Bret Williams
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Inserting works very much like other NLEs. With some differences, good and bad. In FCPX when you insert, all the clips connected past the insert point will ripple down as you like . Any clips connected before the insertion point will stay where they are. Worked the same in FCP7. If you inserted to a layer, every clip on all (non-locked) layers rippled down unless their in point was before the ineserted clip. In either case, the app can’t know what you want to do. There is always some clean up. In FCPX, at least you have the opportunity to change the connection point to where it moves with the clip you always want it to move with, as might be the case if you’re inserting at a J or L cut point. The big problem with 7 or X is music. If your music is connected before the insert point, then everything after the insert is going to be out of sync with the music. But this is generally true of all NLEs. X, at least, has the ability to change the connection point so you can choose side of the edit is important or which side you’d prefer goo out of sync.
Avid has what is called sync locks. Turn those on and every frame is important. You can’t knock anything out t of sync. If you do an insert, it will split all the tracks at the insert point and push everything down. It’s a very safe way to work and how I always worked when I worked on Avid many, many, many years ago. I assume they still have that great feature. In FCPX, you can accomplish the same thing by choosing a single hot key combination right before you insert edit. Shift+cmd+B. That will split your timeline all the way through at the playhead. Hit insert after that and all will be perfectly in sync before and after your insert.
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So open your Reuse library that you carry around, and paste them into a timeline there. You cannot put titles into an event or keyword collection if that’s what you’re getting at.
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I can’t help you with the CSS, but this sort of thing is easily done with Elementor Page Builder if you’re using WordPress for your site. You can easily make any element animate on in any number of ways very easily. So, if you haven’t gone the WordPress / Pagebuilder route, it’s might be time to look into it.
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I just meant you only need to do undos covering the last 15 min cuz there a backup at that point.
I love FCPXs way of dealing with auto saving, but I’m not a fan of what they did to smaller document saving like for pages or numbers. The whole duplicate first then save has bitten me many times. It’s just not intuitive and unnecessary. My guess is it was an early step of Jobs toward making the Mac more like a great big iPhone/tablet, but after his death Apple didn’t quite follow the path he had planned. BTW if you want to do “save as” in those apps it’s hidden- just hold option while you click file>save as.
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I agree.
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Do you really need resolve to grade? Yes it’s amazing and has features probably needed by only feature films, but with Chromatic’s groups and motion tracking and features, you could probably keep most of it in the app. I’m never locked to picture enough to send something out. And even then, it’s a myriad of intertwined layers of graphics, crops, animations, color overlays, etc. that I’m not really sure how would transition to an xml. So many plugins and custom motion effects.
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I do the same. Except no Final collection. Nothing is ever final. You’re just asking for trouble when you start doing that.
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Looked perfectly normal to me. You’re fading them up and down or some other transition.
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I was just going to add that the autosave benefits FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR outweigh any downsides. Look at it this way… old school you could work for half and hour, half a day, all day, and forget to save an lose it all. BUT hey you could always revert to a previous version. New school, do your diligence and make snapshots, which would have also been the responsible thing in other apps too, and move on. Like Jeremy says, it auto-backups every 15 minutes so you can always press undo for up to 15 minutes. ☺
And as far as undo jumping around, I used to see that a lot in version 1.x, but either they fixed 99% of the problem, or it was a way I was doing things. I think sometimes it has to do with the playhead/selection. Sometimes you can be making an edit where the playhead isn’t or you’re making a change where the selection isn’t or something like that and on undo the screen jumps to one or the other. Doesn’t happen much to me at all anymore.
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I wish Apple would explain their thinking. OBVIOUSLY if you marquee select everything in a container, or shift click as you did, it should select the container, or allow you to move all contents as a container if all contents are selected and the container is selected. This just seems like basic DUH to me. It should at least be the default. Send them a feedback. Not that you should have to for something this simple but it’s been ignored for too long. I could swear something changed a few years ago and I just adapted and moved on.
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