Title slate from my latest FCP-X home movie!

[Charlie Austin]

Needs more particles. 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Timothy Auld]

What?! You did that with FCPX? Wait until some evil corporate entity comes along and upsets your cushy workflow. What will you do then?? (My guess is you will learn whatever comes along that works within your business model.) Looks nice by the way. Charlie’s completely valid criticism notwithstanding.

Tim

[David Mathis]

[Charlie Austin] “Needs more particles. ;-)”

Also needs a lens flare 🙂

[Gary Huff]

[TImothy Auld] “You did that with FCPX?”

Dropping a template into FCPX isn’t exactly earth-shattering.

[Timothy Auld]

Didn’t say it shattered the earth. What I said was it works in his business model.

Tim

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “Didn’t say it shattered the earth”

There’s a plug in for that too.

*sorry Bill, though really, what did you expect… 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Bill Davis]

A) it’s a title screen cap. Done by a designer. Part of a motion graphics package custom created by a working graphics professiona for this particular “home movie.”. (And trust me, Charlie, there are plenty of particles and flares in the actual animation!) Opening a whole string of clips, inserts, montages and bumpers I was tasked to create, edit, assemble and output in FCP-X.

B – the point is that it’s kinda, pretty, hugely far from a home movie. My use of X is neither extraordinary, nor particularly innovative. I just used it to cut the kind of professional video work for money that everyone here does day after day, week after week to pay the bills.

C. The way X works with its integrated database and search system cut both hours and lots of grief out of the process. Particularly in moments such as when the project producer (who had to juggle the structural issues of which awards went into which segments) was able to ask me if we’d put clip 87 in segment 2 or segment 3 – and with a couple of keystrokes in a Timeline index, I could tell her in a snap.

And don’t get me started on how magnetism let me shift completed show segments around via drag and drop as the show order evolved.

Pretty good for “home movie” software, indeed!

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “Like I said, nice little “home movie.””

I think, going forward – rather than wasting your time justifying anything you do – the best response to anyone who plays the “home movie” card, should be something similar the end of this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgMXh0s81oo

😉

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[Chris Harlan]

[Charlie Austin] “I think, going forward – rather than wasting your time justifying anything you do – the best response to anyone who plays the “home movie” card, should be something similar the end of this clip:
“

Ask them if they’re a fitness freak?

[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “Ask them if they’re a fitness freak?”

Of course. The most egregious insult ever! lol

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~