Charlie Austin
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[Sascha Engel] “So, how come when I deleted some keywords from the keyword box, and did undo, it stopped after one step?
Something in the settings?”Dunno… maybe a saved keyword in the KW editor is only undoable once?? If you’ve made any keywords, they should all still exist as keyword collections in the Event. Unless you deleted them. 🙂 But that should be undoable just like anything else…
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[Andy Dadekian] “1.) I’ve been trying to figure out a way to make a dialogue breakdown for an entire feature. Do you have a method for that? In FCP 7 i would mark in’s and out’s then type the dialogue in the “Name” column. Time consuming but effective when searching for words.”
Boris Soundbite. 😉 Apart from that… similar way to do it mark in’s and outs, hit F (favorite) and then rename it in the list with your dialog. Personally I just make a “Good Dialog” keyword, assign it to a number key, then it’s just 3 keystrokes, “I-O-number” and they all show up in a keyword collection that I can just scroll through. You could do that, and then go back to each range and either do the favorite thing in the KW range, or type the dialog in the notes column. I’m sure there are other methods, maybe someone else will chime in.
[Andy Dadekian] “2.) You mentioned that multiple users can’t use it concurrently but (assuming all the media is shared) can i transfer a sequence to someone else on another computer so they can make changes to it?”
Yep. There are a couple ways. If both you and the other person have an event with the same media, you can just essentially give them the project folder. They’ll need to change the event reference when they open it, but it’s one click. There’s a good write up here:
Or this.. easier:
The other way is to select the Project (sequence) in the library, CMD-D to duplicate it, and choose “Duplicate Project + Used Clips” It’ll make a copy of the cut, and a new Event with all the clips. (make real sure you’ve not copied clips to your Event originally, ‘cuz it’ll try and copy all the media if you did) Then open the duplicated sequence in the timeline, select it all and click OPT-G to make it a compound clip. Make sure it’s being put in the New Event that just got created. Then just give the other editor that Event Folder from your drive. You can then trash the new event and the duplicate sequence (from within X, not in the Finder!) if you want.
It sounds more complicated than it is… it’s really only about 3 keystrokes… And once it’s done, you can just take back the Event with the cut in a Compound Clip. Or, If the other editor makes a new project with you cut, they can just give you that change the event references back and relink anything new they added, and off you go. Again, not quite as bonehead proof as FCP 7 or something, but really easy.
There are a bunch of other ways, using Disk images and stuff… again, maybe someone will pipe in…
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[Craig Alan] “Where do you see undefined?”
In the clip index, right click the header and enable the roles column… 🙂
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[Sascha Engel] “Is there anyway in FCP to determine, the levels of undo?
It seems, you can go one step backwards. This would be very scary, since you also cannot save as or jump to auto save versions, in case you went the wrong way.”You can undo everything to the point you opened the program for the day. And I always duplicate the project before I set off in some questionable direction. 🙂 Also, and I know it costs a little money… get this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/backups-for-final-cut-pro/id586594646?mt=12
and/or this:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/proversioner/
🙂
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[Craig Alan] “Where is undefined listed?”
In the timeline index, if you show “All” clips, and you have the Roles column enabled, transitions all take that Role. The transition Name is listed, but whatever the name, all of them have the “undefined” Role and can be searched.
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[Craig Alan] “Seriously, if you had “all” selected what made you think of typing undefined? Isn’t ALL an undefined search?
I guess not. But what is/was your logic? “LOL I wasn’t searching undefined, but seeing “undefined” listed, wondering what the hell that was, selecting it, and seeing a transition become selected. And then promptly forgetting it ’til now. 🙂
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[Andy Neil] “type, “undefined” because that’s how FCPX categorizes the “role” of transitions.”
Nice. 🙂 I saw this post and was trying to remember how I did this (by accident while messing with the index some time ago) Thanks for the tip!
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[Sascha Engel] “Could I not just export an XML from X and then import that XML to 7 and from there export an OMF, without any additional software?”
Nope… fcpxml is different than fcp 7 XML. So you do need Xto7 to get it over. A little cheaper then X2Pro. It translates very well, but you may need to re-arrange your tracks and clean up some stuff (disabled audio components etc.) that 7 doesn’t understand. It’s fairly easy. but X2Pro is easier… just press a button. 🙂
The bottom line with X is that while it’s relatively cheap, but if you need certain “pro” workflow functions, you need to spend a little more money. Trust me, it’s worth it…
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[Sascha Engel] “While I still wonder, what the difference is between the Pro and LE version..”
https://x2pro.net/feature-list.html
🙂The biggest difference is that the “pro” version can trim your media. Without that, the files are absolutely gigantic as it copies the entire source file, even if you only used 10 frames from it. Almost unusable if you have to send them out.
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[Sascha Engel] “So, no way around the pricey third party software?”
Well, you can just bring it into FCP 7. You will need Xto7, but it really is worth it. Also, the LE version of X2Pro is fairly reasonable, though it doesn’t give you as much control as the pricey version. And do check out Andy’s tutorial, as well as the thread comment’s below it. 🙂
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