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[Chris Harlan] ” I can easily see making a select reel on the go, for instance. “
Yep, same here. I wouldn’t use it for any serious cutting, but it’s still interesting as a $299 DAM tool. I can put it to work as soon as someone figures out a way to translate keyword collections into bins.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Here’s an illustration of why I think I prefer the track-based model for audio “track-laying” as things currently stand.”
Thank you Simon. Your picture sums it up perfectly.
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[Craig Seeman] “I only want a horizontal relationships when clips actually interact (dissolves, fx, crossfades, etc).”
I don’t understand what this means. The horizontal space of a timeline defines time. Everything on at timeline is always in horizontal relationship.
Again, it’s simple:
Horizontal relationships between timeline objects define the edit.
Vertical relationships between timeline objects define the composite.This is as true in FCPX as it is in any NLE.
[Craig Seeman] “I think the desire for tracks, in instances where they don’t actually interact horizontally is more of a “psychological comfort zone” than any real function. “
I’m still not following. Everything is always interacting horizontally. Tracks are an efficient, human readable way to organize. That’s one thing roles don’t give you — visual groupings that can be recognized at-a-glance (assuming you’ve kept your tracks organized).
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[Jon Chappell] “We’ve got a tool called Quick Bins in our Pro Media Tools package. It’s not exactly the same as keyword collections but it’s a similar concept and it’ll work with FCP 7 and Premiere.”
Looks great Jon! I the other tools look useful as well. I will definitely give them a try.
Does Gamma Shift Detector work with h.264 files?
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I really think the rabbit hole they’re down is too big. I swear to god I do not think the software is recoverable as an editing platform, I think the minute the vast number of us see premiere 6 it’s just about over and done.”
I’m open to being surprised but right now I have to agree. From a quick read of the XML Developer’s Guide, I’m more convinced than ever that the UI paradigm is built around the data model and the constraints that force all the workarounds are deeply baked in.
There’s even evidence of this in this latest update. Notice that the way they get transitions on connected clips is by automatically turning them into secondary storylines. Why? because the data model demands it. It’s still a workaround, even if it’s now a one key stoke workaround.
How about a checkerboard workflow in FCPX? Are they going to address this? I wonder if the geniuses behind the magnetic timeline even considered it.
I’m not yet convinced FCPX will ever work for me for editing, but if there were some utility that could translate keyword collections into bins for import into Avid or PP, I could imagine it being a very useful first pass logging and organizing tool and a good value for $299.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” FCPX is about the vertical relationships of clips that perhaps might matter more than the horizontal relationships of clips, especially when the clips are separated by time.”
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Can you further explain?
The horizontal relationships of clips in FCPX define the edit in time, just as they do in any other NLE. Same with vertical relationships — video composites from the top down, audio mixes without regard for vertical order — again, same as any NLE.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “funny thing on the exposed FCPXML they show there in the link – it exposes to seconds not down to frames? or am I mad there?
“No, it just rounds to the second whenever possible. It’s accurate to the subframe. Here’s the relevant section of the developer’s guide:
Time values are expressed as a rational number of seconds with a 64-bit numerator and a 32-bit denominator. Frame rates for NTSC-compatible media, for example, use a frame duration of “1001/30000s” (29.97 fps) or “1001/60000s” (59.94 fps). If a time value is equal to a whole number of seconds, the fraction may be reduced into whole seconds (e.g., “5s”).
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[Stefan Buhrmester] “I got a refund and don’t want to purchase again just to find out that it still cannot do that.”
No need to re-purchase, you can now download a free 30-trial and test it out.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “From Larry jordan’s article: “Retaining In and Out points for clips in the Event Browser is undergoing a raging debate in Apple.”
It’s a raging debate?”
Seriously, what on earth could they possibly be debating?
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[David Roth Weiss] “Try to export an XML from FCP 10.1 and try to import that… You can’t, cuz XML Export from 10.1 is also DOA.”
David,
Just to clarify, are you saying that if you make a new project in FCPX 10.0.1 then export that project as XML, you can’t import it back in?
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