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FCPX or Not?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “but that does not account for connected clips, which simply get out of the way. Still better than not letting me do it at all).”
I agree it’s still better than preventing you from doing it. At least you can make the moves you want then adjust everything else, but I still prefer that the default is that it overwrites with a modifier key to move stuff out of the way when you want it to do that. Basically, I want everything to be an option and a modifier key away!
[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s what most people are complaining about I think. It all boils down to that simple notion.”
That and lack of tracks. And if that’s what ultimately keeps people away, is it possible for Apple to change it or are they too far down the rabbit hole?
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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock] “is it possible for Apple to change it or are they too far down the rabbit hole?”
I’m sure they could if they wanted to. I’m not sure they want to, at this point.
If Roles get fleshed out and super easy to use, you really won’t need tracks. I have heard many comments from people actually using the software, they think editing is faster than FCP of yore. There is also the other side of that.
I was playing around with naming Roles/Subroles today. Naming a Role called “Audio Tracks” and then Subroles named “Tr01 – Dialogue” for track 1 and so on.
It was kind of interesting, also limiting (not very adjustable as you can’t edit roles, so the numbering system can break really easily). This is not a way to do things, but it was fun to mess around. It did make exporting pretty easy though. Pics here:
You can even stack subroles if that’s handy for you:
Jeremy
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I hate to disagree but … if Media Composer were consistent in its logic you would be able to select a gap/filler with the yellow (Extract/Splice) segment tool and deleting would ripple the timeline. It doesn’t.”
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you here but if you select a gap in the timeline using sement mode with the yellow extract/splice tool and delete it the timeline does ripple down.
Obviously if there are other tracks that cross the extracted section they will be affected too so you may have to do some repair.When you have tried it does it stay in place or what happens ? Perhaps we are talking about different things ?
best wishes
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[Simon Ubsdell] “[Neil Patience] “While this does suggest that slug, or filler to use the Avid term, is added to maintian sync actually nothing physical appears in the Avid timeline at all. An empty gap is created containing “nothing”.”
This is not entirely true.”
You are right, my description of “nothing” was a little inaccurate but that is why I put it in quotes.
I was trying to distinguish it from filler or slug.
You can indeed trim the “nothing” and move it about – I find it a very flexible way of working although as you point out in another post it does get tricky when there are lots of overlapping tracks and you end up needing to do a bit of fixing. -
[Jeremy Garchow] “[Rafael Amador] “Happily I ran away ”
Good luck to you, Rafa. I hope you find the proverbial FCP8. I am going to stick around here for a while and see what happen”
I wasn’t meaning running away of FCPX (here I am trying to deal with him), but run away from working in a TV station 😉
rafael
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