Has the Creative Cloud taken all the steam out of here?

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I resemble that insinuation.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Lance Bachelder]

I have used CS6 but find it lacking in some of the day to day edit tools I rely on in other NLE’s like moving a clip up or down, sync indicators etc. but it is fast with a CUDA card.

I realize my current show was not built correctly in X – an Event for every sequence makes it so slow – but there’s no way to media manage the timeline into a new project to speed things up! Also, having to break apart video and audio every time I want an overlap is tedious…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Charlie Austin]

[Lance Bachelder] ” realize my current show was not built correctly in X – an Event for every sequence makes it so slow – but there’s no way to media manage the timeline into a new project to speed things up!

I haven’t done this on any large scale, maybe 2 or 3 events into 1, but you can combine (merge) events:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_merge_events_stone.html

[Lance Bachelder] Also, having to break apart video and audio every time I want an overlap is tedious…”

Highlight clip, CNTRL-S. You can overlap all you want without disconnecting audio. Really the only reason to disconnect audio is if you want to cut it up. If you just need to do J or L cuts, just expand the audio. So you get this:

Primary sync audio is still riding with the pix, and cheated/upcut/non sync dia are connected clips.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Lance Bachelder]

Sorry I meant “expand” not detach audio. It is a pain to have to do this for every single clip though the magnetic timeline is actually nice on a long form project making it almost impossible to knock things out of sync with picture…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Steve Connor]

Lance, you do know that there is an “expand all” command?

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Jeremy Garchow]

And beyond expand all, there’s an expand all splits that will just expand split edits.

There are times when I do wish that adding a clip to the timeline would automagically expand it.

There’s already a command to collapse all so it would be easy to undo if I didn’t need it.

[Lance Bachelder]

I agree – having video and audio “pre” expanded would be nice and then just collapse as necessary. It’s an extra step I don’t like taking although at least you can expand more than one clip at a time. But maybe this would be too much like every other industry-standard NLE…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Charlie Austin]

[Lance Bachelder] “Sorry I meant “expand” not detach audio. It is a pain to have to do this for every single clip though the magnetic timeline is actually nice on a long form project making it almost impossible to knock things out of sync with picture…”

Gotcha… Sorry for stating the obvious. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Lance Bachelder] “I agree – having video and audio “pre” expanded would be nice and then just collapse as necessary. It’s an extra step I don’t like taking although at least you can expand more than one clip at a time. But maybe this would be too much like every other industry-standard NLE…”

LOL… actually, have you sent feedback about this? A little bird told me that all that stuff goes into a spreadsheet of some sort. and if there are enough requests for a useful feature they’ll move it up on the list. Unless you want tracks. That ship has sailed. 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Julian Smith]

Myself I don’t want an editor that is like all other ones.. I’m starting to explore X a bit more, in a small low budget film sort of a way, and am finding it very interesting.