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why! why! why!
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[walter biscardi] ”
This is because the freeze is just a generated image that no longer has timecode. I honestly have never had to match back to a freeze frame in all my work. Didn’t even know that was an issue.”Well, this is one case where I have to say that Avid does it better. In FCP, the freeze doesn’t have a timecode but Avid can keep track of it somehow and that’s a better implementation. You may never had to match back a freeze frame but plenty of people do, and they’ve frequently asked about it from Avid to FCP.
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If you have a multilayer sequence with effects and motion applied to clips, how does Avid keep track of the TC of the freeze frame?
All the best,
Tom
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[Jason] “Why can’t their be an effects window that shows up the effects on a clip when you select it rather than double cliking here there and every where just to see them.”
Agree, I’d like an alternative to grabbing & moving the video tab in the viewer window when working in the motion or filters tabs.
Using the canvas to see the updates doesn’t work for seeing the effect on a clip in layer when there’s more than one layer.
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perhaps a HUD display a la Motion would be a good solution? It can show effects and motion properties.
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[Chi-Ho Lee] “perhaps a HUD display a la Motion would be a good solution? It can show effects and motion properties.”
a while back tom wolsky pointed out a patent application from Apple that showed a new FCP interface that looked very similar to Motion. Since we have not seen this yet, I’m assuming it might be tied into Leopard. So perhaps we’ll get the HUD when Leopard comes out.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Tom Wolsky] “If you have a multilayer sequence with effects and motion applied to clips, how does…keep track of the TC of the freeze frame? “
Hi
Seems to me that a 21st Century databased asset NLE, capable of project multi-user SAN operation, could have Project code that could be expected to do that just fine.Of couse those of you gurus who’ve sold your souls to a maintaining a 1997 Key-Lost-Its-Grip application’s high profile could be expected to come out fighting for the old ways.
No offence, Its time for a change = codebase rewrite.
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[PaulD] “Of couse those of you gurus who’ve sold your souls to a maintaining a 1997 Key-Lost-Its-Grip application’s high profile could be expected to come out fighting for the old ways.”
Don’t worry, we’ll all line up to help you the next time you have an issue you need help with.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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Hi
Thankfully, you will. And the rest 😉
But a robust, idiot-proof – so I can use it 🙂 – collaborative muti-access shared project/asset workflow seems absolutely crucial to taking Final Cut Studio forward at this time, given the way the video-edit industry is taking to FCS in droves at the moment – certainly here in the UK.That would facilitate a proper Undo History, and allow an asset Properties Inspector which could give full access to a freeze frame’s creation history. To cite but two minor possible enhancements.
Maybe once the 3G rework/roll-out of the iPhone is complete, by say 2010, then Apple’s planners will be allowed to make a start on specifying a 20th Anniversary FCS…
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Paul:
“Of couse those of you gurus who’ve sold your souls to a maintaining a 1997 Key-Lost-Its-Grip application’s high profile could be expected to come out fighting for the old ways.
No offence, Its time for a change = codebase rewrite.”no offence taken here.
it really is about time FCP made a big leap.
FCP6 hardly warrants the new version#all we’ve been getting for years are little patch-ups
along with a dazzling free gift or two.its a big job, i know,
and writing a rock-solid foundation isn’t going to “Sex up” FCP as much a free new application.
but hopefully it’ll happen one day.nick
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Tom
AFAIK the situation doesn’t arise because Avid can’t do freezes on a sequence frame, only from a source clip.
This seems to be a common complaint from ex-Avid editors but I’ve never missed it myself or understood why it’s so crucial. If the freeze frame in the sequence has moving footage on either side (it usually does), then just I’d match frame to that.
I wonder whether people are making freeze frames from the sequence rather than matchframing to the source clip first and then making the freeze frame (so at least the clip name and source TC are in the new clip name).
Martin
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