[Richard Herd]

Read the following post before you decide: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/34573

[Richard Herd]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “dynamic trimming and they never got it together”

Well, sometimes folks want to know how to do it and other times they don’t. Assuming you do, in X, the Precision Editor is awesome, and that’s what it’s called, Precision Editor. There’s a catch. You have to select the option for “show detailed feedback” in the Options menu, CMD-, .

[Aindreas Gallagher] “no you cannot have bins”

So technically we don’t need bins because our media are not celluloid. So even the word bin is a metaphor, but I like my folders, logical arrangements of my footage. I put my media into folders using OS. Then I select the option of “import folders as keyword collections,” so when I import footage they are already keyworded. This has proven useful recently when there were a few changes in the audio. I just dropped the new audio into the folder and imported.

[Richard Herd]

Be sure to include insurance on your equipment’s replacement costs.

[Richard Herd]

Bill’s convinced me about the databaseiness of X. So it seems pretty simple to assign database relationships to audio track/channels GUI.

[Richard Herd]

For me the answer to Jeremy’s question is “Bussing FX.” That’s why I find it important to keep the FX on the FX pseudo track and so on. I really like creating a compound clip out of several groups of audio and then apply a single fx to the cc. Rather than applying the same individual effect to numerous clips.

Back in October, this was the real eye opener, for me, that Jim posted: bussing in X.

[Richard Herd]

[Oliver Peters] “They have the right to ask for adjustments when it wasn’t what they thought it would be in their mind’s eye.”

And managing client expectations has never been easier, in X. You simply select the proper pre-set called the “client is happy.” 😉 There’s also a preset for “invoice is paid on time.”

[Richard Herd]

Good idea!
Thanks!

[Richard Herd]

What are the steps?

Thanks!

[Richard Herd]

Just to be clear…

The basic distinction between video formats is: Editing format v. Deliverable format.

Editing formats…this means each frame of video contains its own picture data, much like we think of film frames, called “intraframe.”

Deliverable formats…these are compressed. Video compression is pretty clever because it changes the intraframe into a Long Group of Pictures (GOP). The first frame of a Long GOP is an Intraframe (I). The next frame is a B frame.

So when you edit, you want to “unpack” the Long GOP into an intraframe codec, first! (Actually X does it for you if you push the right buttons.) Then edit.

Then compress your deliverable.

If you haven’t already, spend the $50 on Apple Compressor. There’s fancy algorithms which make the Long GOP compression look clean.

[Richard Herd]

There’s a compression forum that’s pretty useful, and there’s a lot of detail to wade through.

You’re going to lose some image quality just because of the nature of the formats. So keeping things perfect is a very detailed process.

First, you need a high quality original.
Second, you need to use Compressor (not MPEG Streamclip).