Ronny Courtens
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Walter, I don’t think it would. That’s why I say this discussion feels useless to me.
– Ronny
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Feels to me like a completely useless and boring thread. The good old times are back (-:
– Ronny
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I agree. I have never done this myself, but since FCP X now handles MXF natively this could work if you want to transfer a rough FCP X edit with only clips on the primary timeline to Avid MC:
1. Put the DnX120 MXF files in a media folder. Import them into FCP X with “Leave Files In Place”. Do your cuts on the Primary Storyline, then export an FCPX XML.
2. Import the XML file in DaVinci Resolve Lite (free application), conform the sequence to the media folder and export the conformed sequence as an AAF file.
3. Import the AAF file in Avid and relink the sequence to the media folder by AMA.
As I said, I have never done this myself. But you don’t need to purchase any extras to do this, so it would be easy to do a test.
– Ronny
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I don’t see any reason for any fusillade. Although I prefer FCP X above anything else for the work we do, what you say is correct. I hope the relisting is successful for Avid.
– Ronny
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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
– Ronny
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Actually with compound clips you can do what you say.
Put your playhead at any point on the CC in the main timeline and double-click the CC to open it in its own timeline. The playhead will be positioned at the same point in the video you were looking at in the main timeline.
Go back to the main timeline, put your playhead at a new point on the CC and double-click the CC to open it in its own timeline. The playhead will be positioned at the same new point in the video you were looking at in the main timeline.
As I use this quite often I have created a keyboard shortcut so I can avoid having to double-click the clip to open it in its own timeline.
There IS one thing I would like to see improved in this:
When you open the CC in its own timeline, you move the playhead in there and then you go back to the main timeline the playhead will still be positioned at point in the video you were looking at when you opened the CC and not at the new point you were looking at in CC’s own timeline. It would be sweet if we could do this as well.
Regarding multicam clips:
As Jeremy said, it would be great if we could do the same with multicam clips. But multicam clips are very different from nested comps. So use the FCP X Feedback to post a request for this feature.
– Ronny
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This can be done fairly easy in Motion 5 using the corner pin tacker, or even right inside FCP X if you have the Slice/X Mocha plugin. I will reply in detail on the other forum where you have posted this question.
– Ronny
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You have a red bar above your clips in the timeline, an issue that some people have experienced when opening older FCP X projects in 10.1.
The question is: why do you think you need to relink any clips? Your screenshot is not really clear, but I don’t seem to see any Missing Media indicators on the clips.
Do the clips on the timeline (and in the Clip Browser) have red warnings saying “Missing Media”?
Or are the clips on the timeline and in the clip browser just blank and you cannot preview any of them in the Viewer?
If it is the latter: select the Library and choose File > Delete Generated Library files to delete all the render files for this Library to see if this restores the clips.
– Ronny
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Both are excellent professional NLEs. There is no “Premiere vs FCP X” just like there is no Avid vs Premiere and so on. We have completely switched to FCP X from FCP7 (16 seats in Brussels and 10 seats in Paris) without any regrets. FCP X is perfectly stable and since 10.1 it works very well in collaborative workflows. As it is now all the major NLEs are viable options for any kind of work.
As a professional you seriously test the different options yourself and then you decide what works best for your particular workflow. You also should test Avid, which is still an industry standard. In the next months we will be setting up a 20-seat FCP X SAN for broadcast work in Denmark, but we will still keep the existing Avid ISIS bays for specific jobs. You might find that one NLE fits you better than another, or you might even find you want to use more than one NLE depending on the job you want to do. That’s entirely up to yourself, what I say or what others say on the internet is irrelevant.
– Ronny
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You will find plenty of FCP X editors in London, if this really is the intention of your post. Drop an e-mail to nick (at) nickwatson (dot) net. He has edited some great documentaries for the BBC using FCP X. He might help you out himself, or he will definitely know someone who can.
– Ronny
