• Preparing in backLogger

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  Sign in to Lumberjack System in backLogger's web interface.

  Note: The computer running backLogger must have an active Internet connection.

   

  Click 'Open Media Folder' and select either:

  • a folder of compatible media, or
  • a Final Cut Pro X Event XML.

   

  The media files will populate the list below the player.

   

  Select a media file and click play.

   

  Log the file by setting Keyword Ranges while the media file is playing.

   

  New for Version 2.0: You can pause, rewind, fast forward or scrub the media file and the Keyword Range will match the logged times.

   

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• Controlling Playback

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  Once you have a clip selected in the player for backLogger you can control it using the keyboard, or by dragging the scrubber bar.

   

  • The spacebar plays and pauses playback.
  • The right and left arrow keys step frame-by-frame through the video.
  • JKL Navigation:
    • The J key rewinds. You can press it multiple times to cycle through rewind speeds.
    • The K key stops playback.
    • The L key fast-forwards. You can press it multiple times to cycle through fast-forward speeds.

• Using backLogger with Multicam Clip footage.

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  Logging existing Multcam Clip footage requires a slightly different workflow.

   

  The Lumberyard application applies logs to Multicam Clip footage using the media time of the first angle in the Multicam Clip.

   

  Locate the media file for the first angle - either by opening the file directly in backLogger, or by exporting an XML from your Final Cut Pro X Event - and select that file in the backLogger interface.

   

  Log this media file as normal in backLogger. Continue to log the first angle from other Multicam Clips before finalizing the process, as below.

• After Logging

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  (If you've logged a folder of clips)

  Import the media to Final Cut Pro X, and export an XML file to Lumberyard in the normal manner.

   

  (If you've logged an existing Final Cut Pro X Event XML)

  Open the Event XML you used for backLogger into Lumberyard and export the Logged Event to Final Cut Pro X.

• Using backLogger with R3D footage

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  backLogger uses an AVFoundation player that does not natively support Red Digital Cinema R3D files. However there is a way to use backLogger with R3D files:

   

  1. Import your R3D files either into a Library or into an external storage location (do not choose "Leave files in place” when importing or backLogger won’t be able to find the proxy files)
     
     
  2. Inside Final Cut Pro X choose File > Transcode Media… and generate Proxy files
     
     
  3. Once transcoding has finished, export .fcpxml for the R3D files
     
     
  4. Import the .fcpxml into backLogger, and it will process the XML file to find both the .r3d files and the generated proxy files.
     The file list will have (Proxy) after the names of files where matching proxy media was found.

   

  When you select a file for logging the backLogger media player loads the proxy, but uses the creation date timestamp from the R3D files, to create the logged keyword ranges.

   

  There’s actually no information about proxy files in the XML, but if the originals and the proxies are stored in the same library or capture folder then their relative file paths can be determined. This is why “Leave files in place” doesn’t work.

   

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