Baz Leffler
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[Andy Mees] “This isn’t the place to send in a rant!”
I have re-read my post and didn’t see a rant so I hope you were just generalising there. But my post was a question which Jeremy tried to answer with “I think it’s a normal operation bug”. That seems to be the reply a politician would make.
But if someone could confirm to me that it is a likely bug I will report it as I have with other bugs in the past. But first I have got to get the log in to work; all I get is “An error has occurred. Please report the error to Apple Inc. by emailing the error detail to devbugs@apple.com.”
So now I have to log a bug report about not being able to log a bug report – isn’t this a crazy world we live in.
Baz
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[Michael Aranyshev] “[Baz Leffler] “Have I missed something in my 35+ years of editing?”
A few useful FCP technics, obviously”
Here is a useful tip – even in a crappy program like Adobe Premiere you just right click a clip and select speed, enter the value and its done; no rippling timeline, just a new ‘out time’ of the selected clip. Now that is logical to me.
So Michael I accept the fact that there may be many tricks with FCP I am yet to learn as I bounce daily between 5 different editing applications and 3 different pro audio programs but can you tell me how I can apply individual audio track names other than just numbers?
Baz
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[Kevin Monahan] “What in the world are you talking about? Advisors to Apple? Apple is Apple. Ain’t no one telling them how to run their business.”
So you are saying that Apple do not have beta testers?
Are Apple so clever they know all about video editing requirements?
Is it that some of us ‘seasoned’ editors know jack about what video editing is? Man you DO have your head in a bag![Kevin Monahan] “The Timeline must shift if you insert clips into it. That’s a basic tenet of editing.”
REALLY? Where did you learn that from? Have I missed something in my 35+ years of editing? Maybe you mispronounced the sentence or something – can you clarify?
[Kevin Monahan] “If you don’t want your clips to “shift”, then don’t add clips to the timeline. If you need to replace a clip, ensure that it is the same duration.”
Maybe I should get you to do my editing as I don’t know any other way of adding clips to a timeline without ummm… ‘adding’ them?
So Kevin, are you an editor and if so have you ever done ‘on line conform’? In recent years so called ‘producers’ layout a roughcut on a timeline like a storyboard and then call it an ‘off line’. Then us poor conform editors have to turn a pigs ear into a purse… and we have to do that by cleaning up the mess they left us with. What we want to retain is the general flow dictated to us by the producers; not have FCP go ‘my way or the highway’.
As I said earlier as BAD as Adobe Premiere is, it certainly doesn’t go shifting your timeline clips around unnecessarily. And I gotta say I was TOTALLY SHOCKED when FCP moved ALL the ‘after’ clips when I change the speed of a single clip! Sure there are people here who say its a good thing but they must be editing on the planet Mars. I would say I need that functionality once in a thousand speed changes and thats being conservative. Why not have it as an option or something. All in all I give FCP 40/100 for functionality and 98/100 for stability as compared to AP’s 75/100 for functionality and 12/100 for stability.
Where am I going with this? Well these software engineers that write this stuff have either gotta start using it as a ‘real world’ user or get a better range of beta testers and advisors; yep, there’s that word again. I could go on but I don’t tend to argue too much with people who have tunnel vision.Baz
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FCP has an incessant desire to keep shifting the timeline when you do most things and if you are not careful it can totally screw you up if you are not forever vigilent.
I am doing an on line edit of a series that is already rough cut and it is a real pain the way clips just move without wanting them to.
It seems a few advisers to Apple have their way and more users want it another. Adobe premiere has this right but its about all it has – all the rest goes to FCP….
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I have a similar problem editing to HDCAM using a Blackmagic card. It puts black at the end and the duration of the black is relative to the length of the insert eg. the longer the insert the longer the black (it is not the same length but a fraction there of). It use to be fine 2 weeks ago and the only thing I have changed is the BMD drivers. The solution would be to enter an out edit point but the edit to tape won’t let me!
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Yes it sometimes can be done but try opening a NEW PPro 2 project and import the CS3 project into it as that bypasses any differences that may exist between the 2 versions.
If that causes problems then open the CS3 project and copy the whole contents of the timeline into the clipboard and then open CS2 and paste into it’s timeline. Of course you have to have both programs on the same computer to do the later.Baz
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Yeah – as an Aussie living in Sidney we prefer you spell it Sydney. When you get here you won’t wanna leave so bring lots of extra clothes!
Baz
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Well I AM nuts! but this bug was reported way back with the public beta – now we find out it wasn’t a public beta but a preview version. We was ripped off again WITHOUT spending money – go figure that!
Baz
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[spencer schilly] “The deck does make strange sounds… it’s sounds like the tape is rewinding of fast-fowarding every 10 minutes or so – only for a second it speeds up or something. I cleaned the deck with a head cleaner but it didn’t help.”
That is the sound the deck makes when the automatic head cleaner kicks in – it is daunting but normal; panic not.
I only use my JH3 on FCP with SD DV capture via RS422 Aja IO and it works OK – sorry can’t help with that one.
Baz
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