Michael Hancock
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No. Hopefully in CS6.
In the meantime, feature request it: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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Michael Hancock
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1) Yes. Go to your Keyboard Shortcuts menu, Panels, and map “Open in Source Monitor” to your keyboard. I have it mapped to Opt+Return. This loads a selected clip/clips in your project panel in your source monitor.
You can also map Source Clip: Next and Source Clip: Previous to your keyboard, so if you load several clips in your source monitor you can scroll through them using the keyboard. I have mine mapped to Shift+Right and Shift+Left.
WIth my setup I can hit Shift+1 to activate the project window, up and down arrow to select my clip(s), Opt+Return to load them, then Shift+Right/Left to cycle through them. Fast and easy, once mapped to your keyboard.
2) You can map Toggle All Source Audio Off/On to your keyboard, or Toggle All Target Audio Off/On, and do the same with Video. So load your clip, hit the keyboard to toggle all Target Audio off and you’ll edit Video only, or toggle all Target Video off and you’ll edit audio only.
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Michael Hancock
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If you don’t know, you can also duplicate your export settings, rename them, and customize them. I always have an export setting saved as Quicktime Reference Use Marks that ignores the track selections but uses my In/Out marks. Then I duplicate it and make a Quicktime Reference Use Marks and Tracks where it exports just the tracks and marks. The third is Quicktime Reference No Marks or Tracks.
When I export I just pick the one I want and don’t have to change it every time. Works with any export settings, so customize away.
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Michael Hancock
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I don’t post as much as I used to (or much in this forum), but it’s typically during renders (some of which can take all day), running batch compressions, archiving projects, uploading to FTPs, downloading from FTPs, or when I just need a break from editing.
Or at night when my wife is watching a TV show I’m not interested in.
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Michael Hancock
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Also, BCC doesn’t come with Media Composer anymore. It’s a separate purchase. If you have BCC5 from a previous version of Avid you can upgrade it. Also, Boris offers a free trial of their plugins so you can download that and test the Sharpen filter out to see if it will work prior to purchasing.
Also, look into Sapphire effects. They have Sharpen filters as well and you can rent them by the month (a lot cheaper than buying if you don’t need them all the time). If you do rent, I recommend you mixdown anything with the effect on it, though, so when the month is up you aren’t stuck buying again if the project has to come back online for something.
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Michael Hancock
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[Bill Davis] “I freely acknowledge that large TV operations and post houses have had capabilities like this for a long time. At the cost of building out zillion dollar infrastructures and maintaining teams of engineers to keep it all running.”
Bill, I was doing all of this by myself at a small ad agency with only a handful of hard drives, a Dell workstation and Media Composer – 5 years ago.
Any project I’d archived could be back online within minutes – often less than 30 seconds. It didn’t take zillions of dollars or engineers. Just a basic understanding of harddrive based archiving and choosing an NLE that could manage media intelligently.
Regarding file delivery for approvals – I’ve been that about 7 years. It’s wasn’t a one-click straight to Vimeo or YouTube, but the clients wouldn’t have agreed to that anyway. They wanted specific file types emailed to them or uploaded to their (or our) FTP.
I am curious, can you set up your own template to compress to a particular file type then immediately upload it to an FTP site? I’ve played with FCPX some but I haven’t messed with the publish features. Are they customizable, and if so to what degree?
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Michael Hancock
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Why are you transcoding? You should be able to consolidate (which is essentially a file copy with a checksum). The C300 footage shouldn’t be that heavy on your system.
Dylan Reeve has a nice video on how to bring C300 footage into Avid:
https://vimeo.com/groups/c300/videos/38909217
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Michael Hancock
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The Alexa shoots DNxHD now (I assume 444 there), which should be smoother in Avid. The biggest issue will be drive speed – what kind of drive system are you hooking up to your iMac? The new ones have Thunderbolt, so if you had a Thunderbolt RAID you would probably be in good shape.
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Michael Hancock
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I don’t recommend cutting a feature at 4K using the .r3d files. You’ll definitely want to offline/online this. Avid and Premiere handle .r3d files natively (Avid downscales to 1080).
Check out Oliver Peters blog – great info there:
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Michael Hancock
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It’s here right now – paid upgrade:
https://alshop.arri.de/catalog/alexa
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Michael Hancock
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