First, I should state that I am on a trial right now. I am operationg it on Lion 10.7.2 on my imac. So I have a couple questions.
First, does APP actually import material, or just reference the file location?
Now on to the exacts. I can easily find my camera files in the media window, and import them. But, since they only reference the files on the camera, the USB interface makes things quite slow. So, it seems logical to move the files onto my thunderbolt drive for speed. The problem is than the MXF files from the canon XF100 get broken down into 5 minute chunks. So, if I have an hour long interview, I have 12 files to sort through. Since I am deciding between this and AVID, workflow with my camera's files is pretty important. Canon makes a utility for FCPX (which I'm using now) and AVID. That alows the files to be imported from the camera as one clip. But, with FCPX, it actually imports, it doesn't just reference. So, is there a way that I can either have APP bring in the entire clip as one, or atleast combine the clips in my sources to make one file. It is also possible that this is one area that is not fully operative with the trial version. I really like the setup with APP, and the bundle you can get with it. But if it comes down to it not cooperating with my video files, then I may have to stay with FCPX, or try avid (which has major MAC compatibility issues, meaning I probably buty a new PC as well)
Thanks in advance,
Mike Ormerod