Bret Williams
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Having recently worked in resolve, I discovered that with v12 they have removed easing for position. However going from X to resolve preserves all moves perfectly. And now, right down to the lack of ease in/out.
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Good surprise. I’ve had great luck with basic HD editing off USB 3.
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If you’re doing 1080 then USB 3 will surprise you. In my small sample of testing, the toshibas were faster than the gdrives, seagates, or those orange LaCie things. But things have changed since. Now you could get ssd inside a USB 3 casing and that’s probably be pretty amazing.
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Well 640×480 looks pretty bad unless you’re viewing at its natural 4inch by 3 inch size. Are you cropping off the sides? Since your original makes use of the full width you’re likely going to have to redo lots of the project to fit the new aspect ratio. Why would someone want a 4:3 video these days anyway when they could have 16:9?
Why not copy and paste the whole sequence into a 640×480 sequence (720×480 really) and then go through and adjust everything that needs adjusting then export a 720×480 pro res master and a 640×480 MP4 for Internet?
btw that’s a great looking tripod and a great looking video as well. Best of luck with the campaign!
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As much as keyframing sucks, the ability to publish motion templates trumps having some easing Keyframes which Inonly need once in awhile. I dealt with legacy a shortcomings in that area for 10 years and it’s no big deal in X. It just reminds me I should be doing my job in AE or Motion where I’ll do a better job anyway.
Are there plugins for premiere like mBehavior? You can do some awesome motion graphics with that right in X.
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Does the premiere skimming play out to the client monitor yet? It’s kind of a pointless feature otherwise.
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You can’t ease anything in FCP X. Wait, opacity and things like blur. But wth would you need temporal easing of opacity?
Changing from linear to smooth has absolutely nothing to do with easing. One is spatial, one is temporal.
But Resolve 12 can’t do easing on position. But it does it on rotation, zoom, etc. Why is it Adobe is the only one that has a clue about keyframing? I assume they do motion blur on pushes, zooms, wipes and other transitions, correct? Do they do motion blur on transforms? Legacy did that. I love that transitions can have motion blur in X.
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All the apps are making a mess of it. Resolve, Premiere…
Legacy had it right. One track, one channel. All the clips pan or the tracks can be mapped to channels for output. It just made more sense to me. Having a clip and track mixer had further complicated things, but needed for advanced audio in premiere I suppose. Not sure why Resolve has a track mixer.
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Isn’t the dilemma that both his audio sources are part of the same video clip? One camera mic, one lav. To separate them as separate discreet mono outputs, they’d have to be separate roles. Which would mean disconnecting them from the video.
And in the end, you have lav ch 1. cam mic ch 2. Same stereo clip you started with from the camera.
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Couple things I’m not sure you’re aware of. You don’t need to make a range to keyframe audio. That’s just a shortcut to make 4 keyframes. Usually you make a range around an area where the audio peaks. In your instance, I’d probably just make the 2 keyframes where I wanted them. Option click on the audio level line/bar to create the keyframes.
And not that it doesn’t work, but you’re still working in audio components. So when you close up the audio, you won’t see the keyframes or the audio fades without opening up audio components. Like I said before, I wouldn’t do that unless it’s absolutely necessary. No reason to hide your audio work deep in the clip. For example, to adjust audio keyframes, you’re going to have to “show audio components.” If you would do the work just in expanded audio mode, which is only necessary for the trimming part, then you’d be able to add the fades and the keyframes in regular editing mode. You don’t have to even expand audio components for that. Plus, all your keyframes will always be visible except in video only or super condensed timeline modes.
So not sure if you understood the difference between expanded audio and audio components. Expanded (ctrl s) just temporarily separates the audio visually from the video for trimming purposes. Audio components does the same, but shows all the inner tracks. It lets you put keyframes and fades in there, but it’s generally preferable to keyframe in expanded unless you have to adjust each channel separately. A fade on a fade makes a mess. If you just need to turn off a channel, I’d do that in the inspector. If you need to turn off or adjust part of a channel, THEN I’d jump into components. But even there I might just keyframe part of a channel to normalize it with the other, then jump back into regular expanded mode to do an overall level change or keyframe a duck under VO, etc.
So if you knew all that, never mind! HTH