Michael Garber
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So what are inspector units? I was looking in the inspector and didn’t see any changes. Is it something to do with the timeline?
Michael Garber
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there’s a timecode filter out there that someone made somewhere that you can add it to the clip. not perfect. but a workaround.
Michael Garber
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I think, no matter what, X is going to render to Prores if you add effects. I have a GH2 as well and tried this (amazing camera). The same can be said for exporting. I’ve pixel peeped and can’t find a noticeable difference. Some say 5D2RGB is the way to go. Some don’t. If you need to start editing quickly with no downtime, then just bring the footage in.
What I did notice was that some effects were really slow to render off AVCHD vs Prores conversions. So, you just have to think about your edit and how you think it will go. Also, as I stated above, the final export to QT will be Prores. So, it’s going to get converted no matter.
On my lasts edit in X, I needed to move fast, so I didn’t convert. But I got bit on the final render and export.
Michael Garber
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it kind of does. but it doesn’t help when i’m slipping video on the primary storyline with a connected clip on top. that’s one of the things that drives me nuts about ol’ magneticy.
Michael Garber
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Excellent post, Jim.
I’ve thought a lot about ol’ Magneticy (as I’ve started calling it) lately. The dividing point for me on all of this is that I am insanely fast at editing in FCP legacy. I didn’t need a new way to edit. But I got one, anyway, so I’m learning it as fast as I can while I’m simultaneously learning Avid and Premiere. (Man am I tired… seriously!)
That said, I had an interesting idea for ol’ Magneticy. I’ve emailed Apple and I’ve mentioned it a few other places. I doubt that we’ll get rid of the magnetic timeline in any soon-to-be releases. But here’s what I speculate might happen: role views. These would be ways to organize roles in virtual lanes.
So imagine a bucket for audio that contains all the VO. It would probably be kind of like angle lanes in the multicam viewer. Let’s say that you have some audio that doesn’t have the correct role on it. Once you drag it into the specified virtual lane, it would automatically get the designation. If you moved it to the music lane, it would change the role to music. Mind you, I see how this could be limiting, as well.
One of my main problems with ol’ Magneticy is that the timeline just looks infuriatingly cluttered. I can’t make immediate sense of what is where when a timeline is zoomed out all the way. Clips collapse so much that you can’t see names of clips or pictures. Secondary storylines make 2nd layer video clips uneven and confusing to look at. It’s really a mess.
One thing that I love to do (I guess for spite!) is to use 7 to X to bring over stuff I’ve edited just to see what it “should” look like in X. Inevitably, it looks totally confusing in the X timeline. I’ve sent Apple a comparison image of an X timeline and a 7 timeline to explain my frustration. This is not meant to sleight Philip Hodgetts. I think he is doing a great job with 7 to X.
In addition, the tracks get so thick that I’m always panning up and down to find something. I hate the clips’ rounded edges in the timeline. It feels like playing with duplo blocks. I guess I’m a Lego man at heart. If they can allow us to break off the windows, then I could have the inspector hover like a HUD in Motion. That would be very helpful.
So, to sum up, there needs to be some sort of role organization. I think we’ve started to see a germ of that in 10.0.3. And maybe, there will eventually be a way to turn off connected clips. Then maybe I’ll start to give ol’ Magneticy a chance on a job.
Michael Garber
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So how long until we see FCPX using Airplay to an AppleTV instead of using an AJA, BM or Matrox alternative?
Michael Garber
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[Bouke Vahl] “Now for Michael, how does one get QT player to overlay timecode?
“As I mentioned, just use Toki TC. It adds the TC as a text track to the Quicktime file. No additional rendering needed, other than compressing the file, which flattens the TC onto the final image.
Text tracks in Quicktime are, I suppose, for closed captioning. The software is doing the overlay of the image.
This is the best workflow for TC I’ve found, by far. Just used it on a documentary and on a TV series.
Michael Garber
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Sorry. Meant to post this in the FCPX Techniques forum… reposting over there, now.
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Dustin,
I use TokiTC. https://www.tokitest.fr/english/tokitc.html
It’s great and does exactly what I need it to without an additional render. If you were in FCP7, you could export a QT reference movie. Or in FCPX, export a full res QT file.
Open the QT file with TokiTC. When the file first loads, it will ask you if you want to import the timecode. A friend recommended saying no to that. So I always just hit no.
You can change a bunch of settings. I always change the background to black and the text to white. Turn everything off in the panels other than TC (unless you want other stuff on). You can move the TC wherever you want in the frame.
It saves the TC as a text track within the Quicktime file. So, it takes between no time at all and a few minutes, depending on the length of the project.
I then open the file in compressor. Or, if I want to save time, I use Quicktime 7 and export to iPod. It makes a great quality movie and is very fast.