Charlie Austin
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I miss hanging mag tracks. Nothing like 16 or more gigantic machines spinning reels of death! And what fun I’d have when a track would break. I still have some scars from those things. Apple needs to get it together and provide sync lock to mag machines in FCP X. It’s just not professional without it!
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[Joshua Pearson] ” …rather than the forced jumbled pile of blocks of an X timeline.
In short, I like to put things where I want to put them, vertically, and have them stay there.
Otherwise i really like X.
“Hopefully they’ll make roles groupable so they’ll stick together and, in a perfect world, maintain their position relative to on another. that would be nice…
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[James Ewart] “Okay but come on you surely must admit it would be handy to be able to click on tabs of different projects (sequences) rather than have to back paddle and open another one.
Forgive me but how could that be a disadvantage?”
Hopefully they’ll make the project “history” buttons stickier, then it’s kind of a non issue. For me the only difference between that and tabs is that X randomly closes sequences you had open making switching between projects hit and miss. Fix that and it’s the same. Unless you like multiple sequence windows open at the same time, which I guess some folks do.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “It’s different than using the viewer – because it’s all in one place at the same time”
[David Lawrence] “It’s in a timeline. You have space to play around. You can easily skim and edit all in the same place. Doesn’t matter how long the clips or finished sequence. Works great for me.”
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[David Lawrence] “[Charlie Austin] “Yep… I’d really like to see how you do it. My head would explode. :-)”
Some of us have been using the timeline in Legacy for skimming for years. Just saying… ;)”
Explain how that works. say I’ve got a spot I’m cutting in a sequence. So I open another timeline?, drag my 2 hour source into it, drag the playhead to an in point and… then what? i guess I don’t get it, but how’s that different from using the viewer?
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Charlie,
Your typical ratios and sources sound quite similar to mine.
To each his own method.
Franz.”
Yep… I’d really like to see how you do it. My head would explode. 🙂
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “How do you cut together complex scenes with foley, location audio, music etc without going into the timeline?”
You don’t. 🙂
Unless you create a CC in the event and open it in a timeline. But then you’re in the timeline. You could probably assemble a keyword collection of, I dunno, interview clips or B-roll using ranges/favorites and then drag them all into a sequence, but for what you describe, there’s no reason to try. Use a timeline. 🙂
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[David Lawrence] “[Herb Sevush] “[Franz Bieberkopf] “That is the way I work, and all my clips go into sequences without any previous selection or marking.”
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Yep!”
-1 Nope! lol
It would be nigh impossible for me to cut that way. My cut sequences generally end up between 5 seconds and 2.5 minutes long. My source clips are generally 1.5 to 2 hours long, with up to 5 stereo stems embedded. it would be an unimaginable nightmare to try to cut that way. I guess it depends on what sort of program you;re doing…
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[Kevin Monahan] “Check out Premiere Pro CS6’s “Hover Scrub” feature. Does what you want, as well:”
It’s a nice feature. But other than a vague behavioral similarity, it’s not anything like skimming.
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[Steve Connor] “I would disagree that liking FCPX is dependent on understanding a different way of editing, I appreciate your “two stage process” but like many I prefer the tactility of the timeline for composing edits and I would say that, despite some people’s strong doubts, FCPX is great for this.”
Totally agree. My editorial workflow is pretty much the same in 7, X, or anything else. What I mean is, it’s the same, but different. 😉 Also, skimming is truly amazing, and I fully expect that other NLE manufacturers are madly trying to copy it as we speak. Hopefully Apple continues to raise the bar while addressing the shortcomings we all debate here ad nausea. 😉
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