Michael Phillips
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You can add metadata to any selection of clips in any user editable column such as your location info very easily. For example, in a custom column labelled “Location”, highlight all the clips in the bin that need that metadata tag. Move mouse to any clip under that column and the cursor will change from an arrow to a “text edit” cursor. Right-click and you can select from the menu:
set column for selected clips…
So in this example, it would say:
set Location column for selected clips.
A pop up box appears. Either type in what you want or copy/past. Click OK and that will be added to all selected clips.
I avoid applying different MOBs in Media Composer. There is a Source File MOB and Tape MOB that drives a lot of different stuff behind the scenes such as dupe detection, etc. If AMA’ing, then it will be tracked via the Source File column.
Michael
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Just to make the process clear…
You AMA’d to the camera orignals, then added Tape names? In an AMA worflow, there would be no value in the Tape column to start with. Is there still a filename in the AMA column?
Michael
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Certainly not through import, which is as old as Media Composer and not really being updated to support new workflows. All of that is now done via AMA. AMA will make best guesses, but there is no “always works” for this particular situation. What AMA does do for you is once linked, go to source settings and look at the histogram to see what your levels are set to and be able to set it correctly on the fly with no need to re-import. From there, you can transcode which is faster than an import anyway.
Michael
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I think that is where Apple has the opportunity to differentiate between actual purchases and users. As mentioned, each purchase can be “used” on 5 different systems. So in theory, users versus unique purchases could be a factor of 5x without a true definition of what “users” mean.
Michael
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The other difficult data point is FCPx is constantly at the top or near the top of “top grossing apps” in the App Store. There are guesses as to what number means, and what little is out there, points more to the iOS iTunes app store than it does to the OS X app store. For iOS, it means $47K per day (https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/28/iphone-apps-need-to-earn-47k-per-day-to-crack-app-stores-top-10-grossing) if we just assume that number for OS X apps, that would mean 157 copies of FCPx downloaded per day. For a one month period of 30 days, that is 4,710 copies. And after a year hanging out at the top of the list, that would be 56,520.
I did see, but can no longer find, that $250,000 was the number for OS X apps top grossing which puts that number at 836 copies per day. So all those numbers can be multipled by 5.3, putting a year’s worth of FCPx sales at 299,556.
I agree that “user” is an interesting term. Since FCPx can only be purchased via the app store, then “purchasers” would be a more precise number to use.
Michael
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1200 frames would result in a 48 second clip @25fps where each frame is a frame.If you rename the clips using a file renamer and sequential count, then you will get a single clip that is 48 seconds long at whatever resolution you chose during import (ex: DNxHD 175x). This does nto require a mixdown, motion effect or anything. That source clip can now be edited with, or exported SaS with no futher manipulation.
If you need to combine the two sets into a sequence, then you would have two events in the timeline (based on the above scenario) of which you can export SaS with no further manipulation.
If you apply a motion effect to the clips to get a different playback rate, and render to DNxHD 175x, you can then just export SaS.
Michael
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The first thing I would suggest is to use a file renaming utility and add a sequential frame count to the end of the file name with a . or – separator. Then, when importing, you can check the sequential files option and they will create a single clip. The downside with this is that you would lose the HHMMSS unique timing of the file as the clip would now be named the first file in the sequence.
If you want to create a sequence that is just 1 frame of each from the media you’ve already created, put the bin with the frames into frame view. Select all, and use the 10 frame advance key and (2 key) and advance a second or two into the clip. Mark an IN with the keyboard (the E or I key in a default setting) and an OUT on the same frame (the R or the ) key). Now switch bin back to text view and sort bin on name to be in your desired order. Select all and drag and drop into an empty timeline.
There is no render queue or scripting in Media Composer. You might consider taking your sequences and exporting as QuickTime, same as source setting. You can do this on all clips or sequences that are selected and will act as a mixdown method. The import these back in and that will give you a new master clip.
Michael
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That is certainly one method to use if you are dealing with several projects. Media Copy by Automatic Duck may still work and be a solution for you:
https://www.automaticduck.com/products/mc/Personally I hate getting all the .new clips when consolidating. I wish Avid would have an option to not add that to the clip name and put it in its own column for tracking. But if you want to only work with media related to the sequence, you could do a “copy” rather than consolidate from the AAF export options to a dedicated drive/folder. I prefer that method as I always organize my dailies by “virtual reel” based on card, drive, date, etc with AutoSequence. Since those are now sequences, they can be used as part of this “copy” AAF export function.
I still want my long time requested function of select a bunch of clip, right click and select copy/move the OS takes over with that list. For sequences, it would know what was related, even for AMA linked files.
Michael
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So there could be a version mismatch between Sony’s support and the version of the plug-in for MC. Can you send me a small file sample to look at? I don’t have files that claim to be XAVC-S. If so, please send to michael[at]24p[dot]com
Michael
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Yes, it is that simple assuming that everything in the Avid MediaFiles folder pertains to that project.
Things can get more complicated if you are managing several projects and want to copy the contents of just one. Then other methods needs to be employed.
If not, copy project folder, copy all Avid MediaFiles folder and put them in the same places on receiving end.
Michael