Dominic Deacon
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BTW when I talk about wanting Edius performance this is what I am talking about. It just got posted on my facebook timeline today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXOf8Acsmo
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FCP7 has multiple source windows if you want to work that way
How do you set that up? Four years I used that software and never came across the function.
But I’m not sure what you mean about FCP7 and Avid not having it at all.
You can ripple delete and ripple insert in FCP but as far as I’m aware you can’t just set the timeline to ripple mode and forget about it. Can it be done?
FCPX has the best NLE titler out there in my opinion, so I don’t get why you think no NLE has anything to offer there. And if you spend the $50 for Motion 5, you get even more flexibility with it.
I love Motion. It’s definitely the thing I miss most about macs. I haven’t used the FCX titler but constantly surprised by how poor they are in other programs.
well, video can only be seen one track at a time. Audio (as in DAWs) can be layered to be heard simultaneously. The paradigm is different.
The paradigm is different but I don’t see any advantage in overwriting and destroying the original clip. Why not just let it sit under there to be retrieved if necessary? It gets rid of the issue of clip collisions quite nicely.
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Never tried Vegas but it’s on the list. The only holding me back is if you click over to the Vegas Cow forum there’s dozxens of posts about stability issues. I’ve kind of got used to never having to worry about crashing.
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Ah yes, that would be nice but yours is not possible. All the parts of mine are already available in seperate programs- or else not having them is the result of programming decisions I don’t understand (eg footage overwriting other footage on the same track).
Anyway a man can dream can’t he?
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If you directed the footage I reckon your probably the best man to edit it. Don’t be intimidated by the software. While you can invest hundreds of hours learning every little detail of the software you can edit narrative really well with very little knowledge if you’ve got the flair for it.
As to whether you should go with FCP 7 or the “future oriented FCPX” just use the one that feels most comfortable. In editing your just try to tell your story so use the one the you feel gets in your way the least. As to X being future oriented it’s only Apple’s future. My opinion is that it’s prett unlikely the rest of the editing world will follow them to tracklessness so any skills you learn using FCP 7 should be transferable to other programs.
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Couldn’t you achieve the same ease of use with a tracks based editor set to ripple mode and tracks lock?
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And actually I go back and read the original post and I see you were talking about unscripted work which makes all of what I wrote above completely OT. Sorry just been crawling through the “art of the edit” forum and got frustrated at all the claims for more credit for editors.
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I’ve written, directed and edited three features and though the jobs can tend to overlap I think they are pretty distinct. As a writer I’m sitting there with a blank screen in front of me and have to create something out of nothing. Story arcs, characters, dialogue, structure. All of it has to be created from scratch. That stretches me creatively in a way that directing and editing can’t because while they are creative process a lot of what I do when performing them is instinctive.
Editing is my favourite part of the process. Just me, my computer and my film. But I’m not creating anything while I’m doing that. I’m just trying to service what I wanted when I was a writer. Diverging from that can be very dangerous. Now sometimes director me has screwed something up and editor me has to save it and then I need to get creative but 90% of the time I’m just trying to be competent.
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I had to tip into Premiere Pro yesterday so I could access my Red Giant plug ins. I figured I’ edit the whole project (a fairly basic 50 second trailer) in there but was flabbergasted by the difference in performace. When you’ve got used to Edius the jump back to something else is quite shocking. In the end wound up doing the editing in Edius and then just dipping into Premiere for the bare minimum time I needed to spend there.
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Not saying this to be snarky or to compare to X at all (which is obviously a young program) but I’ve just found this remarkable and wanted to note it: I’ve been using Edius daily since X was released and have yet to have a single crash. Currently working on a feature with over a thousand clip, a primary timeline that’s over 85 minutes long, dozens of secondary timelines and every single clip has at least one layer of colour correction on it but still not a hint of a crash.
Last week I was doing the stupidiest things I could think of to try and crash it. Grabbing three layers of effects and chucking them onto 800 clips at once etc. Nothing. it just churned for about 5 seconds then happily played back the timeline in real time. It’s something.