Mike Fernanandes
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What do you want to know…
I’ve been using it for a while in my shop and I’m always happy to talk about X.
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Keep your media and the event on different drives
I did this fix for my show and it made a world of difference in performance of FCPX. And I don’t think it has ever crashed since.
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Make a new event on a local hard drive. And in preferences turn off copy files to Final cut Event Folder
Then drag your media from your external or different local drive to the event that is now on your local drive.
By doing so the event will only contain reference files.
Because Events are databases that are constantly saving every time you touch it the drive is trying to write and read media at the same exact time. This causes crazy bottlenecks that are only accented as the project gets larger. By splitting them you are freeing up that bandwidth to playback with out interruptions and to save with out interruptions.
We this is on out xsan and it was a night and day difference but I also still do it even when I’m working on a project at home simply with a external drive being my main storage and the Event database saving on a internal hard disk.
I did a super lame tutorial for my team about it ( https://www.loudyeti.com/archives/416 )
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Currently I’m working with 20 hours of footage and it’s playing like a dream, no proxies and high quality playback settings.
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I agree with Shawn here. Don’t crap on someone else’s lively hood simply because you don’t like it. This is what i mean about this page. Its easy for you to lump in genre’s and groups of people and just say oh that’s garbage.
The people that work on all those reality shows that you say are garbage are people just like you. They work hard everyday just like you. Maybe thats their dream job, maybe they are taking the work that they can get but that in no way gives you the entitlement to say that what they do is easy or not. They have to deal with all the same nonsense that is the entertainment industry just like you. So if I watch something you do and its not something of my own personal taste does that give me the right to say you suck at your job.
It’s hard to shoot any show. It’s hard to produce any show. Its work to edit anything. And one would think that these types of forums with professionals would be uplifting and or encouraging. We can and should be better than this.
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For those interested I just got this comment on loud yeti from a gentleman named Dale.
“As an fcp, avid, adobe and now and fcpx editor I have to say, I love fcpx. Like you, I enjoy editing at a different level then in the past.
I know you mentioned you were wondering about other shows being cut on fcpx, so I’ll tell you about the show I’m almost finished……cut, mastered and delivered from fcpx and fcpx alone.
It’s call “Nova Scotia Revealed”. It’s for a Canadian broadcaster called EastLink TV. It’s 13 episodes 30 mins each.
It’s a fast show that follows two hosts as they make there way to 3 or 4 locations per episode. Anything from 300m in the earth in an old mine shaft to 3000m In the air in a glider.
Fcpx has opened a creative streak that I could not have gotten from any other nle….not that the ideas wouldn’t have existed, but they would have been crushed by deadlines and budgets that somehow fcpx has helped me get by. “
I hope there are more people like you out there Sir and look forward to seeing your show.
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They might not be replacements. But they are very good. And I very much miss the mixer. Timeline mixing is great but being able to fine tune a little more with out having to type in the levels would be awesome. I think they posted though that it was coming back. So here’s to hoping.
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I totally hear you. I know its a good tool and it can do some awesome stuff. I just don’t love it. I hate using a mouse too and use a Wacom instead. You can make the same argument. Both are pointing devices different in execution but similar in results. These are all just tools everyone uses them differently. I’m not saying my way is better it just works better for me and I know other editors that enjoy it as well.
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Hello Tim
I feel as though there is confusion as to timeline here. The post I put on my blog was an older post from a different website i host written around last year. My at times aggressive verbiage was from the programs launched. Which I think we all agree was a wild few weeks.I’ve since revisited the topic with more of an understanding of the program and a goal to put it through it’s paces on a different level. Up until then most usage as I imagine with most others has been casual. And as more and more updates were presented I was searching for other editors, shows or networks that were using X in a more real demanding way. And the only other television show I could find any sort of information on was Leverage (on USA).
I’ve felt that there were more people out there that secretly liked X and maybe WANTED to use if for their day to day but maybe like myself hesitant to do so with out seeing others drink the kool-aid first. Again I didn’t post this on creative cow. it was on my blog in hopes that maybe someone searching for a little nudge would leave a comment or two to discuss. But once it went live on Creative Cow I figured I should join the discussion and maybe we can all hold hands while we jump off that cliff of NEW and UNKNOWN together.
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DONE! I will see you there sir.
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Absolutely. I make my living the way I do because a while back I convinced some producers that as long as I was re-cutting their live switched shows anyhow, they should throw out the switcher, record all the cameras and let me cut it in post. Higher quality, same cost, more time
To me and if only too me. Multi-cam is like running a switcher its great for a pass but not in the long haul. Again I’m sure it awesome for some people and if you use it and love it a tip of the hat to you. I have more control and work faster with stacks. Give any two editors the same material they all are going to give you different timelines. End of the day it all gets flattened.loudyeti.com