[Eddie Maldonado]

GREAT NEWS!

Wacom prompted me to download 6.3.15-2 for Intuos Pro and after installing it seems Wacom has resolved all the issues with regard to the hypersensitivity of the pen. In Premiere Pro I tried to scale a shot up and that worked as well as the mouse. Additionally I hopped over to Lightroom to test the Tone Curve and the steppiness is now gone.

Currently on OS X 10.10.5.

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[Eddie Maldonado]

Call up the Audio Clip Mixer, as oppose to the Track Mixer, and as long as you were active on the source last then you can make the gain adjustment. If not, the timeline where the priority goes to the playhead. I believe the Audio Track Mixer handles only timeline audio, not the source.

It’s also worth noting that while you press [ or ] you can hear the adjustments in real time. Very cool feature that I haven’t seen in Avid or FCP.

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[Eddie Maldonado]

Thanks for chiming in on an “ancient” topic, Jared! Though for me it’s Option+Delete on a Mac. Perhaps it changed since you mentioned this 7 years ago lol. I’m late to the game…

For those wondering why on Earth we have so many gaps, I got used to collecting selects from a string out and nudging them up in FCP. Also if you’re prepping a sequence for color correct and you just need clips only, you could end up with a ton of gaps that you’d need to close. On FCP you could bookend the gap sequence at the head and tail with clips on V1 (everything else on V2) and then select the gap between the two clips on V1and just hold Delete till the gaps are closed. This works just as well.

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[Eddie Maldonado]

Ah yes this age old question… used to fool me on Avid until I started applying it to the track (RTAS effect). Now that I’m on PP the trick is back to cutting the effect (reverse cymbal in my case), nest the clip, add a plain black title card to the nest so it extends a few seconds past the out point, and now you can roll out your tail trim and apply the effect.

Of course you can designate a track that will serve as your Reverb/SFX track so there’s that but the solution above is my preferred method in FCP/Premiere Pro.

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[Eddie Maldonado]

Ok. It drives me nuts using Lightroom’s Tone Curve too. The strange thing is the same Curves in Photoshop and AE works normally. I tried going back to the Mouse but I’m just making the move to Premiere Pro and it’s driving me nuts to learn a new system and use a mouse. Last night I used the touch gestures on my Intuos Pro and that actually works pretty well for adjusting keyframe values. Try it if you can, you enable Touch, and use a three finger tap and drag left and right. Otherwise the Pen works well scrubbing through the timeline and for cmd+highlighting edits to get to trim mode. For me it’s better than reaching for the mouse or another trackpad.

Hopefully we get a better fix soon. Good luck all.

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[Eddie Maldonado]

Has anyone experienced this issue on Mac OS X Capitan? Haven’t made the jump yet but if it fixes the problem I’d do it. This problem also affects Lightroom’s Curves for me but curiously Photoshop’s curves are spared.

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[Eddie Maldonado]

I know this post is a year old but FCP7 is still hanging around and I figured out this solution for those who want to take the mattes to the next level.

Create a Color or Color solid from the Viewer’s Matte menu. Place it in your timeline and crop it to the desired shape, in this case a lower third. What you can then do is use this as track matte by place footage on top of this layer and selecting “Travel Matte – Alpha” from the transfer modes. This is the opposite of the After Effects setup where the matte goes on top and the fill on the bottom.

Now you can animate the crop, position, scale, etc of the color solid to manipulate your track matte without having to crop the footage itself. This is useful when creating complex split screens so a given quadrant can change and you can just sequence the shots to your liking independently.