FCPX users, share your favourite tips

[Daniel Bethe]

John, I’m not totally clear on what a keyword collection is. If I create a new keyword collection in the Event browser, it just creates *a* keyword. I don’t see what is collected, about that. How is that not just a keyword?

I understand that a smart collection is a live search result for keywords and all other text.

Thanks!

[Jason Brown]

[John Moffat] “You can turn off timeline thumbnails and waveforms (for all ‘track appearances’) in the timeline index’s role panel. This should help performance on slower machines.”

I don’t understand roles. I’ve not assigned any, but it recognizes my music track as music and VO as Dialogue. How does it know this? How is it assigned? I don’t understand roles at all…

[Daniel Bethe]

This is a very thorough video about roles.

https://library.creativecow.net/neil_andy/FCPX-Roles/1

And I stumbled across this one by another reputable group, which I have not watched yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9SKJoarCoI

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[John Moffat]

You can assign roles a couple of different ways. One ways is to select a clip in the event browser, switch to list view and you’ll find a drop down menu with different role options.

[John Moffat]

A Keyword is a word what you tag a clip with. Say the word “Interview”. Think of it as the blue line that appears above a clip. You can have multiple keywords on one clip.

A Keyword Collection is where clips with that single world (Interview) are collected. The blue ‘folders’ that appear under your events. Each keyword will have its own keyword collection.

[Daniel Bethe]

My favorite tip is to get good training.

https://www.lynda.com/Final-Cut-Pro-X-training/Effective-Storytelling-with/71055-2.html

That woman’s voice is joyfully awesome, her imagination and use of language are wonderful, the topic is quite thorough, and the sample material is totally beautiful. To me, it’s sufficiently unique and well done that it’s worth a month’s subscription. I love Larry Jordan’s work too.

Here’s free-of-charge video-based training:

https://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/applefinalcutpro

Larry Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD5Cn8mTffs

Steve Martin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9SKJoarCoI

Always search youtube!

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[Daniel Bethe]

Oh okay, so the Keyword Collection is the search results of all clips which are associated with each keyword. And so it’s inextricably coincidental that when you create a keyword, a keyword collection is created; and, when you create a keyword collection, a keyword is created. That coincidence was confusing me…

…That, and general information overload during the process of learning this new beast! Thanks.

[Andy Neil]

Well, most of my tricks and tips I put in my various tutorials, but one thing I do when organizing clips into collections before editing is I set my event browser to No Ratings or Keywords (CTRL+X). That way, when I assign a clip to a keyword collection, it disappears from my event browser. I keep organizing until all my clips are gone. That’s when I know that everything is properly organized and I switch back to Hide Rejected or All Clips.

Also, I remapped all my play keys, IN/OUT keys, Insert/Overwrite/Connected and Tops/Tails keys to the the 9-key num pad. It’s great for stringouts and rough cutting. I barely use a mouse.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Jari Innanen]

Here’s my tip for audio cleanup for B-roll or such.
https://youtu.be/SRS7yCqqDOI

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[Jason Brown]

[Andy Neil] “before editing is I set my event browser to No Ratings or Keywords”

This is a great idea! 🙂 Don’t mind if I use this as a quick tip for our FCPUG! 🙂

One thing I haven’t understood about ratings is the plurality of the word “rating” … there are only 2 ways to rate a clip – favorite (range or entire clip) or reject. Right? I just think of “ratings” as being deeper than just 2 options — since keywords is so expansive.