[Bob Flood]

Tom

so after you apply the transition between the first and second clip, then you use the X key to mark the first clip, then you load a new shot in the viewer and press f10 you can succesfully overwrite the clip? you do not get a message saying “this edit cannot be done because a transition would be cut ….”?

waht happens to the transition? does it get shorter? go away? or does it stay?

cuz in 5.0.4 I have to delete the trasnisiton befor i overwrite the clip

bee eph

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Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

jeremy et al

forget how i discoverdd the bug…yeah apple needs to fix the dissolve thing, and i should delete em before re editing shots ok ok

BUT

Does Anyone ELse Get The Bug Of The Invisible FRame?

if so i will report it to apple.

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Shane

Thanx!

I realize that it seems i may not be getting it, but i actually am. The problem is i never got trained, and i really see now that fcp is not a program you can just pick up and go, and that you have to have someone train you. which is really too bad as i believe software should always be more intuitive than that. especially when it comes to basics like cuts and dissolves

yeah i would delete the dissolve first, but i am really writing about the bug that the frame gets lost.

“In later versions of Avid, we could mark an IN and OUT on a clip where there was a dissolve and drop in a new clip and keep the dissolves. You can’t do that yet with FCP.”

yeah, that goes to show prioritys, lets put a zillion useless filters in the thing, but g*d forbid it should handle transistions like everything else out there.

anyway, Thanx again and i would like to know if anyone else is seeing this bug
and i really am sorry about all my learning curve bs, but i am stuck here.

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Thanx Walter,

I Will

But if mr Plate cant help me, or if i am looking for a way to do this for free, can anyone else point me towards som XML Resources?

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Hear Here !!!!

I agree whole heartedly!

right now i have no problem nesting if i only want to do some tricks or stagger a bunch of tracks

BUT

i have to export and re-import a QT Movie if i want to have a “sub master” where i can change one shot and all iterations of the submaster will change to reflect.

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

DRW

Hey Babe, lunch is on me have my girl call your girl and pencil me in!!!

however, in regards to the example,when i double click on my sub timeline (edit speak) in my main timeline, is it really opening the one in the bin, or soem weird subclip that only shares media with the one in the bin

AND

conversely, if i double click my sub timline in the bin, am i really looking at the one thats in the main timeline??

this is where it gets confusing, and much to walters credit, i still dont get it.

hey, love ya babe, yer beautiful, don’t ever change, die that way!

bee “manny on the coast” eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

walter

1. thanx for the clarification!
this is the first time i heard it said “the clip in the timline is not the clip in the bin” the book says different. the book sez the clip in the timeline is a subclip of the clip in the bin, therefore i assume the same would apply to sequences ie one sequence to rule them all, and i should do a copy or duplicate to make a “versioned sequence” that was independent of the one in the bin

i guess because if i recapture a clip in the bin it will show up in my timeline, i assumed that other propertys would carry over as well, like if i was to make a clip in the bin BW all the slaves of that clip would go BW (would they?) or the big whoop about dropping filters on the clips in the bin so you only have to do it once?

2, i am constantly refering to diane weylands book on FCP and there really is no explanation as to the fact that when you edit a sequence into another sequence, its different from the sequence you have in the bin, or in another timeline, or in yer moms drawers.
she goes on, as does larry jordan and ken stone, like you, to say nesting is the bomb and a very handy way of doing things,

“The question right now is why did you choose FCP? You have so many choices out there for NLE’s yet you chose FCP. I’m sure you investigated and tested all your options out there so if you’re not happy with the way FCP works, there’s a lot of options out there for you.”

ahhhh were it ever thus

I had no choice. my boss thought that shooting on hdv and editing on fcp was really cool, so he went and bought the sony hdv cam, the deck, and an fcp system and said here have fun! never bothering to ask myself and the 2 directors who work here, who together have more experince than tv has been around, waht we should do to make our lives easier

and the system i used to use treated the subtimline like it was only one, i could cut and paste and record it anywhere i wanted to, but they were all “slaves” of the original, so when i changed a mix or an effect on my sub timeline, it changed it everywhere. i could also make a copy of that subtimline, and it would be independent of the original so it would not reflect the changes i made to the original. It had all the functionality, it was just a little more deliberate

thanx again!

btw, DRW is a good guy, and he has given me a lot of advice in the past, and he too is coming off discreet edit, so cut him some slack ok 🙂

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

bret

thanx man, the problem is, thats waht i did, took my sub sequence. loaded into the viewer, cut it into new sequence

thats whats flaky

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Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

bogiesan

gawd if only i could……….of course if i was asked what to get to replace discreet edit in the first place, i would have said “lets try different things”
but instead my boss went and bought the product unbeknownst to me cuz he thought it was cool!

man!

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Hey Donato
we have a company wide server that we copy our projects and key info data to. right now we do it manually, but i have read and seen lots of shareware and freeware utilities designe to synchronize 2 files, folders, or even entire discdrives. Once i get a minute or 10 i am gonna set up a script so it can happen automatically. there is one called disc order i am looking at right now, but go to versiontracker.com and see whats there

i would reccomend backing up to a server with some kind of self recovery raid. it may be a big chunk o change at the outset, but its alot faster to restore etc from the raid than from a tape. and you dont necessarily have to go with apple servers either. we use a quantum snap,a nd it speaks os x jes fine

hope this helps

bee eph

btw if you are having lotsa crashes i would try and fix that first

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.