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[Oliver Peters] “I would suggest however, that X is not as suited to working this way than other NLEs. […] No tabbing or stacking features for sequences, for example.”
Ironically… from the exact same show: https://bit.ly/1nNGS80
And of course: https://bit.ly/1YZksOR
So I guess the question is: why would I want to work that way instead? Because if others are doing it, somehow it’s the best way to do it? For me, being “less suited” is clearly a very very GOOD thing.
– RK
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Simply “Show Used Media Ranges” via the view menu and flip through any potential projects where it could have been used. If at any point the CC in question gets an orange bar at the bottom, then you know that that is the project in which it is being used. After which you can simply search for it in the timeline index and delete it.
I would suggest using a smart collection to show all “Used” and “Compound”, but they unfortunately don’t refresh between projects automatically without being reselected each time.
– RK
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Something that I find extremely helpful (if not in fact essential) in that context and something I think most people don’t even know exists (or simply don’t use it), is the fact that you can group the content of your event BY ROLES. With that you can very quickly see what is assigned what i.e. quickly see if something has landed in the wrong category for a quick re-assignment.
And I’m actually hella glad that the assignments don’t ripple recursively in EITHER direction, since that would completely mess me up in the way I use roles for various types of media in different projects.
– RK
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[Oliver Peters] “All Mac-only applications are going to have difficulty achieving critical mass.”
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/windows/
– RK
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Clearly you missed that neither were they my systems, nor was it my decision to move away from them. Sorry, no ulterior motive to be found.
[Andrew Kimery] “… you go off the deep end.”
Huh? Your reading interpretation skills are… interesting. Feel free to quote exactly where I “went off the deep end”. 😀
– RK
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[Andrew Kimery] “In a previous post you mentioned you hadn’t touched MC since v6, is the lab question on v6? That might account for some of the issues (Avid changed a lot in 6 but seemed to get everything much more solid in 6.5). It’s neither here nor there but I’m just curious.”
No, Andrew, I said I hadn’t USED it (as in “in production”) and that I was guessing it may have been v6 that (last) time. Could’ve been v7. But since the Avids were moved in the school, they finally dared to update them more often and AFAIK are v8.x, where it now ends. Especially since, as I mentioned, we shoot in 4, 5 and even some occasional 6K, in which case they’re useless for the latter, no matter which version.
[Andrew Kimery] “Just change “X” to “Avid” and you came up with the solution for Robin Kurz’s problem too!”
Yeah. Somehow I knew that was going to be used as an excuse, since I don’t see how that (with or without the token smily) can be interpreted as anything but “PEBCAK!”. Easy explanation when you have no clue who the sys admins are (in that case not me) and whom they spoke with for hours on the phone and in person to get things resolved but couldn’t. Sure. Avid is rock-solid and bug-free! Only incompetence can take it down. Well known fact.
Never mind that Avid themselves recommended the move in the end, too, after apparently running out of options. Go figure.
– RK
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[Ronny Courtens] “The projects you describe are relatively simple compared with what they do at RTS, or even what we do on a daily basis. And we don’t see any of the issues you describe. So either you are using a completely different FCP X than the rest of us, or there is something wrong with your setup or your workflows.”
I can only second that whole-heartedly. I work near exclusively in PAL and in fact am currently working on near 30 hrs. of material with all of that even TRIPLED. The original 2K Cineform, optimized, AND proxy. 52 individually edited scenes, all with a minimum of three versions of the edit. And… all that on a 2012 MBP with a TBo RAID. I don’t see any of what Mike describes. Not on any of the many systems I otherwise work on either. Will it slow down every once in a while if it’s been open all day? Sure, sometimes. But a simple restart of FCP will always return it to its full performance. A matter of maybe 20 seconds.
The part I by far get the least is the thing about the AAFs being bad??! I have used X2Pro countless times and have even heard here and there that the audio guy wishes he could ALWAYS get such clean timelines. Something that is in fact mirrored in the article also:
“Our audio people say that, if Roles are applied correctly, the AAF that comes from FCP X via X2Pro is cleaner than any other AAF because all the audio tracks are clearly organized based on the Roles that were applied to them in FCP X.”
Could it be that you’re not familiar with the point (and importance!) of ROLES, Mike? Are you ignoring them altogether? Because that’s the only possible reason I can think of why your AAFs shouldn’t in fact be more than perfect.
– RK
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[Neil Goodman] “Havent had an Avid crash or ISIS hiccup in about a year. FCP X has gone poof on me a few times and PPro is somewhat flakey (audio dropouts mostly) on a few systems ive triedit on.”
Which ironically pretty much makes my point and mirrors our exact experience, yes. Once (if) you got Avid up and running smoothly, you suddenly had all sorts of other issues elsewhere. Flakiness etc. just as you describe. And yes, after many many years of dealing with this, once things were separated everyone suddenly purred right along (e.g. FCP hasn’t crashed in well over a year). But, as I said, it simply wasn’t feasible to park all kinds of hardware off to one side JUST for the Avids, which no one wanted to use anyway when given the choice (in part due to the constant headaches and instabilities… but mostly because they find the interface and handling unintuitive and confusing in comparison. Oh, and because we shoot in 4, 5, and even an occasional 6K.). They were partly older versions, too, since no one dared touch them once they were up. The trusty adage of “If it ain’t broke…” was number one. The other machines, in comparison, were maintained regularly without any issues worth mentioning. Again, YMMV.
– RK
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[Andrew Kimery] “That seems excessively cautious.”
Well, I can only relay what I was told and what I experienced myself. Mind you, they have massive amounts of external hardware as well. So this is not about just installing an app or two. Meaning all kinds of drivers, cards and what not need to work along side as well. That’s where it gets tricky. The biggest issue being that if you installed something for A, B would suddenly not be able to access C or D without a restart, reinstall, whatever. Stuff like that. And Avid was apparently always identified as the culprit, which, again, is why they moved them into their own “safe” space by themselves. WORST part being that Avid was and is always by far the furthest behind as far as “qualifying” their systems for newer OS X versions and/or certain drivers. So again, all other apps suffered while you waited.
All I know is that a huge sigh of relief went through various levels when Avid was taken from the list of requirements. Aside from the fact that none of the students ever used Avid when given the choice. Nor do any of their employers use one, aside from maybe a few scattered installs kept for legacy project reasons.
– RK
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[John Rofrano] “Affinity sure has come up with some very good competition to Photoshop and Illustrator with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer”
+1!
I also have them both, am amazed at the overall performance and glad that I could finally ban both PS and Illu from my machine thanks to them. Whether they reach “critical mass” is fairly irrelevant for me, since the exchange with the “real” apps has been flawless so far. Both in and out. But they aren’t a major part of my core business either, as I would assume is the same for the VAST majority of people in this business.
– RK
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