A Lazy Editor’s Audio Workflow

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “we should stop this David. Why are we hammering on this? Oh wait now I remember:”

lol… nicely done. 🙂

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[David Lawrence]

[Charlie Austin] “And 99% of the time a centered dissolve works fine. “

Not for the job I’m doing right now! Just saying… 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “Can you paste asymmetrical dissolves on both connected audio clips and video at the same time in FCPX?”

I dunno, I’ve honestly never tried to, or needed to do that ever.In anything. Different strokes… I suppose If I needed to do that, I’d use the tool that allowed me to do so. What I don’t think I’d do is cry FAIL! at the other tools. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “[Charlie Austin] “And 99% of the time a centered dissolve works fine. ”

Not for the job I’m doing right now! Just saying… 😉
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Well, since it appears you might be willing to try cutting in X if you could do this, please open the feedback form from the app and request the following:

It would be really useful to be able to customize dissolves to start or end on an edit, as well as be asymmetrical. Similar to FCP 7 etc. At least adding a “midpoint” slider to the inspector pane (like the Dip to Color “midpoint” slider) would be nice. With possibly a dissolve type checkbox – “start, end, centered.”
thanks! 🙂

Maybe you’ll get your wish.I’d be happy if they did that for a variety of reasons… 🙂

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[Shawn Miller]

[Charlie Austin] “Also, since this feature (expanded audio and fade handles)doesn’t exist in other NLE’s, any comparison is invalid. You can’t do it in Pr even if you want to”

Vegas has had fade handles since v1… and auto fades to avoid clip overwrites. 🙂

Shawn

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Charlie Austin] “And 99% of the time a centred dissolve works fine. It’s not a big deal at all.
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charlie – with mucho respect, cutting down a commercial or any other track to a usable thirty off the bars really does demand asymmetric dissolves. given people can be singing either end of the join, or say chords start ascending inconveniently, it’s basically critical to weight it left or right to fake it. It’s also really important you can do it massively fast because 4/5 attempts to join music sections don’t work? It’s one operation that has to happen like butter.

You basically cannot be going through that X style rigamarole every time – it kills the flow of decision making. I’ve just tried it a few times there.

I haven’t used a video dissolve in five years but a controllable audio dissolve would be critical my end – hard to see that as a one percent scenario?

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

[Charlie Austin]

[Shawn Miller] “Vegas has had fade handles since v1… and auto fades to avoid clip overwrites. 🙂
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Likely because it started as mainly a DAW but point taken. Honestly, even in an NLE with tracks, I’m not sure an auto-fade would be desirable, particularly when dealing with dialog. I imagine it could cause… unexpected results when rippling sections of a cut. Track Tetris still required. I’m sure it’s nice though… 🙂

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[David Lawrence]

[Charlie Austin] “Maybe you’ll get your wish.I’d be happy if they did that for a variety of reasons… :-)”

Will do! 🙂

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[Shawn Miller]

[Charlie Austin] “I’m sure it’s nice though… :-)”

It is, I’m just waiting for the port to OSX so I can begin converting everyone here. 😛

Shawn

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “charlie – with mucho respect, cutting down a commercial or any other track to a usable thirty off the bars really does demand asymmetric dissolves. given people can be singing either end of the join, or say chords start ascending inconveniently, it’s basically critical to weight it left or right to fake it. It’s also really important you can do it massively fast because 4/5 attempts to join music sections don’t work? It’s one operation that has to happen like butter.

I agree that having an asymmetric dissolve transition option would be a good thing. And I missed them for the first few months I was getting into X. Not anymore. And not just because they’re not there. I miss fade handles in 7/Pr. I feel like tweaking dissolves slows me down. Really. The fact it’s not available in X now does not hamper my ability to create a nice sounding transition very quickly and easily. It does happen like butter. And I have clients breathing down my neck just like I always have. 🙂

[Aindreas Gallagher] “You basically cannot be going through that X style rigamarole every time – it kills the flow of decision making. I’ve just tried it a few times there.”

I believe you. I bet some of it has to do with the fact that you need to think about what you’re doing. It’s not second nature like when you’re doing something in another NLE that you cut in day in and out. For me in X, I don’t even think about the process anymore. I just do it and move on. 🙂

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