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[Charlie Austin] “CS 6 Hover Scrub does lets you mark I/O points, but very imprecisely.”
Sorry Charlie, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Hover scrub lets you skim, and use full JKL keyboard control to find your I/O points. It’s frame accurate. Maybe you’re holding it wrong! 😉
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Control-h
Scrub a thumbnail in browser or timeline.
It’s not very useful.”
It’s designed to let you set the poster frame for the clip. It’s it. It’s not designed for editing.
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[Bill Davis] “The only real difference to me is that I don’t have to “load” my projects since I can skim them directly in the project library – and in Legacy, you need the entire sequence loaded in order to view what’s in it.”
The main difference is that multiple sequences can be open at the same time in their own windows. No only can you skim, you also have direct access to all your clips in the sequence.
While it’s true you can skim projects in the project library, in order to have access to the individual media elements, you have to double click a project and open it up. And you can only do this with one project at a time. To me, this is limiting.
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[Bill Davis] “That sounds like what you’re doing with tabbed sequences, are a basic form of what the X engineers built the Event Browser to do. Store, access, and make available previously worked on snippets of content.”
It’s that and more for me. I work with sequences like Herb describes and often have multiple sequences open at the same time with their clips fully exposed. I like that better than compound clips which can only be opened one at a time.
[Bill Davis] “They just added a pretty big universe of other possibilities by adding the whole keywording thing on top.”
I like the event browser and think key wording is a powerful tool. But for the way I work most of the time, it would be an extra and unnecessary step. I like Franz’s “clip-based” vs “sequence-based” analogy. I’m definitely “sequence-based” camp.
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[Bill Davis] “Have we revealed a schism in the church of pro editing?
It sounds like some editors here are “Preparationists” who spend significant time working with their source material before they hit the timeline.
And there’s another class of “Reductionists” who are most comfortable tossing the maximum amount of material into the timeline – treating it essentially as a large scratch pad, then eliminating material until they reveal their preferred edit “in situ.”
I think you’re on to something, Bill.
Back when tape ruled, I’d log and select during capture. As storage got cheaper, I moved to capturing whole tapes at a time and I think my work style evolved out of having these whole tapes as single clips. Much easier to throw them on a timeline and start prepping there. With tapeless, I now do the same with the card files. Sequences became my main log, prep and scratchpad space and I continue to use them that way.
I’m editing throughout the prep process so for me, it’s not so much about “carving away” as it is carving, collecting, building piles and gradually sculpting the piece into shape. It’s feels very fluid and organic.
It’s different than say an “organize and assemble” approach, which I think FCPX supports especially well.
I don’t think one way is better than the other – both are a matter of personal style and production need.
Interesting line of thought, thanks!
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[Neil Goodman] “I like to start with a empty slate and i feel like id be constant,ly wrestling with other clips on the timeline but to each his own. Whatever gets the job done.”
I work that way too. What’s nice is you can name each sequence and have them all at your fingertips in tabs.
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[Charlie Austin] ”
;-)”
LOL! Try it! You’ll like it!
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[Charlie Austin] “Explain how that works. say I’ve got a spot I’m cutting in a sequence. So I open another timeline?, drag my 2 hour source into it,”
Yep.
[Charlie Austin] “drag the playhead to an in point and… then what?”
Whatever you want. Add a marker, select a range, set I/O, whatever.
[Charlie Austin] “i guess I don’t get it, but how’s that different from using the viewer?”
It’s in a timeline. You have space to play around. You can easily skim and edit all in the same place. Doesn’t matter how long the clips or finished sequence. Works great for me.
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[Charlie Austin] “Yep… I’d really like to see how you do it. My head would explode. :-)”
Some of us have been using the timeline in Legacy for skimming for years. Just saying… 😉
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[Herb Sevush] “[Franz Bieberkopf] “That is the way I work, and all my clips go into sequences without any previous selection or marking.”
+1″
Yep!
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