Bret Williams
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I don’t. But perhaps it’ll come to me later.
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[Michael Hancock] “If they removed that functionality completely, what replaces it?”
You select all the clips you want to expand and then ctrl S. That’s not horrible as you can select all then ctrl+s. But, try to toggle it the other way. It won’t toggle closed if any of the clips you have selected don’t have audio, like a title or a video only clip. So you get to do it one by one or a group at a time. Fun stuff. Previously, switching between better performance and better quality would close all the expanded audio and key framing, but not anymore!
More later, right now I have to go individually close a crap load of expanded audio clips…
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Here’s an idea, and maybe it already works this way but I haven’t tried it. If I drag an audio clip to the effects lane, does it’s role become effects? Just kinda seems like it should. But then we’d be editing tracks for audio aren’t we? 🙂
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I’m pretty cool with everything else, except the COLORS. Hopefully I’ll get used to it, but to me the darker colors of the clips/roles, with the lighter variant on the text of the clips in the timeline is very straining. If I were to have created a graphic with those combinations my client surely would’ve nixed it.
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Don’t worry, they’ll be happy to sell you a $199 touch bar keyboard (without number pad) soon I’m sure.
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Ya know what would be even more amazing? If you could just touch and drag and stuff right on the screen! But I guess touchscreen technology just isn’t there yet.
Touch bore.
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That’s what I’m doing with the T-tap. I pull audio from the iMac most of the time as that’s what I’m watching. But I also have the speakers hooked up to the audio out of the Flanders client monitor so I can switch to that audio as well, just by switching audio out in the iMac. There is a delay of a couple frames between the two. Basically what you see/hear coming from the t-tap or ultra studio will be a couple frames behind what you see/hear on the computer viewer.
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What you really want to create is a title. Titles can do everything a generator does, plus include the background and that background can be used essentially like a drop zone. So you would lay the motion title above the video in FCP that you want used. It could be masked and affected just like a drop zone but with more accuracy. And, the audio would remain since it’s in the timeline.
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Let us know how the frame by frame roto goes.
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I’m guessing your BMD doesn’t work with the new 8.x software drivers either. Mine went about 3 seconds without crashing. I didn’t waste any more time and plugged my t-tap right back in.
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