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In article <ZKhcc.46761$se.40009@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>, "nappy"
<nappy@nappy.no.spam.com> wrote:
> Bill
>
> I am working on a show in FCP that has a number of VFX. I am doing the
> compositing in Combustion on a Windows network. How would you go about
> replacing files as they are update when they've been in the FCP timeline?
> With FCP open.
>
> With FCP open I have to first DELETE the file, because FCP locks the
> file and the OS will not allow me to write over it. Funny, though .. you CAN
> delete it!
>
> So I delete the file, drag the new one from Windows (through SAMBA) over
> to the mac folder that had the file in it.
>
> Then I return to FCP and it takes nearly a full 5 minutes before I can
> work again. I have to sit through about 4 "Preparing Video For Display"
> Dialogs. Then I can work again. Needless to say, if you are working on a
> feature with 100 fx shots and going back and forth for tweaks.. this can
> severly slow down your workflow.. Even more when FCP just crashes into
> dust..
>
> There is probably a much faster way to do this?
>
> n
Perhaps. Or not. I don't know because as I've told you time and time
again, I don't do the kind of work you do.
BUT I know lots of folks who do. But there's a problem.
You've posted stuff like this over and over again. Same point of view.
"This is what *I* need." "It's all about ME." "I've decided to use
software X and software Y and they don't flawlessly communicate so the
WORLD is evil and everyone is against me and it MUST be Software B because
I want it to do something that only one ten thousandth of the installed
base will EVER likely want to do and it doesn't do it flawlessly, so I'll
go on a holy jihad and trash it every chance I get.
The sad truth is that there are likely folks out there who are doing
exactly what you seek and have already figured it all out.
At one point months and months ago, I even suggested that I could put you
in touch with some of the major players in LA who would be likely to know
exactly this stuff.
But your attitude has remained as constant as the tides. You bash and bash
and argue and are so consumed at pointing out flaws in any and everything
you write about here - particularly in regards to FCP - that I can't, in
good conciencious, send you to any of my contacts because I'm afraid you'd
annoy them so much that they'd never take another of my calls...
I completely understand frustration. But YOU are the person who's taken on
this attitude. And I'm sorry, but it's NOT an attitude that causes me to
want to spend much of my time trying to put you in touch with those who
work at your level (and far, far above) and who might be able to help you
solve your problems.
--
Bill Davis
NewVideo
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