Auditions and Compound Clips

[Bret Williams]

That’s sort of the point of a keyword collection isn’t it?

[Andy Neil]

[Robin S. Kurz] “I don’t actually know of NON-browser (i.e. event) compounds”

Not anymore. But when FCPX was first released, compounds that were created in the timeline were not available in the event. This oversight has since been corrected, but I sometimes forget.

Andy

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107277729326633563425/videos

[Jeff Kirkland]

I don’t use auditions a lot but the one place I find them useful is for trying alternate color grades of video effects. Take a scene and make a compound clip of it. Duplicate it to an audition and do some grading. Now duplicate it again but using to duplicate the original. Now you have a clean slate to do an alternate grade. Rinse and repeat.

Yes you could do it by stacking all those versions on top of each other but why do that when auditions are there to keep everything clean and tidy?

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Bill Davis]

[Bret Williams] “That’s sort of the point of a keyword collection isn’t it?”

Yes, but in fairness, you can’t scrub through a bunch of clips in a keyword collection with the same fluidity that you can scrub through a string out. You have to, at best, play at high speed and hit the down arrow to shift to the next clip before you loop back. That’s not as fluid as playhead scrubbing across a bunch of clips in a long temporary storyline.

I don’t use stringouts in my timelines myself – largely because I expect that after the work I do in the Event Browser with my Tagging, I’ll pretty much know what goes where in my edits. And I’m happy to just use a keyword collection of B-Roll to do the task that timeline string outs used to do for me when I cut in Legacy. Timeline string outs feel like an old fashioned idea now that I understand the Event Browser and Keywords – but I get the allure for those coming out of the era where string outs were a smart way to visually scan material in older NLE systems.

To each their own, I say.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.