Brendan Gibbons
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I’m glad they have modified / renamed tracks & layers in Smoke.
It really took a while for new users to grasp.
I don’t know about everyone else…But seeing these videos you can see yourself just jumping in and editing away. You had to put in a LOT more groundwork to get up in cutting in Smoke 2012 and before.
The learning curve for most will be the nodal compositing of connectFX / batch.
But the way they have tied it into the timeline has made it sooo much more user friendly, having the connectFX process build your compositing workspace from your timeline source and applied effects looks to be so well thought out.
BG
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Everything just changed in post 😉
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[Mark Dobson] “Brendan has been absent from the forum for a while now, hope he is ok. Maybe he just got tired of FCP X!”
More a casual observer now…
Having a little 1 year old boy who is just soaking the world up at an amazing rate is taking up all my time….but definitely in a good way!!
With how quickly he took to a touch screen interface it is a reminder of the way things are heading!!!
Cheers,
Brendan
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Yes that problem can be very annoying.
The only way I have found around it is to remove the parameter from the rig before deleting the rig.
I know that doesn’t really help you at the moment but it’s the way I do things now after getting trapped with this problem a few times.
Cheers,
BG
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Hi Dave,
By looking at your screenshot the value for transform.rotation.X is reading 58.96, but if you have a look in the keyframe graph area it is reading -125 to -170 down the left hand side.
So your keyframes are there, but you just need to adjust the scaling of the keyframe area.
Head over to the left hand side and you will see a small magnify glas icon, hover over it and it will say…
“Auto-scale vertically to fit curves”
Click that and it should adjust to fit the upper and lower values of your keyframes.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
BG
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I guess I was thinking this might have been something they fixed.
As you can throw a layer under the Primary storyline, make it a secondary and use a blend mode through to it from the primary….and it works.
Perhaps it’s just me getting worked up over blend modes….but I use them all the time.
Blend modes on secondary storlines, some way of using “roles” to automatically organise my clips to “tracks”, broadcast monitoring and the opening of fcp7 projects and I think I’d be a happier bunny!…not too much to ask…surely?
cheers,
BG
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There seems to be some new “features” shall we say with the new update.
Usual story with software updates, give in one hand….only to find they take something out of the other!
BG
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From my very vague…if somewhat outdated self-taught knowledge….I believe avid works in a way where clips that are unstacked…do so inside the timeline.
Which to me would make more sense if compound clips appeared and could be hidden in the same timeline.
But hey, that’s just me.
Cheers,
BG
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In quite a few cases I think many people like to see the whole edit in context, and not having to jump in and out of compound clips.
Well that’s my reasoning for using an effect to have it inside the main “timeline”
I think compound clips need to work in a way like another nle where the layers expand in context maybe.
Cheers,
BG
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Ok, perhaps I should have investigated it further before posting my thoughts.
Just changes blue, when assigning the role video it seems.
Doh!
BG