[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “And yes, they’re learning to edit in FCP X.

Go figure.”

Umm… whoever made that video was not “learning to edit” regardless of what they edited it in.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Yes, but it’s not our job to make it look any better, right?”

Of course not. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “[Bill Davis] “Heck, if someone is cutting movie trailers – and being delivered only source footage with proper color grades in place, then it’s doubtful they’d ever need to be an amateur colorist, right?”

I’m not sure this is correct, at least from my experience.”

It is not. 🙂 As you know, what trailer editors get are washed out, crappily duplicated Low Res Dailies or WIP’s covered with watermarks and burn-ins through which one can barely make out the actual picture.

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[Charlie Austin]

[David Mathis] “Music was hypnotic saying, “Your eyes are getting heavy, relax, you are now under my control. You will love to learn to edit in FCP X, you will exist without tracks, editing will be fun.”

Well, at least that is what it is telling me”

Me too! FCP X is amazing!!!***

***Disclaimer: That was a tongue in cheek comment! Fact is, you could probably have cut this in iMovie

The amazing part is the planning and choreography that went into it. I wonder how many takes it took to do each shot? Yikes. Let’s all pay homage to “Rope” (which I believe was edited with razor blades and sticky tape) for these types of things. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “But the fact that it auto-creates the handles has to be a timesaver as against dragging them out manually, doesn’t it?”

Yep. CMD-T, CTL-S, done. vs. CTL-S, click-drag, click-drag. Every second counts, the client is foaming at the mouth!

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[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I use “expand splits” all the time. It’s so easy.

What I don’t like about dissolves is that the kb shortcuts don’t work as well.”

Oh, definitely. But without the dissolve,effect on the clip, you “have to” expand splits to see your A/B vs. straight cuts. Once you change the A/B handles/fades under an expanded dissolve, the dissolve effect isn’t doing anything other than being a drag thumb/visual indicator. 🙂

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[Steve Connor] “[Simon Ubsdell] “I always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.
”

+1 on that, I also use compounds as well, never use the primary”

That actually brings up another nice feature of X’ connection points. There was a post on fop.co from a music video editor (though this applies to anything) about how he would cut different sections, and move the mx secondary connection point around depending on the bit he was working on. He cut the middle first, move the connection to the end of it, worked on the section after it (leaving the cut to the previous bit in sync while allowing the bits after it to ripple as needed), got that locked, changed the connection to the beginning of the section he started with, and worked on the parts leading up to it while all the later parts remained locked.

The FCP X timeline sure is rigid and inflexible huh?

[Steve Connor] “Yours sincerely

Steve Connor”

lol

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[Charlie Austin]

[Nick Toth] “What gear this was done with is inconsequential compared to the idea and the amount of effort it must have taken to coordinate that whole thing. That’s what really impressed me.
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Completely agree. That took some serious choreography/storyboarding.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] ” always use secondaries for music beds – it’s one of the really great features in X that you can build a music bed in its own container, complete with fancy cross-fades (however you choose to make them), and you never have to worry about it unravelling. Just pin it to the right reference clip and you’re done.”

Actually, I do too, but I usually have A/B secondary’s – because it was quicker than expanding and dragging out/adusting the handles in the components in a single lane. Not anymore. 🙂

This trick also negates another issue I had with single secondary lanes…without a dissolve in the collapsed track, all you see is a cut point with no indication of whether it is just a cut, or an A/B crossfade. Using the dissolve shortcut though, you can see the difference, and also drag the edit point without switching tools. Less clicking = easier job = go home sooner. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “A great tip, thanks for sharing it.
“

Well, to be fair, the thanks should go to Aindreas and David for sending me down the rabbit hole where I stumbled on it. 😉 Definitely a timesaver though, I might actually use secondary’s for MX beds now.

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