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Oh dear, we will switch to fcpx!
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I think it’s possible to speculate about the potential difficulties.
If it were as easy as flipping the ON switch, I suspect they’d have done it by now.”
Yep.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Or the one that one that comes with the OS that comes after Yosemite.”
That one’s called Glacier I think.
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[Tim Wilson] “That one’s called Glacier I think.”
There was me thinking it would be called Disneyland.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Somewhere along the way though that attitude morphed from ‘having choices is good’ to ‘having choices is good, but if you don’t choose FCP X you’re an idiot’.”
Also funny is how some of the non-X folks have gone from “it’s not pro” to “it’s good to have options”! And it is.
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[Craig Alan] “Can you help me out here. What exact replace edit? FCP X can replace from the In point of both, the out point of both, the entire clip for clip or retimed like fit to fill. What can’t it do?”
park the playhead on frame of a clip in the project, find the matching frame in a browser clip and park the playhead on it, replace the project clip with the source clip *at the playhead* and fill the space on either side of the playhead. Every major NLE can do it.
[Craig Alan] “2. The multicam editor I assume won’t cover your need? “
Sort of, not really. it’s a kludge as generally you’re editing one sequence as you play them both side by side to compare. Not so easy/impossible with a multicam clip. You can also make a CC of CUT A, and line it up in CUT B’s project and resize it to 25% or something. A kludge.[Craig Alan] “3. Have you looked at all the plug-ins that add time code to X?”
Not what some folks need. They’d like something like this:
X is awesome, but there are still some things that need either implementation, or re-imagination. As long as it works I don’t care if they call match frame replace “Magic Morph” if it does the job. And I hope we don’t have to wait for OS X Magic Mountain® for it to happen:-)
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[Scott Witthaus] “Also funny is how some of the non-X folks have gone from “it’s not pro” to “it’s good to have options”! And it is.”
It wasn’t pro before, but Apple has made a lot of good strides. 😉
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[Andrew Kimery] ”
The ‘If you don’t like X you must be a dumb dinosaur’ tropes need to die.”My apologies. I didn’t mean to offend. It was a flippant remark and I did not intend to have it mean anyone’s a “dinosaur.”
The point I wanted to make was that anyone can learn to work with the X timeline efficiently if they want to.
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[Charlie Austin] “park the playhead on frame of a clip in the project, find the matching frame in a browser clip and park the playhead on it, replace the project clip with the source clip *at the playhead* and fill the space on either side of the playhead. Every major NLE can do it.”
Thank you. Just so I know I get it:
Are we talking about a match frame?
If so does this do it?
Place playhead in the timeline on the frame to match
select the clip to be replaced.
right click and select ‘reveal in browser’.
This will show the clip or the matching range of the original clip in the browser
with a line that matches the playhead location in the timeline.
in the timeline select the range to be replaced and press D
the selected range in the browser replaces the clip/range set in the timeline.Or are we talking about any frame in any clip in the browser?
If so I assume it would be to match a certain beat like an explosion or crossing the finish line??
In that case it would take several steps in X.
Hope this is clear.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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[Craig Alan] “Or are we talking about any frame in any clip in the browser?”
Yes. that one. 🙂
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If you come from FCP7 you are in for a treat. And if only for the advantages of using a 64-bit machine (I hope you also upgraded hardware, because FCPX needs a new GPU).
After you enjoy the ease of organizing your footage and materials in the event, you will find that timelines are not messy at all. On the contrary when I look at timelines on twitter (e.g. on timeline tuesday) the AVID timelines look “messy” to me even when they are neatly tidied up. I just don´t see the need for 42 tracks anymore in my work.
Some people here keep pointing at issues they have at their current workflow which FCPX does solve differently (or maybe not at all). I could point at many issues a FCPX user has in CC or Avid just as much.
Other people keep feeling offended by the terms FCPX introduced. Well, I never used the FCP-term “sequence” which was just as arbitrary as calling it “project”. For me usually it is a timeline, but I often use the term project for the timeline, especially when the job consists of ONE timeline that consists of several other timelines/compounds/multicams and assets. In FCPX every clip or asset can be its own timeline (there is a command “Open in Timeline”…it doesn´t say project there). Timeline and project are different terms and it makes sense when you understand the workflow. And I don´t want to call anyone an idiot as some of you accused another user of, just say if you never learned and understood the tool maybe you shouldn´t judge it by your current workflow, because I could pick that apart from an FCPX standpoint also. But since I don’t know Avid good enough, I don´t even start it. I have tried Premiere CC, but after using FCPX for 3 years it seems like such a step backwards I gave up comparing it to X.
Every NLE has its strengths. FCPX match frame is different and yes it lacks Timecode functionalities. I don´t miss it since I can look at every timecode of every clip any time in the timeline (via “clip skimming”) and I don´t need to see 15 time codes at once (after all my audio is synced up at all times and clip connections, multicams or auditions take care of other sync-spots).
Will Mark have growing pains…of course. There are growing pains when switching from automatic gears to manual gear shifting in a car and vice versa. It is all about staying open minded, listen to people and learn from editors who have successfully used X already. For docs there is no tool that can help organizing vast amounts of data as smart as FCPX does. So good luck on that journey, Mark!
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