FCPX Sound

[John Pale]

[Chris Harlan] “You’re f—ing joking?! Really? That’s dumb.
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Really. I am trying to have an open mind about things, but I keep running into stuff like this…you definitely can tell they did not have any input from actual editors in creating the UI.

The auto save works great though. I’ve had 30 crashes in two days and not lost a second of work.

[Andrew Richards]

[John Pale] “There’s a lot of room to the right and left of the dashboard TC display for more info….its just that they decided it wasn’t important, I guess”

Not every desired feature can make a 1.0. There is a lot of room for a lot of improvement all over FCPX. I hope they deliver on it’s potential.

Best,
Andy

[Jeremy Garchow]

I was crashing a lot. I deleted and redownloaded. Seems to be a bit better.

I miss tc overlays too.

[John Pale]

I’ll have to try a re download. Seriously, I’ve never had anything crash so much. I installed on a clone of the same drive I run FCP7 on quite smoothly.

I’m not joking about the auto save though. Its really phenomenal. I didnt lose a single edit in all the crashing.

Back to the audio…. The keyframing (automation, rubber banding, or in FCPX speak “audio animation”), is really very cumbersome in it’s present form. FCP classic, Avid and Premiere are way easier. Premiere really leads the pack, having submixes and busses.

I’m really hoping they add a way to instantly show all your audio tracks (not just a single waveform on the video) and arrange them logically in the timeline using metadata tags.

[Bret Williams]

They didn’t have TC overlay in v1. I remember having to match frame to figure out the source tc quite often. But not something I need very often. I thnk tc overlay was v2 or even v3.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Pale] “I’m really hoping they add a way to instantly show all your audio tracks (not just a single waveform on the video) “

Select-all, control-s?

[Dan Hayes]

How does it handle panning?

[John Pale]

Hmm. That does nothing. What were you expecting it to do?

Perhaps its because these are Compound Clips. Its all DSLR footage with double system sound.

I can see both tracks of audio (2 lavs on separate tracks) if I use the Clip/Break Apart Clip Items command, but then they are no longer Compound Clips….you can’t recollapse them without making them a brand new Compound Clip from the timeline individually. In order to keyframe easily, I also have to make the clip sizes gigantic, which really slows down the interface.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Pale] “Perhaps its because these are Compound Clips. Its all DSLR footage with double system sound.”

Yes. Compound clips you would have to “open in timeline” first. Control-s shows audio and video in the main storyline with out divorcing (or “break apart”) the a/v.

[John Pale]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Yes. Compound clips you would have to “open in timeline” first. Control-s shows audio and video in the main storyline with out divorcing (or “break apart”) the a/v.
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Thanks for clarifying that.