[Charlie Austin]

[Tom Wolsky] “This application works differently.”

Very helpful Tom. 😉 FWIW, I think it used to keep playing when you “clicked ahead”. I know that it used to keep playing when you selected to put the main viewer on a second screen. That broke in 10.0.6 when they added the event viewer. Send feedback Julian. Hopefully they’ll fix it…:-)

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[Charlie Austin]

[Julian Bowman] “Maybe, maybe not. The point of my work is to deliver my clients a good film they are happy with. How I achieve that is kind of irrelevant to anyone other than me.”

You’re absolutely right. I did a similar thing, and it was a great way to dive into X and get used to how it works. You’re gonna dig it. I’m just now starting to use the primary storyline, and I never really missed tracks, but there is no “correct” way to use it, make it do what you want, that’s one of the nice things about X IMO…

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[Charlie Austin]

[Julian Bowman] “anyone else had/having issue with the core melt filters? this one is actually a deal breaker on fcpx as i use a couple as part of ongoing work with a couple of clients and is one of the reasons i shied away from CS6 in the end because core melt couldn’t make them work properly there.”

Are you running 10.0.7? If so, you need to reinstall the updated version from their website. That should fix it. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Herb Sevush] “[Charlie Austin] “The source? 29 features… On DVCAM tapes. 😮 …FCP 7 came in handy here as a digitizing platform. ;-)”

And I thought tape was dead.

I’m sorry but this is my favorite line from you entire post.

What other NLE needs another NLE as a plug-in?”

LOL… Hey, *I* never said that. It’s not dead, but it’s starting to smell bad. 😉 Honestly though, it’s the first job that’s come in on tape in ages. We could get a cheap decklink or something for digitizing and layback, but we’ve got 7 already so why bother? Nothing we do gets sent out on tape anymore, though the shops that do our online finishing still deliver on tape. For now… If we do a finished piece here, we just send the files to them and they build the masters. Cheaper than buying all the decks…

Edit: Speaking of DV tape… I ran into all the fun quirks of that tired old format on this gig. 5 or 6 had TC dropouts resulting in multiple clips instead of single files. Most of them were anamorphic, but with different aspect ratios, 3 or 4 were 4:3. It’s really easy in X to manipulate the Anamorphic Override and Spatial Conform settings to get all the different formats to look nice in the same sequence. Had to crop a few, but it was painless.

And about 5 tapes had some glitch that caused the audio to be about 1-2 seconds out of sync. They were of course all 32k, and captured at that rate, so it was some other problem. The cool thing in X, is that you can open the master clip in it’s own timeline, adjust the audio, and it’s good to go. (it’s non destructive, so the actual source unfortunately stays out of sync, but it’s a nice feature) AFAIK, that’s impossible to do easily in 7, or anything else. It was a pleasant surprise. 🙂

Oh, one more thing… Tape Sucks. 😉
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[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “Break a leg, you mean! I hope.

Nah, break a leg is for actors or dancers who are on their feet. 🙂 What would the editorial corollary be for “good luck” is bad luck… hmmm. “Hey Chris, crash your computer on that gig!” … OK guess not, break a leg it is. 😀

[Chris Harlan] I think I’d like the skimmer, too. I do something like that in a timeline, now, but that seems like that would be lickity fast.”

It is. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever when I first experienced it, and you *do* have to remember to turn it off sometimes, but it’s pretty damn nice. Also clip skimming, that is da bomb. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “I’ve got one of those coming up in about three weeks. I apparently enjoy doing them more than you do, since I still look forward to them a bit, but, of course, with a little fear and respect. The keywords DO sound enticing. I generally cut and paste between multiple timelines, but I can see how that might be faster. Break a leg with v.2.”

Thanks. 🙂 I don’t really hate them, it was the lack of time that was… worrying. 😉 The keyword/favorite/smart collection/search stuff is crazy useful, it really made what could easily have been a huge clusterf#ck pretty painless. The primary storyline is gonna take a little getting used to, but this was a good project to try it out on. It doesn’t suck, at least for what I’m doing… 🙂 Good luck on your thing!

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[Charlie Austin]

[randall wurster] “I’m currently trying to do a typical edit that would take me 2-3 seconds in 7. I can’t even figure out how to do it in X. I have character A speaking, they butchered their line. I chop up their clip until its a coherent piece of dialogue. There’s three or four edit points in there. I need to cover it with the reaction leading into the next shot of character B. Problem is, in X, it’s just not feasible. For starters, with multicam “break apart” or “detach audio” clips is greyed out, even if I wanted to go through this laborious and silly step. I can separate audio & video (which again, is silly), but I can’t roll the outgoing shot past the closest edit point. It’s asinine. A simple edit in FCP7, and I have to come up with “workarounds” just to do it in X.”

I really haven’t used multi-cam that much at all, so I’m probably no help, though i seem to recall a discussion somewhere that had a solution for this… again, no help. 🙂

I know that in 7, I would have just cut in the audio only, chopped it up, and put whatever shot over it I needed. I’d do that in X too, cut in audio only as a connected clip, chop it up, and put it wherever it needs to go, keeping it out of the primary storyline. Probably the multicam thing makes this not work for you? As I said, this is the first project I’ve done using the primary storyline exclusively, it always scared me. 😉 guess I’m not the best person to answer this. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “[Bill Davis] “Once again, I think the more people can break out of their desperate need to view the X interface in terms of how their former working patterns have conditioned them to expect operations to work – the better it will work for them.”

Bill, I was in agreement with you until you say crud like this.”

Me too. You make a lot of great points Bill, can we dispense with the “you fools just don’t understand it” rhetoric? I think it would help your case. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

Never seen that. What’s the error message?

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[Charlie Austin]

[dan crouch] “That sounds like it could work. I imagine it’ll take a while to get use to tho.
Thanks v much for all the help.
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Cool. It’s way easier than making selects the old way. It’ll take you about 2 seconds to get used to. 🙂 The part that takes the most time is filling in the keywords you’d like to use. Then it’s just I/O and a keystroke or 2 depending on how many tags you want to associate with the clip. Combine keywords with favoriting and markers and you’ll be in “find anything you need with a keystroke” heaven.

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