Michael Garber
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What about Adobe Media Encoder?
Michael Garber
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So far, my fav is the one where the dad sold his daughter into slavery for so he could afford the TV.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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If you hover over the clip and hit X then you’ll select the clip range per Jeremy’s suggestion. Does that sore the duration?
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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Old Skool Mac Pro on the right side of the image. You can see it’s two cute little DVDs peeking through.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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This happened to me recently. Sorry for the hazy answer, but I think it had to do with a bad effect plugin or a corrupt clip. Try duping the proj and remove all effects (if any) and give it a try.
Michael Garber
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I’ll echo Jeff. A friend of mine was having similar issues to you with system sluggishness. A fresh install cured it and his system is running better than before.
I did a straight upgrade and it’s been ok. But I’m still considering a fresh install just to see if it works any better once Adobe released the next upgrade to the CC. Seems like a good time to reinstall the major suites.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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Hey John –
You’re on to something here. I’ve been experimenting with them, too, with Mavs. For me, lone gun that I am, I’ve been using them to simply organize groups of folders on a drive. I find it’s a little too labor intensive to tag every single file – although I wouldn’t put it past myself to do it!
Here’s a screenshot of one of my main edit drives. It’s still early days, so this all might change. But, basically, it’s organized by type of media folder (FCP7, X, Premiere) and then by Client Name. It’s so nice to be able to organize this way (although it actually would have been possible to do this in 10.7 with labels).
From what I can tell, tags are essentially labels on steroids. They react the same way, it’s just that you can add more than one per file or folder. And the search for those files is instantaneous as I’m sure you’ve discovered.
I’ve also added a keyboard shortcut to add a keyword to files/folders on the finder level to CTRL-K. Works really fast, just like in X. :-). And yes, I can definitely see these features being incorporated. Right now, when you save files in Mavs in TextEdit, the save dialogue pops up with a field to add a tag. So, it’s definitely a system-wide sort of thing.
There are many exciting ways tags can be implements. But it does add an extra layer of work and also troubleshooting/discovery/development. I’m all in for tags.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
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Mazel tov!
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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Didn’t mean to say you couldn’t use skimming with it. I do all the time. I just turn it off more than with a trackpad or mouse.
I find I have more arm strain with the bamboo, so I’d switch it out if you still can.
Michael Garber
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If you go Wacom, go with the Intuos or Pro line, not the Bamboo. Bamboo is ok for travel, but the high end ones have better response. I’ve been using them for about 10 years. It ended a lot of pain I was having in my arm. Of course, any repetitive task will still bring other issues, but it’s nowhere near as bad as with a mouse.
Now, Wacom and FCP7=Awesome. Increased my speed 10-fold. Wacom and FCPX=sometimes annoying. Reason – the location of the pointer on the screen dictates actions. So if skimming is on and you want to play a clip in the timeline, but move your hand a little – which moves the pointer to the event lib, then you are playing the wrong clip.
What’s happening is that the location of your hand on the Wacom dictates where on the screen the pointer is. I will often move the pointer to where it needs to be. Then I’ll rest my hand on the tablet, which causes the pointer to move up (usually to the EL). Anyway, it just means I turn skimming off a lot more with the Wacom than when using a trackpad.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
Blog: GARBERSHOP
My Moviola Webinar on Cutting News in FCP X
