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There Is No Such Thing as an Asymmetrical Dissolve Transition.
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[Charlie Austin] “I might actually use secondary’s for MX beds now”
I always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.”
No no no no no.
Tracks, Simon. Tracks.
It’s the only way.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.
“+1 on that, I also use compounds as well, never use the primary
Yours sincerely
Steve Connor
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[Simon Ubsdell] ” always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.”
Actually, I do too, but I usually have A/B secondary’s – because it was quicker than expanding and dragging out/adusting the handles in the components in a single lane. Not anymore. 🙂
This trick also negates another issue I had with single secondary lanes…without a dissolve in the collapsed track, all you see is a cut point with no indication of whether it is just a cut, or an A/B crossfade. Using the dissolve shortcut though, you can see the difference, and also drag the edit point without switching tools. Less clicking = easier job = go home sooner. 🙂
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[Charlie Austin] “This trick also negates another issue I had with single secondary lanes…without a dissolve in the collapsed track, all you see is a cut point with no indication of whether it is just a cut, or an A/B crossfade. Using the dissolve shortcut though, you can see the difference, and also drag the edit point without switching tools. Less clicking = easier job = go home sooner. 🙂
“I use “expand splits” all the time. It’s so easy.
What I don’t like about dissolves is that the kb shortcuts don’t work as well.
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[Steve Connor] “[Simon Ubsdell] “I always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.
”+1 on that, I also use compounds as well, never use the primary”
That actually brings up another nice feature of X’ connection points. There was a post on fop.co from a music video editor (though this applies to anything) about how he would cut different sections, and move the mx secondary connection point around depending on the bit he was working on. He cut the middle first, move the connection to the end of it, worked on the section after it (leaving the cut to the previous bit in sync while allowing the bits after it to ripple as needed), got that locked, changed the connection to the beginning of the section he started with, and worked on the parts leading up to it while all the later parts remained locked.
The FCP X timeline sure is rigid and inflexible huh?
[Steve Connor] “Yours sincerely
Steve Connor”
lol
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I use “expand splits” all the time. It’s so easy.
What I don’t like about dissolves is that the kb shortcuts don’t work as well.”
Oh, definitely. But without the dissolve,effect on the clip, you “have to” expand splits to see your A/B vs. straight cuts. Once you change the A/B handles/fades under an expanded dissolve, the dissolve effect isn’t doing anything other than being a drag thumb/visual indicator. 🙂
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[Charlie Austin] “Oh, definitely. But without the dissolve,effect on the clip, you “have to” expand splits to see your A/B vs. straight cuts. Once you change the A/B handles/fades under an expanded dissolve, the dissolve effect isn’t doing anything other than being a drag thumb/visual indicator. :-)”
Yes, it’s a useful visual clue certainly. B
But the fact that it auto-creates the handles has to be a timesaver as against dragging them out manually, doesn’t it?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What I don’t like about dissolves is that the kb shortcuts don’t work as well.”
What issues to you have with this, Jeremy?
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[Simon Ubsdell] “But the fact that it auto-creates the handles has to be a timesaver as against dragging them out manually, doesn’t it?”
Yep. CMD-T, CTL-S, done. vs. CTL-S, click-drag, click-drag. Every second counts, the client is foaming at the mouth!
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