Andy Neil
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Just an FYI on the Mac Book Pro. I’m not very happy with how hot it gets running FCPX. It’s downright uncomfortable and loud most of the time.
I’d go with an imac.
Andy
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “I’m not familiar with your “newsfilm/documentary A-Roll (dialogue) / B-Roll (cutaway) approach” and I’d like to hear more about that process and your experience with it – it would represent a third meaning predating but similar to the broadcast meaning.”
From the news perspective, A-roll refers to the interview footage that makes up the bulk of news stories. The spine of a news pkg are the VO and Interview bites called, “SOTs” which tell the news story. B-roll are the shots of video which illustrate the story. They cover black holes and often go atop the SOTs. If you look at this structure, it’s one that lends itself extremely well to FCPX
You place the VO and SOTs in the primary storyline, and then just connect all the broll above. This news structure also has a lot in common with documentary films who often rely on narration and interviews to drive the story.
In a lot of ways, this structure is also ideally suited for docu-style reality TV.
Andy
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[Bret Williams] “As for paste content- that’s a function they haven’t brought back yet.”
Bret, I don’t know if you’ve played with it or not, but Paste Content is essentially how the current Replace Edit works. Select clip in timeline, matchframe, select destination clip, Replace from Start.
[Bret Williams] “Say you create 3 Keyframes to a clip. Maybe a jitter move. Now you want it to occur 20 more times. In just about any other app (avid, AE, motion, premiere) you’d highlight those three Keyframes and copy and paste them a few times. Then copy and paste that result a number of times. “
The kind of effect you’re talking about could be accomplished with a Motion effect right now. And if they put Send To Motion back in the program, I don’t see them developing the transform keyframing too much. I feel like they want animations like that to flow from Motion instead of making the same feature available in two places.
[Bret Williams] “BTW- you can change timeline clip views with keyboard shortcuts.”
Well, that’s some good news. I haven’t downloaded 10.0.8 yet. Guess I should.
Andy
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[David Mathis] “5. Option to have trackless or fixed track worfklow”
[Bret Williams] “I’d like to see audio tracks. But I definitely like trackless for video.”
Tracks mean track assigning and for me that’s just annoying now that I’m used to FCPX’s trackless paradigm. The only reason people are still asking for tracks are because they want to visually organize their timelines. So instead, I propose “hierarchy locking”.
Hierarchy Locking gives the user the opportunity to select clips and freeze their vertical position in the timeline. That way, if (for example) someone wants to keep all their narration audio on connected clips closest to the the primary, they can just select them, move them into position, and lock them there. Then any new connected clips will be placed below, regardless.
As for the rest of my list:
• Ability to adjust a clips hierarchy with keyboard shortcuts. Just select a clip and OPT+↑ or OPT+↓ to push a clip up or down in the hierarchy.
• A timeline view that uses a single thumbnail to represent the clip rather than a filmstrip or a non adjustable null view. I absolutely hate filmstrip view with a passion, but don’t always want to work with the chiclet view. Oh, yeah, and able to switch views with keyboard shortcuts.
• Proper Replace Edit function.
• Ability to enter and exit the transform window via shortcuts.
• Smart tagging of created clips. Right now if you create a multiclip from clips inside a collection, it dumps the new clip into the main event rather than just assuming you want it tagged the same as the clips you used to make it. Same with synchronized or compound clips.
• Manual adjustment on a clip by clip basis of the size of audio tracks. Let’s say you want to do some heavy keyframing of some audio attached to a video clip. I’d like to be able to double click the audio, or audio components and then just click and drag the top or bottom edge of the audio and resize it so I can see the waveform better without having to change the entire timeline view and still not have it be large enough.
• Ability to keyframe speed changes in the Retime editor with bezier handles for smoothing and ease in/out presets.
• Send to Motion (like everyone else)
• Ability to decide which windows end up where on two monitor systems.
That’s all I can think of, off the top of my head.
Andy
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There’s actually and even easier way to change a clip’s speed in FCPX. Just put the clip anywhere in your timeline. Select the clip and hit CMD+R (retime) on the keyboard. A little bar will appear over your clip and you can just grab it and make it longer or shorter to your taste.
Also, optical flow is just a much smoother interpolation when FCPX has to create new frames (for slo-mo’d clips) not sure it’ll do you much good on sped up clips.
Andy
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Presuming you have the most recent version, or at least 10.0.7, you can OPT+double click the audio portion of the clip to reveal the discrete channels and keyframe or disable them as needed.
Andy
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[Craig Alan] “When I open a project in a different frame rate and resolution it does not allow me to switch.”
Ok, I think I understand your problem. I don’t have a Decklink, I have a Kona, but they work kinda similarly.
FCPX has a simpler interface regarding video output than FCP7. You set your project up to output in a particular fashion, and match that with your settings in Decklink’s version of “Control Panel”. What happens then, is that FCPX locks in on that output and won’t change it.
If you want to open another project with a different resolution, what you need to do is go to the Window menu and deselect AV Output. This will unlock the output and allow you to change the settings for your Decklink. Then reselect AV Output when you’ve made the change and you should be good to go.
Andy
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Is your FCPX project SD instead of HD? That’s probably the issue.
Andy
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Don’t worry about how it PLAYS in Compressor. Use Compressor to convert the file to ProRes 422 and AIFF. Then re-import the converted clip into FCPX
Andy
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The VBR as to do with the quality of the recording, not playback. If it’s not playing back properly, then it needs to be converted to a format/codec that will.
Do you have Compressor?
Andy
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