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10 little things I don’t like
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“I can’t even think of all the times during a typical edit session when I refer to the numbers, but I can tell you that when their not right in front me I miss them greatly.”
Amen to that.
Herb Sevush
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[walter biscardi] “Why do you need to know your source TC when it’s in the timeline? I can’t think of ever needing to know that while playing a clip in the timline.”
For example:
The Deva recorder on the feature I’m working on delivers audio to me as individual files for each mic in each take. Our sound recordist is using anywhere from 2 to 8 mics, so I get anywhere from 2 to 8 files per take. Each file has matching TC. I synch picture & one audio file to the clapper slate (hey, it ain’t state of the art, but it works!), the copy & paste the TC from the in on that file to all the other audio files for that take & drag each file down to the timeline. Checking the TC for the source clip tells me if I dragged one or more files to the wrong spot (which happens a couple of times a day).
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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I’m still a newbie with FCP, however, I’m am surprised no one mentioned having the ability to monitor audio while digitising – it freaks me out not being able to hear what i’m recording. The mac can show me what I’m recording, I would think it is an easy thing to handle audio (even just the meters).
You get audio-preview though your mac or capture-card (what ever you prefer). This depends on your setup.
Oh, and could we get a WYSIWYG text tool? Avid’s Type Tool is pretty bad, but it is better than this.
Boris Title 3D does an “ok” jobb here, but hopefully FCP 6 will introduce similar tools we find in Motion for text.
That said, I do like the way you can adjust audio levels while playing a clip.
This again can be done now as well with the audio-mixing-level-meters set to record.
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[pol_de_mol] “2. Why can’t I swap edit 2 clips or more at once?”
I used to hate this too. But because I hated (and still do) unnecessary mousing, I started to use the keyboard for this, and ended up using these keyboard macros all the time:
Swap edit for one clip: Park on the clip, x to mark it (or select with mouse), shift-x (ie lift, or “move to clipboard”), up- or down-arrow to new insert point, shift-v (insert clipboard).
Similarly for more than one clip, either select the contiguous clips with the mouse or mark in and out, then shift-x and shift-v as above.
After a while it’s very fast. The only dang downside is having to deselect the pasted clips afterwards …
HTH,
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snapping on (n)
hold the option key and then drag the clip you want to move. You’ll see the cursor changes and when you snap to the new position it insert edit to the new position and removes it from the original position.
When you do this with 2 or more continous clips it creates a gab at the orignal psition (don’t know why??) which you then quickly close by control clicking on the gab and choose ‘close gab’ -
Thanks Erik,
I’ll have to investigate the setups of the 2 facilities where I’ve noted the lack of audio monitoring during capture.I’ve had a quick look at Boris, however, the first thing I looked for was the ability to type text over the picture (as in Avid’s Title Tool), and I didn’t find anyway to do this. Perhaps I just need to RTFM.
Ben Broad.
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Jeremy,
Can you hear audio through your Mac while digitising, or through external monitoring?Ben Broad
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[Ben Broad] “I’m still a newbie with FCP, however, I’m am surprised no one mentioned having the ability to monitor audio while digitising – it freaks me out not being able to hear what i’m recording. The mac can show me what I’m recording, I would think it is an easy thing to handle audio (even just the meters).”
In the Log and Capture window, hit “Preview” under the Audio selection switch. You always have been able to preview audio with FCP and capture cards, with FCP 5 they added the ability to do this within the app.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[David Roth Weiss] “and if, like me, you come from a film background or a linear tape background where these numbers are always right there in front of you, you become quite used to referencing those numbers all the time,”
Well, I do come from a Grass Valley / CMX / Accom Axial linear background, but quite honestly, when I made the switch to NLE’s, an EDL is the last thing I want to see or reference.
If I want to refer to a specific source TC in the timeline I can simply bring the clip into the Viewer, type in the TC and hit “F” to match frame that shot in the timeline. But it’s so rare I even do that I really don’t think about it much. Probably do that more on Docs when the producer will mention a specific TC in a source shot they want to trim.
Definitely different strokes for different folks. Thanks for the explanation!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I don’t hear it through my mac speakers, but I could if I wanted to by modifying the capture preset. I have a capture card, so I monitor that, or I could monitor the deck from which I am capturing from. I usually monitor the capture card to make sure it’s getting into the system properly. This is all routed through a Mackie mixer to powered studio monitors.
Jeremy
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