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Re: Great media management tool from sequence clip reporter. - 12 years ago
Thanks Phillip, I will give it a go.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Just watched the editshare video. Wow. Seems like the news isn't out though. Allot of companies do strictly go with Avid because of this ability. I don't even know of any post supervisor who knows of the editshare capability. I just worked on an editshare gig and it was setup in the typical FCP way. I stated just a few posts back that FCP needed to come up with something like this and it would beby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Nick; I just did an editshare project and this capability if it is a capability wasn't implemented. I find this interesting. Please report back if you find out more info or any other examples of this being implemented.by ianedit - Café LA
Great media management tool from sequence clip reporter. - 12 years ago
This tool was suggested to me: I haven't used it yet so I cannot vouch but if it does what it claims it seems like a must have for assistants or editors stuck doing AE work.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Anybody used these? - 12 years ago
Phillip; I just went to the sequence clip reporter website!!! Holy SH@T!!!! I haven't used this yet ( obviously ) but if it works like it claims that is beyond amazing. Thanks, I am going to repost an "everyone should know about this" in the forum ...by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Anybody used these? - 12 years ago
Nick: Great ideas!! I don't care if they are work arounds. If they work than it's a work flow.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Anybody used these? - 12 years ago
Jeff: It's different than an EDL because an EDL won't give you totals per tape. I was basically looking for the FCP equivalent to the decompose function in Avid where you break down the sequence with zero handles, sort by tape and highlight the clips from that tape and hit ( Apple I ) and it gives you the total duration of highlighted items. You could print one in as a source list but you stilby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Andy: Did a show at E! last year. E! is using FCP for promos and development but Avid for shows. Most companies do that because promos and development usually run local drives, no need for Unity. It's really all about Unity. FCP's gotta step up to that. That would be a total game changer in a big way. It's not the drives themselves but the ability to have everyone working out of the same projeby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Anybody used these? - 12 years ago
The original post was awhile back and it was about breaking down each clip in your sequence without handles. For instance the real use for me would be doing a documentary for instance for the History Channel with a ton of archival footage with different deals with different archives ie; I can use three minutes of this, four minutes of that etc ... A way to break down your sequence by tape assuminby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Strypes: I agree with all you said above, good points, except Avid does have an open timeline with drastically less rendering and sequences that are not codec specific. Also most Avids have Avid Production Suite ( why this is never mentioned I have no idea, it isn't well advertised. Comparing FCS to Avid was always kind of an unfair comparison but the Production Suite is a more even comparisonby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP in the workplace. - 12 years ago
I think that this post should be retired. The original post was referring to assistant editors. The original point is that when it was all Avid there was a bit of a velvet rope around post and now it's all opened up which is a good thing but also can be a bad thing because allot of unqualified people are getting into the mix so producers need to know the difference between a fanboy and aby ianedit - Café LA
Re: EditShare - 12 years ago
I used it on my last show on FCP. If you render in one room and try to play down the sequence in another and the permissions are not setup properly your sequence will come up as not rendered and if you try to render it you will get a not found error message. It's all about setting up permissions properly and it should be fine.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP in the workplace. - 12 years ago
Oh I got ya now Derek. Although I do dig FCP now my first turn off was the actual simplicity of it. It felt dumbed down. I felt intellectually insulted. The whole drag and drop, click and drag etc way of working seemed the way an animal would edit. It was like I went from Chopin vodka to moonshine. Especially when I am used to rocking out asymetrical trims on 8 channels of audio at once whileby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
LOL even in LA it is not acceptable to call a woman brah, my apologies to Jude. But some of Jude's posts did sound snarky or at least implying that I was full of it. I didn't imagine my last ten years in LA, it actually happened, I was there. Later and good luck with your audition Derek.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Jude; This is the "LA" FCPUG, everyone is a bro or I should say brah. Don't get snarky. You are supposed to be a moderator not an instigator. It is entirely possible that others may know things you don't at least about trends in LA for better or worse. Asking something because you want to learn is cool, questioning the validity of someone's knowledge base with boots on the ground inby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP in the workplace. - 12 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I think what I meant was that because FCP is so > accessible that it isn't a professionals only > > tool. It is a professional tool > > That is pretty much on the mark, I think. Derek: You are right. > When I work with musicians, seeing "keyboardist" > on somebody's resby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP in the workplace. - 12 years ago
I don't think I blamed FCP. I think what I meant was that because FCP is so accessible that it isn't a professionals only tool. It is a professional tool but not a professionals only tool and it's the producer's responsibility to hire the right people. It's a producer issue not a FCP issue.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Ah, the cuts are independent of the keyframes. That's good to know. In Avid they move with the trim unless you set them to fixed. Good to know.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Strypes; A few posts back you said; The applied distance of the keyframes will be relative to the length of the clip (crap this sounds like a math lesson), so you need to blade both the outgoing and incoming clip. Eg. if the length of your text object is 10 frames, and the distance between both effect keyframes on that object lasts all 10 frames (first keyframe at beginning and next keyframby ianedit - Café LA
Anybody used these? - 12 years ago
I posted awhile back and was suggested I use these solutions below for keeping track of used footage. Anybody used these before? Thoughts? Spherico FIlm Tools Video Tool Shed Intelligent Assistanceby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Nested Sequence in Main Project Timeline Won't Open Anymore in Own Timeline (Tab) - 12 years ago
No need for elbow room if you master the trim tools. Just be aware of sync.by ianedit - Café LA
Re: OT: Designing Temporary Workspace for Multiple Editors - 12 years ago
I've worked like this and it's a drag but no job is perfect. It might be a headphone situation because sound will be an issue unless you are soundproofing. Sounds like ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Editors don't like it but sometimes ya just gotta deal. Screening will be tough though in terms of space and not disturbing other editors. Maybe if you are on shared storage you can set up a permanentby ianedit - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
Seriously bro that's a whole other topic different from my original post and I don't want to turn the forum into an Avid vs FCP debate. I'm just an Avid guy that wanted to try to learn some things about FCP I didn't know from others. If you want an answer to your question than email me at ian@ianrichardson.n&by ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Thanks man, it seems like math but it's only because you are explaining it. You know when you are doing it it's just instinctual. It's weird when I try to explain things to assistants that seem so easy when I'm doing it and then I realize it's actually pretty complicated when you break it all down. In terms of layers in a nest I guess I will have to talk to some apple color folks about what is beby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Derek: Also to add to what I just said above I don't always use transition effects "off the shelf drag to cut" style, I try to create transitions that won't be seen in other shows by other editors and I find that using avx plugin effect filters or segment effects as the transitions ( things never meant to be a transition ) placed above the cut straddling as one piece, usually keyfraby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
"You just have to get out of the Avid mindset and learn how to do it in FCP" Absolutely but you don't learn to speak another language overnight and I am trying, hence my post. So I would use the transition and let's say if I wanted to "stack" in FCP and the transition was ten frames then I would effect the tail of the A clip and the head of the B clip for five frames eacby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Derek; Yeah I know how to keyframe filters. When they are on a clip. I am talking about stacking them as transitions over a clip. I am hip to the nesting workaround but as I have discovered in this thread that may cause issues in color. Jeff; Seriously, I am trying to learn here not get into a scuffle. But treating effects as a source clip is the absolute rule in the kinds of shows I wasby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Although, there isn't really a forgivable excuse for not being able to use an effect as an overlay in FCP. I have had these conversations before and I always circle back to the fact that you just can't stack transitions on top of each other. I will learn how to do this kind of work in FCP but this missing feature just kills me every time and it always will no matter how I learn to work in FCP. Iby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Thanks Strypes. Lot's of good advice and seems like a workflow that would work. Haven't done one of these shows on FCP yet but I am printing out this thread to keep for when I do. Personally I and I think allot of editors who cut this kind of stuff are sort of the "single vision theory" okay well "vision" for these kinds of entertainment fluff shows masquerading as documentariby ianedit - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
Strypes; Got it. But then again how do we define rough up? I mean either you go there or you don't in the offline? Correct? Meaning how do you cut the show in a way that will get you through a screening knowing network execs want to see exactly what is going to air in the offline and that the online is simply an uprez and color tweak to legal. I think for allot of broadcast nothing is temp asby ianedit - Café LA
