Fcp x no sub edits?

[Dan Crouch]

Yes, I can see now how using folders in the project library will help loads. I have just made a load of them and it skips through quite easily. It’s a shame you can’t pull it out into it’s own window tho isn’t it.

Thanks for the post’s! v helpful,
Cheers,
Dan.

[Jari Innanen]

Dan, I’m more than happy to tell you about the workflow. You can contact me privately if you want. This forum is not necessary the place to give advice about FCP X. It bloats pretty quickly with advice how other NLEs do it better.
Plus it is late here.

[Oliver Peters]

[Jari Innanen] “This forum is not necessary the place to give advice about FCP X”

Actually you should post it, because I think there would be a lot of interest. It’s just better to post it in the FCP X Techniques forum. Less “combative” there 😉

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Carsten Orlt]

Hi Dan,

Been following all the above and when I read this last post I started to think to understand why you get stuck with projects..

Are you making (and I’m using the FCPx naming) projects to create selects of clips?

If you do I think you are missing one of the most powerful feature of X: organizing in the event.
e.g. to have all your best takes quickly can be done by just giving them (or sections of longer clips) a keyword called ‘best’ to get all best takes from day 3 is than done by combining searches. Actually any kind of organizational task that you would use sequences for in legacy or any other NLE can be done in X by using keywords, favorites and markers.
I edit long form docus and for years was using select sequences to store best stuff. Since X this is completely obsolete because I now organize everything in the event. And of course if I want to save different versions of an actual cut I create separate projects for that.

Spent some time to see what can be done in the event before you even go to the project stage.
I straight away can think of a keyword for ‘Directors choice’ and ‘My choice’ and with a click you could switch looking at different sets. And this way. you’ll find the take that the director wants from actor Sally, shot at night, in the graveyard, in a flash because all these can be keywords.

If I got that wrong as to why projects are not working, never mind 🙂

Happy editing.

[Carsten Orlt]

The downside of the Project Library is that there is no true “list view“.

But a quasi one. Click and hold the ‘back’ arrow top left in your project window and you see a list of the projects that were loaded before.

Also to quickly access projects without going back to the project library, load them once and than switch between them by using command [ and ]. this command goes through them in the order they are listed by the back or forward arrow I mentioned before.

And of course as mentioned before you can play projects in the project listing without loading them.

Happy editing

[Oliver Peters]

[Carsten Orlt] “Click and hold the ‘back’ arrow top left in your project window and you see a list of the projects that were loaded before.
Also to quickly access projects without going back to the project library, load them once and than switch between them by using command [ and ].”

I do all this and X generally “forgets” some of the ones loaded. For instance, I have found no way to get it to consistently retain a larger number of project timelines, for example 10 projects. I could easily do that with tabbed sequences in FCP “legacy”. Thoughts?

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Charlie Austin]

[Carsten Orlt] “I think you are missing one of the most powerful feature of X: organizing in the event.
e.g. to have all your best takes quickly can be done by just giving them (or sections of longer clips) a keyword called ‘best’ to get all best takes from day 3 is than done by combining searches. Actually any kind of organizational task that you would use sequences for in legacy or any other NLE can be done in X by using keywords, favorites and markers.”

Agreed. I’m working on a project now… promo reel for a studio. I have 30 features as sources, all of which I need to go through and pull selects from. Using the skimmer, Smart Collections and 9 keywords I’m flying through this stuff. Need an “action” shot? click the collection with that name and all the shots I’ve tagged as such, from all the films, show up in a “bin” ready to go. In FCP7 I’d be in hell right about now. It’s great.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~

[Dan Crouch]

I’m not at my mac now, but by marking rushes with keywords etc. you are adding info to the clips
but you aren’t cutting them down or making sequences of elects or favourite bits. Are you saying that you no longer need to do this, not to do a ‘pull’ but instead use info tabs etc?

Cheers,
Dan.

[Charlie Austin]

[dan crouch] “I’m not at my mac now, but by marking rushes with keywords etc. you are adding info to the clips
but you aren’t cutting them down or making sequences of elects or favourite bits. Are you saying that you no longer need to do this, not to do a ‘pull’ but instead use info tabs etc?”

Correct. Mark an in and out, assign a keyword (or multiple keywords) you’ve created and smart collections of the same name will appear containing just the “clips” tagged with that keyword. Essentially “bins” of selects. The same “clip” can appear in multiple collections. Anytime you add a keyword it will automatically put the “clip” (really just the tagged region) into the collection. Super easy. 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~

[Dan Crouch]

That sounds like it could work. I imagine it’ll take a while to get use to tho.
Thanks v much for all the help.

Cheers,
Dan.