Resolve XII…

[Bret Williams]

Yeah I dunno. Most stuff is short form 3-6 min. But often I’ll have 5 related videos (projects) in the job (library). Each of those might have 5-10 versions as snapshots and each of those is usually a good bit of color correction (every shot) titles, motion templates and compounds with templates and titles/generators. Still, nothing earth shattering. Same stuff I did with FCP 7 which didn’t lag and only accessed 4gigs of Ram and no GPU.

Not sure how anyone could be using FCP7 anymore though. It’d have to be a unique environment where nobody shoots h264 variants or uses a still image over 4000 pixels.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “But often I’ll have 5 related videos (projects) in the job (library). Each of those might have 5-10 versions as snapshots”

Again, same here, more projects and snapshots actually…

[Bret Williams] “usually a good bit of color correction (every shot) titles, motion templates and compounds with templates and titles/generators.”

There’s the difference, I don’t do much, if any correction, and while I do use lots of compounds, I don’t use many templates, and my titles are usually built separately and then imported as movies (so more that 1 editor can access ’em) I’d suspect the titles actually, especially if they’re built in comps.

[Bret Williams] “Not sure how anyone could be using FCP7 anymore though.”

Yeah, I occasionally have to pop into it and, much as I love it, it’s really hard to work in now. I’d pick Pr over 7 if it was my only choice, but there are some close to show-stopping audio issues in 2015 that make that option kinda painful too. R12 is much better than 11, but has it’s own quirks too. Oh well….

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[Charlie Austin]

Coincidentally, I wrote a little post a while ago that seems https://fcpxpert.net/2015/06/22/n-l-evangelism/“>appropriate to link here.

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[Lance Bachelder]

I so concur! Been working all weekend on a show and it the magnetic timeline is a double-edged sword for sure. Has nothing to do with training wheels or not knowing how to use it – just the fact that it can get in the way sometimes and actually be quite maddening. For instance some sync audio attaching to slug instead of a clip and having move it out of sync to break it away from the slug. Or deleting a clip and not realizing some sound fx and a 3 minute music track were attached to the 36 frame piece of nothing.

That said, I love FCPX and just finished my first Red Dragon feature film cutting .r3d’s in real-time – NO PROXY’S! I actually start color timing the entire show in FXPX at 4K rez tomorrow! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4486728/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Still, I’m looking forward to testing out Resolve 12 and will make the switch if it meets my needs – just like I switched to FCPX 10.2 when I felt it met my current needs.

It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Charlie Austin]

[Lance Bachelder] “For instance some sync audio attaching to slug instead of a clip and having move it out of sync to break it away from the slug. Or deleting a clip and not realizing some sound fx and a 3 minute music track were attached to the 36 frame piece of nothing.”

That sort of thing used to drive me batsh*t as well, until I figured out this little “pan handling” trick…

[Lance Bachelder] “I actually start color timing the entire show in FXPX at 4K rez tomorrow!”

Cool! 🙂

[Lance Bachelder] “Still, I’m looking forward to testing out Resolve 12”

It’s much better than 11. Is it ready to be the “main axe”, so to speak… I dunno. I’m not sure that’s the intent, but who knows…

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[Steve Connor]

[Lance Bachelder] ” For instance some sync audio attaching to slug instead of a clip and having move it out of sync to break it away from the slug”

Surely you simply change the connection point? Press CMD+Option then click on the new clip where you want it to connect to.

[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “Surely you simply change the connection point? Press CMD+Option then click on the new clip where you want it to connect to.”

Yes, unless a clip starts or ends before/after the clip you’d like it to connect to, not uncommon in my world. the technique in my reply above solves that…

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[Bill Davis]

Then you just hold the tilda key to shift the connected clip until the connection point no longer presents a conflict. X mostly frustrates those who gave the learned it properly. That’s not to say it’s perfect. No NLE can claim that. But it’s certainly easier to understand for the editor who actually knows how to operate it.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “Then you just hold the tilda key to shift the connected clip until the connection point no longer presents a conflict. “

That’s not a solution to what lance describes. If the clip should be connected to a clip it does not extend under for connection, meaning it’s audio that “belongs” to something it doesn’t overlap – A rise leading up to a hit that connects to the first far of a shot for instance- the only quick way to connect it is what I described. Check it out.

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[Bill Davis]

Charlie,
Are you saying that there’s an audio sync issue that can’t be solved in X via a simple combination of tilda drag, combined with connection point re-positioning, combined with rolling the primary or secondary plus the judicious use, perhaps of gap clips for spacing something like the head of sequences when you want to essentially do something like a first frame j-cut? You are definitely cutting something pretty unusual if an easy to execute combination of those capabilities can’t get you what you want. I’d like to see that project, cuz I’m having trouble visualizing the stopper here.

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