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Serious X Editing for Speed
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[Charlie Austin] “Easy if they’re generated titles. Select Edit>Find and Replace Title text.”
Good tip, but then you have to retype the phone number change each time you use a different number. How do you do this best when you are constantly doing this with a stock set of number variations? Like an infomercial that goes to different markets and gets refreshed monthly? Or if they are PNGs and animations?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “Good tip, but then you have to retype the phone number change each time you use a different number. How do you do this best when you are constantly doing this with a stock set of number variations? Like an infomercial that goes to different markets and gets refreshed monthly? Or if they are PNGs and animations?”
Oh, like you knew the numbers, and knew they would be changing? Honestly I’d just build ’em as Compounds in that case. That way even if they were .png’s or whatever you’d just change the master. I like the Pr replace from bin selection though for GFX clips, I could be wrong but I think in X you’d have to use the index and then just hit keystrokes a zillion times for those. But the replace text thing in X is really useful for generated titles.
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[Charlie Austin] “Oh, like you knew the numbers, and knew they would be changing?”
Well, or if they are supplied as a finished graphic file or animation customized with each number.
[Charlie Austin] ” I like the Pr replace from bin selection though for GFX clips, I could be wrong but I think in X you’d have to use the index and then just hit keystrokes a zillion times for those”
That’s the function I’m talking about.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “[Charlie Austin] ” I like the Pr replace from bin selection though for GFX clips, I could be wrong but I think in X you’d have to use the index and then just hit keystrokes a zillion times for those”
That’s the function I’m talking about.”
Yes, and if you don’t know in advance that you’d be changing them and they’re flat GFX files done externally then yes, this would be welcome in X, if they’re isn’t a way to do this already. i’ll poke around. 😉
But if you know in advance that the GFX will change, compounds (or nests in Pr) would be the easiest way to do it IMO.
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[Herb Sevush] ” found it much easier in the EMC2over 15 years ago. The worlds first digital NLE had a feature called a “ripple wall.” This was a blue line that cut thru the timeline wherever you set it and any ripple operation to the left of the wall had no effect on anything to the right of the wall.”
Although I can’t be certain that the credit for Ripple Wall belongs to me, I did suggest the idea to Bill Ferster over the phone one day. He liked it and called it a wall for ripple. It was in the next update.
This got me scurrying to Google to look up Bill who is one of the great pioneers of the NLE. Happy to report:
He is currently a research professor at the University of Virginia with a joint faculty appointment with the Curry School of Education and the Sciences, Humanities and Arts Network Initiative (SHANTI). He directs of a number of projects there including: VisualEyes, a web-based authoring tool to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations; PrimaryAccess which enables middle and high school students to create digital documentaries using primary source documents online; and dscourse which is a new generation online discussion tool.
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[David Cherniack] “Although I can’t be certain that the credit for Ripple Wall belongs to me, I did suggest the idea to Bill Ferster over the phone one day. He liked it and called it a wall for ripple. It was in the next update.”
I loved the way he used to credit editors for ideas he used in the documentation for each upgrade. Everyone likes to see his name in print. The EMC had a bunch of innovative features I’ve never seen elsewhere.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Being basically a one man band Bill was both the Development and Marketing manager and could listen to users in ways that are impossible today. Many features of the EMC2 were way ahead of its time. The one major flaw was no undo 🙂
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@ Oliver
Not using the replace function. Using compound clips. Update the parent and all children follow.
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