Charlie Austin
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[Jack Brodie] “I’m using version 10.0.9.”
Update… Not sure this is what u’re seeing, but there were some weird bugs in older versions where deleting clips would, for some reason since fixed, delete completely unrelated clips.
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[Michael Gissing] “So I get what you are saying but in the indie doco world X is a slightly more convoluted workflow and requires more input and is harder for me to fix but I think Resolve may end up being the ultimate tool kit on collaborative workflows, even if you aren’t editing or grading with it”
I hear ya… Resolve actually does pretty well with X audio (via fcpxml) but it gets a little messed up with multichannel sources. In my case meaning audio that’s tied to picture. (most of my pix sources have split DME tracks). I use Resolve to get picture AAF’s to MC from X when post houses want an “Auto Duck”. A few caveats, but It’s a pretty good “Rosetta Stone” 🙂 Be interested to hear how it goes when/if you get the chance to try it out…
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[Travis Sandoval] “Thanks Charlie! I’ll take a look at this.”
Again, about as far from AE as you can get, but it was tricky for the same reasons you said… tracker was following the fingers etc. The TL;DR of the “workaround”… get the screen replacement to track, save as a comp. then track and remove the screen and hand. Then key/roto just the hand, and then stick ’em all together. Not pretty, but it worked… 🙂
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This wasn’t done in AE, but I did use a mocha powered plugin so the way it works should be roughly the same… Maybe. 🙂 Perhaps some of the things I had to work through will help? It was a PITA, but it came out well…
https://fcpxpert.net/2016/03/26/fcp-x-3rd-party-plugins/
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[Claude Lyneis] “I was also interested in the sound editing comments. I am currently learning Pro Tools because that is how sound editing is being taught, but maybe in the end I can get it done in X.”
Lance can of course speak to his experience… For me, X’s timeline is just way more … “fluid” for lack of a better term. As Lance notes, the way X handles multichannel files is awesome, nothing else like it. Grouping in secondaries, using connections for spotting, always-on subframe editing, using Compound Clips (and breaking them apart… huge benefit over “nesting” in other NLE’s) Having the Logic plugins available… the list goes on and on. It’s just… faster, and I build pretty crazy effects beds etc. I use Pr as well, but X is way more efficient for me.
[Claude Lyneis] “Does the audio engine in X have advantages over Premiere Pro?”
The audio engine in Pr is, to be kind… not great. The solution always given is to just dynamic link to Audition. This is a kludge, and assumes you rent audition, which I don’t. Try retiming the same audio in Pr and X. The algorithm in X is amazing, Premiere’s is about the same as FCP 7. Also in Pr, any time you make a change to a retimed audio clip, it needs to render it before playback. It’s pretty quick, but still annoying.
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[Michael Gissing] “From X, fcpxml into Resolve no problem so same same. AAF from X (I always have to ask “Have you got X2Pro? No well you’ll have to buy it. Make sure you get the proper one that can trim files and add handles”) Then AAF into Fairlight. But we always have to do a test to make sure they can get the audio AAF out and learn how to drive new software. “
I get that, but here’s the thing… to get the perfectly good OMF tool in FCP 7, you need to buy it right? FCS was about 1000 bucks US (not sure about the Aussie $$ price). If an editor is doing work that requires audio turnovers in X, they need to buy a copy of X, and X2Pro (pro) or they’re not really prepared to do their job. And it’s only 550 bucks. (add EDL X, Motion and Compressor and it’s still only $750) Any way you slice it it less than what they paid to do this in 7.
Now I realize you may not be able to tell your clients what to deliver and how to do it. But in this market, if I told a post house I couldn’t make an AAF, or had to send them comped stems, all I would hear was hysterical laughter. 🙂 So, I own the tools I need to deliver in a “pro” workflow.
And with those tools – again for a lot less $$ than the cost of the old FCP – it’s exactly the same workflow. Open sequence, click a button to make an AAF/EDL, whatever. Easy. Easier actually, as X2Pro via Roles will split out my cut into perfectly organized tracks for me. Saves me time, and saves my mixers time. In a former life I was a mixer, and cleaning up the messes that many editors dumped on me was a huge waste of time, as I’m sure you know.
[Michael Gissing] ” AAF has a whole lot of things I don’t want from an editor – EQ, dynamic mixing etc. That’s just more stuff to delete before I can get on with tracklay and mix.”
I’m pretty sure X2Pro ignores effects, and there’s a checkbox to ditch transitions. As to levels, I’m not familiar with Fairlight but in PT its just a couple clicks to zero everything out. And using AAF, mixers I work with love the fact that all the tracks come in perfectly organized and properly named. That saves them a ton of time.
It’s perfectly understandable that you wouldn’t want to spend $150 to buy a copy of X2Pro as you don’t see the need. Though… if you had it an X editor could bring you a drive and an fcpxml file and you’d be all set. But anyone cutting in X professionally should have all the tools to do a professional job. And seriously, it’s not that much $$ and you pay it once. The fact that your clients don’t want to do that isn’t a problem with FCP X. At all.
In my worthless opinion of course. 🙂
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[Gregor Queck] “Also interesting that he especially likes the sound editing within the app…”
Sound editing in X is… sorry for the hyperbole… a joy. 🙂 Great article and cool workflow Lance. 🙂
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[Tim Wilson] “Why do I feel like some of y’all are two clicks away from needing your accounts moderated or something? LOL”
But Tim, where else can we discuss ducking with a group of our peers?
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[Shane Ross] “I want to know who ducks audio AFTER they edit scenes? I mean, I duck it as I edit. I can’t edit with music up full the whole time
“I know huh? Been messing with it a little and it’s pretty cool, but I’m sticking with iMovie! Ducking on the fly baby! lol
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Decisions, Decisions…
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