Chris Harlan
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Herb, stand up straight. Stop slouching!
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Yeah, I’m with Steve. I’ve been very happy with CC. I’m about 48% it, 48% Avid, right now, with 4% going to FCP7. I think you’ll enjoy yourself.
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[Andy Neil] “But I know you know that, Simon so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make by playing dumb. “
Seriously? He was making a point, not playing dumb. You need to check your irony scanners; they may need a little oil.
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EDIT: I’ve read further and I understand a bit more about what you are saying. I agree with Chris that what you define as conundrums, I just think of as editing. These are basically questions I would be asking about the material itself, and not about what I was using to make it happen. I agree that there are situations that X might be better suited for than other NLEs. For what I do, I don’t see it.
[Brett Sherman] “Moving a clip with audio and video from one part of the timeline to another where there is an audio track already there.”
Well, only if you don’t know what you are doing, or haven’t organized properly. If you mean you have to think about it briefly, well–yes. But I’d be thinking about which piece of audio belongs there anyway, right?
[Brett Sherman] “Lengthening an video clip puts a gap in your music track because you have an edit in it. So do you trim the audio and video together or do you trim the video then cut the gap you’ve created out.
“I don’t understand this. In my world, I’m crafting the video and audio tracks to work very tightly together. Scoring. If I add a line, or a scream, or a thunderbolt, I will always be paying special attention to how it affects the score. I wouldn’t want the system auto-healing for me.
[Brett Sherman] “Or worse, you try to shorten your video clip by trimming it, but you can’t because two audio clips that abut each other won’t let you.”
This I don’t get at all. How would audio clips keep you from trimming video?
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[Steve Connor] “I know, it’s terrible, without tracks I can’t deliver anything? If only FCPX had tracks I could finally join the “real world”
“Glad you finally see it!
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[Charlie Austin] ” and a Bio-Sensing Edit Hat.”
Actually, I’m working with the team that’s prototypying that. Its a little bit buggy when I use it, but you should see what my dog can do.
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No. I’ve pretty much moved away from any thought of ever using Final Cut X professionally. I never say never, but the advantages it offers me just don’t make up for the disadvantages. I can see that it is a terrific choice for a lot of people, and if the production world around me ever makes more room for it, I’ll certainly reconsider. But I’m at peace about not going there, which is one of the reasons I say a lot less around here these days. The other is that I’m working my butt off. So, peace out, y’all.
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The other very odd thing that seems to happen with imported .wav is that they will occasionally become unstable in the FCP timeline and drift off their internal timing momentarily to create a weird loop while also cutting out a portion of the file that can’t be gotten rid of other than matching back to the source file. Its really annoying, and completely unpredictable.
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Oddly enough, I’ve had that exact problem with FCP7 a few times over the last year, maybe two. It always involves an imported WAV file, not AIFF, so I think something my be going on at that level. I had just assumed that it was part of FCP being set loose to drift away like a ghost ship, and it hasted my move back to Avid and Premiere. Maybe its a WAV/Foundation thing.
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Actually, try Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. They have a film going into post right now called Focus. The first time editor on it has a history with digital mastering, and Warner Bros. is quite famous for its water tank. It also recently wrapped filming in both New Orleans and Argentina. I would actually be surprised if this wasn’t the film.