Robin S. kurz
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[Charlie Austin] “The amount of info you can include in a 40 year old format is incredible.”
Really? You feel that way even considering that you have a limit on the number of edits in your sequence, you can only use transitions in track V1 (i.e. the primary), have to join through edits if you have them, are limited in the number of audio tracks you can use, can’t rely on audio mix levels let alone any form of keyframing, have to avoid nested sequences and any nonstandard video transitions, can’t use or at least have to be careful when using still frames and speed settings and probably a slew of other things I can’t remember?
Personally, if someone asks for an EDL, I tell them “no chance”, since I have no way of knowing what will even show up on the other end and won’t go through the above checklist for them just because they’re stuck in the 80’s. 😛 Aside from pretty much every major app that I know of or deal with (aside from Avid… of course) can do some flavor of XML as well, so why would I use an EDL.
– RK
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[Michael Carter] “FCP7 won’t run on my current setup.”
Fascinating. Considering that I installed and am running it under macOS Sierra. So I guess your setup is too old?? Okay. However that is even possible. Oh right… everything’s Apple’s fault, never yours or somehow due to your lack of expertise. Please no! Silly me.
[Michael Carter] “Apple releasing X with no path to work or modify or import legacy projects”
Only they did. Oops. Even if it came (omg! a whopping!!) six months later, since the pieces (FCPXML) weren’t completely in place from the get go. Horrible, since FCP 7 stopped functioning the day X was released and everyone was forced to upgrade the next day, right? Oh wait…
<_< Feel free to ask Intelligent Assistance if they did it all by themselves or if Apple in fact worked extremely close with them to get it made. But somehow developing v1(0).0 software continuously is only something Apple does I guess, instead of releasing a full-featured, be-all end-all product right out of the gate, like, say Adobe? So unusual. Never mind that giving that task to a 3rd party made eons more sense and made for better support and development times i.e. shorter update cycles, for those that actually needed it.
[Michael Carter] “Apple should address the fact that 7 will be a dead system before long and a simple app to generate XMLs from 7 files – without needing 7 “
Yeah. Be sure to hold your breath.
Because hey, if you haven’t managed to translate needed project files in over five years, that is TOTALLY on Apple! :-)))[Michael Carter] “3D camera tracker and integration with C4D”
I see you completely understood my “titles? simple to average mograph stuff?” question perfectly. Kudos.
[Michael Carter] “I have about 30 aerial clips shot at 60p, I need to replace the flat blue skies with some animated stills with curved geometry (cough, choke), reduce the flicker, get the frame rates to 24p, retime and speed ramp and get some motion blur on them, and a few will need lens flares that track with the footage”
Your point being? That you know even less about what Motion can and can’t do? That those tasks are somehow “Only with AE!” jobs? Okay. Everyone is entitled to their belief.
And with “hard way” I meant your apparent insistence on teaming AE with FCP X of all things, where, if AE is in fact such a pivotal, full-time element of your work *cough*, Premiere would clearly be the much more logical and efficient choice. Especially seeing how horribly inferior FCP is.[Michael Carter] “I’ve only seen a $110 version”
Then I guess that can be the only version.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Got a ways to go, IMHO…”
Agreed.
[Dean Neal] “Keep adding features… introduce cool stuff, yet still do not really fix core issues.”
But… it’s FREE… right? 😉 At least that’s the number one (if not only) “feature” that I ever really hear anyone tout when it comes to saying how great it is. As if that in itself had any real meaning or value. Apparently forgetting the old and imho painfully true adage “There are no free lunches”. I always get the feeling they’re trying to hide behind all their free “goodies” to distract from their ever worsening reputation when it comes to quality and reliability. In both the soft and hardware depts. It would seem that when people see “FREE!” their eyes light up and they become amazingly forgiving.
[Don Walker] “truly become the company they really want (and can) be.”
How are they not that yet? If you ask me, they set out to be the IKEA of video, plus the added “Buy one, get two FREE!” scheme and are exactly that… no?
– RK
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[Andy Field] “not sure if it does — i know on line it syncs to the video you uploaded”
Then I’d say you’re comparing two services with entirely different focus and levels of usability. Only having the transcript in online or Word form would make it about 10% as useful for me and a comparative PITA. In which case I might as well just pay a one-time fee and get SoundBite or the likes. MUCH cheaper over time, but still the same, continuous jumping back-forth-in-out dance. The exact thing I’ve wished I could finally do without for ages, which this would appear to offer.
– RK
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[Craig Seeman] “Keep in mind every single word needs to point to a specific spot on the clip.”
I’d say that is complete overkill. Having favorites (as described) for every sentence would more than suffice imho. A single word is of little to no use to me if I don’t know the context.
– RK
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[Craig Seeman] “If we export each transcribed sentence as a marker, then you can’t search for a word in FCP and see where the word is.”
Exactly. Which is why I have yet to understand why people always insist on using MARKERS. Weird. What you need to be doing is defining and naming FAVORITES which are basically range based markers! Bingo… you get what you’re looking for. And on top of that, you aren’t flooded by a countless number of keywords. Personally I think that’s the worst, most cumbersome choice possible.
Make them favorites, switch to favorites only, enter search term, bang. You have not only the clip with that search term, but the that exact section… only.
– RK
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[Bob Zelin] “now I owe Robin Kurz a nice dinner.”
Huh??? 😀
– RK
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[Michael Horton] “including a Lumaforge Jellyfish HD 24TB ShareStation.”
Soooooo… bribes are made out directly to YOU, or…
;-P
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Wow. What a wonderful, textbook example of “Jump in and use, ask questions and learn basics later”. 😀
[Michael Carter] “example of Apple’s “We know better than you and you’ll come around eventually”. “
Oh the irony.
[Michael Carter] “We REALLY need a function or separate app to import FCP6/7 projects.”
I guess you REALLY need to check out 7toX. Only been around since December of 2011. Maybe January 2012. Either way, I guess not long enough to get noticed.
[Michael Carter] “Give us a way to round trip, even semi-manually.”
Been there since day one. Just not for AE, but for Motion. So you’ll either want to jump ship to Motion if that is such a dire need, or jump ship to Premiere. Your choice. But that’s like begging ADOBE for better MOTION support. Wanna guess what their answer would be?
Or get “Clip Exporter” which is even FREE, if you insist on doing it the hard way. But I’ll bet that the vast majority (if not in fact 100%) of what you do in AE in the context of an edit (titles? simple to average mograph stuff?) could not only be done 1:1, but with actual speed to speak of. Meaning realtime, not slide-show.
[Michael Carter] “I’m really hating cutting up music to fit an edit and having pieces fly up into spaces in my voiceover and effects tracks. “
So you’ve actually never heard of secondary Storylines. Okay.
[Michael Carter] “I should be able to double click a clip on the timeline and see where it came from in the clip”
So you’ve also never heard of “Match Framing“? Or the “Event Viewer“? Let alone the various other shortcuts for that task…
[Michael Carter] “I can’t do precise markers or trims on the timeline.”
Wow. So ONE-EIGHTIETH OF A FRAME (that’s 1/80!) in the timeline is not “precise” enough for you?? Okay, then I guess there’s no solution for that.
[Michael Carter] “Give us keyframable speed ramping with beziers.”
Again, if the (imho) absolutely brilliantly simple but effective retiming options in X (which are plentiful) aren’t enough: Motion. Keyframe and bezier to your heart’s content, publish to FCP. With or without XSend.
[Michael Carter] “Let me use my finder structure to import.”
I’m sorry? How exactly is that not possible?
[Michael Carter] “I may have a dozen folders in the finder sidebar to speed up my access to media.”
Ever notice the “Favorites” section in the import window? Guess what happens if you drag folders—be it from within the import window or from the Finder—into it…
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And if you want to simply make the exact same thing yourself…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xq61fhdW4U
– RK
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