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Why can’t I move 2 clips?
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Understood but another reason why I really miss the manual save is for example if I’m testing something (an edit, an effect or transition, etc.) and FCP decides to crash midway, FCP just saved a state of my project that I wasn’t sure of keeping yet.
But in response to your suggestion: Saving projects as snapshots clutter my library. This would be ok if we had folders which we can organize but we don’t.
Xavier
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I was just going to add that the autosave benefits FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR outweigh any downsides. Look at it this way… old school you could work for half and hour, half a day, all day, and forget to save an lose it all. BUT hey you could always revert to a previous version. New school, do your diligence and make snapshots, which would have also been the responsible thing in other apps too, and move on. Like Jeremy says, it auto-backups every 15 minutes so you can always press undo for up to 15 minutes. ☺
And as far as undo jumping around, I used to see that a lot in version 1.x, but either they fixed 99% of the problem, or it was a way I was doing things. I think sometimes it has to do with the playhead/selection. Sometimes you can be making an edit where the playhead isn’t or you’re making a change where the selection isn’t or something like that and on undo the screen jumps to one or the other. Doesn’t happen much to me at all anymore.
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Looked perfectly normal to me. You’re fading them up and down or some other transition.
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[Xavier Paredes] “But in response to your suggestion: Saving projects as snapshots clutter my library. This would be ok if we had folders which we can organize but we don’t.”
I use Smart Collections.
I have one that is Projects only, and I filter out the word Snapshot.
Then I have another that is Projects only, and I filter it to include only the word Snapshot.
I also have one that filters final timelines, with the word “final” in it.
Like this:
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Good post/reply here. Interesting to read.
IMHO, FCPX has a ton of plusses that outweigh minuses.
Sure we can get into a debate (wrong site?) over this but in the end, it just does the job for me.
I am equally in the other NLEs and have been dipping into Resolve NLE of late.
Sadly I just don’t think I can get my head wrapped around that one.
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I do the same. Except no Final collection. Nothing is ever final. You’re just asking for trouble when you start doing that.
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Do you really need resolve to grade? Yes it’s amazing and has features probably needed by only feature films, but with Chromatic’s groups and motion tracking and features, you could probably keep most of it in the app. I’m never locked to picture enough to send something out. And even then, it’s a myriad of intertwined layers of graphics, crops, animations, color overlays, etc. that I’m not really sure how would transition to an xml. So many plugins and custom motion effects.
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[Bret Williams] “Do you really need resolve to grade?”
I would love to stay within one app but I live in a world of multiple NLEs due to the types of clients I work with.
Its soup to nuts when working with Indies, Docs, Music/Corp and full length features where I’m located.
Take what I can when I can.
So yea, I get different projects at different levels and eventually I need to hit a spot that I am comfortable with.
I make sure that clients don’t use any special plugins or odd workflows.
I even go as far as no scaling and transitions.
Well, I wish that was true 😛
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[Bret Williams] “I do the same. Except no Final collection. Nothing is ever final. You’re just asking for trouble when you start doing that.”
That’s why I name them “FinalCandidate_v1”
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Cool. I noticed those transitions, which is why I asked about why you have each clip in its own secondary storyline. It was different than how I do it. Thanks!
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC17″ MacBook Pro | 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 3 | FCPX | Motion 5 | Compressor 4“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject, you can create the consoling illusion it has been mastered.” – Stanley Kubrick
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