Tony West
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Catalyst Browse has been a crash fest also lately aside from imports to X.
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I don’t know about others, but it’s been beachball city since I did that update in FCP X.
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“But an FCPX mixer? Don’t hold your breath” I remember when people thought they weren’t going to add Multicam and curves also
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I joking call it that when you are zoomed so far down you are looking at one frame until you skim. I just like to see more because I can in X. I see him pointing at his neck and I know that’s the section where he’s talking about the Owl’s vertebra. I don’t have to skim and look for it, I can see it right there and go to it faster. I guess I’m impatient
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Thanks Oliver, I actually asked him directly on the Youtube page and he gave me a very thoughtful response. I’ve come around a bit on it because even pushing all the way down to a single frame in X it still retains the data of favorites and used in timeline (which I use all the time). He’s kind of pushing for a combination for both. X could add the freeform and Avid could add the used and favorite data. It could look like this…….
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I’m guessing it’s pretty common to work that way in MC because there is no filmstrip mode in the program or in Pr either. While it has those 3 view options, none of them are showing me what I really want to see most. That video made me wonder how many people are using “Stamp mode” in X for their clips and not taking advantage of the visual information that X offers. I’m all for Apple adding thing to make my edit more efficient, but adding the ability to push “stamp frames” around a bin when X doesn’t even really have “bins” seems a waste. Work on that mixer instead : )
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I like his list and his videos. The only one I’m not sure about is 11. He looks to be grouping clips in a bin in Avid but X is designed to group clips by keywords so I wonder why he wouldn’t just tag them and group them that way instead of wanting to move the clips themselves around. I also wonder if he uses the filmstrip mode in X instead of the single frame poster stamp look that other NLEs use. I can see more in the X filmstrip mode, for example I can see where she turns that bird toward the camera. As opposed to the Stamp look. I see this as more of an advantage than a shortcoming.
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I’m running RX8 also and no problems here with the FCP X plugins.
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Thanks for the heads up on that. I’m finally on my new Mac Pro and running Cat. Still learning my way around. That’s a nice feature.
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Here is another part of that same post that seems very relevant………..
“If you open the card in Sony’s Catalyst Browse software and then export the clips as MXF’s – which is basically a passthrough and all this is effectively doing is rebuilding the Metadata – the material loads into FCP X perfectly.”
If this works like he says it’s easy to still get your work done while they figure it out.
It’s funny, this is the only way I deal with my SONY footage in X anyway. I never import directly from the camera. I always use Catalyst to organize my footage in the finder, then from labeled organized folders I drag that into X and let it tag everything.
