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Time-lapse, FCPX praise
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Allows for 16 or 32 bit RGB processing as opposed to whatever QT does (guessing 8 bit).”
That might be an advantage. I’m not sure what the processing is in QT. Then why not have FCPX handle this if Apple be so willing?
[Jeremy Garchow] “Allows more control over reframing.
Allows you to add any filters/retiming/pregrade.
Basically more control and quality.”
But this is what FCPX would do as well. If one goal of FCPX is to make things easier and more intuitive, it seems the simplest thing Apple could do is have direct import into FCPX.
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No question that handling image sequences in X would be great.
X still seems to be a .mov appliance, though.
Jeremy
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[Craig Seeman] ” When they don’t see any limits or such limits are removed with updates,
they will be quite happy.”One of the things was so basic that I’m ashamed to even mention it here.
She was (and so I was) baffled that FCPX can’t perform a simple “Find Unused Clips”
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[Christian Schumacher] “She was (and so I was) baffled that FCPX can’t perform a simple “Find Unused Clips””
An example of a limit that some hope to be included in an update. There’s plenty that’s not there yet. Unless you think Apple developed it as EOL out of the gate, I think it’s reasonable to assume little things like this will get added. I don’t think this would hang me on a time-lapse project.
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In my experience QuickTime 7 is much fast than Motion in turning image sequences into a movie. But that was Motion 4, I haven’t tried Motion 5. It was the difference between 10 seconds of processing in QuickTime vs 10 minutes in Motion. Or the difference between a minute of processing in QuickTime and an hour of spinning beach ball in Motion, followed by a crash.
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[Christian Schumacher] “One of the things was so basic that I’m ashamed to even mention it here.
She was (and so I was) baffled that FCPX can’t perform a simple “Find Unused Clips”
But hey, let’s wait until that marvelous tagging brain eventually gets that.”Uh, it “gets it” right now. And much, MUCH better than Legacy ever did.
You open the keyword index that displays a list of every shot in your timeline. Select them all. Temporarily mark them as REJECTED OR FAVORITES (or if you’re using those tags for something else apply a BINGO tag or whatever until you can clear one of those)- it’s only temporary. Then use “Hide rejected” or Show Favorites to display every single clip NOT used in your timeline. You’re exactly where the “show unused clips” convention was in Legacy – but it becomes just STEP ONE in being useful. Now that you’ve got the “Class” of all unused clips ID’d – you can really have fun.
You can sub-group them (maybe selects, possibles and dump) or apply sub group tags to any or all. When you’re happy with your new organization, just go back to the temporary TAG you used, delete your initial temporary REJECTED or FAVORITE tags and you’re left with all the subsequent tags in place to help you work better from that point on.
Once again, it’s not something that X “can’t do” but rather merely one of a thousand things that the database can do rapidly and easily – if you just take the time to actually learn how to use it.
Most flat file NLE databases think of USED or UNUSED as the beginning and end of clip sorting. It’s now actually just a trivial “step one” for the X database.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Bill Davis] ” Uh, it “gets it” right now. And much, MUCH better than Legacy ever did.”
Does this sound “MUCH better” to you? It does not to me…Sorry, Bill.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/6476#6515
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[Christian Schumacher] “Does this sound “MUCH better” to you? It does not to me…Sorry, Bill.
“Yes.
While it requires more thinking, understanding and intent – it simultaneously provides a gateway to vast amounts of organizational power that would be obscured to the new user if they got stuck just thinking “like all other NLEs – “show rejected” is one of the two or three designer specified commands you’re expected to use.
Again, begs the central question of this forum – Is X a new precision tool – or a “dumbed down” version of all the other NLE approaches?
Mark figured out one way to use the database to find “unused clips” – I found a slightly different way that both employ existing capabilities and share some.
Sounds like the mark of a pretty flexible and capable tool to me.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Sure. If speed vs quality is what you need, QT is fine. Motion is simply an alternative, another way.
I use AE for my image seq needs, but that’s not part of this conversation, really.
Jeremy
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[Bill Davis] “Uh, it “gets it” right now. And much, MUCH better than Legacy ever did.
You open the keyword index that displays a list of every shot in your timeline. Select them all. Temporarily mark them as REJECTED OR FAVORITES (or if you’re using those tags for something else apply a BINGO tag or whatever until you can clear one of those)- it’s only temporary. Then use “Hide rejected” or Show Favorites to display every single clip NOT used in your timeline. You’re exactly where the “show unused clips” convention was in Legacy – but it becomes just STEP ONE in being useful. Now that you’ve got the “Class” of all unused clips ID’d – you can really have fun.
You can sub-group them (maybe selects, possibles and dump) or apply sub group tags to any or all. When you’re happy with your new organization, just go back to the temporary TAG you used, delete your initial temporary REJECTED or FAVORITE tags and you’re left with all the subsequent tags in place to help you work better from that point on.
Once again, it’s not something that X “can’t do” but rather merely one of a thousand things that the database can do rapidly and easily – if you just take the time to actually learn how to use it.
Most flat file NLE databases think of USED or UNUSED as the beginning and end of clip sorting. It’s now actually just a trivial “step one” for the X database. “
My god Bill, seriously? Look at this multi-step convoluted work-a-round you have described and you’re proud of it? In 1998 Incite had a simple one-step command that accomplished this. Apple can do better than your workaround can’t they?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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