[Brendan Gibbons]

CHeers Mark,

Many thanks for the work around tip

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

It is final cut defying it’s own logic personally I think.

Clips and parts of clips can be organised using keywords and as such the same clip / part of clips can exist in as many different key word collections as you want it to.

Not being able to use favourites to apply clips / or part of clips to multiple favourite collections is putting restrictions on what is supposed to be organisation without boundarys.

It’s no biggie personally, but seems rather restrictive if you were uaing the favourite option as your tool of choice.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Yes I agree in the fcp ways of old you could design some text etc and then
drag a copy into your bin for using at a later date. Same thing applied to all text, filters, generators etc.

Untill / IF apple reinstate something as simple there is a different workflow you can use if you happen to have the new Motion 5.

1. Find a title element in the effect browser to use as a starting point ( eg custom text)

2. control click / or right click and select open copy in motion

3. create your work of art in motion

4. when finished choose “save as”

5. give it a title and create a new category (eg my custom titles)

6. this now instantly appears back in the fcp x title browser under the catergory you created.

This looks a bit long winded when written down, but it does the job.

But, yes it would be preferable to do this directly in final cut.

Hope that helps,

cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

In compressor, at the top there is an option to “add image sequence”….

then you can cook it into any old format you require.

Cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Yes this feature alone in motion is worth the upgrade!!! Be great to see what stuff people come up with this.

Just wish we could have the “send to motion” function reinstated though, then the tighter integration between fcp and motion would definitely help.

cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

If you mean remove a transition from final cut that you created in motion…so it doesn’t appear in fcp

go to your home directory / movies / motion templates / transistions / and in there you will find the folder of the catergory if you gave it one and you should be able to find your transistion to delete…

hope that helps,

cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

I’m not in front of the box right now, but from memory there’s a flop filter called “flipped” in the effects “distort” category.

Which most likely if you open a copy of that effect in motion 5 it will just be the flop filter that motion has, but the parameters published back to fcp.

cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

You can hit command+B as you playback your sequence…sorry they call it a project now don’t they

This should replicate the old fcp 7 add edit functionality. Though unfortunatley there is no “join through edits” for those stray cuts you wish to remove.

cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Works a treat!

Nice one, and thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

As far as I know there is no eye dropper function as per fcp 7’s 3 way color corrector.

As you say a lot of the color balancing is now automated, eg option+command+b to auto balance or jump into the color board, command + 6, and eyeball it to your own taste.

As far as viewing a rgb parade in the video scopes…

command + 7 to bring up scopes
then select rgb parade from the settigs menu in top right of scopes window.

Hope that helps.

cheers

Brendan