Craig Alan
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Yeah I’ve been hoping for a reveal in timeline feature. Also if you have a long clip in the browser that got sub clipped and broken up in the browser and timeline, I can’t see a way of searching for a given sub clip in the index. Is there?
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Use snapshots for versioning and safety.
https://www.larryjordan.biz/fcp-x-create-project-snapshots-video/
The name is automatically titled with the “snapshot” and “date” added. This would be hard to mistake for your current version and FC allows you to reorganize stuff by creating a new event and moving stuff where you want. Maybe an event where you store your snapshots. Leaving only the current one in the event. You can also rename stuff if this isn’t doing the trick for you. I could see where edit 3 might get confusing if you don’t remember what version you were on or have three very similar looking projects opened at once. Unless you have a particular need i would have one project open at a time. I make mistakes when I’m toggling my brain between six different things.
Sounds like the director is micro managing. It’s one thing for her to have creative ideas and feedback. Its her baby. But grabbing an old bit that got changed … let her just tell you I liked this bit – can we get that back in somehow. There might have been a reason it got edited out even if some of the baby got lost in the wash.
Often we have great moments or lines that just don’t work with the sequence and need to be cut even if the moment was great.
When you do need a break from your project – skip the coffee and go do something physical. Get away from the computer and stretch and move.
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Highlight your clip. in clip appearance
select a display option
and clip height.
Slide your timeline so the clip you want is in view.
you can clearly see the waveforms and if you need to expand audio or show animation or use inspector settings like checking which channels are active you can but not needed for basic key framing.
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syncing audio in post has come a long way. What NLE do you use? You could use an audio recorder rather than a camcorder to record the audio.
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this link provides a nice overview
https://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/104/tilt-shift
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FCP X has the ability to go back in time. This was foreshadowed with Steve Job’s RDF (reality distortion field) and in FCP X’s ability to update old libraries.
Love that series!
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Thanks David. I haven’t tried much to “edit” in the browser. And with all the posts about compound clips causing problems I’ve been reluctant to dig too deep. I find it strange to step in and out of compound break apart secondary break apart to access different features. I am also struggling with X’s markers that I like to use as placeholders. For day to day muscle memory, I’ve pretty much forgotten FCP 7, but I’m still kinda married to the workflow of creating sub-clips in the browser – composition in the timeline. I have gotten used to the much more robust metadata based sub clipping in FCP X. I do miss the window layout features of FCP 7. When I created my sub clips I’d switch to a layout that let me set in and out points on a large viewer and browser.
Markers:
and these can be found/searched for/filtered in the index (the thing on the left). I think that is pretty powerful.
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Wow. What made you think to tap the command key to make override stick? Is there any pattern in OS X of command as a secondary modifier?
Great tip for both touch typist pros and slo pokes like me.
this is pretty good: https://finalcutprokeyboardshortcuts.com/final-cut-pro-x-keyboard-shortcuts/
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David,
Correct me if I’m wrong: doesn’t FCP X address this need by allowing the composition of compound clips in the browser and then being able to open them in their own timeline? I don’t yet have my head wrapped around this work flow but I’m trying. Warnings about the reliability of using too many compound clips did not help me embrace the workflow.[David Lawrence] “FCPX browser, every clip appears the same length in the browser window, no matter what its duration. A sequence gives more immediate visual context in regards to clip length. This may be essential information the editor needs.”
You can adjust the thumbnail’s representative duration and the duration is shown in the inspector and in list view. At 1m you clearly see relative durations.
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[Chris Kenny] “While I agree this terminology is a little odd for a pro video app, it doesn’t actually map to consumer taxonomy any better.”
Well put. A better approach for the integration of consumer and professional applications (which is the direction the industry is going) – is to make the language of professionals accessible and consistent. The large majority of FCP 1-7 copies were in the hands of non-pros. Or prosumers.
I own a professional reciprocating saw. Does not make me a contractor. But I can get a lot more done with it than the piece of crap saw I bought last time. Doesn’t hurt that it came with simple illustrations showing me where to place the blade in relation to the wood or pipe I want to cut. Doesn’t hurt that they clearly let you know what blade is used for what material.
Lots of people can read and write due to democratic educational systems. But that does not mean that there are no professional writers. It does mean that many professional writers write stuff that is geared toward readers who are not on a high level of sophistication. And this applies to most feature films and broadcast TV shows as well.
If something works for all levels of users, then its foundation, its fundamentals are really solid. That’s a good thing. If the name of something is truly instructive/symbolic of its use then leave it alone. If it’s not, then change it when you have name that is.
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