Bret Williams
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Having aliases is normal. Just means you elected to leave the originals in place. Right click on the aliases and choose to show original. If there isn’t an original file then there’s your problem. The drive or card may no longer be online.
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Components is actually ctrl+option s isn’t it? Double clicking just expands the audio I thought.
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I’ve definitely seen this off and on.
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Yes, we’re going to need many more screen shots of the “waveforms.” 😀
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Definitely. Especially when a lifetime of Motion costs as much as a month of AE.
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Sadly something else that could be done in FCP 7! In 7 you could configure what played back in RT, or even what rendered.
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Disable all effects in X would be extremely welcome too.
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It’d be nice if it were true. But notice how he demonstrates easing with the aged film effect and opacity, but NOT transform controls? Because there aren’t any. You can’t twirl down the transform controls and get the right click between two keyframes. Which is pretty bizarre unto itself anyway, as easing is something to apply to just 1/2 of a particular keyframe anyway. Not to two keyframes at once. You might want to first keyframe to already be in motion with no easing and ease into the second one.
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The problem with FCP key framing has always been that they’ve got easing and motion paths mixed together. But if you’re doing a linear move, a straight path from A to B, then just right click on the keyframe in the viewer and choose smooth. That’ll add an ease out. Ditto with the B keyframe.
Now a bezier curve, it can do that easy. Just adjust the handles in the viewer to get the curve you like. Oh, but you don’t want it to ease in and ease out? Changing it to linear removes the curve. WTH?
Basically because Apple can’t seem to figure out that easing is a temporal function regulating the speed of which the keyframes travel over a path.
So straight path without easing, yes. Straight path with easing, yes. Curved path without easing, no. Anything in-between, the above options, not likely. Individual adjustment of easing on individual parameters, no. X has basically taken the viewer controls directly from motion, but left out the keyframe editor where all the good stuff happens.
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You can’t put clips individually in the event, but you could put all the clips from a particular timeline into a smart collection.
Make a smart collection in the event (or library for that matter) that contains all used media. Then highlight everything in the smart collection and keyword it something like used clips from sequence. Now you have a bin (keyword collection) of all the used clips. Or you could alternatively pick out just a few clips from that smart collection and keyword them.
So, essentially, yes, you can do it. You just have to create a smart collection of used media first then you can drag the clips to keyword collections (in lieu of bins) of your choice. Unfortunately the clips aren’t in chronological order in the smart collection though!
I had a client make timelines of related clips instead of bins. So the above method worked very nicely to organize those timelines of clips into keyword collections so I could work with them.
I can’t remember who shared the method with me. Kudos to whoever it was.