[VIDEO] BOSCPUG: Phil Hodgetts – LumberJack, Producer’s Best Friend (August 22, 2013)

Philip Hodgetts shows a preview of the now shipping reporting tool Producer’s Best Friend and demos Lumberjack, a web based app for real-time logging reality tv and documentary production. Presented at the Boston Creative Pro User Group on August 22, 2013 at the Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center, Emerson College.

Producer’s Best Friend is a new $99 application from Assisted Editing/Intelligent Assistance that takes FCP X timeline or event data and generates customizable reports in an Excel spreadsheet format.

Producer’s Best Friend creates an Excel spreadsheet report about the video clips, audio clips, markers, keywords, effects and transitions you’ve used in Final Cut Pro X (10.0.6 or later). Producer’s Best Friend reports on Clips in an Event, Compound Clip or Project. It is billed as ‘Editors: Learn how to get home earlier!’ and for the bean counters ‘Producers: Learn how to save your valuable time on production!

To demonstrate the real-time workflow of LumberJack, Philip interviews Daniel Berube about the history of BOSCPUG, using two NEX 7’s (set up ahead of time). At the end of the interview Philip imports the interview into FCP X and quickly creates multiclips and exports the XML to LUMBERJACK. Then he will merge and go back into FCP X logged and with a string out of all the answers, cut between the two cameras. All this live and without a net.

For more info on LumberJack and Producer’s Best Friend, visit:
http://www.assistedediting.com

Filmed at BOSCPUG with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera – Screen capture via Atomos Ninja 2