[Tony West]

I got you. The files from the F3 look like this of the camera

So that could be the what’s up

[Tony West]

[Jeremy Garchow] “You may have to uninstall the Sony PDKZ-LT2 plugin.”

Thanks Jeremy but I’m not finding that plugin.

Is that what you did to get yours going?

I’m also puzzled. The files off the F3 don’t seem to be .MXF files anyway.

[Tony West]

[John Rofrano] ” I’m thrilled because I collaborate with shooters that have cameras like the Sony EX3 and now I can import their MXF files natively.”

John have you tried this yet with the new update.

I have tried it with a EX1R and an F3, and couldn’t import either one natively. I just get a green screen. I also down loaded the Pro format app 2.0 and no go.

Am I missing another step?

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] “It’s either Favorite or Rejected, not 1-5 or similar. I realize you could do that manually or with a Smart Collection”

Kind of picking up on what Bill was saying about X fitting how different editors want to use it.

I personally almost never use rejected for two reasons. One, I may want access to that section later, and two, because I don’t really see a need to after I make my range favorites, I switch to list view and I’m only looking at what I want anyway.

As I’m logging an interview I make my range favorite and type in a note of the subject. Depending on how much I like the take is how many exclamation points I put behind the note.

That way when I’m looking in list view those E points jump out.

That’s my own rating system.

He did a nice job with that demo btw

[Tony West]

Have you been successful exporting other projects before this one?

[Tony West]

[Justin Crowell] “what I’m delivered is what I’m delivered.
“

I totally get that, and I’m often in the same boat. I just find that when I’m delivered something from a higher budget the sound is very good and what I’m having to do with it is limited. That’s why we hired the best person in the market to do audio. Its when they cut back and tell the shooter to go out one man band style and they are out there just trying to do the best they can when there are problems.

Every situation is different. I do more live television than anything and time becomes a factor. Somebody runs into a locker room and shoots an interview that needs to be turned around and on the air in minutes.
Do I not do anything with the audio because I don’t have time to get into RX or fix it the best I can for the time I’m allowed?
I would teach students both. At lest I’m glad I can do both, because sometimes I have to.

[Tony West]

[Justin Crowell] ” being generally unuseable”

I don’t know where you are getting that. It’s not unusable at all.

First of all, when you are working with a top end crew you are not dealing with horrible audio anyway.
You have a good sound man that tells you when the sound is clear. The director is standing there with an fib off the mixer listing himself and if I’m shooing I’m also listing.

That’s 3 people hearing the sound in the field. On the kind of jobs I do all you are doing is tweaking at best.

If I were to post 10 sound samples, some I did in RX 4 and some in X are you telling me you could pick all 10 out?

I don’t believe you could.

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] “Remember that if you’ve never dealt with editing software before or even something like After Effects, then all software looks completely daunting at the start.”

To a certain extent.

A client was watching me cut on X one day.

A few days later he showed up with his laptop and had bought PrP (he is a pc guy)
He had no experience editing at all and is close to retirement in a totally different field. He said he want to make some home videos as a hobby.

He opened up PrP and had this look on his face

Totally lost.

I told him that program may be a little much for his needs and it was going to take him some time to learn it. He closed it up and I don’t has opened it since.

I can’t be for sure, but I think looking at X he thought, that looks like fun and I want to try it.

Oh well.

[Tony West]

[Justin Crowell] “And I think Oliver’s point was that the noise removal in FCP X may be easy to teach”

But he didn’t say it was easy to teach

[Justin Crowell] “because of how weak it is..”

but it isn’t all that weak either

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] ” Probably 50% of the class would be faster on one and 50% on the other”

I find that interesting given the knock on X when it first came out was that it was “toy looking”

To me that translates into easy Toy looking

But according to you it’s more complicated looking to half the people as the AVID UI

I can’t imagine someone being confused by the X UI but not confused by AVID

I just can’t wrap my head around that.