[Neil Sadwelkar]

Thanks Michael for the brief history lesson. I used to be an intern in ‘those days’ so I’ve had occasion to do exactly what you describe. Seems like a previous life now.

Anyway, two more questions…

If the video timecode and audio timecode are not matching for some reason, and one does an autosync with the clap and IN points on clap frame, then is there a way to see the original sound file TC in the autosync subclip?

And two, if the sound mixer’s audio file is, say 8 tracks, then is there a feature whereby these auto sync subclips have ‘collapsed’ audio tracks, say 2 tracks, which can be edited, and whilst editing, ‘uncollapsed’ to see all 8 tracks by the press of a button or menu item?

I don’t recall any such feature in ‘those days’ but maybe the newer MC 6 or 6.5 have such a feature. I did do a Google and Avid community search on this one but didn’t get any info.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Michael,

Thanks for the info.
The point of placing camera master clips and sound in a sequence and syncing them there is that then this sequence becomes a ready dailies roll for exporting h.264 dailies. It also becomes a reference roll sort of like a ‘camroll’ or tape capture of all shots coming off one card, in shooting order.

Otherwise, of course it’s easy to autosync in a bin by highlighting the constituent clips and autosyncing them by common TC or in point.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Why Chris, if you don’t mind me asking?

Do you have some ‘inside track’ info on a new larger, better, cheaper panel releasing sometime soon? Or are you ‘moving up’ in life to a Blackboard or DaVinci panel?

Just kidding.

But I’m looking at it seriously and figuring out if eBay India Global Easy Buy will ship it.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

It copies the entire folder containing the referenced ArriRAW files. Meaning, the full clip.
To be able to copy only the referenced ‘in’ to ‘out’ point duration, would need parsing the ‘source in’ and ‘source out’ timecodes and reading filenames off it.

That’s not very tough, but with motion effects, the ‘source out’ needs to be calculated from the EDL, which, I believe is not very easy.

But, given a directory listing of sorted full takes, and an XML of the sequence referencing them, maybe I could write a simple script to move the unreferenced files to a safety folder so you can check the conform to ensure some wrong files didn’t get lost before deleting unnecessary files en masse.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Some of the experiences here are from editors working on older Quad core systems with older graphics cards.
Due respect, of course, but do things improve with a newer iMac i5 or i7, or the newest iMacs or MBPs with nVidia GPUs?

Because, for instance, in DaVinci Resolve, running on a new i7 MBP with the nVidia GTX 650, renders are happening as fast as in the ‘latest’ 8-core MacPro with 32GB RAM and a nVidia Quadro 4000 card installed. Maybe such a new system – iMac or MBP – with a SSD or Fusion drive may be the answer for performance with long projects.

I have also found that just replacing my boot drive from HDD to SSD has made a big difference to the opening speeds of a large (150 MB+) sized projects. SSDs also speed up rendering in some cases where disk speed not CPU speed is the bottle-neck. Like rendering to/from ProRes4444 or higher.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

One thing to add.
If you have a G-Tech G-Speed eS RAID with only eSATA on it. And you’ve set it up with the G-Tech supplied SATA card. Then that kind of a drive does not work with Thunderbolt-SATA adapters.
G-Tech single drives and G-RAIDs do not suffer from this limitation.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I actually have one of these cards, but haven’t used it. Waiting for the occasion/need.
You’re right about the case. If it sits inside a PC case without cooling, the SSDs may overheat.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

From the picture the card appears to be a NewerTech SAS RAID card.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Tim,

I received a rather pleasant surprise from your sales dept that since I bought BRU-PE in the period after March 30, I qualify for a 3.0 upgrade.

So all good. Now to install the upgrade. Just waiting for a couple of days till an ongoing batch is finished.

Thanks for your response.
Cheers.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Sure.

You’ve place markers where the subtitles begin. Now you need to type the subtitle content in the marker label and Extend (opt-`) the marker for the subtitle length.

Then export this sequence as a marker list
File > Export > Markers List as text…

This text file can then be converted to an XML using software like Title Exchange Pro.
Test it to see if it works.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India