A Lazy Editor’s Audio Workflow

[Tony West]

At risk of getting OT, watching you drag that playhead around with your mouse made me think about my skimmer ; )

I need my skimmer! : p : ))

I can’t believe how addicted to it I have become.

Back on, I’m really shocked at how good my mix sounds using those handles. To look at them I wouldn’t have thought it would work well at all.

[David Lawrence]

[tony west] “Back on, I’m really shocked at how good my mix sounds using those handles. To look at them I wouldn’t have thought it would work well at all.”

Also back on topic, I’m rather shocked anyone would prefer dragging mix handles to a single key press to get the exact same result! My hand’s getting cramped just thinking about it! 😀

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “Also back on topic, I’m rather shocked anyone would prefer dragging mix handles to a single key press to get the exact same result! My hand’s getting cramped just thinking about it! :D”

And, on topic, I can’t believe anyone would want to work in a system where you had to click and hold a button and drag the mouse to scrub, or worse, require you to click somewhere or something to solo a clip to scrub it. My wrist hurts just thinking about it! lol

strokes=different 😉

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[David Lawrence] “On my current job, I’m doing this for hundreds and hundreds of individual short clips. So the difference between taking 4-seconds to manually perform a layered A/B transition and a millisecond key press to apply a dissolve adds up pretty fast. 😉 Maybe I’m missing something but I can’t imagine doing this as efficiently in FCPX. “

that’s my thing too. It feels like one of those really basic things where if I had to do it the way the guys are doing it, again and again throughout the day – I’m pretty sure it would start to drive me gaga. I’m kind of surprised it hasn’t come up more often. Also the fact that the dissolve left and right edges can act as magnetically connected rolling trim points for the whole timeline is indescribably weird?

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “that’s my thing too. It feels like one of those really basic things where if I had to do it the way the guys are doing it, again and again throughout the day – I’m pretty sure it would start to drive me gaga. I’m kind of surprised it hasn’t come up more often. Also the fact that the dissolve left and right edges can act as magnetically connected rolling trim points for the whole timeline is indescribably weird?”

It would be easier if it was a simple keypress of course! Aren’t people saying that the FCPX way is tolerable not more efficient? I haven’t read all of this thread I’m busy designing a microwave

Steve Connor

Hoping to become a pedant

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “that’s my thing too. It feels like one of those really basic things where if I had to do it the way the guys are doing it, again and again throughout the day – I’m pretty sure it would start to drive me gaga. “

Again… and I’m not trying to change your minds here… I can copy and paste fade-handle fades with curves to multiple audio components or connected clips, just like pasting dissolves. If I apply a dissolve to the head or tail of a connected clip, it start/ends at the head or tail of the clip. I can copy and paste dissolves to other connected clips just like anything else.

Hell, I can select and modify every dissolve duration/curve type in my cut at once, or just specific selected groups of dissolves throughout it. In short, I can do exactly the same thing as you, and just as easily. Really, I’m not making this up, i do it al the time, all day, just like you.

No, i can’t do asymmetric dissolves between adjacent clips (unless I’m doing a dip to color dissolve, which can be adjusted… go figure). And if that one feature is a deal killer, so be it. But it’s not less efficient, and it’s not just tolerable. It’s just different.

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[David Lawrence]

[Charlie Austin] “I can copy and paste fade-handle fades with curves to multiple audio components or connected clips, just like pasting dissolves.”

Yes, but don’t you need to use the Paste Attributes dialogue do do this?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Hey sure – it’s just that every time you want to re-construct a custom audio dissolve:

after you make the blade edit, you’re first of all right clicking and expanding audio components,

then you are selecting and modifying the fade on the outgoing clip, then selecting and modifying the fade on the incoming clip. I’ve done a few run throughs – that’s pretty much the process right? Jeremy seemed to be doing that in his demo on the thread below.

Have I got this right?

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[David Lawrence]

[Charlie Austin] “nd, on topic, I can’t believe anyone would want to work in a system where you had to click and hold a button and drag the mouse to scrub, or worse, require you to click somewhere or something to solo a clip to scrub it.”

Agreed! That’s why every day for weeks I’ve been using FCPX on this job to ingest, log, notate, and organize my interview bites. I love it! It’s the best logging tool I’ve ever used.

But the timeline? Pants! ;D

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “But the timeline? Pants! ;D”

lol… but it’s the same workflow/features. Really, X isn’t the only NLE I work in. Honest. And I don’t think it’s the be all, end all either. What it is, is awesome! 🙂

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