[Dave Gage]

All,

Any plans on turning this thread into a movie? It might be easier for me to follow. Maybe something along the lines of “My Dinner With Andre”?

Brilliant stuff here,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

James,

I don’t believe this has been mentioned yet in this thread, but this is a very nice overview of editing to music and more precisely to the bar (they keep saying cut to the beat in the video, but they mean bar [4 beats])-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlImQGZFiaA&list=UU_q2DkCswQYJnfa2q_hjguA&index=2&feature=plcp

I prefer the method at this end of video where you essentially cut on top of a Gap Clip in the Primary Storyline. Here’s what I do:

1. Add audio to new project– Add audio file as Primary Storyline (initially).

2. Move music (“Lift from Storyline”) from Primary Storyline to a connected clip below, cut on a Gap clip– Right-click on the audio and choose “Lift from Storyline” and it will be moved below and add a gap clip in it’s place in the main storyline of the exact same length.

3. Use Markers to mark spots, then Blade on Primary Gap– play back your music and hit “M” on the keyboard where ever it makes sense to cut to a new clip. Once the markers are set, you can have the playhead or skimmer snap (use “N” to turn snapping on) to the location. Use Command-B on each bar or beat of gap clip where you want the video or photos to change (you can also just switch to the Blade Tool (“B”) for the cuts). This will chop up the “slug” into chunks.

4. Replace Gap segments with footage– Hover over the Gap clip segment and use “X” to select the gap clip. Set your In point on Event video clip and drag to Gap clip and choose “Replace from start”.
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The beginning of video shows a variation of this, but I like this workflow.

Dave

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[Dave Gage]

Okay, no responses here so far.

I realize I probably didn’t word the post Subject very clearly. Ideally, what I’m looking for is someone who is interested in making a music video with one of the songs that they can use for their Vimeo portfolio or such and that I can then post up at Youtube. Bottom line is that I would like to get some music videos made and I don’t have time these days to devote to the editing (economy is killing me and I need to devote all my time to business).

Anyone have an idea where I might re-post this for a better response?

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Okay, that didn’t work and I don’t see a way to delete the last post.

Try…

youtube (dot) com (slash) user (slash) harmonicalessons

or…

Search on Dave Gage at Youtube.
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Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

For some reason, it appears the Youtube link didn’t work in the last post. I’ll try this one-

https://www.youtube.com/user/harmonicalessons

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Oliver Peters] “BTW – one reason I prefer JPEGs, is that I have often received CMYK TIFFs from the client. Those often will completely crash “legacy” the moment you click on them in the browser. Also JPEGs are a smaller file size and so are less taxing on the processor. At least in my experience.”

Back to FCP X for a minute, did you find any difference in using JPEGs or PNGs? Early on, it seemed the consensus was that FCP X preferred PNG as that is what it exports by default. I don’t imagine it’s much of an issue either way, but I’ve got a music video project I’ll be cutting photos to so I thought I’d ask before converting (or not) a bunch of images.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Tony Brittan] “So, when you captured with FCP X, were you able to capture directly to ProRes?”
For me, no. Both FCP X and QuickTime 7 defaulted to .dv files.

[Tony Brittan] “Now, if I just copy those folders over to my FCP X machine’s media drive and import using X telling it to import folders as keyword collections, All of the files are already named and good to go.”
I do the same with the re-naming scheme, but don’t import to the Event. I just use the aliases. My 2011 MBP i7 seems to be fast enough to handle the footage I throw at FCP X (AVCHD, DV, and AVI) without using the Pro Res or proxies.

[Tony Brittan] “the MBP has only FW 800”
I plugged in an older external enclosure that had both FW400 and FW800. I plugged the FW800 cable into my MBP i7 from the enclosure and then connected the GL-1 FW400 into the enclosure. I had an extra drive on my Desktop, but it didn’t make any difference.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

A couple of weeks ago I needed to go back and back up some DV tapes from my old Canon GL-1 (just in case it dies at some point in the near future). I also did a final backup for my old DAT player tapes for the same reason (I used an Alesis IO2 audio interface and QuickTime 7 for that).

My choices for capture were: FCP7, QuickTime 7, or FCP X. I first tried QT7 and it worked fine as Loren described. I then thought I’d give FCP X a go. It actually went very nicely and anytime they was a break or pause in a tape, FCP X just created a new clip. The problem I encountered was at the end of a couple of tapes, FCP X would break the end of the tape into 6 seconds clips. I have no idea if the tapes were going bad or if it was a FCP X issue.

For those few tapes where I had difficulty, I manually backed up the tape to where I wanted a new complete clip to begin and then went back to QuickTime 7 to capture. Whew, all done!

As per my usual workflow, I also went back and re-named all the new DV clips to something that made more sense for the material. I do the same for AVCHD clips wrapped in a .MOV via ClipWrap.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

Never mind. Called OWC today and got it worked out. Turns out the enclosure wasn’t bad. Something must have just come loose. After a few hours with Disk Utility and Carbon Copy Cloner, all is good.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[T. Payton] “As far as FCP X being able to handle 24bit audio it can without troubles (I just brought in some 24bit audio from ProTools and it played without issue).”

That makes sense. I still wonder why it defaults to 16-bit when recording via the built-in mic. I checked again in the HUD for a bit setting, but I didn’t see it there either. No biggie, just curious. I don’t notice any difference in sound quality between the 2 bit rates, but I like the added head room you get with 24-bit.

Thanks,
Dave