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[Charlie Austin] “Maybe you’ll get your wish.I’d be happy if they did that for a variety of reasons… :-)”
Will do! 🙂
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[Charlie Austin] “And 99% of the time a centered dissolve works fine. “
Not for the job I’m doing right now! Just saying… 😉
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[Charlie Austin] “If I’m copy pasting dissolves on connected audio clips, it’s a single key press!”
Cool!
I should add that my single key press applies asymmetrical dissolves (of differing lengths) to both the video and the audio at the same time.
Can you paste asymmetrical dissolves on both connected audio clips and video at the same time in FCPX?
If so, maybe I could make it work!
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[Charlie Austin] “Well, yeah, so? :-)”
Well, so you’re:
1) selecting a dialog box from a menu
2) checking the appropriate check boxes (FCPX doesn’t remember your last choice)
3) hitting OKTo get exact same result I get in a single key press!
Pants, Charlie. Pants. ;D
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[Charlie Austin] “nd, on topic, I can’t believe anyone would want to work in a system where you had to click and hold a button and drag the mouse to scrub, or worse, require you to click somewhere or something to solo a clip to scrub it.”
Agreed! That’s why every day for weeks I’ve been using FCPX on this job to ingest, log, notate, and organize my interview bites. I love it! It’s the best logging tool I’ve ever used.
But the timeline? Pants! ;D
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[Charlie Austin] “I can copy and paste fade-handle fades with curves to multiple audio components or connected clips, just like pasting dissolves.”
Yes, but don’t you need to use the Paste Attributes dialogue do do this?
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[tony west] “Back on, I’m really shocked at how good my mix sounds using those handles. To look at them I wouldn’t have thought it would work well at all.”
Also back on topic, I’m rather shocked anyone would prefer dragging mix handles to a single key press to get the exact same result! My hand’s getting cramped just thinking about it! 😀
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[Walter Soyka] “Do you think this is due to greater familiarity with standard waveforms, an inappropriate scale with rectified waveforms, or is an inherent flaw in the design of the graph?”
I think it’s an inherent flaw in the graph design. Sound waves have both positive and negative energy. Standard waveforms accurately display this energy visually as positive and negative values (above and below the centerline).
Rectified waveforms cut the display in half. The negative energy is moved into the positive visual space. This means even though you’re seeing a technically accurate representation of the concentration of sound energy, you’re losing important visual cues from negative space that would normally surround both sides of a standard waveform.
As a visual designer, I’m sure you appreciate the value of negative space in visual communication. Rectified waveforms remove half of the negative space visual information about the sound.
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[Walter Soyka] “This would be easily solved if the software specifically marked zero crossings on the rectified waveform — just shift the baseline of the waveform up a touch and add a little mark at the zero crossing. “
Or maybe they could just add a preference option for regular waveforms!
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[Walter Soyka] “How much useful information is there in the asymmetry? What can you know about the sound from seeing this asymmetry?”
I don’t know if it’s the asymmetry that’s most important as much as it is the gestalt of seeing the energy of the entire waveform. For example, with voice, I can look at a waveform and instantly get a sense of the pattern of speech. I can also instantly judge if levels are healthy. This comes across visually before even hearing the sound.
I think rectified waveforms make spotting this kind of info much more difficult at a glance, especially for sounds with low levels.
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