Derek Andonian
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You can do the same thing by highlighting a clip then go to the effect controls window and control-click the attributes you want, then copy them
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
John Davidson “That’s it. I’m getting an HP. Oh, I don’t actually have a mac, I just like to come to this forum to watch the fights because it makes me feel a little better for never having invested the time to learn macs or final cut”.
Look- I said before in part 1 of my closer look at FCPX, I DO have a couple Macs. One even has FCP 5 on it. Sheesh. 😉
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Craig Seeman “Instead of giving us Blu-Ray, they take away our optical drive slots. Sheesh Apple, all my clients want Blu-Ray.”
I like this one
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I thought Premiere’s new ability to trim right in the program window was really really cool until I saw this video. Welcome to 1989, Adobe. 😉
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Richard Herd my friend said there’s an After Effects reshape tutorial on the Cow. Since my actual last name is Herd, I was sold!
This made me laugh… 🙂
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Andy Neil This is where thinking of favorites as persistent INs/OUTs leads to some confusion. But if you consider that in any other NLE, you only get the last IN/OUT saved, then you are still ahead of the game even if you can’t overlap favorites.
Yes, I thought about that, and that made it seem pretty cool again. But then I got to thinking, in Premiere I can do this same sort of thing by creating subclips- and with those I can save overlapping segments individually.
At the end of the day, isn’t this whole favorites thing just a new approach to subclip creation? or am I missing something here?
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Tony Brittan You might want to go ahead and grab the free trial of X and actually use it for something small that includes some of your regular workflow in order t really get an idea of how it would work for you
That would be cool, but I can’t do it right now, because I don’t have a Mac that’s capable of running it. My main computer is a self-built PC. I also have a PowerMac (with FCP 5) and a Mac Mini, but they’re both PowerPC-based.
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That sounds really cool! But, I feel obligated to point out that at this point, from my point of view, this AP stuff is far more nebulous than the BBC story- I mean, I saw an Adobe press release about that one… but right now this thing is just something someone heard in a bar, when he was tiddled. 😉
I was curious, did you get your CS6 yet? I remember you saying you were going to upgrade to 5.5 then get the free upgrade to 6. You seemed really jazzed about it before and I was curious what you thought of it after actually editing with it…
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Getting back to the original topic… Yes, I do think commonly held processes need to be respected.
If a company thinks they have a better approach that will be helpful to learn, that’s great, but they shouldn’t force it on people overnight like Apple did with FCPX. As I mentioned in another thread, this whole fiasco could have been avoided it Apple had taken the same approach with X that they used for DVD Studio Pro, and kept things the way they were but also introduce a “magnetic timeline mode”. I think acceptance of X would have been much greater if they had done this.
It’s been said on here that the magnetic timeline is very powerful and much better, you just have to get used to it- and that may take a while. The problem, though, is there are other very capable NLEs that FCP7 users can switch to very easily and use very effectively, without having to spend time re-learning everything they’ve ever known about how an NLE works.
What Apple should have done, at the very least, is use the DVDSP approach with this release and then make it known that the next major release of FCPX would not include the track mode. This would have given editors time to slowly adjust, and it would have given Apple time to build a more capable, better organized trackless timeline.
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Unless they fixed that mess of a timeline, I don’t care how stable it is…
😛
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”