QT Change from Video Tool Shed, is a unique but very useful little app that allows you to inject timecode, reel names and other metadata into your files. Save your preset and email it to yourself (or store it in dropbox) for future use and or sharing with other editors/DITs working on your project. This makes identifying it in the finder, or your NLE, much easier and faster. For example, including which camera it was, the shoot day etc. Also a file that’s named more meaningfully – to a human – is of much greater use. With unique file names, reel names and timecode, this isn’t a problem. Why does this matter? Well if you have two 0001.mts files and you move the project and later on want to re-link to those files, you and your NLE won’t know which 0001.mts file to relink to and your timeline will turn to garbled mush. I use Renamer in the second part of my C100 workflow, renaming all my re-wrapped files into something unique, and meaningful. Although I’ve not had time to experiment with these options.
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Very handy.Īnother interesting possibility is the FCPX metadata editing abilities Edit Ready presents, which allow you to set metadata flags for such things as Alpha handling, anamorphic and colour space overrides, deinterlace type and Final Cut Pro X Media Id. One handy feature that I was going to request, until I found it was already there, is the ability to save presets in Edit Ready which is in fact, tucked away under the Batch Menu.
Having only recently upgraded from Clip Wrap, I’m only just getting to grips with all the new workflow possibilities that Edit Ready provides (some of which could be to condense a few of the following tools into this one app – such as renaming and timecode injection, although the other apps still potentially do this better, I believe).
Edit Ready costs $49.99, if you’re a Clip Wrap user you should enquire about the cheaper cross-grade price of $29.95.
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If you want to give Edit Ready a try for yourself, you can download a trial version which is limited to the first minute of any clip. You can find more details about this and all the other features in their online manual. You can even add 3DL and Cube LUTS to your footage, the extra work of which does of course slow the transcoding process a bit, to create one-light dailies or deliverables. One of the things that makes Edit Ready so fast is that it’s been rebuilt from the ground up (Clip Wrap was originally released nearly seven years ago) to take advantage of GPU processing and to handle more modern codecs like AVCHD, Pro Res, DNxHD and ubiquitous container formats such as MXF, M2T (HDV), MTS (AVCHD). Previously one of the great benefits of Clip Wrap was that you could rewrap your footage, changing the container format without transcoding the contents in a jiffy – a much faster process than transforming your footage from one codec into another.
Edit Ready is Clip Wrap (that amusing moustachioed friend), all grown up and loaded with more features. Edit Ready 1.2Įdit Ready, from Divergent Media, is an extremely fast and effective transcoding tool that gets your footage ‘edit ready’ within a few clicks.
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But, as so often in life, you get what you pay for and so for professional results, you often need to use a professional tool.
With many of these apps, there are many other ways – often free ways – of achieving the same results. I hope you’ll find that some of these apps could save you a lot of time, energy and effort when put to work in your edit suite. That said, I’ll still continue to use specific apps for specific parts of the workflow as they tend to do that one thing, very, very well. In the process I’ve even come to discover that apps I was using by default may no longer be needed, as some of the same functionality is now found in Edit Ready. In writing this post I was seeking to share some apps that I make use of on a regular basis and a little of the workflow in how I do. Essential Apps Every Film Editor Should OwnĮvery now and then it’s helpful to reconsider your workflow and see if there’s a better way of doing things.
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