Brett Sherman
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[David Lawrence] “Not only that, three years later and you still can’t do a simple copy/overwrite paste of audio in the primary.
Epic FAIL.”
I’m not sure I’d call that a FAIL at all. If I understand what you’re talking about (and maybe I don’t) typically this operation is used to replace audio in an interview or actuality with blank ambiance. You’re right, the structure of X doesn’t allow that, and won’t ever. But, it’s not something I do a lot of. And certainly there are plenty of ways to accomplish that with attached audio files in X. However the structure of combining video and audio together, rather than as separate tracks, saves me a lot of time in my bread and butter editing operations.
If we’re going on one particular feature. I’d call Premiere Pro and Epic FAIL for not being able to open more than one project at a time. I do this on a daily basis to pull a single clip from one library into another library. Or copy and paste between timelines in different libraries.
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I think it depends on whether you see plan to hire yourself out as a freelance editor or work with projects that have been started by someone else in other editing programs. In those cases, having a good working knowledge of other programs, if not mastery, helps.
But, if you plan to control your own projects, there isn’t that much advantage to learning another program. While a particular edit may be slightly easier in another program, getting to that point of mastery is a huge investment in time. Especially when you’re new, your time may be better spent mastering the program you use. And mastering editing techniques, audio mixing, color correction theory, etc. that are helpful regardless of program.
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I’m interested to know how you manage project sharing on multiple stations. That’s something I’m still figuring out after 10.1.2 changed things.
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[Andrew Kimery] “For me, as a freelance editor in LA, learning X wouldn’t benefit me much because X is in very low demand out here (and that’s putting it nicely).”
Certainly I understand why some choose not to use FCP X. I fully realize there are situations where a tracked timeline works better. And as a freelancer you don’t have the choice of what software to use regardless of what may be the best tool for the job. When I hire editors (rarely) I only hire ones who can edit in FCP X to maintain institutional consistency.
On the flip side, I also believe there is still a bias against FCP X that has not much to do with reality. No, not everyone, but it’s definitely there. It’s been a long road to get even minimal begrudging respect for FCP X – even people questioning our claims of working more efficiently. So I will admit to being overly sensitive also.
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Move the video clip out of the primary. Select it, then Command-Opt Up Arrow. This makes it a connected clip and replaces it in the primary with a gap clip. Now you can move, trim, the video clip to your hearts content and the audio clip stays connected to the primary in the same place.
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[Andrew Kimery] ”
The ‘If you don’t like X you must be a dumb dinosaur’ tropes need to die.”My apologies. I didn’t mean to offend. It was a flippant remark and I did not intend to have it mean anyone’s a “dinosaur.”
The point I wanted to make was that anyone can learn to work with the X timeline efficiently if they want to.
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[Mark Snow] “The pain of missing tracks, the missing features (Keyframing) and the, quite frankly infantile language (Events?) and messy timeline (what are all those compulsory Spaghettis-Links for?) is for the moment outweighed by good will, hope for speed, easiness and curiosity.”
Hopefully, you’ll quickly find you like the new way of timeline organization. I personally am much faster with the FCP X timeline than I ever was using tracks (I’ve been editing for 20 years). And I do similar kind of projects to what you do. As far as I am concerned, there simply is no better documentary editor than FCP X.
Sometimes I wonder if those who can’t handle the FCP X timeline have difficulty learning new things. Or they’re just impatient. It really was no problem for me.
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[Erick Puentes] “Although it is an XLR, we are using an XLR to Stereo 3.5 adapter. “
There’s your problem right there. XLRs have a positive phase (pin1) and a negative phase (pin3) and a ground(pin2). You’re sending the positive phase to the left channel and a negative phase to the right channel. What you want is to have both tip and sleeve come from pin 1. Or just cut off the wire to pin 3 to get just a single channel
See this diagram
https://www.scotaudio.com/wiring.htm -
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/252280-REG/Hosa_Technology_YMM_261_Stereo_Mini_Male_to.html
This is what you need. It seperates your stereo input into 2 mono inputs. If your lav needs plug in power I’m not sure if it will still work or not. But worth a shot.
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You could turn you final edit into a compound clip. Then create a new project at 1920×1080 and drop the compound clip in. That way you wouldn’t have to render out a 4K file.
Another option, of course would be to start your timeline as 1920×1080. I haven’t played around with 4K, so I don’t know if working with 4K footage in an HD timeline is slower than working in 4K directly.