How many times must I say I like FCP X… :-)

[Chris Harlan]

[Charlie Austin] “Good luck on your thing!
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Break a leg, you mean! I hope.

I think I’d like the skimmer, too. I do something like that in a timeline, now, but that seems like that would be lickity fast.

[Chris Harlan]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Chris, I am disappointed you aren’t trapped in an ornament yet.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Chris, I am disappointed you aren’t trapped in an ornament yet.
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Hey, anything I can responsibly do to set myself up as a subject of ridicule for no other reason than your pure and unfettered enjoyment, will be done in short order. The image is uploading as I type this.

[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “Break a leg, you mean! I hope.

Nah, break a leg is for actors or dancers who are on their feet. 🙂 What would the editorial corollary be for “good luck” is bad luck… hmmm. “Hey Chris, crash your computer on that gig!” … OK guess not, break a leg it is. 😀

[Chris Harlan] I think I’d like the skimmer, too. I do something like that in a timeline, now, but that seems like that would be lickity fast.”

It is. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when I first experienced it, and you *do* have to remember to turn it off sometimes, but it’s pretty damn nice. Also clip skimming, that is da bomb. 🙂

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

[Walter Soyka]

[Charlie Austin] “It is. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when I first experienced it, and you *do* have to remember to turn it off sometimes, but it’s pretty damn nice. Also clip skimming, that is da bomb. :-)”

Agreed. I absolutely hated the skimmer in FCPX until I realized I was missing it in FCP7/Pr. I use hover-scrub quite a bit, but it’s not the same.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Walter Soyka]

[Chris Harlan] “Hey, anything I can responsibly do to set myself up as a subject of ridicule for no other reason than your pure and unfettered enjoyment, will be done in short order. The image is uploading as I type this.”

I cleared my browser cache specifically for this.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Jeremy Garchow]

YES!!!!

[Herb Sevush]

[Charlie Austin] “The source? 29 features… On DVCAM tapes. 😮 …FCP 7 came in handy here as a digitizing platform. ;-)”

And I thought tape was dead.

I’m sorry but this is my favorite line from you entire post.

What other NLE needs another NLE as a plug-in?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Charlie Austin]

[Herb Sevush] “[Charlie Austin] “The source? 29 features… On DVCAM tapes. 😮 …FCP 7 came in handy here as a digitizing platform. ;-)”

And I thought tape was dead.

I’m sorry but this is my favorite line from you entire post.

What other NLE needs another NLE as a plug-in?”

LOL… Hey, *I* never said that. It’s not dead, but it’s starting to smell bad. 😉 Honestly though, it’s the first job that’s come in on tape in ages. We could get a cheap decklink or something for digitizing and layback, but we’ve got 7 already so why bother? Nothing we do gets sent out on tape anymore, though the shops that do our online finishing still deliver on tape. For now… If we do a finished piece here, we just send the files to them and they build the masters. Cheaper than buying all the decks…

Edit: Speaking of DV tape… I ran into all the fun quirks of that tired old format on this gig. 5 or 6 had TC dropouts resulting in multiple clips instead of single files. Most of them were anamorphic, but with different aspect ratios, 3 or 4 were 4:3. It’s really easy in X to manipulate the Anamorphic Override and Spatial Conform settings to get all the different formats to look nice in the same sequence. Had to crop a few, but it was painless.

And about 5 tapes had some glitch that caused the audio to be about 1-2 seconds out of sync. They were of course all 32k, and captured at that rate, so it was some other problem. The cool thing in X, is that you can open the master clip in it’s own timeline, adjust the audio, and it’s good to go. (it’s non destructive, so the actual source unfortunately stays out of sync, but it’s a nice feature) AFAIK, that’s impossible to do easily in 7, or anything else. It was a pleasant surprise. 🙂

Oh, one more thing… Tape Sucks. 😉
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~

[Brett Sherman]

[Herb Sevush] What other NLE needs another NLE as a plug-in?

If I had a tape project like that come in. Capturing would be the least of my concerns. I’m not confident that any of my DV decks work anymore. 🙂 I for one am glad that Apple’s not wasting time getting DV decks to work in FCP X.

[Steve Connor]

[Brett Sherman] “If I had a tape project like that come in. Capturing would be the least of my concerns. I’m not confident that any of my DV decks work anymore. 🙂 I for one am glad that Apple’s not wasting time getting DV decks to work in FCP X.”

I’ve just had a small promo to cut from Digibeta and DV source so I fired up the old Sony J30 and it worked very nicely with FCPX, it even knew it was a J30!

Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”