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Switched…then switched back?
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “I’m only saying that if you’d like a easier, faster, more responsive way to add keyframes, then that tool exists in FCP7. If you’re happy without it then you don’t need it of course, but calling keyframing audio levels in FCP7 a “pain-in-the-ass” ignores tools designed precisely to make such a thing easier.”
I see what you’re saying, but we were originally talking about “dissolves” aka crossfades. Faders are the last tool I would choose to do that given the other tools at hand. And I still find faders a PITA, even with heavy smoothing and a control surface. Better than mouse clicks, and definitely useful, but anything that takes my focus out of the timeline is a PITA to me. There are things in X that are a PITA as well. But getting good, fast, accurate crossfades in audio clips isn’t one of them.
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[Richard Herd] “That was fun. So in a DAW, we can set the app to auto crossfade when two clips collide. Can X do that?”
Yes, but it’s a top secret undocumented feature only available to true fan boys. That and “Fixed Track Mode” It’s really great!
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Have you tried the cross dissolve/ fade? isn’t it bananas? It’s basically a rigid overlay that allows you to continue trimming and rolling the cut either end of it. If you hover at the top left or right end of the dissolve, it allows you to trim the clip/or rather the entire connected sequence based on that edge of the dissolve. look:
https://i.imgur.com/qguFCK4.jpg
you’re about to magnetically trim the entire top of that edit, with all connected clips, off the back of that dissolve edge. it’s kind of a dissolve, but really it’s another three implied edit points – centre right and left – where you can act on the entire connected sequence.
It’s total raging madness. that timeline is, I submit: certifiably insane. for god’s sake even the dissolves are insane?
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “hey charlie, come on – we just can’t comprehend this future microwave you’re wielding. It’s you know, beyond our ken.”
I think you may be conflating my feelings about all you damn trackheads with someone else’s. 😛
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oh but no charlie. you agreed heartily with john. there is no force on god’s creation that can take back that future microwave comment.
Said John about X as Charlie nodded in reply: “I feel like I’m describing how the microwave works to my Grandpa.”
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[Richard Herd] “[Charlie Austin] “[Franz Bieberkopf] “[Charlie Austin] “I was actually referring to editing/mixing the actual music”
Charlie,
So was I.
”Well then, clearly we are both correct. ;-)”
That was fun. So in a DAW, we can set the app to auto crossfade when two clips collide. Can X do that?”
Not sure about FCPX… But that’s been the default behavior in Vegas since the Sonic Foundry days. I think they even have 20 or 30 curves to choose from. 🙂
Shawn
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “oh but no charlie. you agreed heartily with john. there is no force on god’s creation that can take back that future microwave comment.”
Oh… the explaining to grandpa comment. Well, ok then, yes. Although, like gramps, you understand it, you just don’t like this newfangled contraption. 🙂
Speaking of newfangled contraptions… I used to be able to do really accurate crossfades by scraping them in mag tracks. You can get some really precise curves with a razor blade. This computerized stuff is way too divisive. 😉
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soundtrack pro had that behaviour as well right? Although I was never more than poking around in it for noise samples.
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[Charlie Austin] “Although, like gramps, you understand it, you just don’t like this newfangled contraption.”
oh charlie, oh charlie. What are we to do with you.. 🙂
[Charlie Austin] “Speaking of newfangled contraptions… I used to be able to do really accurate crossfades by scraping them in mag tracks. You can get some really precise curves with a razor blade. This computerized stuff is way too divisive. ;-)”
Sure the father nearly lost a limb in the room (he said) off one of the early big steel spinning magnetic recorder assemblies coming unstuck and lashing out. those babies were fierce danger like..
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “oh charlie, oh charlie. What are we to do with you.. 🙂
“🙂
[Aindreas Gallagher] “Sure the father nearly lost a limb in the room (he said) off one of the early big steel spinning magnetic recorder assemblies coming unstuck and lashing out. those babies were fierce danger like..”
I believe him.
https://www.flashscan8.us/images/MB51-WhiteBG.jpg
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