Alban Egger
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Another tip:
As mentioned for very long clips List view is good, because you have one long line for the clip. Use skimming and you just hover through the clip.When listening to it and finding nice quotes in the interview, mark the quote and hit “F”…..now this quote is a “Favorite” and has a green bar on that section. While you are at it you can give it a keyword, so it is in its own bin. This is useful if several people speak about the same subject. If you want to have all quotes regarding the rainy weather…..go to the RAINY WEATHER bin and they are all there, already set with I/O just like subclips were in FCP.
And you can also put the RAINY WEATHER keyword to your B-roll footage. Then make a smart collection for the keywords B-ROLL & RAINY WEATHER and it is collected in its own bin.
And your original clip has several green F-areas in the end. All these favourite areas can be selected by clicking the green bars in the filmstrip. This selects the I/O for that favourite range and you can 3-point-edit it from there.
For managing long interviews FCPX is a huge step forward IMO.
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Jeremy I have tried that, but it doesn´t work for me. It adds a new clip to the event, but doesn´t replace the existing one (same codec, same duration, same name and directory).
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Hey Craig, I agree the database can´t ignore fields on its own. But in legacy FCP I had the option to override it and even use a totally different clip (new name, new codec, even different duration).
FCPX does so MANY things so they are “safe” for their databse, but they have to implement manual overrides just like in this case, if they really want to make this software usable on all levels.
If FCPX has to skip a field it should simply ask “are you sure” and you say yes or no. I don´t see a huge problem there changing this, but I see a huge problem for many users if they don´t.
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I have only had great results so far with the 7D and H4N and the new sync tool.
But, because the audiomof the 7D is a few frames off, so is the synced H4N audio.
And the 7D doesn’t follow exactly filmstandards framerates. It drifts a little, so sometimes in long takes you need to adjust the snyced clip. But that is the same even if you manually sync them on FCP7 in my experience. -
I worked with it for 5 weeks now extensively and there are no audioclips randomly merging or jumping above the video. There are also no clips vanishing with me.
Clearly sounds like you have no idea how FCPX works and maybe use wrong keyboardshortcuts!?
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Did you already create several events/projects?
Did you try to leave it for half an hour and see if it settles down? Maybe one of your existing events or projects is corrupted/broken.I would make a new directory (e.g. “FCPXfolders” and put the existing “Final Cut Events” and “Final Cut Projects” folder in there. Then FCPX will create new ones and open fresh. See if that helps.
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How do I feel?
Pretty confident it is better to wait for FCPX to grow up than jumping to a ship that is admittedly based on 90’s or older paradigms. Are they the right paradigms for some….maybe. But if I would jump into something “new” I would jump into the new “new”, not the old “new”.For now I am in FCP7 and do as much as possible with FCPX and it is a very good experience using it.
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You can also “open in timeline”; i even made a keyboard-shortcut for that, because I need it often when having 4 tracks recorded.
when you use “open clip in timeline” you can´t get it out of sync like you can when you detach the audio altogether.
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[Robert Brown] “. Like I said before, there is no substitute for actually looking at what was shot even if it’s already been evaluated and sometimes that means going through long reels.”
Well, then the skimmer alone should be worth the $ 299 for you 😉
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Yes, Steve contradicted his intention. Instead of showing how powerful this tool is, it actually looks cumbersome, complicated and actually needs work. But the mistake was on the finder-level not in FCPX.