Timeline vs. viewer

[John Rofrano]

[Michael Carter] “I’ve tried compound clips, but I can’t maintain synch with those – cut a clip and everything slides sideways, and all those blank clips to deal with. Or does turning magnetic off solve that issue?”

What solves the issue is just using connected clips because they stay connected to the main storyline. If you cut a clip in a series of connected clips just that clip gets deleted and everything else stays in it’s place.

Do you object to using connected clips? Is that the problem? Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by “…and that non-track timeline is a nightmare of stuff leaping up and down every time you blade a cut. ” Are you blading connected clips? Why are things jumping? Perhaps two screen shots would help (a before and after).

I actually prefer FCP X because everything stays connected as I edit. You seem to be having the opposite experience.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Brett Sherman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Shift-f is reveal in Browser, which will mark the clip in and out from the timeline.”

Does anyone else find this Reveal in Browser doesn’t work well. For me the first time I select Reveal in Browser it doesn’t actually show me the clip I’m looking for. It will open the correct event, but not the actual clip. It takes two times for it to work. Then it’s not exactly easy to find. Sometimes it’s at the top, sometimes it’s at the bottom. It’s not in a consistent position in the browser. For these reasons I switch to list view when doing “Reveal in Browser” which always works perfectly.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Brett Sherman] “Does anyone else find this Reveal in Browser doesn’t work well. “

Yeah, it’s weird. I usually have the Event Viewer open which then if you hit play, the Browser then “scrolls” to the correct clip.

Even without the Event Viewer open, if you hit play after shift-f, the Browser catches up.

It’s definitely kinda flaky, but it does work.

[Andrew Johnstone]

I am doing my best to try ad learn FCPx (because one of my clients is insisting on rolling it out.

I’ll add my shout of a scrubber in the ‘event’ window on source media and a need for timecode in and out. Would be nice to add markers too. These are pretty basic. Scrubbing (hey, let’s call it “Skimming”…yay! Grrrr) in the browser window is fine, but not really accurate enough, Selecting in and outs in the source viewer is really much better.

I have tried FCPX a couple of times before and been deeply unimpressed. The database thing is very good, but in the latest versions 10.3, they seem to have cottoned on to the need for proper audio tracks – I see there are ‘Audio lanes’ now. Essential for sending projects to the dub that audio is properly organised in sync, ambient, effects, Music and VO tracks. No?

I can see that it I am finally going to be able to use this application (because I have to), but I really don’t think it is going to be my edit tool of choice. In the past weeks I have spoken to two colour graders and both have said “stick with Premiere’….I am not sure they are wrong.

Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com

[Brian Seegmiller]

You need to ask those grader guys why you should stick with Premiere. FCP X is a new animal and at first you might ask yourself, what the hell? Once you get it, you will probably love it. But your milage may vary.

[John Rofrano]

[Brian Seegmiller] “FCP X is a new animal and at first you might ask yourself, what the hell? Once you get it, you will probably love it.”

+1

I would never edit with an archaic track based NLE again if you paid me. What heck does tracks have to do with video? It’s a ridiculous paradigm. Video is a medium for telling stories. FCP X allows you to work with primary storylines and secondary storylines and clips are are connected to the story you are trying to tell. Get your head out of worrying about what track to place a clip on and into telling the story and FCP X will make a lot more sense. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com