[Olof Ekbergh]

I don’t use scopes all the time, but on the final CC pass I always do, and then it is handy to have parade WF and VS all at the same time. ScopeBox makes that possible even on a MBP.

I also turn this on if I have a problem shot I need to find out if it will be possible to fix. I usually do “heavy ” CC in Resolve and that spoils you with scopes.

You can also put Scopebox on an external monitor to make more real estate.

Maybe the next release of FCPX will have this built in, but in the mean time…

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

I have seen a drop off in the request for BR. The request for VOD is way up.

For video kiosks we use to use BR but they fail very quickly so we now use solid state players, no moving parts.

We use FTP uploads for most work to be broadcast or digital files on HDs.

For client review we used to send BR or DVD now it is all Vimeo.

My own TV watching is 90% Apple TV Netflix. Quality is OK. The few times we get BR we got discs that would play partway and then stop, so we only use Netflix VOD now much more reliable.

I find sending SD cards or even HDs works very well for most clients who want physical delivery.

So IMHO BR is definitely on the way out.

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

Michael, once you start to work with FCPX, you will be really impressed by how quickly you can work. And how easily and well you can manage media.

As soon as you mount a card or a HD with pretty much any media on it you can import it in a lot of different ways. If it is organized in folders each folder becomes a keyword (a smart bin really) and you can assign many keywords and favourites to any clip. You have to wrap your head around this but basically FCPX is a searchable Database for all your media, and you can save “smart searches”. You can also start working with the files as the import is going on.

Once you start using a modern way of file handling the old bins and media folders really is clunky in comparison.

All your projects (events) and programs (timelines) are always visible but can be hidden or just put into folders to keep them organized and instantly available. M100 1 project at a time and locating media when opening is a pain.

M100 is just stuck in time, there are new and much improved ways of working once you wrap your head around them. If these new ways of working were not faster and easier to find/archive media and project I would not care. But the new ways save time and keeps me much more organized, it is so easy to find any clip even from a totally different project.

I resisted switching to FCP/Avid/Premier for years and I think the first program that really is worth switching to is the latest versions of FCPX. I did end up using FCP7 a lot in the sat few years because of collaboration with other editors, but I never liked it. I have always loved AE and I still use it a lot, but I must admit that Motion is very good and integrates really well with FCPX.

I don’t want to sound like an Apple ad. But the truth is that there are new and different ways to think about video editing and at least for me it works well.

I would love to see a modern version of M100, but it does not seem likely.

As long as M100 works for you, use it. I just found FCPX is much faster and easier to organize for my way of working.

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

I have used M100 since the mid 90’s and I love it.

But I have finally stopped using it except for legacy projects that need to be reedited.

I am very sad about this but it is just not working well any more.

I use FCPX and it is really fast and works w/o the need to transcode any of the solid state media I shoot these days. The lack of tabbed timelines and bins is ridiculous. That should have been done a decade ago. Media management is a pain, the separate audio and video files is really silly in todays world.

So I have basically said goodbye to an old friend. I still have 4 licensed seats but they all use other SW most of the time now and there are really only 2 that still work with M100.

I would give M100 another chance if they updated it to be as fast and easy to work with as FCPX and other modern NLEs. But that seems unlikely. I have not even looked in on this forum for a month or so now, I used to be pretty active and I often talked with the crew at M100 about problems and possible improvements.

So I am sad to see M100 go but for me it is the reality that it has been abandoned to a slow death. I stopped my platinum updates a year ago I think, good move it seems.

RIP

Prove me wrong…

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

[Julian Bowman] “Is there any reason why we simply cannot have a save as?
“

Saving the project as a duplicate and renaming (indexing it) does a save as, that is what I do, always have. But now I will more often.

It would be nice to have an auto save duplicate project script, that worked every 10 min or so and kept 10 backups. Maybe I will see if I can script that, has anyone tried?

Thanks for your responses, I am going to check my RAIDs and HDs with DW today.

Thanks for the undo tip I will start checking that. Does save duplicate project work once the undo stops working?

I was just surprised this happened all of a sudden, the first time I actually lost data in FCPX. I have had few crashes lately, then this all of a sudden.

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

As far as I remember this has always been there.

Is it possible your clips don’t have embedded TC?

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

THe upper right timecode is the duration of the clip. In FCPX 10.0.6 anyway.

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

Sounds to me like you are trying to Key footage. Sometimes called chroma key (typically against solid even blue or green BG), Motion does a good job of this as does AE.

It can be tricky to light a chroma key correctly, do some research.

There are ways of keying against a stationary background as long as the camera is on sticks and not moving, and the background is static, I use AE for this.

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

I have the UltraStudio Express, and it works perfectly.

No need to install different FW switching between apps like some other cards/boxes I have.

It runs FCPX, FCP7, Resolve, CS6, AE and PP, all you have to do is quit apps to use another.

I have the mini on order, it has not shipped yet. I would expect it to behave the same way.

If there are any problems when I get it I will post in this thread, I should have it in the next few days hopefully.

Olof Ekbergh

[Olof Ekbergh]

Try copying the entire card into a new folder then point to it from the import screen in FCPX.

It sounds like a problem with the reader.

Let us know if this works.

Olof Ekbergh