Precision Editor

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Wilson] “I confess that I’ve not exactly finished building out the member profile feature set, and will be happy to take suggestions. Drop me a note offline if you have any ideas.

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My suggestion is that you give yourself a hearty pat on the back for adding in such useful features 🙂

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Craig Alan] “Jeremy, I played with this but don’t yet find it useful. “

Yeah, I don’t know if it’s very useful. I just said it was possible! 🙂

It is useful if you want to see beyond the edge of a clip in the timeline without going in to another moe or match framing.

The video is viewable in the Viewer.

[Craig Alan] ” If I use red clip skimmer to go to a frame in the handle, how do I set the new out point? I can move the edit point using the comma period keys dragging it to the red skimmer but this is kind tedious. “

I think you covered this, but shift X will extend the selected edit point, but it audio, video, or both.

[Craig Alan]

Thanks Jeremy

Yeah I get it now. But I do like seeing both handles to determine what my options are. Each project is different though so you never know if this might come in handy. Not sure why shift X wasn’t working for me the first few times I tried it but maybe I was passed the handles or just need to be parked on the edit point.

But yeah I’m really pleased with the \ for video and shift \ for audio command to set up trimming at an edit point. and shift x to set new edit point … very cool.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Colon and apostrophe (US keyboard) also move the playhead to the next/previous edit point, so you don’t have to move very far to make this really fast with practice.

Apostrophe to edit point, Shift ] to select right audio edge (and expand on the same command) and then comma or period to move the audio edge by one frame, add shift to move by 10 frames, or skim and hit shift-x to extend the edit.

[Scott Witthaus]

[Robin S. Kurz] “I wanted/needed that tiny size for editing, I’d use one of the first three display options and simply move the clip height slider all the way to the left.”

I use “chicklet” view often. But I would really like the ability to re-size the clips in this view like all the other views. Am i missing something?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Steve Connor]

[Scott Witthaus] “I use “chicklet” view often. But I would really like the ability to re-size the clips in this view like all the other views. Am i missing something?
“

No – you’re using it wrong 🙂

[Jeremy Garchow]

I use chiclet as well, especially when reviewing 30 min shows with clients.

I also have setup kb shortcuts for direct selecting all the clip appearance options, as well as cycling the options. (Control-option 1-6 to choose specific views, and control-option up/down arrow to cycle).

Very helpful and fast to get from one view to the next.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Scott Witthaus] “But I would really like the ability to re-size the clips in this view like all the other views. Am i missing something?”

Apparently the first three display options, yes. 😉

– RK

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[Craig Alan]

Jeremy,
great idea to be able to toggle between the appearance views.
When you are in chicklet view how do you identify what clip you are looking at?
Have you given each clip a unique name? It would have to be short if squeezed into visible portion of timeline.

It would be kinda cool to have some auto naming of clips in the timeline as an option like 1V 2V for visual clip # 1 and 2 – not replacing any other name or keyword but just as a way you could say hey could you cut 5V or move 5V after 8V. Thus making it easier to talk to clients/collaborators about a particular clip? You know without folks pointing at the timeline and trying to turn the monitor into a pad.

As far as seeing the whole timeline, shift-z does a nice job. The only advantage I see to chicklet view is displaying just names?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Craig Alan] “When you are in chicklet view how do you identify what clip you are looking at?
Have you given each clip a unique name? It would have to be short if squeezed into visible portion of timeline. “

As you can see, when viewing all ~30 mins, you can’t see much of file names on either view (the naming is set to Roles here).

Here’s the typical picon and waveform view:

And the same in chiclet view:

If I ever need a filename, I can either match frame back to the original, or select the file, and get it from the info tab of the inspector, or open the timeline index.

This timeline has 1100 times in it. Finding a clip with a client is going to be a modicum of pointing and saying “right there”. Selecting clips with the ‘c’ key also makes this easy.

The timeline index also makes it easy to jump around in time. If you are working with collaborators in FCPX (like other editors/artists) ToDo markers are very handy as you can scroll through the list and jump right to the marker from the list.

The advantage to chiclet view is to allow very large timelines to be viewed on one screen as well as to get rid of the performance slow downs of picons and waveforms. I can easily hit a keyboard command to bring them back and work with them if need be. Again, I usually use chiclet view on long timelines with clients in the room, otherwise, I am in some sort of waveform view.