Musings on FCPX’s most powerful feature.

[David Lawrence]

[Herb Sevush] “[Franz Bieberkopf] “That is the way I work, and all my clips go into sequences without any previous selection or marking.”

+1″

Yep!

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[Brett Sherman]

For me it’s a group of features that as a whole make finding footage a lot faster than it ever was in FCP 7 or Avid for that matter. Skimming, favorites, size of thumbnails, thumbnails update about 5X faster than in 7 when skimming (this makes a huge difference in finding the right material without accidentally jumping over it), keywords, thumbnails in the timeline, etc.

I won’t say I’m 100% sold on the relational/magnetic timeline. There are things it does well and things it does not so well. It is neither a panacea nor a disaster. But I’m just learning it. My guess is that eventually I will be slightly faster with it than I am with 7. Right now I’m a bit slower.

But since I tend to spend a lot more time in the finding shots and soundbites part of the editing, I’m faster overall. And I enjoy editing more with X. That’s the trump card.

[Charlie Austin]

[Kevin Monahan] “Check out Premiere Pro CS6’s “Hover Scrub” feature. Does what you want, as well:”

It’s a nice feature. But other than a vague behavioral similarity, it’s not anything like skimming.

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “[Herb Sevush] “[Franz Bieberkopf] “That is the way I work, and all my clips go into sequences without any previous selection or marking.”

+1″

Yep!”

-1 Nope! lol

It would be nigh impossible for me to cut that way. My cut sequences generally end up between 5 seconds and 2.5 minutes long. My source clips are generally 1.5 to 2 hours long, with up to 5 stereo stems embedded. it would be an unimaginable nightmare to try to cut that way. I guess it depends on what sort of program you;re doing…

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[Franz Bieberkopf]

[Charlie Austin] “My cut sequences generally end up between 5 seconds and 2.5 minutes long. My source clips are generally 1.5 to 2 hours long, with up to 5 stereo stems embedded.”

Charlie,

Your typical ratios and sources sound quite similar to mine.

To each his own method.

Franz.

[Charlie Austin]

[Sandeep Sajeev] “How do you cut together complex scenes with foley, location audio, music etc without going into the timeline?”

You don’t. 🙂

Unless you create a CC in the event and open it in a timeline. But then you’re in the timeline. You could probably assemble a keyword collection of, I dunno, interview clips or B-roll using ranges/favorites and then drag them all into a sequence, but for what you describe, there’s no reason to try. Use a timeline. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “Charlie,

Your typical ratios and sources sound quite similar to mine.

To each his own method.

Franz.”

Yep… I’d really like to see how you do it. My head would explode. 🙂

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[Franz Bieberkopf]

[Charlie Austin] ” My head would explode.”

That’s probably the main reason I resist editing-as-spectator-sport.

Franz.

[David Lawrence]

[Charlie Austin] “Yep… I’d really like to see how you do it. My head would explode. :-)”

Some of us have been using the timeline in Legacy for skimming for years. Just saying… 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Lawrence] “[Charlie Austin] “Yep… I’d really like to see how you do it. My head would explode. :-)”

Some of us have been using the timeline in Legacy for skimming for years. Just saying… ;)”

Explain how that works. say I’ve got a spot I’m cutting in a sequence. So I open another timeline?, drag my 2 hour source into it, drag the playhead to an in point and… then what? i guess I don’t get it, but how’s that different from using the viewer?

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