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[Jeremy Garchow] “Now you can select many clips, hit the hot keys and it rolls all the clips.
“You can select multiple clips and top/tail only. You still can’t trim multiple clips at once, you can’t select multiple clips with the keyboard, you can’t slip/slide with the keyboard without first selecting a clip with the mouse, there’s still no asymmetrical trim. It’s a very small step in the right direction and I’m glad we have it, but FCPXs trim tools are still pretty abysmal. Especially if you compare them to Avid or Premiere.
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[Michael Hancock] “you can’t slip/slide with the keyboard without first selecting a clip with the mouse,”
That’s doable now, just need to map it to the KB
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[David Powell] “Like I said a “clumsy excuse for extend edit”. This can be done in one stroke without stopping to edit naturally to a beat with PP/Avid.”
Yeah, I know how MC and PP work, but thanks.
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[Charlie Austin] “That’s doable now, just need to map it to the KB”
Do tell. I can’t find slip or slide in the keyboard editor, and have no idea what to search for otherwise.
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[Michael Hancock] “Do tell. I can’t find slip or slide in the keyboard editor, and have no idea what to search for otherwise.”
ah… yeah, still need to click for that (I think.. have to poke around some more) What you can do is select connected clips above/below the Primary kb using shortcuts now, no mouse hovering needed…
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[Charlie Austin] “What you can do is select connected clips above/below the Primary kb using shortcuts now, no mouse hovering needed…”
Yeah, I’ve mapped that. It’s an improvement, but they could have done much better. It’s literally just moving your selection, with no option to select multiple clips. Still very, very mousy. I’d prefer it be able to select multiple clips, and be aware of the mode I’m in, like trim mode, and move selection based on that.
For example, if you’re in trim mode already and have an edge selected and choose to move selection up it dumps you out of trim mode and moves the selection up, so you have to re-enter trim for that selected clip. And if you’ve selected a connected clip, then a trim edge, it doesn’t matter if you chose “Select above” or “Select below” – it will always move the selection up. Might be a bug.
It’s a good start. Hope it’s not another five years before they improve it! Ha!
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[Michael Hancock] “It’s a good start. Hope it’s not another five years before they improve it! Ha!”
lol… My hope is that, now that the Timeline/Roles/Lanes have been implemented, that we’ll be able to get more KB selection happening. Being able to roll connected clips makes me think we will…
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I hope so too. Being able to roll connected clips without having to make secondary storylines will cut the number of times I mumble curse words to myself in half!
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HAHAHA!!!
It has… they’re putting a lot of ‘old stuff’ back in FCPX… Could it be that some NLE’s with longer track record actually have/had something going for them, that some ‘old paradigm’ stuff actually made sense? 😉
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I’ve run into two bugs so far in cursory testing – one old, one new.
Old – with dual displays, the skimmer/playhead loses focus for the pane it’s supposed to be in. You think you are skimming in the timeline – the playhead moves with the mouse, but picture doesn’t change in the viewer. Then you realize the focus has shifted to the browser, yet that clip isn’t playing either. To fix this you have to click into the browser pane and then back into the timeline pane.
New – with custom project settings, such as 1920×800. The project thumbnail, when displayed in the viewer is distorted (slanted). When you play or resize the view it straightens out.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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