Walter,
Yup - thanks for adding to the list of more issues we all have to deal with, still frames and freeze frames.
Yup, again - I do the labeling with color thing in FCP. Is it helpful? Yes. How about doing a Find All based on frame size, then they all get automatically selected and the Cut and Paste becomes stupid simple? Or how about doing a Find on all clips with the 3WCC?
Unlike you Walter, I rarely see a project from start to finish. I'm always picking up at the tail end of other projects (which is 80% of my business - by design) and you'd be amazed at the ways people work. This week all I wanted to do was replace a Tint filter that the client used to go B&W (which Color *doesn't* recognize) and replace it with a 3WCC that does the same thing (which Color *does* see). No go. FCP mangled the XML roundtrip sufficiently that a trip into BBEdit to do a simple Find & Replace in the XML did more damage than good.
This type of stuff happens ALL the time...
And it doesn't have to be. Yet I cut Color tons 'o slack because I've built a business just on that app and it's fantastic. But I have to endure a serious amount of pain to make it work.
After 2 years (actually, 3 years if you include the Final Touch year) I expect the doctor will have found a prescription for this pain. If not... like I said, my head will start swiveling looking for a new team of physicians.
- pi
Patrick Inhofer
Finisher-in-Chief
Fini, nyc
