Andy Neil
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[Michael Gissing] “Surely it is easier to patch a whole track, rather than assigning roles to individual clips.”
That depends. That method requires making sure all your SFX, dialogue, music, etc. are organized on like tracks. You can do it as you go, or all at the end, but it’s still work that needs to be done.
Andy
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[Oliver Peters] “Instead of Insert/Overwrite you use Insert/Overwrite With Sequence Content.”
Nice tip. I never knew that shortcut existed and I’ve been editing on FCP for over 12 years.
I guess then as an alternate example, You can look at how effects are built in Avid, specifically when an editor is used to just creating add edits in filler and applying an adjustment effect to an entire section of footage.
The same workflow can’t be produced in FCP because of how FCP treats gaps in a sequence. A different approach is necessary. Unless Oliver pipes in with some Add Adjustment Layer shortcut I’ve never heard of either. 🙂
Andy
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[Chris Harlan] “I think you are brazenly wrong here. The actual joy of FCP is/was that it allowed you to pursue any number of editing paradigms at pretty much any given time.”
I’m sorry Chris. Perhaps you don’t see my point. I’ll try again with an example. Let’s say your workflow in Avid MC is to pull sequences into the source monitor and cut complex edits into another sequence. How would you do the exact same workflow in FCP? You can’t because while you can load a sequence into the viewer in FCP, when you edit it into another sequence, you’re left with a nest, not the individual clips from the source sequence.
Of course, you can just open both sequences, select or blade the clips and copy/paste, but then you’re not doing the same workflow. You’re consigned to the workflow allowed by the program. So then, by that nature, if a particular workflow in one program is too much of a pain to recreate precisely in another, you ultimately change the way you edit to best fit the program you’re using. Or at least I do.
Andy
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[Jamie Franklin] “The “way I want” to place audio and video conforms to how FCX wants.”
You see, this is a matter of perspective. You edit in exactly the way your NLE of choice forces you to. You just don’t see it that way, probably because it’s the way you learned.
[Jamie Franklin] “I want to put something here – I can’t, I want to layer this way, I can’t. I want to import this video, I can’t unless I transcode to fit the locked AR.”
Every NLE has rules and functions that can’t be adjusted or worked around. You can’t put video tracks into the audio tracks area of Avid or FCP, nor audio in the video sections. Of course, you could counter with, “why would I WANT to?” but the point remains that those NLEs FORCE you into tracks, they force you into a particular way of compositing and editing.
You talk about how you “have to create slugs and roles and compound clips if I even want to attempt to do ‘what I want’.” But if you want to export all the SFX stems for your project in FCP or Avid, you HAVE to organize them onto the same tracks. You can’t just tell your NLE to export only SFX regardless of where they are. It’s not extra steps in FCPX, it’s just a different workflow contingent upon the way the program is designed.
Andy
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “My experience with film editing is very limited, but this against everything I know about it, where reels are compiled by Scene or Slate (for scripted material) or Scene and Location (for unscripted material).”
Well, I was being a little over-simplistic when talking about it and also relaying it to my film (I mean celluloid) cutting experience on Moviola flatbeds.
The basic concept comes from where a film is compiled on two reels. The reels are matched up and the first shot of the film is on reel A and the second shot of the film is on reel B and you go back and forth. In between shots, on both reels leader is cut in to keep the two reels at the exact same length. This method was necessary in order to do things like dissolves.
Broll means a different these days but in general film production still tends to put scenes together in a master shot/cutaway fashion which to me matches well with the primary story/connected clip paradigm.
Andy
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A-Roll/B-Roll editing has its origins in film actually where master shots were collected on one reel (A) and cutaways and other angles were collected on a second reel (B).
However, you are correct in pointing out it’s continued use in broadcast TV (scripted and reality) as well as broadcast news. I cut my teeth in news so its certainly in my DNA, but I find it’s used in any facility where multiple editors are working on the same story.
Andy
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Final Cut is not compatible with WMA files. It needs to be converted to a standard WAV or AIF file. You’ll probably need to do this on a PC. I’m not aware of a Mac tool that converts WMA files, but perhaps there is one.
Andy
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In your Home directory on your computer, go to the following folder:
Library/Preferences
Look for:
com.apple.motionapp.plist
com.apple.motionapp.LSSharedFileList.plistThese are the preference files for Motion. You probably only need to delete the top one but I don’t think it hurts to delete both.
Your copy of Motion will revert to it’s initial state. Hopefully then it’ll start remembering your recent projects.
Andy
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A folder called, “Final Cut Studio” is created in the applications folder. You can open them from there.
However (and I realize its too late for you), this is NOT a best practices method for installing X on the same partition as 7. There is a knowledge base article on the apple website that details how best to do the installation if you want to run them both on the same partition.
Installing X without following the “best practices” instructions can be fine, but you can also screw up linkage between the studio apps (ie: Send to Compressor, Send to Motion)
Andy
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Recent projects are saved in the preference file. I’d try deleting the preferences and go from there.
Andy
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