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[Bill Davis] “Both strictly accurate according to the graphs.
Pick your spin.”
Agreed, I think the salient point is this:
[Franz Bieberkopf] “It’ll be interesting to see what the next announcement of numbers indicates.”
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I’m more than done using Legacy for editing but I’ll be keeping it on my machine for a while because it’s still useful (and in some cases required) as a conduit between FCPX and other programs.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I’m kind of a big keyboard shortcut type of person. I think the way dissolves work in X aren’t all that great. They are hard to drag around sometimes, and hard to not grab sometimes. Sometimes, it’s hard to grab the exact right part of the dissolve or edge of the clip.
For dialogue especially, I rarely need a true dissolve, but rather a fade on one side, and I find that Shift left or right bracket is really easy.
I make a cut ( which i have remapped to a simple ‘b’ key) then shift left bracket then shift right bracket, and drag fade handles
I can do that really quickly. It sounds like it would take along time, but it doesn’t. My clients are still rabies free. 😉
On video, I also do opacity fades more often than cross dissolves. Pretty much the same steps, but with a few different key strokes. I don’t use a whole lot of video dissolves, typically.”
Jeremy, this is how I mainly use dissolves as well. Not as dissolves, but as fades at the start (or end) of an edit. In FCP Legacy and Premiere Pro (and Resolve 11), this happens by default when dissolves are applied to a clip with no adjacent clips on the track. The workflow I depend on takes advantage of this ability.
I think my particular problems with FCPX’s dissolves stem from what you’ve described. I’m traveling at the moment but when I return next week, I’d like to see if I can work more easily in FCPX as you describe. I’ll also post some images to make the problem I’m talking about more clear.
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[Walter Soyka] “There are multiple discussions going on here; one was definitely about transitions of non-constant rates. This is what Charlie was (rightly) calling shenanigans on.
I think your point, which is different than what I think Charlie is discussing in this thread, also stands.”
Gotcha, I’ve only skimmed the discussions about rates because it’s way more complex then what I need. 😉
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[Walter Soyka] “I think there is a difference between transition alignment and what was being referred to as an asymmetrical transition (but is in fact symmetrical with a custom alignment).”
I’m really not attached to the name, call it whatever you like. My point has always been about the functionality.
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[Walter Soyka] “Charlie is right on, and a clearer example might be dissolving from absolute silence to tone. Export and look at the resulting waveforms.”
Guys,
Seriously, you’re missing the point.
• Start on edit
• Center on edit
• End on editThese are three different alignments for a transition.
They give you three different timing results with the same cut point.
You’re making a semantic argument. Call them asymmetrical or call them Shirley, I really don’t care. The point is control of transition alignment, something we currently don’t have in FCPX without jumping thru hoops.
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[Charlie Austin] “The two dissolves below are exactly the same. Try it. do the same with your own cue. listen to each one. You are just changing the cut point, not the dissolves’ midpoint.”
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie…
Let me show you something I just tried in a Brand New NLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imohHnbGEVk
Pretty amazing difference for something that doesn’t exist. 😉And I can add that dissolve… wait for it… in a single key press! 🙂
BTW, Resolve 11 also has audio fade handles, great for those times when you absolutely, positively have to use a mouse. Just kidding, they’re really sweet. Now if we could just have an option to turn off those gimmicky rectified waveforms… 😉
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[Ron Priest] “But the LIte version is not out of beta is it?”
Yep, it’s out of beta – Version 11.0.0
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[Charlie Austin] “It’s a nice NLE If you like tracks. :-)”
Not only that, Charlie. You can add asymmetrical dissolves… in a single key press! ;D
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “but all that still seems like quite a few clicks, handle drags, yet more clicks… and it seemed to take a while to put together?”
And I can get the exact same result… in a single key press! ;D
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