What slows you down?

[Herb Sevush]

[Joe Marler] ” I find the deficiencies in FCPX’s multicam are hugely irritating and time-consuming to work around. It is amazing to me these are not more widely discussed.”

Yes, the silence is deafening.

For some this is no big deal, for myself it’s just another reason I’m happier to be on Ppro. Maybe this will be addressed in future updates, right after color coded roles and Motion round tripping.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Craig Alan]

[Walter Soyka] “asset and shot management. By the end of a project, we’ll end up with hundreds of comps spread across dozens of files”

Could you dummy this down for me. what are the hundreds of comps related to the asset and shot management?

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

[John Davidson] “keyframes in FCPXand transforming clips
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I have considered this a strong suit in FCP X. I set the first keyframe and then As I transform as I move through the clip the keyframes are set automatically. But I haven’t used more advanced motion tools like after effects or motion so maybe at a high level it more problematic.

[John Davidson] “setting an in/out in the browser, hitting q, and either the in/out ranged clip goes into the timeline where I didn’t want it, only 2 frames goes into the clip where I did want it, or the ENTIRE clip forgets my in/out and goes into the timeline. This is probably me hitting the wrong key, but it happens so so often.”

can’t imagine what key that would be for those behaviors. Sounds like a bug. Q always works for me. Are you perhaps setting a target somehow in the timeline that is limiting what part of the range you set in the browser is actually edited to the timeline? Like a three point edit?

But one gotcha I run into all the time and it may somehow account for this miscue (pun intended) is My not being active in the window of X I think I’m active in. command 1 and 2. For example Q W or E a clip, I assume I am now in the timeline. But I’m not. So if i hit space to play, the wrong playhead is now moving. Another annoyance for me is if I have already set a range in the browser I can’t then mouse click drag a new range within the range I had already set. I have to drag AND use I and O to set a new range.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Alan] “what are the hundreds of comps related to the asset and shot management?”

A lot of our work is content for live events. We’ll produce hundreds of deliverables for an event, ranging from print pieces, individual slides, complete presentations, motion graphics, full video, etc. All those deliverables are the output from a production pipeline.

For After Effects work, a deliverable piece of media — a rendered file — correlates to a composition inside an After Effects project file. The AEP file which generates the work, which itself may be iterated/versioned, contains lots of comps (compositions) and precomps to handle iterations, versions, formats, etc.

To make a change to a deliverable, we have to track back to the AEP that generated it, then within that AEP, we must locate the comp that generated it. The change itself may need to be made to an asset upstream of Ae, like a logo from Illustrator or still graphic from Photoshop.

Basically, my computers-should-be-able-to-do-this-better complaint is that a single deliverable is dependent on dozens of iterative assets, but we don’t have awesome mainstream tools for pipeline management.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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