Michael Sanders
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No you can’t export to Protools without an additional programme..
But when FCP X is only £199 and X2Pro is only £99, you can hardly call that pricey – in the professional world I inhabit that’s a drinks bill! Even FCP X and Logic X is less than Media Composer alone!
A new version of Resolve should be out any day now that will fix the XML – and don’t forget that new version of XML means that changes in colour correction made in FCP X should carry over to Resolve. That’s pretty cool.
Like others have said, speak for yourself. There are many other people out there using FCP X on a daily basis, making broadcast ready programmes that go out on major networks.
It might not suite your way of working – but that don’t mean its broke.
Michael Sanders
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Blimey – that was quick!
Michael Sanders
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You don’t need to bother wilt roles. In the inspector before you bring the clip into the sequence set the clip audio to dual mono and pan ch 1 left and ch 2 right. Then commentary will stay on 1 and intl feed on ch 2.
Michael Sanders
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Personally I’m not bothered about short things like a quick render, I want to know how the big tasks – the ones where you want big iron, like exporting a 30 min show or compressing to H264 take.
But then see my mini review above..
Michael Sanders
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It’s been talked about elsewhere on here but it the new structure is great for episodic tv such as reality. Library is season, event is episode, the you can borrow footage from ep 1 to ep 2.
Would be even better if events were locked but people could work on the same library.
Michael Sanders
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But its important to remember that (Wrongly IMHO) that Libraries still contain the folders for Transcoded media and Render files, so they will get large and need to be on a fast hard drive.
I really want Apple to address this – perhaps the obvious solution is a warning option to create an “other media” folder in the same directory as the media when importing.
Michael Sanders
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I very got the Lacie one as well and it works very well. There appears to be an issue when Daisy chained to the Caldigit Thunderbolt station, which manifests as computer won’t wake up properly from sleep. I’ve been using the Lacie for about a year with zero hiccups so alone it works fine. Caldigit and LaCie are meant to be in conversation but Caldigit support have gone very quiet on me.
I’ve also got a cheap usb3 to e-sata adaptor which I use with my LG blu ray recorder (the Lacie has the wrong chipset to drive a burner). For £15 of Amazon its works very well.
Michael Sanders
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I had this on a recent edit – I’ve never seen it before but I guess a higher shutter speed would sort it.
Our material was 1920 x 1080 25p and they should have had a 1/50 shutter in.
Michael Sanders
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Ive said it elsewhere but would it really be problematic if a library and event was shared but a project or compound clip was locked?
Michael Sanders
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After reading this further.. here’s what I don’t get.
Why did they go down the route of locking libraries. If its all just metadata and symlinks why can the lock file be on the project – which makes sense. Why can’t libraries and event’s be active across many users at once. Now that media has to be in the library the new system is a bit of a pain for big shows (say a reality show) that may want to access material from other shows.
It would make far more sense if the you could have the library called “Reality show season 1”, then an event called “Ep 1”. All the media for EP 1 lives in that event, along with the edits. You could have compound clip or project file called “Pt 1” and another called “Pt 2” with different editors working on Pt 1 and 2. The lock could be on the compound clip or project file so the media could be accessed by anyone.
At least that way an editor working on EP 2 (itself an event in the master library) could be use material from Ep 1.
No that I know much about these things (my UNIX is very very rusty) but isn’t it just down to which file is locked?
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor