[Tony Sarafoski]

Just completed a similar project, 7 interviews, each speaking for approximately 30-40min. The aim was to skim through the interviwes, choosing sections that would build the story.

Personally what I do is first create keyword collections in my event. Example Bill Interview, John Interview, Tom Interview, then append Bill, John and Tom’s interviews in a project on the primary storyline. The reason I take this approach is this allows me to skim through these interviews on a ” horizontal timeline” rather than using the small event browser window. I should probably mention all my editing is done on a MBP where the event browser window is somewhat small.

After skimming and blading my in/outs, I’m left with the usable clips which I now need to get into their keyword collection folder. By selecting your first clip, right click and choose find in events browser. That then highlights that clip in the event browser, which you can now drag in the appropriate keyword collection folder, and if metadata is important, you can still add the necessary information to make it searchable.

Follow this step for the remainder of the clips, and there you have it, using FPX in a legacy way 🙂

I’ve never really been a fan of JKL, instead I’ve used the horizontal technique over many editing software and have personally found it much quicker to quickly scrub or skim through long recorded material.

One thing I’d like to add, I so wish it was possible to drag clips from a project back into a keyword collection in the event, this would make life a hell of a lot easier !

[Tony Sarafoski]

Thanks Andy, I’ll give that a shot

[Tony Sarafoski]

Hmm…. this seems to work, I click on the group, Selected group in inspector and ticked the flatten option, then I was able to add a mask to the group.

Am I on the right track?

[Tony Sarafoski]

It doesn’t seem possible to add a mask to that group..?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Interesting….Ok thanks for that Timothy

[Tony Sarafoski]

Timothy, very interesting….

Another question, I’m noticing after you conform speed in Final Cut Pro X, the clip gets a retimed to 83%, does this mean I should select frame blend in Video Quality, or does this not matter?

I’m just worried that the retiming will add a strobe effect to the footage.

[Tony Sarafoski]

Tony trust me CURRENTLY there is absolutely no way you can trick FCP X this way.

The only option you currently have is to transcode ALL media to proxy (via FCPX)

When ready to export a master MOV file, make sure to change in

[Tony Sarafoski]

Reply to Jeff Greenberg: Jeff as per your instructions, I downloaded the AJA speed test and got the following results.

AJA-128MB

AJA-256MB

AJA-512MB

Apple ProRes White Paper chart:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but in order for me to be able to smoothly run with Apple ProRes 422 files, my editing drives need to sustain a data rate of 122 MB/s.

From what I can see my Taurus drive reads & writes at approximately 70-80 MB/s which is under Apples requirements…? From what I can see, even LT only just scrapes through on this drives…!

For the time been (till I find a better solution) I’ve been transcoding the ProRes 422 files as ProRes 422 (Proxy) which are scrubbing beautifully.

Where to now…! what options do I have?

I honestly don’t won’t to be transcoding to proxy every time, and although most would argue that it’s possible to still cut ProRes 422 on my current MBP, personally I’d like to have the smoothness of what I’ve experienced with the proxy files, with the ProRes 422 ones 🙂

[Tony Sarafoski]

Reply to Michael Gissing: I’m not disagreeing with you, personally I like the smoothness when scrubbing ProRes LT. I feel like I’m scrubbing through every frame rather than every 2nd or 3rd frame when working with ProRes 422. Does that make sense…?

Reply to Bret Williams: I download HD Speed Test and ran the Taurus drive through it paces. Outcome below….

Results on a 512M file:

• File size: 512M
• Footage Type: 1080P HDV
• MB/s: 56.3
• fps: 45
• Streams: 2

Results on a 1G file:

• File size: 1G
• Footage Type: 1080P HDV
• MB/s: 58.0
• fps: 55.7
• Streams: 2

I’m guess the above results are fine…? if not can you suggest software I can run and do further tests…?

Reply to Rafael Amador s: I’ve tried that several times. The permissions do return with errors (which I repair) but at this stage I can’t really afford to do a reformat.

To be absolutely honest with you, I’m hoping the specs of this MBP will comply with the up and coming FCP, which is when I plan to do a format and a re-install of all my software.

In the mean time will I benefit in a big way by adding a SmartStor NSx700 tower and connecting via the PCI express slot as eSATA….?

Will this help with the smoothness of scrubbing ProRes 422…?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Joel,

I shoot on a Canon 5DMark II and use the following workflow.

Transfer your .mov files from your cards to a HDD you’ll be editing from. I generally create individual folders for each card eg: CARD 1, CARD 2 etc…. ( of course you then back these folders to another drive for safety 😉

I then use Adobe bridge to “batch” rename all the files in the CARD 1 folder to something like eg: THE CLIENTS NAME – 001, THE CLIENTS NAME – 002 and so on….. I’ve found Adobe Bridge to be the easiest to achieve this.

Once you’ve renamed all my mov files, create a new folder called RUSHES. Then drag all the files from the individual folders to the RUSHES folder. This way all your files will now be situated in one folder.

Then start up FCP and import the RUSHES folder in your browser window. You can do this by right mouse clicking in the browser winder and selecting IMPORT/FOLDER.

I then right mouse click on the RUSHES folder & select MEDIA MANAGER. Under the media tab select RECOMPRESS & then choose the codec you want to recompress too. With my 5D files I usually transcode them to Apple ProRes 422 (LT) 1980×1080 25P.

From here on edit your heart away 😉