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I’ve re-read it all but I remain unconvinced that using favorites for this purpose is a good idea. Works for you and that’s great but it’s just a bit too “hacky” and fraught with potential pitfalls for me. Would like to hear some other voices on this.
Martin
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Perhaps if you were to make a live screen recording it would make it a bit clearer than screenshots and text explanations.
Although it might seem obvious I think it would break any conceptual barriers. Maybe skip the tedious part of naming the favorites but have a bunch of them across a few clips and then do a search so it will be obvious you can find specific favorites. -
[Martin Baker] “I’ve re-read it all but I remain unconvinced that using favorites for this purpose is a good idea.”
That’s analogous to saying that being able to search clips for dialog with the given tools is not a good idea. Or you simply don’t want it to work with FCP? I don’t know.
You think that using keyword ranges for more or less the same task is a bad idea, just as I do. But that’s what “Magic Keywords” do. And if I’m even vaguely understanding what you’re trying to get at with “hacky”, then that for me describes it perfectly. That’s the most “hacky” (and convoluted and messy) use of keywords that I can think of. Especially in light of the existence of favorites.
[Martin Baker] “it’s just a bit too “hacky” and fraught with potential pitfalls for me.”
Again, I still don’t know how using a feature in absolutely no unusual way and with everything it has to offer (defining, naming, filtering) is somehow “hacky“? I’m showing you how it can be done in FCP X i.e. the solution to what you call “problem”. No idea which “pitfalls” you could be referring to. From the screenshot you posted, you would merely need to hit CTRL-F... done. You’d have exactly what you’re saying you can’t get. Where’s the “pitfall” in that? What’s “hacky“? Seriously, I have no idea. If you insist on having markers… add them at the beginning of each favorite range!
– RK
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[Martin Baker] “problem is that you still can’t see which marker/keyword/favorite it matches. “
Right at that moment…CTRL-F… done.
No idea how much easier one can make or explain it.
– RK
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