Craig Shamwell
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Have you tried using an adjustment layer (AL)?? Place the AL “above” the clip and add the Scale Keyframes. Use the timing slider and slow it down where you want. You will need to place the AL a bit shorter than the original clip to have room to slow the effect down. Se if this works for you and let us know. Many have never used the power of adjustment layers in FCPX, but hey are super useful when you think outside the box as far as their accommodating what you may want to achieve!! Cheers!!
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I think any talk of bringing back any kind of Traditional Track Based format as the conversation has tilted towards is ridiculous!
Again, as some say “this is a whole new way of editing”, this is just not true! One of the best editing systems that has been around for years(Video Toaster) has worked the same way as FCPX has, which is now Tricaster. While there are visible lines that seem to form tracks, just as in FCPX you can move and put any kind of media anywhere in the editing window! Those who edit with these systems are of course outside the boundaries of those posting here in this forum, but Tricaster is used in high end production houses and Mobile Applications as well. Look up reviews and no where do you hear editors complaining…why?…because its so fast and easy to get content created!
Sure there are some things in FCPX that need a work around, but even those things are done with ease and quickness and FCPX makes up for it by how fast you can edit. Furthermore it is clear that some editors have not taken time to know and take advantage of all of FCPX tools to perform what they think the can’t. -
No not all! FCPX is great for Web Producing because it’s so fast and media friendly! But there are those who discount this section of producing as not professional! When there are those making a good living only producing for the web. I so wish I could work on films but I may never have a chance to do that, who knows?
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I think many will agree, it’s time for people to stop saying Final Cut Pro X is not a professional product. At this point it’s almost become laughable. I would much rather see or hear the particular situation that people edit in that Final Cut Pro X may not be suitable for as opposed to saying that it is not a professional product. In the old days it was film or television that all editors pretty much worked in and then came Video Tape, which Porn exploited to the fullest. Seen a video store lately? Today that paradigm has changed. Producing content for the web far outweighs any film and television production. And FCPX makes the whole process clean and fast, albeit not without its quirks at times. So let’s all grow up and realize that FCPX is here to stay.
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Sure. It was a Windows computer on steriods specifically built for the software and all of its capabilities. It was a complete capture and editing studio. Its timeline while having lines, was open! You can put anything anywhere. Slide media around the timeline and drop it where you needed. It would not move parts around intuitively like FCPX, you had to manually select a group of clips and move them or grab a single clip. You had controls of each clips behaviors and could add filters and effects to clips or multiples of clips. I only worked with it for a short time, but today’s Tricaster Series of Productions Work Stations which are really robust, use the same “open” timeline workspace.
And strangely after using it, going back to FCP7 and Premiere, it didn’t seem right anymore to edit with tracks. -
I appreciate your candid response Andreas! First I want to share the definition of “Hierarchy” with you: “a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.” Unless we are working in 3D space, every single NLE use this premise, except FCPX and Tricaster’s system. In FCPX there is no “constraint” or forcing you to work on specific tracks dedicated for certain media. Instead, you can place (edit) anything anywhere without much thought. You are not forced to create a new track. You said that I have to create a new “Modality” with the concept of creating a new Stroyline…you don’t! The Modality has already been created with how the editor works. You did not stop to think that it took you less than 15 seconds to read how to perform a replace edit in FCPX, but yet you think its some kind of chore. In actuality it took me less than 10 seconds to do it. And like I said, editing the 2 points inside the replace edit are stupidly easy to edit. The reality is, many operations are so simple in FCPX that its hard for editors like you to appreciate its simplicity. And the fact that it makes the editing window more of a canvas than a piece of “ruled” school paper, having to stay within the lines. And yes Andreas….you will start to think differently as you edit because constraints are lifted. This is not a forced thing either….it will be natural!
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That is not true. Look at individuals like Steve Martin and Larry Jordan who are in the creative community. I have sent comments and recommendations through Apple many times having direct dialogue with its techs, in helping to improve the software. And as long winded as I may have been, my comments about Tricaster, which is high end industry standard, stand alone production stations used buy many, is still true!
And how is it any more unreliable than any other editor? FCPX rarely crashes on my Souped Up iMac. I never lose place if there is a crash. What your saying, that you can’t complete a project?
Its those kind of statements that I just cannot let you make when I use this editor 3-4 times a week, creating content for Web and TV.
Sure you may like a different editor, but bashing the Magnetic Timeline like its something new (when its really not)… is just not fair, when so many use an open editing window with Tricaster and formally Video Toaster for years!!! I will agree with you that FCPX is different for sure! But unreliable, no. -
Did you report this to Apple via the feedback section?
I am sure you have Peter, but sometimes this part of the process of all of us helping to make the editor better gets overlooked.
I had a similar problem with my Smartsound Files sounding good in the Audio Editor, but output inserted random pops! Its been fixed and a patch was issued. Let us know what Apple says!?