Andy Neil
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“Aren’t there things you miss? Besides the multiclip?”
Oh fully. Most of your list actually. Especially the 3db shortcut. I would add audio mixer, being able to customize clip size in the timeline ( the sizes they give me are not well suited to audio. I also miss the edit selection tool for lassoing multiple edit points and moving them at the same time.
However a couple of your missing features can be regained in FCPX. Slip an slide edits can be performed with the trim tool. I just posted a tutorial here on the cow about it.
Also, someone suggested reassigning CTL+P to the number pad enter key. It’s much more elegant for typing in timecodes (unless you work on a laptop).
You can also save favorite effects with a compound clip in your event browser although it’s nowhere near as elegant a solution.
In general though, I miss what you miss. I was just curious.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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It looks like you are overlapping favorites. If the range of one favorite overlaps another, FCPX consolidates the two into a single favorite. Try creating more than one favorite without an overlapping range.
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“I see the “track-less paradigma” as fiction: FCPX hid them in Motion. I will believe in trackless video editing the day Motion will work that way.”
Motion doesn’t work in tracks. It never has. It works in layers like AE. There’s a difference. One of the biggest being that you can only have one clip per layer.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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No. You can easily make multiple favorites in a single clip. I don’t usually bother renaming them myself, but it’s up to you. All you need to do is select another in/out point and hit F again to favorite another section.
If you’re having trouble doing that, try posting a pic or something to illustrate the issue.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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If you’re using 10.0.1, it should work fine. Just select the end (red or otherwise) and hit CMD+T to add a dissolve to it. FCP will automatically add it to a secondary storyline.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Curious Mark, what things you would like to have been kept from FCP 7 (aside from obviously mulicam I suppose)?
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Hated it at first. Or rather hated the way it looked. I was suspicious of its simplified UI and especially its preferences. Also it’s default configuration of filmstrip view made me want to throw it across the room.
However, having found a UI configuration I can work with and just some honest time with it, I’ve grown to really love some of its capabilities (though with caveats).
I love its new media organization. Giving users a choice between organizing how they’ve always done it, and organizing for you by putting everything in one place (ala Avid) was a great choice. I hate the fact that I can’t override its offline, reconnect feature, although I will say it’s not often wrong.
I absolutely love keyword collections although I would have preferred they not rename everything. Why these couldn’t just be called bins is beyond me (same with event/project and sequence/project). Organizing projects, especially projects with large numbers of clips is quite a bit easier with collections. I however, find the auto analysis feature to be pretty dumb still although for single camera scripted work, it might be a starting point for the AE.
I’ve never had the problem with the magnetic timeline that other people seem to have. I tend to put all my clips together to start and then push them apart later. And I especially like the Append Edit. It’s nice not having to care where the playhead or skimmer is when dropping a clip into the timeline. I still hate not being able to perform a rolling trim on connected audio clips or even just the embedded audio of two clips beside each other in the primary storyline.
All in all, its beginning to win me over (I already prefer using it to using FCP 7 but that might just be because I like discovering things and there’s very little I don’t know about FCP 7). It needs some technical upgrades (bug fixes, ext video, more compatibility with other production programs), and some workflow upgrades (multicam, channel expanded audio, beefed up Timeline Mode) and some visual UI upgrades (better timeline view options, user defined workspaces).
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Jamie Franklin] “I wasn’t even responding to anything you posted and you went ahead and said I was pretty much lying even though nothing in my statement was inaccurate…”
I never called you a liar, nor even said you were “pretty much lying.”
I said that it sounded as if you hadn’t spent much time with the application based on this…
[Jamie Franklin] “Some people find it comfortable being in a timeline that won’t allow you to layer an audio file where you want, watching it snap back to it’s static track.”
When I read that line, it sounded to me as if you were saying that you couldn’t put an audio file anywhere you wanted “in time”. In other words, that the audio file HAD to be butted up against another clip which is a common misconception about FCPX’s magnetic timeline. You only said “where” and apparently only meant “where vertically”. I read it differently because it doesn’t matter as far as playback whether your music is on track 1/2 or 51/52. I said as much in my other response.
I’m not sure why you’re getting so angry. I am honestly curious about the “variety of uses” you mentioned for tracks that aren’t related to organization or order of operations.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Jamie Franklin] “Which is my problem, not yours, so your snide comments aren’t necessary”
I’m sorry you find my comments snide, it’s not my intention. But let’s not pretend that your comments have been any purer (“uhoh! what is it doing?”)
[Jamie Franklin] “Tracks aren’t only necessary for your limited scope. I use tracks for a variety of purposes.”
Ok. Go ahead. Tell me what uses you put tracks to that are not related to organization or order of operations and which FCPX’s magnetic timeline hampers. I’m interested.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Jamie Franklin] “Then try and mute that “track” you say exists…”
I never said FCPX had tracks. I’m just not as hung up about it as you. I can edit without tracks. I’m sorry you can’t/won’t. You made it sound as if clips couldn’t be placed in time where you want them because of the magnetic timeline which is incorrect. Tracks are only really necessary for order of operations and organizations. The operations can be performed exactly the same in FCPX, and now Roles exist to help organizational workflows.
Heck, in a further revision, roles might even come as color separated clips making it even easier to distinguish dialogue and music at a glance. But for now, I can see them fine as highlighted clips in the timeline. Oh, yeah, and I can mute them all at the same time too.
How exactly does having the music two levels away from the video track at one point and 1 level away at another, affect the edit in any way? The playback is the same.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com