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Musings on FCPX’s most powerful feature.
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Lets not forget that you can work the same way in FCPX using compound clips instead of sequences. Your not forced to use FCPX’s other tools!
Steve Connor
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[Bill Davis] “Have we revealed a schism in the church of pro editing?
It sounds like some editors here are “Preparationists” who spend significant time working with their source material before they hit the timeline.”
It’s a good point Bill.
This has been a good thread. Really shows how different everybody works. I think it’s also a credit to X
and it’s improvements because this thread is mostly about taste and style.Many of these NLE’s have similar features but they are not exactly the same. There are differences in how they handle the same task.
It’s those little differences that folks make their choice on sometime.
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Hey Bill, I’m not sure what “dangerous” means, but I hope I became that some years ago. I definitely keep an eye on X, and I promise you if it ever feels like a good fit, I won’t hesitate to jump in.
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[Bill Davis] “That sounds like what you’re doing with tabbed sequences, are a basic form of what the X engineers built the Event Browser to do. Store, access, and make available previously worked on snippets of content.”
It’s that and more for me. I work with sequences like Herb describes and often have multiple sequences open at the same time with their clips fully exposed. I like that better than compound clips which can only be opened one at a time.
[Bill Davis] “They just added a pretty big universe of other possibilities by adding the whole keywording thing on top.”
I like the event browser and think key wording is a powerful tool. But for the way I work most of the time, it would be an extra and unnecessary step. I like Franz’s “clip-based” vs “sequence-based” analogy. I’m definitely “sequence-based” camp.
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I have to agree that only being able to have one sequence (sorry project) open at any one time is somewhat limiting
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Limiting if you work in a particular way. As we are establishing in this excellent thread everyone works in different ways.
Steve Connor
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Okay but come on you surely must admit it would be handy to be able to click on tabs of different projects (sequences) rather than have to back paddle and open another one.
Forgive me but how could that be a disadvantage?
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[James Ewart] “Okay but come on you surely must admit it would be handy to be able to click on tabs of different projects (sequences) rather than have to back paddle and open another one.
Forgive me but how could that be a disadvantage?”
Hopefully they’ll make the project “history” buttons stickier, then it’s kind of a non issue. For me the only difference between that and tabs is that X randomly closes sequences you had open making switching between projects hit and miss. Fix that and it’s the same. Unless you like multiple sequence windows open at the same time, which I guess some folks do.
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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Okay I must have missed something again on my journey…”project history” buttons?
It’s just handy to be able to click on tabs. that said with FCP 7 sometimes I would have so many sequences open I could get in a muddle.
I think FCPX is more like Media 100, in a way…you really should keep the main narrative on V1…I found this hard to get used to having adopted a more audio editor “checkerboard” technique with FCP7…but my timeline would get messy for sure. 12 video layers when I probably only needed three.
FCP X has made me more disciplined and organised
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I guess I’m kinda missing how having a bunch of tabs open in Legacy and switching between them is functionally so different from having a dozen projects in your Project Library and being able to call them up at will.
You click on a tab – I click on the REEL icon.
We both navigate to the sequences (projects) we’re looking for easily.
The only real difference to me is that I don’t have to “load” my projects since I can skim them directly in the project library – and in Legacy, you need the entire sequence loaded in order to view what’s in it.
But I guess I don’t see much difference in the practical implications.
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