Issue with fcpx multicam editing!

[Bill Davis]

[TImothy Auld] “Glad you found something that works for you. Complex projects are not FCPX’s forte.”

Oh that’s just plain poppycock. I can have you talk to a dozen guys doing EXTREMELY complex documentaries with thousands of assets to manage and timeline as complex as anything you can show me on any NLE. Was FOCUS not COMPLEX? How about that broadcast season of Leverage? Pretty simple, huh?

Guilliame doesn’t know X well enough yet to understand it fully. That’s perfectly fair. But to extrapolate that because he’s not fully conversant with it YET – that this somehow makes the program incapable is astonishingly lame reasoning.

Given the chops, anyone X certified can successfully cut any music video imaginable. Just as anyone AVID or Premier certified can as well. Period.

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[Michael Gissing]

[Bill Davis] “Just as anyone AVID or Premier certified can as well. Period.”

Bill, Dennis R will hunt you down if you don’t stop spelling Premiere wrong. Try just the abbreviated form – Pr.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Michael Gissing] “Bill, Dennis R will hunt you down if you don’t stop spelling Premiere wrong. Try just the abbreviated form – Pr.”

I was going to say something but I didn’t because I already feel like I’ve been hounding Bill in other threads all day. haha

[Bill Davis]

Apologies to Dennis again! When I read crap like this from those who comment on X ‘s capabilities without actually having any real experience with the software, it makes me nuts. However I understand that failure to show proper respect for others efforts (including the effort they put into naiming their products is also disrespectful. And I will do better. Just wish the other form of spelling wasn’t also a word – then I could rely on auto-correct! Will try to do better.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Bill Davis]

Word choice, dude.

Hounding indicates ONE willing and one unwilling participant.

What we do is sparring. Hopefully, an exercise that results in improved skills on both sides!

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[Timothy Auld]

Is there somewhere, deep in you gut, that tells you that I haven’t?

Tim

[Andrew Kimery]

Nope, just the readily apparent fact that relatively few help-desk type posts appear in the Debate forums and those that do garner much fewer responses than the debate related posts. No gut needed, just basic math.

[James Ewart]

[Bill Davis] “”When I cut my video it also cuts my audio – and I don’t want that” is an indicator that somebody is not yet fully thinking inside the rules of the X system. If you are, you can easily see multiple ways to get other results, two of which I tried to explain.”

I have cut a quite number of jobs in Multicam and quite few other things just for fun. I love how it works especially for single/dual camera multiple take take work, but i am still not clear on why, when you have selected “video only” it puts blade cuts in the audio.

I have been through the Ripple tutorials and still cannot figure it out. I have read about workarounds of dragging out the audio from the selected main audio track at the end of the cut to get rid of them. Or expanding audio components and doing the same thing. But these are “workarounds” are they not? if it was a bug they would have fixed it by now so there must be good reason.

So why does it do it? There must be a benefit or reason so I guess I am missing something.

I can also see that if you are working on a project (sorry to go of topic here but that’s why sequences should not be called projects) as described by the OP and shortening things here and there it could perhaps, be a help … but then my brain gets addled.

Can anyone provide a definitive answer on this please?