Chris Harlan
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[Stacy Lincoln] “When editing for a 30 minute program (20 minutes), should I be editing in Drop Frame? “
If you are editing to fit into a broadcast slot, then yes, you want to use drop.
[Stacy Lincoln] “And if so, how do you make sure you keep your program in time?”
Well, that’s why you are using drop frame. It keeps an accurate time count in terms of minutes and seconds, which non-drop does not.
[Stacy Lincoln] “My only experience with DF has been “iffy” to say the least. I don’t seem to get the timing right. So, if anyone has advice on this, I’m all ears. Thanks in advance!”
I’d be happy to help, but you need to be more specific. There really is nothing iffy about Drop frame. As I’m sure you know, it doesn’t actually drop any frames, it just drops the counting of some frames, so that the clock reflects real time. The formula is this: Every minute–except the tenth minute–the count of frames is shortened by two, so that TC ticks over from 01:05:59:29 to 01:06:00:02 without the two intervening numbers. The tenth minute has a full count. The video retains the same number of frames as in Non-drop; its just counted differently, so that minutes and seconds do not go out of sync with the actual clock.
Does this help?
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There once were two groups of pro cutters
Who were as different as Cartman and Butters
They met at the Cow
And spent a whole year in a row
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[Oliver Peters] “Here’s my “first look” article:
https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/tags/autodesk-smoke-2013/autodesk-smok...
– Oliver
“Nice bit, man. I’m forwarding it to some folks.
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[Tim Wilson] “[David Lawrence] ” if they pull this off in July I will jump for joy.”
You know what amazes me? It also includes the full version of Resolve 9 and UltraScope! It’s like they said “Buy Resolve and Ultrascope, and we’ll throw in this nifty camera for only $1300!”
“I know! Right! Wow, yes?!
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[Walter Soyka] “n the example above, JKL is just too damn hard to do if you’re right-handed and are wielding a Wacom pen. Much as Mac OS hotkeys are built for the left hand while the right hand is on the mouse, most of the common Smoke hotkeys seem to assume your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand operating the tablet.
“Being a lefty, I always find this a little discouraging, and yet I’m used to it.
[Walter Soyka] “Personally, I think there’s a lot of value in learning an app’s native hotkeys. When functionality doesn’t match 100% from app to app, I find close-but-no-cigar key bindings to be absolutely maddening. In my opinion, it’s better to go through the pain of learning the new shortcuts once and make new muscle memory than discovering over and over again that a particular key doesn’t work quite the way you expect every time you hit it.
“I agree completely. I generally remap sparingly, and only after I’ve gotten the default down.
[Walter Soyka] “t was mainly a response to that tired FCPX/professional argument that got drudged up again, and in a thread that has nothing to do with FCPX to boot.
We need to move past this. It’s needlessly divisive, and we have far more interesting things to talk about.
“Agreed.
I’m curious what you think of the Symphony cross-grade in the light of this.
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[Walter Soyka] “I get the joke you’re making, but I don’t think anyone dissed FCPX over its hotkeys. C/Space/V is a bit easier than JKL when your right hand is holding a Wacom pen.
“I believe the relevant quote from Walter B.’s brief overview might be “In fact, Autodesk has provided a Final Cut Pro 7 keyboard mapping preset so your years of muscle memory will work with the new Smoke 2013.” I’m guessing jkl will find its way.
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[Lance Bachelder] “Gonna play with it in the booth as much as I can this week 🙂
“I want to hear about it, Lance! Keep your posts a comin’!
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[Andrew Richards] “With deference to the prior thread, it really does look like the Final Cut Extreme rumored years ago- FCP, Shake, Color, all in one app. Looks very impressive. I’m looking forward to the NAB presentation videos when they go up at the end of the week.
They posted some feature shorts today:
https://area.autodesk.com/nab2012
“I agree. It looks great. In fact, pretty much what I hoped FCP 8 would be. But… Before I get all yabba-dabba-doo, I’m gonna wait for a little more info. I’ll certainly download the June trial/Beta–whatever it is. But there is just so much that I can’t really see.
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[Michael Hancock] “The Symphony 6 crossgrade and upgrade offer is available now. Final Cut Pro (excluding Final Cut Pro X), Media Composer (any version), Xpress Pro, and Xpress DV owners can purchase Symphony for $999 USD. “
I find it a little disturbing that I cross-graded then upgraded to MC, and now Symphony is available for less than it took me to do that 2 Step. I’ve got to think twice on whether I want to spend that thousand bucks on a further upgrade or as downpayment on 2013 Smoke. I DO get that things are crazy in the NLE biz this week, but still…
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[Lance Bachelder] ”
Das Germans have been busy…https://pro.magix.com/en/video-pro-x/overview.275.html
“That’s kinda cool. I’d play with that to see what it is.