Michael Sanders
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This is why you should use Timecode! It solves all these problems.. I know its all very well after the horse as bolted but it really does solve a lot of time.
Michael Sanders
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That only renames them in the FCP X database. The actual file name stays the same.
Its been a personal bug bear of mine since V1 but I’ve learned to live with it.
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Andreas.. sorry I never got round to trying your app.
Will have a play next..
Michael Sanders
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In the late 80’s I working for a Swedish TV co based in London. We had a graphics system there which I think was called Matisse.. If I remember rightly it was PC based but with its own hardware board.
Fairly sure its what the ITV weather team used for a number of years as well.
Michael Sanders
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My deepest apologies Jeremy you did indeed say that – I made a terrible error and read the head line and then skim read the rest. I jumped the gun and I am sorry.
Michael Sanders
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Adam.
As others have said, get the Canon FCP X plugin and ingest the material directly into FCP X – but as you say copy it to external folders on your external drives.
FWIW The events can also live in on external drives such as a SAN so they can be shared.
Its worth reading this: https://images.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Media_Management.pdf to get a better overview.
Its also worth noting Shot Put Pro is just a copying programme – but a very good one. Its aimed at backing up cards after a shoot.
Michael Sanders
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Jeremy,
Canon footage is MXF and thus not optimised for FCP X. It will only work directly if you have an MXF plugin like Hamburg media.
When you ingest with the canon plugin it is re-wrapping it as .mov (this is exactly the same process as importing XDcam material).
Michael Sanders
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I killed lag on some projects by setting OS X Spotlight not to index the FCP backup folder…
Its helped for some.
Michael Sanders
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Sorry slight misunderstanding. Are you working on two machines or one? If its one they create the Library on the internal drive on the laptop, and transcode the proxies – which will live inside the library. Crucially the important thing is to ingest the hi res media to your external drive. I would not create optimised – just proxy. Edit with the library on the internal HD using the proxy media. Then when you want to “online”, copy the library file to the external HD (it won’t be that big) and then open it from there. Then create optimised etc.
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The big sticking point is that FCP X won’t let you store render files outside of the Library file.
However if you create a new library on your internal HD BUT ingest the media to a folder on your external HD and create proxies at the same time, then every time the project loads it will look for that location and if it can’t find it switch to the proxies on the internal HD. If you move the library folder to the external HD and load it from there it will still look to the same location for the media.
I would do all your cutting with proxy media from the internal HD, but when you want to add final effects, CC titles etc (basically anything that needs render) you might want to copy the project over to the external HD as the render files will need fast drive speed and start to take up room.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor