Eli Hollander
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Brilliantly good point about getting rid of the compound, and it’s great how unlikely things can be used as stepping stones… Now, if we just had scripting, it could be done with one keystroke.
E.
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Yes, I had thought of compound clips, but I was staying away from them… I think I am still operating under the old prejudice against compound clips, especially if I have many dozens of them. But I guess that has changed and compound clips are not to be shunned any more.
In any case, compound clips is definitely a good way to do what I need. Thanks for your suggestion, Nick.
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James,
If I may make a suggestion…
Instead of shooting first and asking questions later, why not ask a question rather than make blanket statements such as “this program is a nightmare”. It could just be that your level of familiarity with this deceptively “simple” application is a nightmare, not FCP X. Yes, there is room for improvement, as there is with every complicated application and process.
I am impressed with the patience and resourcefulness of most everyone on this forum, and how helpful they try to be to you and to others. Please, try to extend this patience as well and try to assume that FCP X is a bit more sophisticated than you give credit by simply shooting it down and name calling. Simple questions go a long way.
With best intentions,
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Simon,
Thank you for your helpful expertise and plug-ins over the years; I have found them helpful and enriching. I appreciate your contributions.
About the keyer, your tutorial is helpful and full of subtle “tricks.” I was wondering if the method you are outlining can be made into a FCP X custom filter so that one could achieve similar results from within FCP X?
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With all due respect to Mr. Lackleter, this is an amazing thread. It would be great if people like Mr. Lackleter didn’t spread misinformation so cavalierly, and be overly defensive about it, too.
“Gotham” is just another example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_CityAmazing!
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P.S. But I don’t disagree about the above comments.
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You know what they say about gift-horses….
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Good tutorial… Thank you.
I am not very experienced in Motion, but it seems to me that this process could be automated in motion. Am I correct? Any Motion jockies out there for making a (free) plug-in?
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I teach at a university (we have a huge film-digital media department, with over 450 majors), and we run several computer labs. Students have their own drives (FireWire) and they use either FCP 7 or FCP X.
There is absolutely no problem having projects reside on students’ external drives and having them plug into any workstation and editing flawlessly on either FCP 7 or X. (Of course, FCP 7 projects are edited on FCP 7, and X projects edited on FCP X respectively).
I simply don’t understand the statement: “You can’t simply hand off a project file to another editor who has the same media like you could with previous versions of FCP. All of your project organization is now globally contained in the application rather than in your project file. You would literally have to give that other editor your computer to open your project with all of your organization.” As long as the project refers to an event or a group of events on the external drive, then that project is self contained–no need to hand off “your computer to open your project with all of your organization.”
Each student can have their own projects on their own external drive. PERIOD!
If they want to collaborate, they can hand their drive to the collaborator, or simply make copies of the “Event” and “Project” folders and have other people edit. (But like in FCP 7, you would have to figure out how to reconcile different work being done simultaneously on the same project timeline by two different people at the same time). However, if different people work on different parts of the film/video, then there is no problem.
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Going from clip to timeline is a one-way trip. You can add markers on a clip directly in the Event Browser (navigating with the skimmer and adding markers), which will carry forward into a timeline, but not the other way. That’s just how it is (for now).