[T. Payton]

I used Screenflow. You can get it on the Mac App Store. But if you mean that high quality audio that is a genuine Logitec Web Cam from Staples. 😉

– T.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I’d take a bullet for my wife too.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I’m preaching to myself.

I was up till midnight playing with the crazy thing. Then got up and before I even got in the shower and I was checking the Cow forums on my iPhone! I’m out of control!

I did my due diligence. I tried to give a gracious and constructive feedback to Apple via their form. I clicked one star “I hate it” on the Mac App Store. My voice has been heard.

I’m taking tomorrow off, going to see Cars 2 with my boys. There is more to this life than the state of a video editing app. I didn’t marry Apple. I married my wife. I wouldn’t take a bullet for FCP but would for my sons.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

This is just a glitch on the Mac App Store. See this thread:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/4151

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Well there is now one more 1 star rating of “I hate it” for FCP X. Mine.

I’m usually not one to poorly rate apps on any of the Apps Stores, I instead try to contact the developer. But this goes well beyond just the lack of features. The thing really doesn’t work. I’ve been trying to edit a 12 minute project for the past hour. FCPX has logged me out 3 times. Ouch! I’m really amazed that the trainers have been able to use the app to create their training. It’s very sad. I feel like I just got punched in the stomach as my beloved editing system has now been discarded by it’s very maker.

– T.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

For what it is worth, looks like there is just a bug in the Mac App Store. I’m in the US and if you search for the app, you’ll see all the review on the first page, but hitting “next” or any subsequent page of reviews appears to cause some kind of error and displays none of the reviews.

I click around on the review page numbers and seemingly randomly they will appear.

Looks like a bug. And a very ironic one at that.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Great discussion.

I thought the new iMovie (8 and up) was junk too… until I started using it. It’s a completely different animal than the current NLE timeline, it is made for editorial work. It lets you get your story organized and cut quickly. Last summer our shop actually starting offlineing with iMovie and then exporting to FCP for online and I can’t imagine going back. We’re arriving at a rough cut in less time by a factor of 2 times, if not more. (We mainly do corporate, somewhat complex interview driven pieces, with the typical B-roll, and occasional still).

I think what we saw last night was an introduction to the new way to edit. Now that tape based systems are only a memory, the new FCP is forging ahead and developing a better way to edit without the shackles of “linear” based editing.

Concerning the “advanced features” of FCP. I’ve got to believe they are all in there. I do hope that Color and Soundtrack Pro are just another “room” inside FCP X, as it is silly to have to roundtrip on every single project (at least that is how it is in our workflow).

BTW. If you want to mess with iMovie I strongly recommend watching some training, because it is a different way of working. The stuff on Lynda.com is excellent.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I just reread your original post and I am wondering why you need to reference the TC in the audio file, rather than relying on the TC in the fcp sequence? Is this an audio only documentry?

By the way, we actually use iMovie for our offline editing and rough cuts for short form documentaries that are interview driven (usually less than 20 minutes). Because it lets you organize your cuts visually and reorder shots effortlessly you can concentrate on story and flow rather than the technical aspects of editing. Plus the markers in iMovie are fantastic and actually useful when editing unlike the markers in fcp. It is just amazing for rough cuts and we can edit in less than half the time it takes in fcp. Plus it can do the do moves on stills wonderfully. Our basic workflow is in fcp to export self contained prores files of each of our interviews with synced audio. Then transcode those to a low rez h264 with burned in time code in compressor for imovie, keeping the same file name as the prores files. We have our movie slate notes with time code for reference while editing. We export the rough cuts from imovie to youtube or mobile me in one step. Then after getting approval on our rough cut, we export an XML from iMovie, import to fcp and reconnect to the prores versions and then finalize the edit. (additional audio added in iMovie doesn’t get included in the XML for some reason, but it is quick to rebuild)

As you can tell, I really like iMovie. 😉

Anyway I hope this is helpful to you. Please let me know if I can be of any further help.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

In my experience the broadcast Wave format will always have a time code. The reason you are not seeing it all the time is that some apps ignore the time code that is embedded in the audio filek while FCP of course pays attention to it.

I don’t believe there is an option to turn off the time-of-day time code on the h4n. However, I’m not sure you really need to. (more on that in a second).

A little bit more about our workflow. We capture dual system sound and use plural eyes to sync the audio to picture (our dslr captures a scratch audio track using the built in mics for sync), along with our shot notes, also using time of day tc, are entered into the excellent iPad app, “Movie Slate”. We import the footage into fcp using the canon eos capture plugin which adds time of day time code to the individual takes. For this reason the time of day time code is envaluable to ensure that we are pulling the correct elements for syncing.

However if you don’t want to transcode to aiff like in my earlier post, and want to ignore the time code you can always just drag the audio file to a new fcp sequence and then use the sequence time code for reference.

Let me know if this helps.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Actually we record with the h4v using time of day time code, but then again our entire workflow is based on time of day so it works for us.

However removing the time of day is simple. Just drag your WAV files into compressor and transcode to Aiff format. Probably 48k 16 or 8 bit. Just pick the aiff preset that matches what you captured. Your new aiff files won\’t have the embedded time code track.

Enjoy!

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque