[Andy Neil]

Regarding your video David:

What Mark said is correct. You can’t have a gap as a connected clip, and so, using the position tool on one acts precisely the same as it does when moving a regular clip horizontally in the timeline: it overwrites whatever it’s placed over. However, if you find you’ve accidentally grabbed a gap you can hold down the Option key and it will double the gap (create a duplicate) instead of overwriting your timeline.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

[Shane Ross] “it doesn’t allow me to export PROPER audio stems (ROLES tried to address this need…failed).”

Hey Shane. I’m curious how Roles failed to address exporting stems for you. I haven’t played with them all that much myself, so I’d like your input on what exactly is wrong with the Roles feature, and what it needs to work properly.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

[Herb Sevush] “My FCP7 wish list was headed by 2 things – the ability to properly and easily digitize over time code breaks and the ability to mute video tracks without erasing all renders.”

Well, I agree with point about renders (ironically, this works in FCPX), but Capture Now has been around the whole time for capturing across timecode breaks. I’m not sure what you expected.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

[Herb Sevush] “What makes you think that your list of fixes won’t meet a similar fate.”

Oh various reasons. Mostly because fixing the issues listed in that article don’t seem to require a major change to how the program foundation is laid out. Maybe I’m just a “glass half-full” kinda guy.

I mentioned how I would institute fixes from a user standpoint while still maintaining the core manner in which FCPX works (aside from creating a “rooms” feature where you could perform more in-depth audio and color correction editing).

I’ve used FCP from the 1st version and I’ve been eye witness to it’s growth. Now FCPX is Apple’s choice for heading into the foreseeable future. I think they’re listening to how FCPX is being used, and where the real workflow problems are. I also don’t think they’ve any plans to voluntarily concede the pro market. Particularly because as that line between pro and amateur gets further blurred, editors of all stripes will be wanting the same things out of their software.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

I don’t know if you consider me a prothletizer or not (I consider myself to be frank about what FCPX is missing), but I read the article yesterday and I agreed with most of it. Aside from setting TC which was addressed in the most recent update, all of his criticisms are valid. I personally relate to the inelegant way of handling embedded audio channels, copy/paste attributes, multicam, and audio mixer tool.

Manual organization of bins and projects already exists. This is the one criticism that I think falls short because I manually organize with keyword collections all the time and it works as good or better than bins in FCP 7. I also actually like having projects organized outside of the event browser too.

Perhaps where I differ from those who think FCP is dead, is that I think many if not all of these issues will be addressed. It’s well-thought out criticisms like his that might stand a chance of being implemented. Many things that he talks about can be easily incorporated into the existing paradigm.

• Slipping clips without adjusting connected clips could be handled with a modifier key while using the trim tool.

• Audio Mixer tool could be implemented as a “room” or Avid-like “workspace” set up. You hit a shortcut key, and the event browser disappears. An audio mix tool and other audio tools are in it’s place allowing you to mix your audio cleanly and quickly.

• Expanding audio feature should expand to include all audio tracks separately. Then you can mix them independent of each other from within the project for reference. And they can still be locked from going out of sync. Then you would only use the Break Apart Clip Items shortcut for when you actually WANT to break sync.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

[Mark Morache] “Don’t you ever want to slip the clip, and leave all the connected clips exactly where they are?”

Ok, I understand you now. You’re right it is cumbersome in those circumstances. Ideally, you should be able to press a modifier key like CMD while slipping the clip and it would allow you to slip a clip relative to the connected clips. I think I’ll send that along as a feature request.

I’m not sure what your workaround is, I do one of two things: I either matchframe back to the original clip, find my new in or out point and do a replace edit so that my connected clips don’t move, or else I perform the slip, keeping an eye on the tool tip that tells me how many frames I’m slipping, and then select the connected clips and type + or – the final number to jump them back to their point.

But a quick modifier would be perfect and easy to implement.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

[Rafael Amador] “Sure, there are differences. Layers is just one of the natural qualities of any track based system.”

I’m sorry. I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Layers and tracks are two separate things. Layers are not qualities of a track based system. They are qualities of layers. FCPX does not have tracks, but they DO have layers.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

[Mark Morache] “Perhaps I need to stop using the extend function. Perhaps it’s just a legacy workflow from FCP7 that I need to remove from my workflow. That’s why I’m wondering what other people do. Perhaps their timelines are full of these zero length gap clips, and they don’t even know it.”

I understood how to reproduce the problem, it was the workflow itself I didn’t understand. I start off similarly to you, placing audio in the primary storyline. Usually I leave it there and put broll into a secondary storyline, but I’ve also worked where I lift the audio out of the primary storyline and left the gap.

Because the audio is connected to the gaps, I use the overwrite command to lay video into the primary storyline. This replaces the connection the audio has to the gap with a connection to the new video. Extending edits isn’t necessary. You can also use the replace function which sometimes works even better because it will replace the gap clip (no matter how long) with the new video clip (no matter how long) and resolve the connected audio.

If ever I need to extend over a gap, I typically just delete the gap and ripple the clip instead of using extend.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

“What’s your workaround for slipping the clip without moving the attached media?”

I confess I’m not sure I know what you mean? Are you talking about clips connected to the clip you’re sliding?

As far as replace, I totally agree! My next tutorial talks about at actually. Four ways to replace a clip, and not one of them the way I’m used to.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Andy Neil]

I feel your pain but I don’t think there’s an equivalent to performing an extend edit over multiple clips. However I’m confused how the workflow you describe necessitate extending edits in that way. I edit in much the same way and I’ve not needed to extend over multiple clips.

Also, I’m not at my computer, but have you tried the trim tool?

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com