Phil Lowe
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If you have a computer and drive that’s fast enough, why not just AMA the source files and edit from those? I shoot using a Canon XF-300 i full MPEG-2 50 Mbit 1080p. I use the Canon XF utility to back my card(s) up to an external hard drive, then AMA link from that. I sequence all the raw clips, and edit straight from the sequence of AMA linked clips in full 1080p.
I think people over-complicate this stuff with all the off-line/on-line low-res/hi-res proxy stuff. I’m probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer but, for me, my workflow is pretty simple: Shoot. Edit. Export. Done. AMA gets me from start to finish with as little fuss as possible. 😉
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[Tim Wilson] “David started a terrific thread in June 2014, FCPX Is Now A Universal Logging and Organizing Tool For Any NLE.
Is that still the case?
Anyone else using X this way?”
No, but it may very well be the best use for it of which I can think. 😉
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[Noah Kadner] “The real challenge/annoyance is that different applications use different terms to refer to essentially similar functionality and that’s confusing.
“For some reason, I seriously doubt Avid and Adobe are going to bend to Apple’s new nomenclature just to avoid confusion. 😉
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[Oliver Peters] “And those huge data centers Apple is building certainly aren’t running on Macs.”
And Pixar, of which Steve Jobs was once the majority shareholder, was using HP render farms. I believe they still are.
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[Tony West] “I want to see the clip instead. It’s visually faster and the thread was about speed.”
And yet, for me, I feel I’m faster without it.
[Tony West] What do you do if they were recorded in the field? In another studio?
Waveform with audio scrub. Slower, but useable.
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[Steve Connor] “Clearly Phil is happy with his choice of NLE, is there a reason we are trying to convince him about FCPX?”
Yes, I am happy with Avid. No, I’m not happy that I have to learn this app. I have already stated the reasons why. I’m sure most people looking at the audition feature are giddy with it’s promise of speeding up client decisions at an ad agency or post house.
I. Do. News. Anything that isn’t focused on getting sound and shots laid down on a timeline as fast as possible for air is a waste of time.
Producer: “Am I going to get that piece in 30 seconds?”
Editor: “Laying down last shot!”
Producer: “20 seconds!”
Editor: “Sending!”Been. There. Often.
Show me how FCPX beats scenarios like this day in and day out, and you’ll have my attention. I’ll only add that whether I cut on 3/4″, BetaSP, BetaSX, or Avid, that conversation I just outlined happened regardless of format or software. It is the nature of news.
Want to impress me? Show me how you would take a 90-second news package, with tracks, bites, nat sound breaks, and b-roll from script to air in 30 minutes or less, because that’s the margin we often have in news. I’ve done it often in Avid.
All I’ve seen of X here are features that indie documentarians, filmmakers, and corporate video gurus say enhance their productivity. Show me something that works in my world as well as Avid has all these years, and I’ll be impressed. Haven’t seen it so far.
Thanks.
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OK, thanks Walter. I’ll try that.
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Well, I just watched some of those tutorials on auditioning clips (including Larry Jordan’s). In my opinion, it’s way too much screwing around just to choose a shot! And when it comes to audio, cutting the narration for an entire news script as one take and then subtracting bad takes and dead air is way faster than navel gazing at two similar takes when you have a package to get done in 20 minutes!
Again, marking takes on the fly during a single record has ALWAYS been both my fastest and preferred workflow. I will manage cleaning up tracks using waveforms in X, but – at least as far as I’ve seen auditions used – it is way too “sophisticated” for editing daily news.
Let me assure you all that if I took the time to set up an audition for several clips, then called my reporter or news director over to ask them which one they liked on a news deadline, I would never work in news again! Same goes for audio!
Just saying’.
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As a long time VO Guy and Narrator, I’ll tell you that in my professional opinionX has a MUCH more sophsiticated system for doing what it appears you are doing.
I’ve used the VO Record tool in X. I don’t really care that it may be more “sophisticated.” For me, marking takes on the fly was incredibly fast and simple, even when I was doing my own voice over work. The fact that X eliminated something even 7 had, as imperfect as it is, hamstrings X and constrains users, again, to working only one way.
In Avid, I can work with the capture tool to record voice tracks and mark them on the fly, or I could work in waveform mode and clean tracks up having never dropped a marker once. The fact that X doesn’t provide that option, to me, is a net minus, not a feature.
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Do you mean when recording?
Yes, which is when I like to drop markers on takes.