[T. Payton]

[Andy Branner] “that is the stabilization compensation.”

I downloaded the full res version and yes that is the issue. Just look through it frame by frame and you’ll see the issue. Notice here:

And then look what happens as the stabilization tries to compensate between two frames.

The iPhone can do some great stuff. But a handheld shot like this without enough light isn’t one of them.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

An excellent reminder about preservation, especial in light of this article also https://library.creativecow.net/weissman_ken/library_of_congress/1

Coincidently, after reading that above article yesterday. I was speaking with my sons (7 to 17) about the fact that most likely in their generation many of the photos and videos from this digital media boom, will be gone. This summer I gave a lecture on photography to some students and urged them to get prints of the photos they take on their phones, and post on Instagram, Facebook, etc. Because those social media services, as well as their phones will soon be gone, erasing those memories forever.

Unlike my own childhood which was captured on 35mm slides, prints, and 8mm film, the “home movies” of my family were only created and shared in digital form and most of those were saved on formats that are long since extinct. For example on Retrospect archives on DAT tapes with SCSI interface. I had better move quickly to copy those to something that is hopefully longer lasting. It makes me hope that DVDs and BluRay survives a bit longer.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I agree, editing in CC is not a good idea unless it is a really simple edit. Anything that is going to add extra data to the event database I would try to avoid.

From what I have seen Compound Clips do not appear to be the container for timelines in iMovie 2013. Timelines have their own database, contained within an Event structure rather than in a project structure. Very smart on Apple’s part.

Here is an example the event is called “stock” and you can see the two timelines I made. I named the timelines clearly so you could see the difference.

Also iMovie database files appear to be much more efficient. I recreated a few events from FCP, and they are about half the size in iMovie.

There are good things to come.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I post to YouTube all the time using the built in share. Works great, and has a high quality option just like Vimeo.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Actually you have always been able to share from an event, at least since 10.0.2 which is when I made this tutorial:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/payton_t/FCPX_Custom-Resolution-Timelines/video-tutorial

Man I need to update that tutorial. Works a bit different in 10.0.6 and on. I’m hoping that workaround won’t be needed after December.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[Andy Branner] “Well, if you want to nitpick, no, it isn’t. 😉 “

Good point. 😉

Hence I use both Backup for FCP as well as Carbon Copy Cloner. Backup for FCP can grow pretty large and therefore I have to limit it to about 100 backups, so I have it only backup my Event and Project files. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything.

I really want to use Time Machine for it would truly be the best solution, but I can’t seem to find a drive big enough that is reasonable in cost to deal with all the data.

Also consider look at Digital Rebellion’s Pro Versioner.

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/proversioner/

BTW as a bit of an aside, but related, I just saw this from Alex4d about some items hidden in iMovie 2013, which is pretty clearly “Final Cut Pro express”. It mentions “snapshots” which might just be a built in incremental backup.

https://alex4d.com/notes/item/imovie-2013-is-consumer-ui-on-fcpx

I’m also hoping that since the article mentions Libraries for FCP 10.1,it will also follow Aperture’s “Vaults” for databases and managed media to be backed up to another location:

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to perform a scheduled backup each night all my sparse disk images. It can apparently “see” inside a sparse bundle and just copies the changes.

This isn’t an incremental backup per say, but a great backup solution none the less.

Also the The Backups for Final Cut Pro on the Mac App Store is an excellent solution.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[Andy Branner] “There is a dead give-away”

Do you mean the removal of the projects button?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Touché!

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I’m also very happy with FCPX at our shop.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque