Andy Neil
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I think a couple of screenshots would be helpful because I have not had the issue you’re describing. Lift from Storyline works perfectly for me, so if it’s not for you, upload a pic before you try it, and after you try it so we can see what is happening and try to replicate it.
Andy
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[Brian Mulligan] “It will in no way interact with FCPX.”
Well, to be fair, it interacts in the same way that After Effects interacts with FCPX. You’d have to export from FCPX to get into Shake, and you’d have to Export from Shake to get into FCPX.
Motion is far more intuitive than Shake is, though less powerful in the compositing arena. I’ve used Shake before and while I was able to do things with it, I never worked with it comfortably.
Andy
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Sure it can. But if you don’t want your archive projects and events to show up in FCPX when it’s launched, then they need to be in a different folder besides Final Cut Pro Events, and Final Cut Pro Projects.
What I typically do is create a: Final Cut Pro Events ARCHIVE and projects ARCHIVE folders. I place any event that I’m not working on in there so it doesn’t show up in FCPX.
You could also have a drive for editing and one for archiving. Then just daisy-chain the archive drive to the editing drive when you need to archive more projects, but otherwise leave it disconnected from the computer.
Andy
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You can avoid editing on your system disk by connecting an external drive to work from. Basically what you did to archive your projects, but have an external for editing only.
Andy
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It depends. If you built your events with the “Copy files to Events Folder” option checked under import settings, then you can simple copy the contents of your events and projects folders to an archive drive.
If you didn’t, and some of your elements are accessed in another place on your drive, then you probably need to use the Move command in FCPX event management.
Regarding a FW drive, you can access events and projects with a FW connected drive. I work this way all the time. Speed of access is slower than with an internal SATA drive, but you might actually get better performance because it sounds like you’ve been editing material on your system drive which is never recommended.
Andy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “They monitor peak levels and have an indicator that turns red when they’ve peak over zero.”
As well as contain a number letting you know just how many db you need to lower the levels to avoid peaking.
Andy
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Create the vignette in Motion as part of the title. Instead of making it blank, place a gradient generator from the library, with gradient opacity or create the vignette some other way, but as a layer. Then you can apply it like a title over your project.
Andy
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Correct. Manual trim only. It’s hard to say whether that’s a good thing or not. I could argue either way. I guess if I had to register an opinion, I’d say it should be manual unless you adjust the IN/OUT inside the compound, then it should update in the project. As it is, you can’t adjust those IN/OUT guides in a compound clip.
Perhaps another feedback email is due…
Andy
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Well, the answer to your first question is, “no” I’m afraid. There is no color coding in FCPX. Hopefully this will be added down the road.
If I understand your second question correctly…your compound clip will remain the same length in your project timeline until you trim it there. Making trims inside the compound clip will only result in black frames at the end of your compound inside the main project. It’s for this reason that I try to avoid compounds unless a segment is more or less “locked.” Or else you can make edits to the compound inside the project instead of opening the compound to make changes.
Hope that makes sense.
Andy
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[Michael Gissing] “Be sure to never split an infinitive
Don’t use no double negatives
And never generalise, that’s a rule you see everyone break…”As a word-nerd, Michael, I found your post highly entertaining. Cracked me up good.
Andy
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