[Simon Morice]

This thread reminds me how often we’ve been here before. Whether it was the shift from film to video, or the move to digital that has all but erased the role of the assistant. I started on 16 and 35mm film back when syncing rushes, logging and managing trim bins was half the job. We’ve lost something, (some brilliant visualisers who thrived without WYSIWYG), but we gained a lot in speed, flexibility and access.

AI may push us to rethink the steps of editing once again. Can it do some grunt work – surfacing quotes that match narrative beats, sorting transcripts by emotion or theme? If so then maybe the editor’s focus shifts back to where it’s most useful: meaning, not mechanics.

AI is reiterative and not inventive. It won’t replace great storytelling. But it might clear clutter around it. And much like NLEs did, it could open the craft even further. YouTube already shows us how accessible video has become.

Not an end. A reframe. You are the artist – AI is the brush.

[Simon Morice]

Thanks for your thoughts, Mads. I had a look at the specs of my laptop – an M2 Macbook Pro. I was interested to discover that you are right about power usage. The difference in energy consumption between black-on-white and white-on-black is between 10% and 20% – according to Bard. But I’d like the choice since I can bring or generate sufficient energy with me to the great outdoors.

There are more than 800 Sailing Channels on YouTube and most upload weekly. A conservative average length of video is perhaps ten minutes. This means around 134 hours of content are uploaded each week from just one outdoor-oriented niche. There are many more. A lot of creators are potentially impacted by white-on-black legibility. I suggest that for users of Lumafusion on an iPad then there really should be a black-on-white UI option for at least the story editing part of the workflow.

Since the 90s, various technologies have arguably liberated cutting room equipment from the 18% grey walls and dim lighting of city basements all the way down to our pockets – for many projects.

I appreciate that this is not the case for the sausage factory productions of broadcast and streamers, but they are slowly and inevitably becoming a minority – really, they are.

Anyway, sitting here in the cockpit of my sailing home on a sunny September day I am having no trouble writing but will have to go below as I learn the sinful art and sullen craft of using Premiere.

[Simon Morice]

Trint.com is an AI-powered transcription service with useful capabilities. Amongst other things, you can do paper edits and string outs. I believe it will emit an xml you can load into several edit apps.

[Simon Morice]

Well now, the problem has just gone away.

I could not import yesterday in London despite having Larry J hovering over a beer after his seminar. Someone else at the seminar connected up my LaCie and ingested without a problem. We both have Intel MacBook Pros. My machine continued not to cooperate.

Got back to Southampton prepared to pull the house’s foundations up with my teeth if neccessary. As soon as I connected up my RAID FCP inhaled the P2 data without a murmur. At least that will be good for the dental bills.

I am pleased but perplexed. When I have time I’ll see if I can recreate the problem.

Thanks for all your help.

[Simon Morice]

This is P2 footage copied straight from the card to an external HD not Quuicktime. There is a Contents folder with all the data in as well as a lastclip.txt file in the card folder. It plays fine in the P2 equivalent of a clip browser.

I’m now quite depressed at the thought of an entire reinstall. Everything else in Final Cut is at the latest version and is working perfectly. P2 is the only thing that won’t work.

Judging by the posts to this site there do seem to be a number of people having issues with P2.

[Simon Morice]

Thanks Shane and I’ll pass on your greeting.

Still dumbfounded.

At the show today I was told by somebody from an Apple Solutions house that drag and drop works because FCP can work out what is needed – all part of the seven billion and eleventy three different ways Apple give us to do things. Although in this case it seems not to do anything more helpful than put FCP into a loop from which there is no graceful exit.

The message about the translation document (XML stuff?) apparently means that the codec was not properly installed. So I reninstalled it.

In fact I have reinstalled all the various P2 driver doodads I could find and have also removed the Sony SxS card driver which apparently cannot coexist (https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/193/874346) with P2 (funny that!).

After all of this Log and Transfer still fails to work.

From all the vids I have seen import should be a very simple process yet something is preventing it.

Log and Transfer continues to work fine with XDCAM yet nothing is visible for P2 data.

I thought it might be good to reinstall Quicktime (not from update but from a full download so I can roll it back if needs be) and to top off my tale of woe, from my current location in London the Apple site keeps timing out. London isn’t the same since Boris became mayor.

I am soooooo relaxed about this!

Is there a set of instructions which describe the precise requirements for what should be there and what must be removed?

There must be some conflict somewhere to give me this degree of clusterlovliness.

Regards

S

[Simon Morice]

I too am having similar problems with P2 data. I tried the FX Factory install but that doesn’t seem to have sorted things. It also won’t allow you to uninstall – I am guessing until you’ve started the trrial or bought a license.

I spoke to Panasonic at the Broadcast Expo in London yesterday as well as to some Apple people.

I tried drag and drop from Finder to the top left FC window and got a dialogue box ‘Please choose a translation document file’ which when you hit OK opens a Finder box. But which file? I then had to force FCP to close as it got into a bit of a loop looking for the translation file.

I also can’t find Panasonic P2 under the Import menu. My FCP is up to date as is Quicktime.

Tomorrow I am at a training seminar given by Larry Jordan. Guess what I’ll be asking him???