Nate Weaver
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I just found an old job with the right media to test Synchronized Clips. It works as advertised!
3 DSLRs with onboard audio, and one proper audio WAV made with Sound Devices. I picked the 4 clips from the same take, and said Make Synchronized Clip. It clicked and whirred for about 30 seconds, and then I double clicked and opened the Synchronized clip:
Nate Weaver
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Here’s what I think you’re going to be able to do:
(assuming all the EX1 footage is already re-wrapped and ready to go as Quicktimes. If that’s not the case, you’re going to have to re-wrap it all in FCP7 or XDCAM Transfer, and then import into FCPX)
1-Take an EX1 interview clip, the corresponding DSLR clip, and the audio clip, select them all in the Event, right click, and “Make Synchronized Clip”
2-This will make what is almost like a Multiclip in FCP7. It will be a new clip in the Event. You can then double click it in the Event and it will open like a nested sequence. I don’t have the proper media to test, but I expect if the DSLR(s) has an onboard audio track to work with, X will sync everything up and you can cut the multicam using Position mode inside the Synchronized Clip ‘sequence”, and then do the larger Interview editing in the main “Project”
Nate Weaver
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An addendum…stepping though the timeline frame by frame, it looks like 2:2:2:4.
But on export it’s right.
Nate Weaver
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Oh my god.
I put a 1080p23.98 clip in a 108029.97i project, exported and its….
CORRECT! 2:3 pulldown, fields, and everything. FINALLY.
I can’t believe it. AV Foundation just impressed me another notch more.
Nate Weaver
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It took me one night to 90% figure out the new school, and to learn Position mode and work the old way if I like as well.
The new timeline isn’t rocket science. It’s a hierarchal system that let’s you group shots together and move them around based on priorities.
Nate Weaver
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Indeed. FCP7 still works, and only frustrates me on DSLR jobs anymore.
Thoughts of jumping ship to Avid or Premiere are thoughts of fear and uncertainty, but not based on any REAL need to do so just yet, unless I’m impatient and just need to have transcodeless DSLR or Red jobs right this second.
I see enough things I like in FCPx to give it another few months (months, not years) to get it’s act together. If it doesn’t then, after all this bad publicity, then I’ll make a sea change in my business.
Jumping to Avid or Premiere right now is a guaranteed disruption of some sort. Sticking with 7 and FCPx later so far is just a “maybe” disruption.
Besides all that, I know I like the conventions and methods of Apple and it’s media products. I tend to dislike Adobes, and don’t understand Avids.
Nate Weaver
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Quicktime and AV Foundation can live concurrently on the same machine. As it is now, Phillip Hodgetts is saying AV Foundation is a private framework that lives inside FCPX at the moment, so it’s only avail to FCPX.
I doubt QuickTime is going anywhere soon. Not only is it a framework for decoding audio and media, it’s also a media file container (ProRes mov, anyone?).
As I understand it, AV Foundation exists so FCP can use non-QT media in a faster, less resource intensive manner. An ArsTechnica article a while back got into the nitty gritty of the differences between QT and QT X, and from a tech standpoint, QT had to use a lot of memory and gymnastics to deal with GOP-based codecs…far from ideal for things like FCP.
I expect QuickTime will be around for quite a while, as a file container if nothing else. Also, many 3rd party software rely on those APIs to get work done, not just video apps, so they’d be screwing a lot more apps over than just Avid and Adobe.
Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
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That did it.
Funny how the process of learning how to do half of what you do differently makes you forget about the things that didn’t change.
Sadly, HQ mode drops frames with XDCAM EX material on a 2009 8 core w/GT120 and 8 drive Infiniband RAID5. Yikes.
Nate Weaver
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[Chris Conlee] “Looking forward to those tips.”
I said almost every issue.
Love your snark.
Nate Weaver
Director/D.P., Los Angeles
https://www.nateweaver.net