Yesterday, for the first time, just for a while, I found myself wishing I had FCPX

[Chris Harlan]

Hey, maybe next year. I’d never been to the super-meet before; but I figured after the 2011 Hullabaloo that I’d check it out. It was fun.

[Derek Andonian]

[Atilio Menéndez] Avid or FCP7:

1. Set IN
2. Set OUT
3. Make subclip
4. Rename subclip (several keystrokes)
5. Go back to parent clip

FCPX:

1. Set IN
2. Set OUT
3. Apply keyword or favorite (usually just one keystroke)

My workflow in Premiere goes like this:

1. Set in
2. Set out
3. Drag clip from source monitor to bin in Project window
4. Rename

Not all that bad, and it creates an actual clip instead of a subclip, which I like.

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“Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Atilio Menéndez]

hi Dave,

you made me curious so I looked into my “method” again and discovered a way of working which is even more effective.

FIRST lay the interview on the timeline and by looking at the waveforms quickly insert edits at the pauses or remove chunks of silence, so you are more or less left with the interview divided into the “answers”.

THEN start working on the timeline index as i described. you should never have to touch the mouse during the process.

as you start playing the first clip you press “enter” to change its name. you can then type as the clip keeps playing and you can finish typing even as the next clip is already playing. you then press “enter”, then your shortcut for “select clip” (I use a key right next to “enter”) then “enter” again and begin typing again. if you type fast enough you never even have to stop playback. this is indeed very effective, especially since you type as the clips play and between clips only three very fast keytrokes are needed.

nice thing is when you are done you can organize the clips with help of the index. just looking at the list of clips you can, for instance, select several clips which are not next to each other but belong to the same “topic”. you can drag them around on the timeline and they automatically end neatly next to each other, no gaps in between. seems to me that it would suit very well the way you work and you DO see the clip names clearly both on the timeline and in the index.

here fcp7 is quite different. you must make clips independent first, renaming a clip stops playback, thumbnails get in the way of the names and filmstrips can’t be displayed together with names, and there is no timeline index, which is a huge help to select clips and see their names properly. also the “magnetism” makes organizing clips a breeze. how does premiere work here?

I don’t think the method is truly a “workaround”, rather a different manner of working. the “type as you play” aspect is a huge timesaver!

what still bugs me is the resulting lack of integration with keywords. ideally, i think, there should be proper subclips, and these would be listed under the parent clip, just like favorites, markers and keywords are. one method of creating these subclips could even be to open a clip in the timeline and to work like I described above.