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[Steve Pankow] “”When did editors become jack of all trades and stop being editors.””
a long time ago…
I remember editing in the late 70’s on 2 inch quad tape, we were then expected to technically line up the machine ( in those days editors were engineers), often record, edit ( simple editing was a “machine to machine” dub), audio mix (originally lifting the audio off to 1/4 and back) then add/fix graphics, and finally transmit the show.
It was usual for no one else to “touch” the programme between record and transmission.
Time-code editing then arrived with edit suites with 3 vtr machines or more, costing many hundreds of thousands of pounds.
As we moved from 2′ to 1″ to beta with many more digital devices, vision switchers, audio mixers, DVE’s came out, all of which we were expected to be able to”drive” at some level.
Non-linear then arrived with many of the editors “tools” in one box, firstly at non-broadcast then broadcast resolutions.
Decades ago at least we could learn and update or knowledge a little at a time as new devices/ techniques appeared, not just be thrown in at the deep end and be expected to know “everything” at day one.
Editing is editing at any level, you know what you or the director wants, then you use the tools available to tell the story.
Steve
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When you consolidate a sequence you are asked whether you want the new files to link to your current sequence ( the present clips are then given a .old) or to to stay linked to your present clips ( the new clips are given a .new) what did you do?
It is usual to get a new sequence after the consolidate with the newly created clips linked to your new sequence.
Does any of the above apply?
Steve
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The .01 update broke the import go my cameras H624 files (POV.HD) which was fine with V10
It crashed very time it saw one of these files.
After escalating a bug via support to the engineers .02 fcX now reads and plays these files again.
So they have changes the way some .mov files are handled. ( this “fix” was not documented.)
Now they need to stop Motion from crashing when it sees these files 😉
(I suspect this has similar problem, are the two apps developed by a completely different team in isolation?)Steve
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also if you have sapphire there is a swish-pan transition.
Also in Boris, but I find that needs more of a “tweak” to look as good.
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It can take a little time to update the audio detail in the timeline with all audio tracks viewed.
If there is just one track you need to view ( voice over for instance) there is a small arrow at the top left of the time line just to the right of the time code window and the track selectors.
If you click on this an extra audio column opens ( in MC5 and 6) where you can enable the audio data view just for selected tracks, you can also mute/solo and add RTAS here.
Steve
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As every one knows your media should be stored on an external drive,not on the system drive.
My timecapsule doesn’t back up my esata raid where my events and projects are stored for fcX only my system drive.
Why can’t the project be kept separate from the media?
You need to set top a separate event backup ( remember media is stored inside the event too!)
Steve
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Thanks for your quick reply,
just what I thought, looks as if AVID wins again 😉
Steve
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I have not traced the problem, ( I did report this to MOTU, but have had no response.) but I find that a sequence from fcp7 plays fine on SnowLeopard, but the same sequence when played on Lion gives the audio out of sync by a few frames.
This is monitoring with a Motu V4HD via an SDI deck.
The audio delay settings seem to do nothing both in FCP and the MOTU.
Steve
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I agree with Neil, I’m a broadcast editor here in London editing for most the major networks.
I should say that 95% of my work in on avid.
My clients on FCP are sticking with FCP7 at present. (One large broadcaster with both FCP7 and AVID had moved some productions back to AVID even before the FCPX release)
I do have FCP7 on my laptop which I do use on OB’s via a MOTU interface box, but now have AVID and Premier there too.
As soon as I sort out my workflow, I properly shall be moving to AVID there also.I have never seen Premier used.
Steve
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After escalating the problem to apple engineers, that importing H624 files from my VIO pod.hd ( file import not camera) caused FCP 10.0.1 to crash every time ( this did not happen with 10.0.0)
it appears that this bug has also been fixed in V 10.0.2.
The files now import fine can be used natively or converted to prores with in applicationSteve