Bret Williams
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You’re talking about horizontal inserting and swapping. Something any NLE can do. When people talk non destructive in regard to X, we’re referring to tracks getting out of the way vertically. IOW when you’re editing a shot from the event to the timeline you don’t have to worry about how long the clip is and if it’s going to overwrite a portion of a clip either because you didn’t properly pay attention to the track patching or miscalculated the length of the clip in the source or forgot to put an out in the timeline. For me, editing takes less precise calculation before placing in the timeline and edits are massaged in context with juxtaposed clips/VO. Since the latter massaging is generally going to happen anyway as that’s the nature of our business, it feels faster to me to just be able to quickly get the elements into the timeline without worry of overwriting any audio or video.
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I’m talking about a situation where the NLE is basically used for shot selection and timing. Then the project is exported to AE or Motion where the clips are layered and mixed with graphics in 3D space with transitions and effects.
It’s a pretty common need. Automatic duck made a living from it. Takes a mere seconds to use XtoCC (which can also get your project from X to AE even easier) to get your XML to Legacy, and another couple seconds to output a Motion 4 file. You don’t even need to touch motion 4. Just open the Motion 4 file in Motion 5.
Anyway, the only use I can think of anymore for having FCP 7/Moiton 4 around.
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There is a bullet template I use from Deyson Ortiz from time to time. It has the same flaw. You can’t control the timing.
However, my trick is to compound the generator, then using retiming (cmd+R), I just add holds (shift H) that can easily be adjusted for timing. Works great.
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Can’t delete files that are externally linked via the interface. It’s a fail safe so you don’t delete media that could be in use by another library.
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You might want it to get your FCP X sequence into Motion 5. It is the only way to export a FCP X sequence to Motion 5 and it works quite well. XML your sequence to FCP 7 utilizing XtoCC app. Then open in 7 and use send to motion to create a Moton 4 version of the sequence. Then open that project in Motion 5. If you need to get a sequence to Motion 5, that’s really the only way to do it.
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Where are you pasting? Into the inspector or into the viewer? One of the two doesn’t copy font info.
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I was more surprised by the “it goes away after a while.” Huh? No it doesn’t. The longer X runs the more sluggish it gets. Just have to reboot the app every few hours. It sucks up all the available memory. It’s not usually an issue until you start using templates, compounds or anything else to push the app a little.
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For a free editor, Resolve is pretty decent and getting better every release. But I’ve come to realize it’s actually (in a way) a combination of all the bad parts of Premiere and X. From X it has the non-customizable interface. The horrible keyframing engine (right down to no easing of position Keyframes) timelines without tabs, and a single bin window. From premiere it has- tracks and patching, hover scrub instead of skimming, bins instead of keyword collections, and playback resolution lowering instead of the “better performance” toggle of X. Let’s not forget a slew of confusing settings and preference panels akin to premiere AND legacy.
And they forgot to take direct link or motion integration from either, OR affordable plugins. Those are big issues for me.
I’m being a little tongue in cheek, but every time I give it a shot I keep thinking how hey, it’s like X, but with tracks instead like premiere. But it’s not. When you get to it the best stuff about X is the performance. Render, playback, export, proxies and things like a timeline that gets out of the way to avoid clip collisions and destructive editing. The keywording is one of greatest strengths too as is the motion/plugin/template integration. NONE of that in Resolve.
In premiere, the stuff I wish X had was the interface customization, the send to AE direct link, having multiple bins open, having tabbed timelines and pancaking, the fantastic keyframe controls, and even the ability to full-frame any window. Resolve has none X of that.
It’s like they took the worst parts of X, and combined them with a Premiere that’s missing what’s cool about Premiere.
But at least it’s color correction is decent. 🙂
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No need for iMovie. Just trim it and upload it from photos right on the phone.
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Are you trying to create an HD BluRay disc or are you creating a video file and burning it to a data disc? Is your project SD?