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Quoi faire?
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[Shane Ross] “BEing able to tell, by looking, what track is SFX and what is MUSIC. The magnetic Timeline is a complete mess IMHO.”
You have no idea! I mean it is so messy as to be ridiculous. Apple immediately needs to correlate a color with a role, or better yet, let me define that.
I label MUSIC, then it gets RED
I label VO, then it gets BLUE.And so on. Right now everything is green. That will solve my problem from yesterday.
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What colored ribbon? If you can actually assign colors to roles, would someone please send me a clue!
You can also select clips via control-clicking and make them a Compound Clip (CMD-[ and ]) allows you to move between CCs pretty fast. Once they are a CC, you can adjust the audio as a whole, which is not a track, btw; it just pretends to be. Effects, EQs etc can be applied to individual clips and to the whole CC.
The solution here is not that complicated. Colors to roles. Then a window to view audio mixing. Assigned colors show up as levels, etc.
Thanks!
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That’s what they said about germ theory 😉
It’s a pun…on “bugs.”
Oh well.
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It looks very much like it did in 1997 when it ran under MS-DOS, which was pretty mind blowing even way back then. Coming from the Avid Mac interface it was kind of a shock at first, it looked pretty ancient with the flat colors and all. I eventually got used to it and even liked it.
The shark icon that served as a wastebasket has also made it into the 21st century.I thought they would completely rework the GUI, but they’ve decided to proudly acknowledge their heritage as one of the most venerable nles out there I guess. I wonder if they’re not worried that some people may be put off by it.
On the other hand they’re the first nle to sport a genuinely retro interface…
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[Renato Sanjuán] ” Coming from the Avid Mac interface it was kind of a shock at first, it looked pretty ancient with the flat colors and all. “
Hey, what’s old is new again. Have you seen the Start window–or whatever it is now called–for Windows 8?
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OK – I was using FCS 3 for last two years. I bought MC 5.5 during cheap 999$ cross grade in october and, to be honest, I learned (poorly) it but was doing all of my editing in FCP 7. When I got a new macbook i also got mc 6.01. After one test job (paid) all I can say is that is vastly superior to FCS7 (speed, format acceptance through AMA). After about an hour of basic tutorials I was able to edit normal 5 min job for nationwide broadcaster. I tried to use FCPX but is counterintuitive ( And I was a real AVID hater! )and difficult in basic editing. Also the way it hadles media is really annoying. It is neither precise nor fast and ALSO it handles h264 far less efficently than MC 6.01. The only thing that is really well played from apple side is the new motion – I use it for titles and simple ADs – it`s perfect. That said (and me being all for apple products guy) I cant find any uses for FCPX – maybe in 4 k editing but I m not doing any …
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Can you color your source clips? Does that color carry over to the timeline? That’s one of the ways I did that in FCP Legacy.
Shane
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[Michael Brassert] “No one is bashing Avid or Premiere Pro.”
I certainly bashed Avid 8 years ago when I made the switch to FCP. BOY did I bash it. MANY people basehd it. That’s how FCP got a foothold in broadcast TV, because Avid sucked on nearly every level. It was BAD! FCP came about, and Avid started losing market share, and money, so they shaped up quick! But, I still bash them…their 16 channel realtime audio playback limit is a joke, and 24 channels of audio (and video, BTW), is downright stupid!
Premiere? Yeah, I bash them. Their media management is worse than FCP legacy, and that means it is BAD. Still is bad. Working native only is full of potential issues…and real issues. Forget offline/online workflow…just isn’t possible without a LOT of work that isn’t worth it. Relinking…if you are lucky you’ll get a bunch of clips to relink at a time, otherwise you need to relink one file at a time if you move the footage anywhere.
No, I bash the other guys…and FCP Legacy too, when it deserves it. But FCX took such a radical turn, completely unexpectedly, and is mostly unusable in areas where it was used heavily (feature film, broadcast TV). That’s why we bash it so heavily.
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “I certainly bashed Avid 8 years ago when I made the switch to FCP. BOY did I bash it. MANY people basehd it. That’s how FCP got a foothold in broadcast TV, because Avid sucked on nearly every level. It was BAD!”
Yup.
[Shane Ross] “But, I still bash them…their 16 channel realtime audio playback limit is a joke, and 24 channels of audio (and video, BTW), is downright stupid!”
Agreed.
[Shane Ross] “No, I bash the other guys…and FCP Legacy too, when it deserves it. But FCX took such a radical turn, completely unexpectedly, and is mostly unusable in areas where it was used heavily (feature film, broadcast TV). That’s why we bash it so heavily.”
Hear, hear! Or, “Yup, yup!” Whichever is more appropriate.
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[Shane Ross] “Can you color your source clips? Does that color carry over to the timeline? “
No.
No.
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