Mike Warmels
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I know HOW to do it. As you say, the procedure is very simple. But we’re having trouble figuring out if FCPX knows how to do it.
When FCPX has to relink a large number of clips, it seems its not able to handle it properly. For one, it takes a long time to verify the clips and then to relink them takes the same amount of time (why that is, I don’t know). And then it has trouble in general relinking everything. It took TWO DAYS 15 hours of footage (21 Xd-Cam discs… not a lot I’d say). Most of it has been done manually, because FCPX had so much trouble. Even though the folder structure is identical to the one on the computer the project was generated on.
So what I’d like to know is how people who work on different locations on the same project deal with copies of media and libraries and relinking the footage to make it work on a different location.
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Well, I work with two companies with FCPX and SAN… it’s not really a great marriage. It basically works, but it’s not super smooth. And Cantamo, now I have not worked with that myself, but all the editors I know do a lot of complaining about that one. They consider it not very user friendly.
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You know, I deleted the unused XD-CAM tracks right away (even though they weren’t blank) when you wrote that. And kapow… its performance increased immediately.
It’s still 10.1.4 but at least I can get into the rhythm of cutting again.
I gotta SAY: SUPER TIP! Thank you thank you thank thank you and the guy who told you this. It’s a bizarre bug, but this tip is a life saver! I just hope everything is really synch because now there is no way of checking it with the guide track anymore.
They better fix this some day, because in the end, I would like to have the guide tracks available for checking. But for now, I am happy (even on X.. 😉 ).
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Yeah, big red flag for me too, now.
The audio recorder has at least 8 tracks. But sometimes we use only three, sometimes, 6 or 7. It varies. Some even didn’t play right because within one XD-Cam disc there were differences of used tracks. And it sure couldn’t hack it.
And yes, it’s causing huge delays. Every click on a clip or in the timeline there’s a beach ball. But the point is, the tracks aren’t that long. There’s all relatively short clips. Everytime the camera stops, a new audiofile is made. But to me it seems that it considers the whole synchronised clip as one entity it has to analyse over and over again.
The reason why I believe that is I tried consolidating two short clips from two synchronised clips (one didn’t show audio after synching, while it was there in ‘Open in Timeline” the others did). When I made a consolidation in a separate library it included ALL clips from the synchronized clip: about 85 minutes of video and 85 minutes op separate audio.
There’s some major programming mistakes here.
So deleting the unused tracks would be the solution? In my case that would be the 8 unused tracks from the XD-Cam video.
Oh and it’s not my team, it’s my biggest client. Can’t bitch to them about too much, they’ll get annoyed. They have to transfer their entire SAN system to Yosemite first. All a bit late if you ask me, El Capitan is about to hit the shelfs.
Anyway, walked into a good friend of mine who told me she’d been streamlining their entire editing department and I urged her to get this transition going if they want to save some money. It will happen soon I hope, doesn’t help me with this project tough. -
Okay, here’s I thing I’d like to know.
I am currently working on a 4-part children’s documentary series,s hot on Borneo. We shot about 18 hours of footage with separate audio recorded by my sound engineer on location. It’s all synched now in FCPX (and causing huge delays in basic editing and handling the synchronised audioclips).
But here’s the thing: in these clips there are two stereo atom tracks and three tracks individually assigned to three lavalier miss of the three main characters. Is it possible to assign a role to each separate track? So link a mic track to a person? Because it is recorded and logged that way. Would be nice to do the same with the roles.
Because that’s what we would do in AVID and PPro – assign each source track to one track in the timeline.
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Yup.
Well, what I do with AVID, especially after a day of shooting on the CANON C300 for instance. When I come home, I AMA link the lot (which is just a few clicks), set it transcode and I go to have dinner. Sometime at the end of the evening it’s done. I start copying for back-ups and go to bed. The next morning I start cutting.
It’s the luxury of having a set in an office next to home, I guess.
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Hehehe… not really…
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Errr… yeah?
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Yes, the roles work when you’re going to ProTools. But ProTools isn’t the only software used by sound studios. Hehehe
And yes, you can change roles in the timeline and I think even add. The point was always that if you change something for a particular set of clips as you go along, you have to change them AS WELL in the Browser. So you have to do it twice. And not forget it.
And yes, it would be best if the material would be role assigned before it goes to the directors. But to be honest, that basically requires assistent editors and there’s nod budget here for that.
When it comes the UI, I can work with it as it is. It only bugs when I want to do stuff like color correct for instance: you just can’t see all your scopes at the same time, as well as all the correction tools (exposure, color, saturation). This is one those particular things you want to change your UI to see all the tool you need and not click away opening and closing windows, switching.
Luckily I have a very nice Flanders broadcast monitor where I can display one of the scopes and use another on FCPX. But again, this is a bit of a silly work around. (AVID has it, FCP7 had it… so why not FCPX… it’s not like it’s some stupid luxury feature).
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Yeah, well I hate looking at the low res. I don’t think you can judge very well for sharpness or whatever. I want to see what I have. I don’t like the “better performance” look either, but that’s something I have to accept so I will run better.