own workflow.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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Agreed that it’s not worth it for this particular situation.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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No, but I’m aware that this is what happened. Now I know to mention it to anyone operating the camera next time.
It seems that all the spanned clips are spanning over separate reels, which is good. If I open up and import 1 reel at a time (and then close fcpx and reopen it so it forgets that it saw Reel 1 previously) then it seems to bring them all in separately. I can deal with the interviews not spanning since there aren’t too many.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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Any idea how to break them metadata? I have everything backed up, so not worried about damaging everything.
Good call on marked ranges. But there’s just so many clips. Would take forever to do that (but maybe not as long as researching how to do it another way ! 😉 )
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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With AJA on Premiere, you get the option to go native or global on the frame rate. I prefer that option. If I am editing in a specific frame rate, I like to see everything in that frame rate when I’m logging and working. For me, there’s a delay on my monitor when it has to change it’s frame rate/sync.
With my Kona 3 and Premiere, playback at 29.97 from all footage seemed to work just fine. No delays and all footage loaded and played out. I know what you mean with FCP7 not doing that correctly with lots of footage.
The issue with 23.98 is when the BMD monitoring is set to 29.97 and you are playing footage from the viewer on FCPX. It just gets it’s wrong. Didn’t have that issue with the Kona 3 or with a Kona 3G card.
Last, I found that scrubbing with a Kona 3G on my iMac (and Tbolt Expansion Chassis) updated skimming as expected. Whereas the Ultrastudio tends to feel sluggish.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP