[Nathan Adam]

Though I’m a regular FCPX user for a bi-weekly show, I mostly drop by the COW to read Aindreas posts. I feel like he keeps Apple honest as they continue to “reinvent” editing. 🙂

[Nathan Adam]

Unfortunately not. For people using the ATEM with a lot of 1080p screens and small text/images to share, the ATEM does not seem to be the right unit. Which is so crazy pointless…I’m sure they’ve sold plenty, but it could have been a game changer for products like we make.

[Nathan Adam]

I believe what he’s saying is the potentially problematic clips were shot at 24p, but against audio playback that was slowed down from the audio of the other clips (to get that “they’re singing the song but somehow it feels like slow-mo” vibe).
As far as I know you’d have to pull those clips into their own timeline, speed them up 132%, export the file as a new clip, then import THAT clip to have it 1) join the multicam at the correct speed from the event browser

[Nathan Adam]

Candidly, I seek out replies from Dennis in these threads for insight on how to be simultaneously 1) helpful 2) even handed and 3) gregarious, while still being forthright about the constraints he has to work within as part of a large company. Good on ya.

[Nathan Adam]

“The raid 5 is giving you backup of course, without any speed loss. Don’t ask me how it does it, but the backup data is spread across 4 drives. So on mine you get 6 terabytes., instead of the full 8terabytes.”

Larry Jordan explained it better than I ever could.

“This is so cool… This works because all digital data is stored as either a 1 or a 0.
Imagine a 3D checkerboard — let’s make it 5 stories high. Look down on the top left square and count the number of checkers on that square for each of the top four layers.
If they total an odd number, put a checker on the same square on the bottom layer. If they total an even number, don’t put a checker on the same square on the bottom layer.
Now, remove the second layer and all it’s checkers, and put in an empty new checkerboard to take its place. By counting the number of checkers on the remaining top three layers and comparing the total to the indicator on the bottom layer, you can exactly rebuild all the missing checkers on the second layer. For example, if the total of the other three layers is even, and there’s a checker on the bottom layer, add a checker to the new layer. If the total of the other three layers is odd, and there’s a checker on the bottom layer, don’t add a checker to the new layer.
This is exactly how RAID redundancy works. Except each checkerboard represents a hard drive in the RAID. The bottom layer, which provides data redundancy, doesn’t need to know which drive failed, it only needs to compare the totals on all the different hard disks with the total stored on the redundancy disk in the RAID. This technique works whether you have three drives – the minimum – or twenty drives. The only difference is that more drives take longer to count and only one drive can fail at a time.”

[Nathan Adam]

Long time lurker. FCP 3-7. Bought and love PP CS6/FCP 8.
I was here the that fateful morning in June ’11….then logged in again every day for a year just to enjoy Aindreas rants.

But…once 10.0.5 came out…and the whole thing started working reasonably well…I have to admit, editing a multicamera weekly music show, X just smokes 7.

Definitely still some changes I’m hoping to see…but geez if editing this kind of a show isn’t waaayyy faster in X. It’s night and day. And, yes, they still pay me well to do it.

[Nathan Adam]

Full assessment: FCPX ruined my June 2011. I still edit a weekly TV show in FCP 7 (XDCam, have a great system down, and wouldn’t do it in X if they made me). Really digging PP CS6 for future, especially long form, custom, and DSLR based projects.

But for this type of project, mixing lots of moving stills, need for good, clean, but not too original titles, a ton of different video formats and lots of retiming, music, basic audio cleanup, <30 minutes long and a need for Fast exports, X, even for my first real project on it, was by far faster. My only retraining was a quick Lynda.com crash course (to relearn the silly new X terminology and remap my shortcuts).

Also, we won the National competitions out of 600 teams with this presentation, so I guess the video looked good enough, too. Definitely will be the fastest solution for these types of projects.

[Nathan Adam]

I was thinking about this for some other sorts of “value added” videos for an event facility of mine that seem like they’d have a similar template feel as your parasailing friends.

Wedding video highlight package, give a shot checklist to a freelance shooter, they deliver a drive of numbered shots to me or an intern, and bam, a few minutes later the video assembly line rolls out another one.
Hmmmm.

[Nathan Adam]

Gotta say, as a 10+ year FCP editor, I just cranked out a 24 minute video in X in about half the time it took me last year in 7, and I’m a speed/shortcut junkie in 7.
I’d make a template project with specific types of shots and music cues, and when they import the daily footage, they can just skim through them, find the best parts, then literally drag/drop/replace the template footage, and they’ll be rendered and uploaded to Vimeo before they’d even started the edit in CS6. And I’m a big fan of CS6.

[Nathan Adam]

This was my *exact* experience on that fateful morning. Exact.