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Open in timeline
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[Oliver Peters] “You’ve been able to do that all along in FCP legacy. Maybe since 1.0. That’s how I apply ALEXA LUT filters to source footage. When you cut these clips into a sequence, the filter is there and can be removed or adjusted.”
You can of course add filters to clips in fcp7 in the browser, but in X you can add a filter, and actually cut the clip apart/reorder it. Couldn’t do that without a sequence in fcp7.
If you compound first, it works like 7, sorta but not really.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” but in X you can add a filter, and actually cut the clip apart/reorder it. Couldn’t do that without a sequence in fcp7. “
Sorry. I could care less about that. It’s a stupid feature.
[Jeremy Garchow] “If you compound first, it works like 7, sorta but not really.”
Compound clips, just like nested sequences, are evil 😉 At present, it’s a pretty poorly implemented feature at that.
Sorry that I’m feeling a bit curmudgeonly, but my attitude towards FCP X diminishes the more I use it. I’m holding out to see where the next update takes it, but I’m not feeling very hopeful. I’ll stop here as this is the wrong thread for this.
Cheers,
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[Oliver Peters] “Sorry. I could care less about that. It’s a stupid feature.”
That’s what I was saying. It stopped making sense at some point when I was able to completely destroy a master clip.
[Oliver Peters] “Compound clips, just like nested sequences, are evil 😉 At present, it’s a pretty poorly implemented feature at that.
Sorry that I’m feeling a bit curmudgeonly, but my attitude towards FCP X diminishes the more I use it. I’m holding out to see where the next update takes it, but I’m not feeling very hopeful. I’ll stop here as this is the wrong thread for this”
All good. Let it out, I say.
I like that compounds are built in to the very nature of X, buy yeah, they need some help.
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[Mark Morache] “In FCP7 I can nest a sequence, chop it up and sprinkle it in my timeline, and when I change the original sequence, it changes every iteration of it in my timeline.
Is there anything like that in FCX?”
You can do this in FCP7 if you double click the nest from a sequence. It won’t ripple changes from editing a nest in the browser. In my opinion, it’s almost the same in X. Changes in the timeline do not reflect back to the Browser/Event.
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I just got burnt doing this myself.
Either I’m not getting something (I hope) or “Open in timeline” is really potentially a nightmare.
Am I understanding this right…
I’ve been editing exclusively in multiclip in X to this point, and when I would open a clip in the Multicam editor, I was able to make changes at that level that affected all instances of that clip at the higher “Project” [I think of it as sequence] level. I thought this was extremely powerful and a huge timesaver. It let me make a rough color correction and audio EQ at the start of editing which allowed me to make more informed edits before doing final fine tuning once it was cut.
I figured Open in timeline worked in a similar manner. Clearly, I was mistaken. Let’s say you put a clip on a track, open in timeline once, add a filter, cut that track into 100 clips – you now have 100 separate instances of that clip with an associated filter and you have no way of batch removing or pasting that effect should you want to change it, as they are all one layer deep. Is this correct?
I’ve spent all day fixing one such mess – the good news is I’ll never make that mistake again. The bad news is what could’ve been a powerful feature (open in timeline) is leaving me scratching my head as to why on earth I would ever find it useful.
FCPX continues to drive me nuts. The performance of it is generally so fast I can’t stop using it, yet at least once per project I hit something in the program that I find infuriating. If only Apple could release an NLE with this performance that was designed for video editors, not the generic Apple user.
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Compound clips have changed in how they work.
Changes made in a compound change everywhere. This is not how it sued to work when this post was written a year ago.
When you open a clip in timeline, it makes it a compound clip.
Is this the trouble you are having?
Jeremy
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