[Bob Flood]

dude

i love this! 🙂

i realize you are an instructor so you want to make it clear but do you realize you wrote a paragraph of significant size to explain this! waht does that say? it sez, for what ever reason. there is an inefficiency.

why add a keystroke when you dont have to?

i dont like it. i think its wrong. quite a few people agree with me. and i would like to see apple dedicate the resources to fix it, as a matter of fact, they should stop development on all fronts and put there entire software development on this issue!!!

but thats just me 🙂

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

hey ben

thanx! i cant get it to happen now, maybe it was one of those things that get fixed when you throw away the prefs. or i am just getting too f***ing old!

bee eph

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Tom

“What would you like it to do with the speed change? In slomo do you want to cut off the clip from a defined distance from the In point? Or cut from the front based on the Out point? If it’s a speed up, do you want it to leave a hole in the sequence?”

how about nothing? leave the shot length alone. i never have just one track of video and one of sound. i always have at least 2 or 4 tracks of audio and 2 video, and its a pain to lock them all up so ican change the speed of a shot. Keep the in poiint and slide move where the shot ends, and warn you if you are going to run out of media ie i want to make a shot go 90 fps, but i dont have enough media so the system asks me if i want to go as fast as i can, to me that seems elegant this is digital media not peices of film

“Personally I prefer the logic of the interface as it behaves currently”

so that everytime you mark a set of clips, you get one frame extra at no additional charge?

than the antiquated mind set based on tape machines,”

ooooh low blow, but besides that, why does it behave one way when i mark clip in out and another way when i mark out independently?
my out mark divides what i want to keep from what i want to seperate, not one frame more. i cannot imagine it otherwise. it doesnt make sense. i think its the first thing they should change, and once i threw the switch that changed the behavior i would not throw it back!

“but again, that’s what feedback’s for.”

yes amen for that

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Hey Shane

love yer reply. got some comments:

“then get used to how this one works.” sorry. not acceptable,
Becuz we live in a world where nothing is bound in stone and changes must be made rapidly, i feel that HAVING THE OPTION to modify the speed in the timeline and not affect the duration is a great increase in productivity. besides i dont like machines that “assume” for me.

“One frame remnants aren’t invisible, just really small” like one frame right? BUT in some cases they are really invisible. no matter how far you zoom in they are not there, nor do they appear when you scroll, shuttle, or play through them. its only when you try and put a transition on the clip before they show up and get in the way…trust me. this is not a feature

.”Mark out doesn’t include an extra frame. It includes the frame you are parked on.” absolutely. my bad. HOWEVER other systems and fcp assumeing for me aside, my point is its one extra step to back up one frame when you do not want to include the frame you are on, like marking a range of clips.

bee eph

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

hey ken

are you sure there is a cut or a matchframe on the other tracks AFTER the point you are inserting or swapping ie if i have a series of cuts over a single music track, i can insert, ripple, swap, all day long and my music track wont budge BUT if i have a second music clip somewhere down stream, it will usually move around as i am ripple swapping around my video.

to avoid this i have to lock all tracks i dont want to move

does this help?

bee eph

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

hey ben

thanx!

i am not making myself clear. I am not getting a jump frame because of a camera cut on my outgping shot. I am getting a jump frame because
there is an invisible one frame leftover from the original shot. i say invisible because its not visible until i 1. delete the transtion 2. zoom into the cut and 3. drag out the tail of the outgoing shot THEN this other clips appears, which i can then delete.

so what is happening is that there is a bug in the program that does not display a clip under these circumstances. i find that wierd (to put it mildly)

I think that having to delete transitions adn re apply them just to change a shot is really lame.

However i have been using the replace function like this : select the clip in the timeline i want to change not by marking in and out but by clicking on the clip, then drag the shot i want to use instead to the replace button on the canvas. this seems to work, changing the shot but leaving the transitions in place.

and just for the record, no matter waht forum you are on, you will always find people who think the application or program or subject is weird
my reason is that the product i used to use which has gone out of businessi would always show a clip, even if it was only one frame long. 🙂

among other things

thanx again

bee eph

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

thanx!

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Hi Again

I found out what was going on. i had the bottom layer in intersect instead of normal

that seemed to fix it

HOWEVER i would like to know what, if any, the Gotchas are with motion, as i want to use it more and dont want to get bogged down because of some oversight on my part

thanx

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

Wow

Thanx Todd

Ya Know, this isnt the first time i have heard “…is broken” about FCP

And you would think that graphics and 10 bit would be anything but broken, seeing as how most people want ten bit FOR graphics!

thanx again

bee eph

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

hey jeff

does that apply even if you set an outpoint after the dissolve,like 2 or 3 seconds? I have been having issues with fades not finishing as you described and that may e the cause

i have been putting a fade to black on my last shot, then manually moving down the timeline 2 seconds, then dropping a marker and marking out

bee eph

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.