[Craig Alan]

[Bill Davis] “Why does Apple keep the THEY made a mistake label, now that most other (all?) software manufacturers now do precisely the same thing?
“

Because Apple is in the media spotlight and that’s what PR pros recommend. Say your sorry. Say you take full responsibility for your actions and the actions of your organization and then make no change to your behavior what so ever.

If you get caught again then admit to having a “problem” with this behavior and you have full intention of addressing it. You are now deeply sorry.

If it happens once again then fire someone and promise it will never ever happen again and you are taking serious steps to change the behavior, getting back to the core values, the ones that built the company and the trust that your customers have in it.

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[Craig Alan]

both useful. Thank you. Kept thinking it would be some P function.

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[Craig Alan]

Got it. Thanks. Would love to see tutorials on specific professional workflows for particular types of projects. I know from working with professional editors that they work incredibly fast . It’s hard to follow because it’s largely keyboard commands.

Appreciate all the responses.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Charlie,

One follow up if you can bear with me. What kind of project needs frame matching frame overwrites enough that not having it is a deal killer? Music vid?

I’m sure others would have other ways of doing it, but I played around a bit and connected the browser clip to the timeline clip set markers in each at the frames I’m trying to match, lined them up, trimed the browser clip to match the duration of the primary clip and overwrote to the main story line. Another option: a replace edit and slip it into place.

Also why do folks feel there is something in FCP X code that makes adding this feature such a problem? If X can do three point edits and back timed edits what would prevent it from doing match frame edits?

I tried setting a marker in the browser’s clip and in the timeline clip as a guide for the slip but could not get X to leave the markers in place. Hopefully this is just my inexperience.

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[Craig Alan]

[Charlie Austin] “park the playhead on frame of a clip in the project, find the matching frame in a browser clip and park the playhead on it, replace the project clip with the source clip *at the playhead* and fill the space on either side of the playhead. Every major NLE can do it.”

Thank you. Just so I know I get it:

Are we talking about a match frame?

If so does this do it?

Place playhead in the timeline on the frame to match
select the clip to be replaced.
right click and select ‘reveal in browser’.
This will show the clip or the matching range of the original clip in the browser
with a line that matches the playhead location in the timeline.
in the timeline select the range to be replaced and press D
the selected range in the browser replaces the clip/range set in the timeline.

Or are we talking about any frame in any clip in the browser?

If so I assume it would be to match a certain beat like an explosion or crossing the finish line??

In that case it would take several steps in X.

Hope this is clear.

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[Craig Alan]

Yes I knew you had most likely covered it, but in terms of this thread I think it was worth reviewing. So thanks. FYI: I was not asking to debate but just wanted to understand.

[Simon Ubsdell] “1) Replace Edit – in the conventional sense, not the feature Apple cheekily call Replace Edit which is fun but not what I’m talking about here.”

1. Can you help me out here. What exact replace edit? FCP X can replace from the In point of both, the out point of both, the entire clip for clip or retimed like fit to fill. What can’t it do? Again, not to debate. I’m not a pro editor.

[Simon Ubsdell] “2) Gang Sync.”
2. The multicam editor I assume won’t cover your need?

[Simon Ubsdell] “3) Multiple simultaneous timecode displays (optional).”
3. Have you looked at all the plug-ins that add time code to X?

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[Craig Alan]

We call it dolly in and out, zoom in and out, pan left or right, truck/track left or right. And yes tilt up and down. Pedestal up and down.
With a transform, I can more or less create the look of panning and tilting but not so much trucking or pedestal.
And a lot depends on how tight the original shot was. The angle of lens to any given part of the image is not going to change.

So I suppose I follow their choice of camera terms. But it’s less accurate than the standard was.

I think it’s counterproductive to rename industry standard terms unless they truly no longer apply. You can certainly use a transform tool to simulate panning and tilting but you can also do many other things with the same tool set. What u can’t do is change the camera’s 3D relationship to the subject. Seems like every product is required to be different innovative paradigm shifting to be marketable.
Unless the interface was using a virtual camera to transform the shots, it is less than helpful to rename the positioning on what is a virtual grid/graph. And if you were using a virtual camera you’d be shooting a 2 D image with a 2D tool.
That might be a fun way to remake the tool’s interface. And then I could see the purpose of renaming it. But it would not be able to create everything that a transform tool can do.

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[Craig Alan]

Can you name the missing functions? It’s probably been talked to death but since we just had a new update I’m curious what for u is still missing.

I would really like to see them add custom layouts. Spend too. Much time opening and closing windows and resizing them.

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[Craig Alan]

Lots of programs try to mimic this cards on a wall organization, which has been around in production studios for a long time. Ditto story boards. Final Draft and its wanna bes have it. Celtix has it. Etc. But until we have entire walls as monitors and a pad of some kind mounted at standing height, it will not be the same.

The technology is actually there in smart boards and projectors connected to an outport on a computer. The concept appears in countless versions of CSI and sci fi movies.

Both and not either or. If the cards can be integrated into the browser as well as hanging on the wall, then you can use the wall for global/overview/bird’s eye organization and have references to them within the script and NLE browser for detailing and assembly.

The number of movies that get released that when you back up the lens have at least some moments of plot and/or character arc that is absent, misplaced or inconsistent makes you wonder if they would benefit from putting those cards back on the wall.

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[Craig Alan]

I have read editors discussing that in FCP X they will do most of their rough cut in the browser. Deciding which clips to use. The I-O for each clip. Organizing them into a sequential order. This has always been part of the NLE process, but FCP X makes it easier and it’s a matter of degree.

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