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coordination with client and Markers and edits
I feel I may have missed something here but here’s my predicament and I’m willing to gladly take on all suggestions:
Rough edit goes to client for review (time code generator in place to aide us both)
Comments returned via spreadsheet
Going into FCPX I start placing markers at the ‘In’ point; click marker and choose “MODIFY” and copy and paste the ‘OUT’ point and their comments.
Continue to do this throughout the reviewed piece.
Now start the easy part – not having to switch between two apps!
In FCPX, go to first marker; note the ‘out’ point the client wants and carry out accordingly.
Right click on marker and choose “Completed”.
Vunderbar!
At least for the first one: now the time code is all shot for the rest of the “Out’s” on the markers I’ve placed.One method is to place a marker on the required ‘In” point and right click to make it a ‘To Do” marker and another one at the ‘Out” point and make it a default marker. So the “In” marker is now red and the “Out” is a default blue. So as the timeline is edited, then I don’t lose the edits.
Is there another way to achieve this or I am approaching this in the wrong way, please? I have a recorded file of what I’ve mentioned above, if it would make more sense to anyone reading this.
Regards,
Lawrence
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Lawrence, check out this thread; https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/5816#5816 It’s been working well for me.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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I think you’re saying that when you make your first trim, the timecode is now changed for the rest of the timeline, so your instructions don’t match anymore.
Here’s an easy suggestion: start making your changes from the end of the timeline and work your way to the beginning.
We live in a non-linear world. We can make our dessert first.
My other ploy is to lift out all of the bits you want excised, leaving gaps in your entire timeline, that you will close up and heal once you’ve make the initial cuts.
Does this help?
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Jason, Mark,
Many thanks for your input. I’m glad I am not a sole voice on this and these provide some credible solutions.
It would be ‘nice’ to have the ability to select a range and then colour code it, perhaps or in someway to identify or mark a process, or perhaps use the “Range” tool and be able to colour code it?
Until then, I shall endeavor with these excellent suggestions.
Thanks you and a Happy New Year,
Lawrence
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Ok… a range. Here’s another idea.
You can take any clip, but why not create a still that’s your project size so it won’t need rendering. Call it “Fix this” or anything you want.
Put it in your event browser.
Now you can set your range in the timeline, and use the “Q” key to place this “marker clip” above the timeline.
Keep doing this until you have all of your fixes marked with this clip in the top lane.
It’s a simple matter to use the timeline index to find and select all of these temporary clips, and you can disable them with the V key to give them that ghostly look. You can also assign a role for them, and use the roles index to collapse them to easily distinguish them from the other clips, or to highlight them all by selecting the role.
There are so many tools in FCX, and so many ways to do just about everything.
Does this get you close to what you want?
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com
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