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My closer look at FCPX
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[Andy Neil] “Precision editing could be improved in secondary storylines. The precision editor itself only opens in the primary so if you like trimming that way, secondaries are more difficult. However, trim tools and tops and tails all work perfectly fine which is how I trim anyway. Although I’d like the 2-up monitor to be active whenever I’m using the trim tool whether I’m dragging or using keyboard shortcuts.
Also, I would like a keyboard shortcut to toggle between primary and secondary storylines; that would help quite a bit.
But to answer your second question, it’s easy to trim video in the primary to the beat of a song in a secondary.
Andy”
Cool, thanks Andy.
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I refuse to use the term workaround because it’s really technique 🙂
I cut the picture first, then lock it. Then I use the Jim Giberti Technique to create secondaries. Then I dump effects and music into those tracks, err…I mean: Secondaries. They stay where the are. They are not relative. It’s a common misconception. If I want to precision edit and not disrupt the relative position, then I Copypasta the clip as an attached clip , then I hit “P” and that turns of magnetism, and I re-place the clip into the secondary.
It’s really not so clever to be honest. My first step in any editing is to “remove the cat from the keyboard”; “turn the computer on.” What I mean is, what I said above is pretty banal (excepting the Giberti Technique, a brilliant insight!). It’s just how the software works. In Legacy, it’s like saying, first you have to unlock track 2, hit shift-L, edit, resync…blah blah blah.
can’t believe anyone read this far
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[Richard Herd] “I refuse to use the term workaround because it’s really technique :)”
I’ve always hated the word “workaround.” If it works, it works. Because lawdy knows that plenty of “here’s the power user secret” techniques, even basic “this is how it works” techniques, are more annoying than some “workarounds.”
Besides, at this point, how many straight-line workflows are left? Just ask somebody whether intermediate format or mixed format all-native on a single timeline is the way to go, and stand back — assuming that we even mean the same thing when we say “timeline.”
If it works, it works.
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
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Tony Brittan You might want to go ahead and grab the free trial of X and actually use it for something small that includes some of your regular workflow in order t really get an idea of how it would work for you
That would be cool, but I can’t do it right now, because I don’t have a Mac that’s capable of running it. My main computer is a self-built PC. I also have a PowerMac (with FCP 5) and a Mac Mini, but they’re both PowerPC-based.
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[Tim Wilson] “here’s the power user secret” techniques,”
Actually, that’s what brought me to the Cow in 2005. I needed to figure out how to morph one character into another, and my friend said there’s an After Effects reshape tutorial on the Cow. Since my actual last name is Herd, I was sold! I even bought some products from the advertisers!!
Shane’s P2 workflow was also very useful, circa 2006.-ish. He may be appalled to know that I still use his organizing technique in FCP X. Only, I use the Finder and Folders as bins and then select the option “import folders as keywords.” Another dirty little secret: Keywords ARE bins.
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Andy Neil This is where thinking of favorites as persistent INs/OUTs leads to some confusion. But if you consider that in any other NLE, you only get the last IN/OUT saved, then you are still ahead of the game even if you can’t overlap favorites.
Yes, I thought about that, and that made it seem pretty cool again. But then I got to thinking, in Premiere I can do this same sort of thing by creating subclips- and with those I can save overlapping segments individually.
At the end of the day, isn’t this whole favorites thing just a new approach to subclip creation? or am I missing something here?
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Richard Herd my friend said there’s an After Effects reshape tutorial on the Cow. Since my actual last name is Herd, I was sold!
This made me laugh… 🙂
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[Richard Herd] “Another dirty little secret: Keywords ARE bins.”
Exactly! Also events are projects and projects are sequences. The different names seem to offend some people.
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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Yes. Me.
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[Jules bowman] “Yes. Me.”
I wonder how difficult it would be for Apple to offer an option to revert some of the nonclementure of FCPX to that of Legend, surely it’s only a few text string changes?
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
Adrenalin Television
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