[Neil Sadwelkar]

Abhijit,

If you happen to be in India (as your name suggests, pardon if not), and would like to consider Final Share, then I could help you implement it here. With help from Ron and Bob whom I know well. The storage can be imported from Maxx and we can execute it with help from Bob.

I’m back from IBC and I met with the people from Accusys there. That’s a great solution as well, and as Bob wrote is the same or similar to Caldigit Super Share.

Feel free to get in touch with me, I can give you my cel number here in Mumbai if you’re nearby.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If you just place markers and create subclips from them using my method in an earlier reply, then of course the Markers will not have names. If, instead you name the markers in the browser or viewer and then highlight them and do a Cmd-C Cmd-V, the Marker name is retained.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

As a matter of fact, I did see FCP X at IBC. Not as commonplace as Avid and Premiere. But, to my surprise, I did see it. Can’t remember exactly where, but it was at a storage manufacturer’s stall. FCP 7 was around in many places.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

You could pop the card into a spare MacPro since you happen to have one, just to ensure its working fine.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Actually, I believe Autodesk will drop the price if Avid drops the price of DS and/or ports it to Mac.

Or, some as yet unknown system that rivals the market, gets introduced at a $ 1,000 kind of price point. Maybe Blackmagic will come up with something.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Color can convert DPX files to Quicktime. Even numbered files work. As long as they are little-endian. Spirit scans work on Color. I’ve used them that way. And Color preserves the DPX timecode in the QT.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

You’re joking right?

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

And the MacPro?
Or Mac mini
with Thunderbolt?

…just kidding.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Well written.

But I wonder, six months, a year, two years from now how much of this will be relevant?

Conversely, for all those hundreds or maybe thousands of Avids in India which are still Meridien, XPress, MC ver 2.7 and 2.8, and Windows Avids… how much of all this is relevant?

And then again, for the tens of thousands of FCP systems who’s installs came from Torrent sites, and serials numbers came from Serial Box, how does it matter?

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

An EDL from FCP when imported to Color will conform to the R3D files. Make sure you select ‘clip names’ in the EDL.

Then you set your Color project setting to Uncompressed QT, set the Red tab to color space as you need, and render. You’ll have uncompressed QT clips one for each timeline clip.

After that, you could do a ‘send to FCP’ from Color and you’ll have an FCP timeline that is connected to the QT clips. The Uncompressed QT .mov files will have names like 1g1.mov, 2g1.mov and so on. But the timeline in FCP will show original Red file names.

You can now select all clips in the FCP timeline and drag them to the browser. Then highlight all the clips in the browser and right-click and select Rename > File to match clip. So the Uncompressed QT files get renamed to timeline clip file names.

Now make an EDL out of FCP and hand that to the colorist. This EDL will refer to the Uncompressed QTs of the Red files made by Color.

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