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A Lazy Editor’s Audio Workflow
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I know what you’ll say, it’s too many steps.”
well… yes. you are kind of playing the piano there to get an adjustable audio dissolve.
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I’m not too sure why you went about it that way including the default dissolve, but all that still seems like quite a few clicks, handle drags, yet more clicks… and it seemed to take a while to put together? Again, I can’t believe you’re doing all that every single time. It seems bananas! 🙂
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David,
The only difference being that dragging that playhead is part of the majority of your edits.
Dissolving audio isn’t.
The conversation is about the number of clicks for a certain edit, but the ironic things is, that’s negated if you are clicking in the timeline every time you want to move the playhead.
Your total number of clicks are higher. If it’s about clicks, to keep it real, you would have to round up all the clicks for the overall edit session.
The skimmer cuts down the clicks on every type of edit.
So however you are getting to that one audio edit, it’s more clicks for the session.
My focus is the overall session, not just part of it : )
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[tony west] “The skimmer cuts down the clicks on every type of edit.”
In theory, since you have to move the mouse anyway, click and dragging doesn’t seem like it’d be that big a deal.
In practice, the skimmer is the thing I miss the most about FCP X in other NLEs.
This difference is very hard to explain to someone, but I think nearly anyone can experience it for themselves with just a bit of time in FCP X.
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There’s skimming, and then there’s clip skimming. It saves so much time trying to enable/disable just the right clips, and then reenable and redisable them all again.
But whatever, pants, microwaves, etc.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “well… yes. you are kind of playing the piano there to get an adjustable audio dissolve.”
Which is why you’d probably just do it with a fe mouse click/drags, You can also slide the dissolve around and see the A/B waveforms live, which might be kind of useful. Or just close it up and drag it around.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/32075
More better than a canned asymmetric dissolve in some ways, maybe less better in others. 😉 It’s a wash to me. Bottom line is that if you need it, it’s easily do-able.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “well… yes. you are kind of playing the piano there to get an adjustable audio dissolve.”
I see. So now FCPX is too sophisticated! Things really have come full circle!
I’m kidding with you, passive-agressively.
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[Walter Soyka] “In practice, the skimmer is the thing I miss the most about FCP X in other NLEs.
This difference is very hard to explain to someone, but I think nearly anyone can experience it for themselves with just a bit of time in FCP X.”
I agree Walter, I almost feel goofy bringing it up because it’s so simplistic that it sound almost trivial.
and I also second what Jeremy said about it.
Little things sometime add up to big differences.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “but all that still seems like quite a few clicks, handle drags, yet more clicks… and it seemed to take a while to put together?”
And I can get the exact same result… in a single key press! ;D
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[Charlie Austin] ” It’s a wash to me. “
but of course – just so long as you clearly and formally acknowledge that the X dissolve is basically useless, and your workaround, as in the video you posted there, involves close to ten times as many steps. which seems a bit of a nightmare frankly.
but hey, it works for you – in the end that’s the important thing.see how hard was that? 😉
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