Daniel Bethe
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Here’s a list of sites, mostly completely free of charge (gratis) and free in every other way (libre):
https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos
I was just searching for my own needs. Do pay attention to the icons and licensing terms. Some artists do have specifics, and there are various modes of the Creative Commons license. For example, you may not be allowed to do commercial usage without prior authorization from the artist.
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Oh gosh. I think I see why nobody’s made a free filter like that. Sorry, I hadn’t looked in detail and I didn’t realize that there *is* a shadow component! I have a shot which was taken underneath a shadowy spot, with a bright day’s sky behind. I think I fixed it in about one minute, using the built-in tools. Thanks for the nudge!
I look forward to getting into a dedicated training video on color correction at some point.
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Hi Jeremy. I’m a noob who’s only done several days of FCP X training videos, so I haven’t gotten to a color correction howto yet. I was hoping for this! -> https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/#shadow
Hopefully, Lyric will port their collection!
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Well. Okay. But. The thing is, I captured all of this DV footage years ago. Ya know, before *everyone* had gotten the memo that tape was obsolete! 😉
It was an extra camera, borrowed! ^_^ I wouldn’t ever normally subject anyone, even myself, to such a thing as fragile, linear media.
Also, not all events permit that level of predictability when shooting, or can’t be comprehended for quite a while when editing. You can’t always script ‘cute’ or ‘awesome’. 😉 I’d have been rewinding that tape constantly, playing it through in realtime (instead of rapidly scrubbing) because sometimes all I want is the audio, and capturing a lot ‘just in case’. This particular event was an all-day set of presentations surrounded by performers and thousands of individual attendees who are reacting to their environment, kinda like a fair. I’d never seen any of it and was just figuring it out in the middle of it. That’s how most of my events go, because I shoot the community and its volunteers, or nature, or whatever. I don’t often know what’s going on or what story is being told, while it’s happening.
It’s just a “real life” scenario. :-/ I don’t mean to sound contrary; I’m just thinking aloud because I know there are so many different styles.
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Speaking of gaggles of keywords, I want a list of prewritten stock keywords. Aperture has some great hierarchies of stock keywords.
Often, I don’t even know how to think about organizing my footage until I’m half done with the attempt! A-roll, B-roll, sound effects, images, soundtrack, dialog, aren’t enough!
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Oh and btw, yeah, I have two monitors, and I’ve set it to “show events on second display”.
I can’t create folders in the Event browser, but I guess somehow I am supposed to make a Smart Collection instead?
I want to organize my source clips in the Event browser, using folders. Like I did before, oh so long ago, in ye olden tymes, in the days of our fathers, in stranger aeons past, with *gasp* FCP 7.
You see how many purple shirts and survivors there are in there? And that’s mostly just from Camera #1. Then with the file ‘tape1’, then the action starts over, concurrently, with Camera #2.
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Am I supposed to somehow create a gaggle of increasingly specific or arcane keywords and Smart Collections, in lieu of folders? Should I create a keyword called “purple shirt folder” so that I can organize it into a folder-like Smart Collection called “purple shirt folder”? lol
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Hey there Tony. Well that’s quite a thorough reply, and I hope it helps others as well! That’s basically what I’ve been doing, although I’m doing the list view and I’m only using favorites long enough to turn them into keywords. Keywords are more descriptive, and most importantly, they are immutable! In other words, they can overlap! You can make one A-roll clip, and then make several B-roll clips out of that A-roll clip. Then, I type a description in the ‘notes’ column. I do all of that for each subclip.
I have no idea how Smart Collections will become useful to me yet, although I have seen a dozen video tutorials about them. I’ll have to reach that point in the experience, or else watch those training videos another couple of times each!
I need them to stay in the Event browser. I’m logging keywords, and camera #1 gave me an hour’s worth of footage across 50 mpeg4 master clip files, and then camera #2 gave me two one-hour DV files full of potential subclips. I have no idea which footage is usable or for what, nor how they’re all going to end up being composed. I’ll have to probably end up dumping an array of usable subclips into a scratch Project timeline, just to see how they fit together into a story. I picked up that idea from “effective storytelling with final cut pro x” on lynda.com.
That’s what happens when your camera operators have no idea what’s happening at the event, and they just keep pointing and shooting! Welcome to the community! 😉
Thanks for helping me to talk it all out.
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Oh okay, so the Keyword Collection is the search results of all clips which are associated with each keyword. And so it’s inextricably coincidental that when you create a keyword, a keyword collection is created; and, when you create a keyword collection, a keyword is created. That coincidence was confusing me…
…That, and general information overload during the process of learning this new beast! Thanks.
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My favorite tip is to get good training.
https://www.lynda.com/Final-Cut-Pro-X-training/Effective-Storytelling-with/71055-2.html
That woman’s voice is joyfully awesome, her imagination and use of language are wonderful, the topic is quite thorough, and the sample material is totally beautiful. To me, it’s sufficiently unique and well done that it’s worth a month’s subscription. I love Larry Jordan’s work too.
Here’s free-of-charge video-based training:
https://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/applefinalcutpro
Larry Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD5Cn8mTffs
Steve Martin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9SKJoarCoI
Always search youtube!
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No, that won’t work. I can edit far easier in a timeline than I can in Event viewer, but I can’t copy/move clips from timeline to Event.
Editing an Event for any more than a couple of very simple in/out points in a fairly short master clip is pretty tedious. Aside from the metadata tools, it’s like some primitive micro-editor. I can’t zoom, can I? And if I have a list view, with the footage at the top, I can only have one row of footage, right?
I want to either zoom in on that one row of footage, or I want to expand out to two or three rows of it.
