Charlie Austin
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[Jeremy Garchow] “OP asks if you can sync everything together in FCPX and create a sync map, and then use that as one big clip.
Yes, you could do it and the setup would be fairly easy, but you should know there are a few limitations.”
That was my initial thought based on the Avid video as well, but looking at Marcus’ post, it seems the “reality” would be somewhat more complicated. Before you even went into the “main” timeline you could easily prep the multicam/full group bits, but when all the groups split off (assuming multiple cameras following each group) , you’d have another set of maybe 3 or 4 Multi clips you’d need as sources. Would secondaries work here? Or can you only switch a multi clip in the primary? It seems as though the syncing and prepping all the pieces would be fairly straight forward, but the assembly would need to be done differently than the avid/7 workflow. This isn’t surprising, in fact I suspect it would necessarily be a totally different workflow. I’m just wondering what it would be…
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Is this aux timecode you assign? Or does the tc follow clip tc?
Sorry, I haven’t worked on Avid with Multigrouping.
X has a number of ways to group clips, so just making sure all capabilities you need are there.”
Not sure of that either… FWIW, to compare and contrast with X, check this avid multigroup tutorial:
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[Uli Kunkel] “I asked about MultiGrouping bc I work in reality TV. We have to have it in our workflow. Big shows can’t live without it. So if there is some way to emulate that in FCPX that would be amazing.
I take it from your response that there isn’t a way to do that?”
I’ll jump in here… Bill knows way more about multicam than i do, but I just watched a “how to make an AVID multigroup for reality TV” tutorial… After I put my exploded head back together, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say. Yes, you absolutely can do this in X, and much more easily. To do what he did in 20 minute tutorial, I’d just highlight all the clips (which have matching TC) and click one button to sync them (using TC) and make a multiclip. Clips with no TC can be synced manually or with markers. Again, not an expert here so don’t take my word for it! The Aux Timecode thing I’m not sure about, is that needed for post, or do you need to add it so MC can sync the clips… If it’s the latter, it’s not needed in X. Be interested to hear if it works…
Oh… here’s Bill’s thing… but this:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_multicam_basics_stone.html
might be more help getting started…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mqLOkckF9Q
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[Esther Casas] “I am just trying to move an individual clip that has one transition at the beginning and one at the end of it. When I do, the clip moves, but not the transitions, both are left alone in the timeline…weird?
I am coming from fcp 7”
Assuming you’re trying to fade or transition to black then. If so, that “media” in the timeline, is not black. Hard to explain if you haven’t cut on avid, but the quick solve is to go to the “generators” effects browser and select “grey scale” cut in as much as you need to cover the transition on either side of your clip. select it in the timeline and open the inspector and adjust the level to 100%. then apply the transition and you can move the whole chunk of 3 clips. Or, if you just need a fade. highlight the clip in the timeline, press CNTRL-V to open the clip animation, click the little thing to open up the compositing opacity keyframe panel, and just drag the fade handles on either side of the clip to do it. CNTRL-V closes it up again. Also, use the position tool (P) rather than the select tool (A) to move things around. X is always in ripple mode with the select tool.
Sounds way more complicated than it is. Also… if you haven’t. watch some tutorials. The primary storyline behaves more like Media Composer than the old FCP. It’ll drive you insane until you get how it works… 🙂
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[Esther Casas] “I mean that I change the position of my clip but my transitions are staying, so they don’t move!?”
Are you trying to move a clip with a transition to another clip? or to gap? (which you may think is black, but it isn’t. Are you coming from FCP/Pr or Avid? What kind of transition?
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[Chris Harlan] “t’s hard to remember, but a lot has changed.”
Except for the reaction to the “new NLE on the block” by a large, vocal group of users of “established” NLE’s. Including those who use an older product from the same company.
I was just looking at some of the old bug reports I submitted from my “classic” beta testing days (which were for version 2.5 up through v 4 or so), as well as some of my email exchanges with the FCP team at the time. Deja Vu all over again. 🙂
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[Chris Harlan] “Undertones of condescension? No, it’s pure raucous gloating. Don’t mess with the honey badger. Smiley emoticon goes here.
But, that’s today. Yesterday was all about how X had reached its tipping point. Tomorrow is about how Avid… Well, actually nobody is going to say anything about Avid tomorrow (other than Craig detailing another lawsuit) and yet, weirdly, its the only one of these NLEs I’m going to get certification on. Go figure.”
lol… True.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “hey hey come on – I respect Canadian newspapers as much as the next man.
I think its great that FCPX is carving out a new role there. In canadian newspapers.
“Speaking of newspapers and Canadians…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjJTsrglDA
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[Chris Harlan] “Does this have something to do with the “Cold Mountain moment” meme? Whoa–look at the Coen Bros. using Pr, but nobody’s all who-ha about X and these guys? I think the whole “Cold Mountain” thing as a mark of “software on the rise to some sort of heavenly dominance” is a little over-done.”
Agreed. However, I do think that there is a not so subtle undertone of condescension from some of the voices in these new “Premiere Pro or Not: the Foregone Conclusion” threads. 😉
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Tipping point or not? I think that clears it up.”
Clear as mud.
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