Tumble, coil & fumble
"I am Frank and these are my thoughts."
Frank Jonen is a VFX freelance sup, experience designer,
photographer and writer / director.
A multi-hypenate of non-fixed career.
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Philip Hodgetts’ book on Meta Data in Final Cut Pro X has a great quote: “Meta Data Gets You Home Earlier”. From someone who works in a meta data heavy environment that rung true on so many levels.
What’s good metadata? Something we discuss almost daily internally. For us good meta data means: Position, Name, Location and Wardrobe of Character X in frame Y, from editing through final output. Metadata here isn’t used to find a clip. Every Mac comes with spotlight and even on Windows you have basic search. Meta data is used to find events and items.
With FCP X even at version 1.0 that becomes almost trivial now for anybody.
Here’s a thought example:
Give me all shots where a score from Vangelis is used against a sound effect in the category “Aircraft” from BBC sound library.
This answers your producer going:
“That chopper-ish sound in that scene where you had that faux icy piano music… can you make that deeper?”
So even at the edit stage it’s extremely useful.
How long did that take in the past, how long does it take now? So yeah I’m a teensy bit excited :)
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