Craig Slattery
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “In the UK it never ever appears on production base, it is not on mandy worldwide where I have a google alert, none of the post houses are running it.”
This maybe true, however there was a lot of interest in my edit. I had a bunch of colleagues popping in to check it out and I think a few myths were addressed. I was so impressed with the experience that we will have a dedicated FCPX suite cutting items throughout the next season. For now we have to stay with FCP7 for online but we are planning to replace the color grading suite with Da Vinci resolve so we can stay with FCPX all the way to TX. We have also told the small group of editors that cut for our show to get up to speed with FCPX. So there you have it.
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[Gary Huff] “Which is funny, because I read of people’s workflows on here and they all seem to be filled with work-arounds and attempts to “trick” the magnetic timeline to do what they want it to”
Nope! love the magnetic timeline.
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[Bret Williams] “However, if you expand the audio you’ll see the audio keeps it’s ins/outs and moves with the video. turn down the audio for that clip and roll out the audio from the previous clip to keep everything neat and tidy.”
Brilliant, that’s exactly what I mean. Works well thanks
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[John Davidson] “Editing with FCPX has had some issues as we continue to avoid working in the primary. It’s great for building clips but hazardous when it comes time for revisions. “
Hey John, Craig here again. Why not edit in the primary story line?
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[Don Smith] “Treat the MultiCam clip like any other and simply lay the new broll shot where you need it on top of the MC clip as an attached clip.”
That’s what I thought, shame multiclips would be fantastic if they could do this one simple thing. Cant believe its not possible to do within the MC. Basic thing really, I cut 100s of interviews and I would pretty much slip the B roll on every cut.
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Unfortunately no, that’s not what I mean. Selecting the T key to enter Trim mode, moves the edit points and allows the slip mode. I want to leave the cuts points I just want to slip the video in the BRoll angle without moving the audio.
For example, the interviewer needs to smile or react to a coment but at that exact point he is looking at his notes. I want to hear the interviewee but slip the interviewer clip to a point where he looks engaged. In fcp7 the slip key would activate this very fundamental move in multiclip editing. -
Yeah I just did a test, it doesn’t strip anything off, which is not ideal. My understanding is that X2pro leaves it on, but the clean audio is still available.
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No worries, thanks.
One other question, exporting the roles the way you mentioned. Do the levels and key frames, fades etc exist in the exported media or does the sound guy start from scratch rebuilding the mix in relation to our guide QT? -
Thanks John, and thanks for sharing your experience with FCPX
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That’s interesting, we are testing FCPX on our program next week. Magazine program for the BBC, Im cutting an 8 min item for our Glasgow show. We are planning a stand alone operation for the test. Ie not on the xsan, but working with stand alone drives. We really just want to see how the software works under editorial pressure. We will export a QT that scotland will import into there TX program, cut up and Grade etc. But Im a little worried about the audio.
[John Davidson] “With roles, we generate multiple tracks that are the full length of the spot based on VO, SFX, MUSIC, SFX2, etc “
I assume you export a separate QT for each role, is that correct?