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Just finished first real project – experiences
Hi guys, just finished my first project on FCPX for adidas; a trade show video wall loop;
Never have I worked as quickly, flexible and had so much fun in HD; color corrections were so quick to do….
Have a look at the following two images for a little inspiration of workflow techniques that I used:
Image 1 – Clean Compound sections make it a breeze to change the order
Image 1 – Musical Sync Point at the End stays in sync no matter how much I change in the frontImage 2 – Using the invisible part of compound clips for clip collections
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all the best, frank, sonicVision.de
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Thank you for this,
Image one shows how the flexible concept of connexions can be used.
there is hope
patrice
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Nice to hear something positive!
NT
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Sounds good, How was stability?, what format footage were you using?
Steve Connor
Adrenalin TelevisionHave you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.
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I used a mix of canon 5d footage,
h264,
About 1000 nikon and canon raw photos (cool to view and add quickly)Viewing the film stripes made quick locating of interesting footage very fast and intuitive…
There were regular lags of about 15 secs where everything just halted…. That happened maybe twice per hour….
Hard to say where that came from as I am using an unsupported nvidia quadro fx 4500…Peace, f
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Thanks Frank!
You must be one of the ‘paid by Apple’ guys as one poster wrote 🙂
I noticed that a connection point doesn’t have to be at the head of the connected clip. Thanks to your post I really understood the power behind connections: pick whatever you want as the part you want to connect (the end in your case) and trim for length after.This software is really totally different to how we worked before and it’ll take time to get your head around if you had 15 years of the old way (Avid and FCP) but I had a very strange moment: I was playing with FCPx for 3 days because I had time. Yesterday I went back to FCP7 to finish a project and I hated everything I saw. Just the new interface is so much better! And I’m not talking the darker colour! I always hated the way Adobe clutters the screen with all these little displays and buttons. I thought FCP7 was already better at not creating a noisy environment. Boy was I wrong. FCPx really is finally how things should be. Minimal and very clearly organized into sections, which you blend out if not needed. One time and video display. Not 5 or more which display the same a lot of times. I know there are still problems and bugs but I’m starting to thank Randy and Apple that they have the guts to be hated 🙂 And of course I’m paid by Apple too …
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[Frank Stäudtner] “There were regular lags of about 15 secs where everything just halted…. That happened maybe twice per hour….”
You sound pretty upbeat for someone experiencing two crashes an hour. =)
Or did it hang and then unhang?Where did most of your crashes happen? I seem to get a lot when switching back an forth from a Project to a Compound Clip and lot working in a Compound Clip compared to just working in a Project. And I get the 15+ freeze-ups a lot but sometimes if I wait longer enough it fixes itself. Problem is sometimes it’s 20secs and sometimes it’s over a minute so I just end up Force Quitting. Just a bunch of bugs that need working out.
tony
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Yep.
I’m another one of those plants. I was accused of this on my blog. Why? Just because I chose to embrace, learn and share over screaming and yelling on an Internet forum.
The more I use it, the deeper it gets. Then when I am playing back the timeline and quickly adding an audio fade to a bit of audio I say, “hey, I’m putting an audio fade on while playback is happening, cool”
It frees you to work if you take the tome spend a couple of dollars on training and understand it.
The software, like anything or anyone else, is not perfect.
When I see people copy pasting this thread to make a joke of another user, I find that very disturbing. You don’t like apple, take it up with them but shittingbon people for using the software and sharing a positive experience is in bad taste and very amature.
David
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@tony The lags just unhung themselves. And they were little to take, compared to the advantage of the background rendering and essentially always having everything playing in real time. This is such an efficiency booster .
@David & @Carsten : when I made the new concept of editing work for me, I just realised that it actually works much better for me;
I like the concept of important sync points. In order to get maximal emotional impact I always look for emotional video footage and then the musical equivalent of that .Like in my example above there was an important musical sync point at the end. If there were more important musical sync points at different sections of the video , I would now create those sync points in connection with multiple music sections and only at the end: trim, expand or shrink the different sections to make the music fit together. But that gives me complete flexibility during the edit to extend sections and make them smaller, anything I want really ; that’s a very powerful way of working for me.
What I also love with the colour correction: finally I can just click on a clip and the correction of exposure for example stays open. I click on the next clip and the colour correction is already open. How annoying was that in Final Cut Pro 7. This is so much quicker; I can skip through many clips within a few minutes and do some basic colour correction . That is how it was always supposed to be. I cannot understand how clumsy and how many clicks it took in Final Cut Pro 7 to achieve the same . Editing effects was a pain in FCP7.
And by the way I would love Apple to pay me, I could always use the extra bug! And as my five posts up until today are a real force to be reckoned with; they will surely transform the industry!
Watch them all fall to my love of fcpx 😉
beware 🙂
Love and peace, Franky
sonicVision.dePS: there is a very important feature that we need: to hear and/or see the audio/video context of the sequence above while you are editing within a compound clip ; editing trimming your edits to a musical track in the above sequence does get unnecessarily painful at the moment…
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[Frank Stäudtner] “to hear and/or see the audio/video context of the sequence above while you are editing within a compound clip ; editing trimming your edits to a musical track in the above sequence does get unnecessarily painful at the moment…”
Have you tried making the audio your primary storyline?
I agree, it would be nice to have prescision trimming on the tracks above and other than in only the primary storyline.
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Tony with all the freeze-ups and crashes, is there any chance you equipment is under-powered for FCP X or at least the FCP X features that may take extra processing resources? It may be that configurations that meet the low-end of the requirements my experience some difficulty—I’m just speculating here as Apple certainly doesn’t give many details about what is needed and how capable their minimum configuration will be when various features are used.
Are you using Apple ProRes or Apple ProRes HQ or a native codec? When you are using Effects on the clips, do you notice the problems more frequently?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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