Claude Lyneis
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I tried out going from the edited shorts and using shift f to select the right section of the clip, control K to bring up the keyword editor and then choosing the keywords for the clip. This is an excellent way to keyword after the fact and I was then able to collect all the goals into one segment, all the hits etc. Took me a while to understand the steps and how to make and use smart collections, but should be easy from here out.
Thanks for the tips.
Claude -
Thanks for the detailed response. Your workflow for the game summaries is similar to what I have done by loading the whole game onto the timeline and then deleting the parts that are unneeded. I use the option [ to trim the beginning of clips and option ] to trim the back side. I agree this goes much faster in X than 7. For the highlight reel, though I didn’t do the keywording up front wish there was a way to take the edited game clips and sort them quickly. They are already selected and edited down to about 8 minutes a game and that would be very fast to sort compared to the 70 minutes of raw footage in the event file. One of the earlier responses suggested a way to tie the edited clip back to the original event file and keyword it. I know it is backwards, but my FCPX workflow is a work in progress.
I am impressed at how fast you can edit. Takes me more time. The lacrosse clips are typically 30s to 60s long and in the end, only 10 s of action comes out of some clips. Football editing might be easier, since it is very episodic and structured. I also need to memorize for key short cuts so I can go faster.
Claude -
At the moment, there are essentially six projects where the clips are edited and ordered roughly in time to show the flow of the games, one project for each of the six games. The goal is to make a seventh project where selected clips that no longer have any ordering in time, but are reordered into the different categories. I think I can just paste all 6 into one project, one at a time, and then rearrange and select as needed. Or as suggested above, use the edited games to go back and relabel goals, hits etc.
This remapping is an obvious database manipulation, but the lesson is, think ahead and adjust the workflow to the the constraints of FCPX.
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Thanks Tom. That had occurred to me. Is there a way to have the two projects “visible” at the same time to cut an paste between or do you have to swap projects each time? I am probably doing something the hard way. That is not unusual for me working in FCPX.
The other challenge for me, is I want to sort the clips into at least 4 different sets, goals, hits, stops, defense. It seems clear FCPX is set up to do this database work with keywords, if it is done at the start of the editing. Anyway, I can do it with brute force, just was wishing for a more elegant solution.
Claude -
Thanks. Although it would have been better to keyword from the beginning, your approach at least explains how to work backward from an edited project to keyword the parts of clips that are desired. I will give it a shot.
Next year I will have to keyword from the beginning. I just find selecting the 5 to 10 seconds I want to keep out of a clip 60 seconds long or so, awkward in the event window. I may be doing it wrong, but there is a lack of precision in choosing the in and out points in the event layout.
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No. At this point the clips are not labeled in any way.
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While not entirely new to FCPX, I found this an eye opening tutorial. There is a lot of power hidden in FCPX, if you know where to look.
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A good graphics card is everything with FCPX as you have found out. I learned that the hard way with my old mac and now with my 2012 27inch iMac FCPX is way better.
It is too bad Apple is not more upfront about graphics cards and FCPX.
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Have you thought about the Canon XF100? Phillip Bloom gave it a good review sometime back. I use its smaller brother the XA10, same chip and lens but not as many knobs. I like its AVCHD format which runs at about 24 Mb/s. Works great with FCPX. I can edit in FCPX on my 27 in iMac without converting to an intermediate format.
I use it for web videos, but have read the XF100 will produce minimum acceptable network quality.
XA10 runs about 2k$ and the XF100 runs abut 3k$. -
While the articles make the transition seem easy for me it was quite a struggle to go from 7 to X, the discussion of the speed and ease of editing in X ranges true with my experience. I have found the work flow for cutting an hour plus video of lacrosse down to a 5 minute story goes much faster with X. For this workflow the magnetic time line and attaching other files to specific clips really works. Mixing some game sound, with some voice over and background music also goes faster.
I did buy a new 27 inch iMac and the new video card made a huge difference and the upgrades has really improved the situation, so after a lot of trouble, I am glad I switched.