Andy Neil
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This is actually really simple in case you don’t want to bother with a plugin. Apply the crop to your photo first. Then select the clip and hit OPT+G to make it a compound clip. Then apply the ken burns effect to the compound.
Andy
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Actually, the whole thing looks like a “souped down” version of iMovie.
Andy
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[Greg Andonian] “At the end of the day, isn’t this whole favorites thing just a new approach to subclip creation? or am I missing something here?”
You could be forgiven for thinking so, although I would actually argue that keyword collections more appropriately encompass the utility of subclips, and favorites is something slightly new with some overlap into the subclip paradigm.
One of my most common uses for favorites though, is one that might necessitate subclips in another NLE. When I have VO narration for a piece, there are good takes and bad takes. I like to be able to go through the entire clip and favorite out the best takes and then grab them all and drop them into the timeline at once.
In FCP7, I would just lay them into the timeline one at a time instead of bothering with subclips, but then scrubbing back through the clip looking for a particular take was time consuming. But I resisted using subclips because of match back issues, and all the extra button presses that were required to getting back to my VO. FCPX made it much simpler to section off pieces of a clip without extra clicks and I could keep plugging away.
In the end, there’s not a ton of differences, but enough to make favorites more inviting than subclips.
Andy
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[Clint Wardlow] “how well does precision editing work in secondary storylines?”
Precision editing could be improved in secondary storylines. The precision editor itself only opens in the primary so if you like trimming that way, secondaries are more difficult. However, trim tools and tops and tails all work perfectly fine which is how I trim anyway. Although I’d like the 2-up monitor to be active whenever I’m using the trim tool whether I’m dragging or using keyboard shortcuts.
Also, I would like a keyboard shortcut to toggle between primary and secondary storylines; that would help quite a bit.
But to answer your second question, it’s easy to trim video in the primary to the beat of a song in a secondary.
Andy
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[Greg Andonian] “When I hit F, the new favorite merged with the one it was overlapping, and they became one single favorite. I was really disappointed by this. What if you DID want to have two overlapping sections of a clip saved as individual favorites for some reason?”
This is where thinking of favorites as persistent INs/OUTs leads to some confusion. But if you consider that in any other NLE, you only get the last IN/OUT saved, then you are still ahead of the game even if you can’t overlap favorites.
I try to imagine favorites in terms of cutting a film. In a typical single camera shoot, there may be many takes of the same scene. As you go through your footage, you find that some takes are better than others so you favorite those takes, and reject the ones that are completely unusable.
In that scenario, you are creating favorites of sections of the footage, not specific INs/OUTs which makes sense that you’d want a consolidation of overlapping favorites.
In places where you want to have overlapping INs/OUTs, a standard keyword will work. Keyword collections can overlap and you can label them specifically to your needs if necessary. They are also nearly as simple to create as a favorite.
Andy
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[Herb Sevush] “Just to elaborate, once I’m past the assembly stage I never use linked clips. Even with linking on, after you cut a clip into different multicam angles only the first cut stays linked to the longer audio underneath. I can’t imagine a scenario where it is useful to keep that sort of L cut linked, and it’s a PITA when you want to add a video dissolve and now suddenly you have an audio dissolve as well”
Just to keep with Jeremy’s FCP7 tips: There are a series of shortcuts that I use all the time with linked clips. If I select the edit point of a linked clip (selecting both audio and video edit points) but I only want to add a video transition, I use the shortcut CTL+SHIFT+1 and FCP applies the first video transition that exists in your favorites folder to the edit point. Since it’s only a video transition, no audio transition is added. You can also replace the “1” with Q, A, or Z to place the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th video transition in your favorites folder at the edit point.
How I often use this: I have 3 basic dissolves of various lengths in my favorites folder (10 fr, 25 fr, 45 fr) which I use all the time. I name them: video 10, video 25, video 45 accordingly. Because FCP organizes favorites alphabetically, I know that video 10 is the top video transition in my favorites. So to add a 10 frame dissolve, even with a linked clip, I hit CTL+SHIFT+1. To add a 45fr dissolve, I hit CTL+SHIFT+A (3rd favorite).
There are also similar shortcuts for favorite audio transitions, video filters and audio filters.
Andy
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It’s possible to create a title effect in Motion that is rigged and adjustable inside FCPX which would make the process much faster. Do you have Motion?
Andy
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[Herb Sevush] “possibly because I started out cutting film, the idea of leaving my audio attached to the video seems like editing in molasses.”
Sounds like Avid is the NLE for you. Sync locks are off by default and clip linking can be toggled off as well (not sure if it’s on or off by default, it used to not exist at all).
Andy
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I’m not seeing your pic. Not sure if you linked it wrong, or a problem with my browser. Can you check?
Andy
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[Greg Andonian] “Now, my opinion has changed to, ‘The stability issues have gotten much better and a few new professional features have been added, but it’s basically a souped-up version of iMovie.'”
[Greg Andonian] “Apple trumpeted FCPX like it was brand new and revolutionary, and it wasn’t. Most of the core functionality in X already existed in iMovie before FCPX came out.”
And here we have the perfect example of how the stigma of FCPX persists in the face of facts.
Aside from some asthetic considerations, there is very little alike between iMovie and FCPX. Certainly nothing in their “core” functionality.
The magnetic timeline is not a “core” function of FCPX although it’s often mistaken for one. The magnetic timeline is simply a reverse default to functionality that has existed in Avid for years: sync locks. If you’ve ever cut on an Avid with sync locks on, then it’s identical to cutting with FCPX’s magnetic timeline.
A core function of FCPX is the parent/child relationship. This only exists in FCPX and I suspect is one of the key things that people like or dislike about the program.
However, this does not exist in iMovie. In iMovie you can’t even have one clip on top of another. I would even argue that iMovie doesn’t have a timeline at all but rather a rudimentary storyboard where clip length can be edited.
Both iMovie and FCPX have Event Library’s, but aside from the name, they have little in common and an Event Library is hardly a core function of the program. After all, every NLE needs a project window where the clips are stored. Avid has one, Premiere has one. FCPX calls it an event library, but it functions similarly.
What IS a core function is the keyword collections. There is no such thing in iMovie. All your clips are in events and it’s the only way to organize them. FCPX has a highly developed, database driven, organizational structure.
Here’s a primer for those wanting to know what’s alike and not between iMovie and FCPX.
Alike:
They both call their project window “Event Library.”
The icon for selecting a range is the same.
They both offer connectivity with iPhoto and iTunes
They both offer clip favoriting/rejecting
Different:
Everything else.
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