[Andy Field]

Thank you Mark…exactly the reason I posted this.

[Andy Field]

watch any network news cast…and see how “good enough” has devolved…skype interviews..shaky-cam cell phone footage..all now acceptable on programs that used to thumb their nose at anything that wasn’t “Broadcast Quality”

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

of course tools matter….but this forum has become polarized to the point where if you don’t agree with the author you are branded an idiot or worse……

FCP X is wonderful for the folks who like it – so is Premiere AVID Vegas or imovie….

what gets missed in this endless debate is basic story telling skills that often don’t require razzle dazzel effects ..round tripping to compositors, etc…

I can tell a story on my iphone alone with a built in editor….you can do it with a lot more polish with an ARRI and high end NLE…but good story tellers can do it with both.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

again…for everyone who can’t miss a chance to criticize or argue…..the point is…the endless arguing of FCPX vs everything else is pointless….find a tool you like and use it.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

The point i was making was with all the arguments about cameras and NLE’s…you can makeu a film, commercial, industrial on virtually anything if you are a good story teller..

.like the story or not, they told the what they wanted to tell with rudimentary tools….the viewer doesn’t care if it’s FCPX or Premiere or AVID or Red or an ARRI or iphone…story telling, composition lighting and pacing is really all that matters….and you can accomplish that today with an astonishing array of tools.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Think you missed the point here

[Andy Field]

Actually the Premiere Pro Fast color corrector is terrific…once you understand the underlying logic..

watch this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrXuyFFhjno

only thing missing in the tutorial is having one screen show the waveform and vector scope monitors…other than that…a simply way to understand this

ps this tutorial is for cs6 but it hasn’t changed for CC

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

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[Andy Field]

To amplify what Dennis said

1 – always consider what format is the majority of what you shot in
2 – set your timeline to THAT format
3 – the rest conform to that format

each non “majority” codec footage you edit in to that timeline…you may have to tweak (control click scale to frame size) but you should be in fine shape

it will make your editing easier with no need to transcode a thing

when you export – chose your finishing format and export to that (making sure frame size and rate are similar..although you can take 1080i and turn into 720p etc…

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Why are the editors dead set against tracks so enthusiastic about Roles? There wouldn’t be a need for roles if Apple hadn’t eliminated tracks. Roles are just adding another step to do what you can already do without them in every other NLE.

[Andy Field]

Colon and apostrophe keys lift “in to out” section. one of them lifts and leaves whole the other pulls everything after it forward

To paste to targeted tracks. Select the tracks before you paste