Ethan Young
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https://www.crumplepop.com has a nice split screen plugin that automates many of these steps.
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Cool, I’ll have to try that since it would be faster. However, if you go that route will later tweaks on the long source clip in the Event Browser (via “open in timeline”) ripple down automatically to all instances in the storyline? It’s probably a good idea to make a copy of the original first, too.
I’m debating whether it’s better to color correct the long clips up front, or wait until picture lock and use the FIND tool to apply across all instances. I suppose either way is alright.
As for effects and features in general, I get the feeling Apple designed FCPX as a minimal platform for plugin makers to build upon to make it ‘Pro’. A smart way to let other people make your product better without having to pay them. I imagine we’ll see some real wizardry emerging very soon.
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BINGO! Great tip and a confirmation that we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg with the potential of meta-tags in X. This sort of selective access is a game changer. I was able to drill down to the specific clips of say, a single interview, isolate all instances in the storyline and simply past effect attributes wholesale.
Match Color remains a loose canon. More often than not it turns my subjects into Smurfs or HellBoy and like Brendan says, the changes it makes are not reflected in the color board settings to be able to pull back. Hopefully Apple will fix that.
“You can reset an individual parameter by hitting the delete key with its control selected. Yeah, I know, not exactly the first thing I tried either. But it is in the docs.”
As it turns out, a lot of very handy features are tucked away in FCPX that people don’t seem to be aware of. Someone should put together a video tutorial showing the top 25 tips no one knows about. Couple that with some version upgrades on the horizon and FCPX will be the real deal.
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I’ll have to try dropping the source clip into the storyline as a compound clip and then tweaking and using that version to slice up in the Event Browser.
NEIL: I know a lot of post workflows have the color correction done after picture lock. Most of my projects involve basic studio interviews cut into a doc with simple photos overlayed. We rarely even add b-roll or other dynamic motion shots. Oral history docs essentially.
In FCP 7 we always colored the source clips before cutting. What is the best way in FCPX to efficiently add a color correction across scattered clips in the storyline? I’m guessing the power of the meta-tags in X should provide a fun way to isolate clips.
I know you can copy/paste effects via OPTION-COMMAND-C, it’s isolating all of the children of a source parent that is rough.
Oh, and the “Match Color” feature is completely useless, is this working for anyone? A cool concept if it can be refined.
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To copy the effect from one clip hit OPTION-COMMAND-C, then highlight all the remaining clips to be copied to and hit OPTION-COMMAND-V. Voila, you have just pasted the audio dissolve to the all the clips.
The only catch here is this key command will copy ALL effects, video and audio. So before your copy expand the animation view from the menu icon in the upper left corner of the clip and uncheck any effects you don’t want to be copied.
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How do you tag clips in the storyline with keywords so they’ll show up in specific folders in the event browser? -
Fair enough. But the whole point of my FCP7 style workflow was to only have to add effects (Color correction, audio enhancements) once to an hour long interview clip. Then after it is broken up into smaller segments in the storyline each clip retains the adjustments.
Is it possible to add effects to clips in the event browser? Or can anyone recommend a FAST way to apply the same effects to all of the cut sub-clips AFTER they have been sliced and assigned keywords in the event browser?
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Just select the clip you want to copy from and hit option-command-C. Then highlight the clip you want to paste onto and hit Option-Command-V. Voila, you’ve just copied ALL of the effect filters to the new clip. Works great for color correcting and audio sweetening.
If you only want certain effects, open the menu in the upper left of the clip and uncheck the effects you don’t want copied.
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So with Toast you can revisit an old project file later and quickly burn a one-off BD disc without re-encoding? I wish there was a way to do that with FCS, it takes an overnight Compressor batch just to create a single disc, unlike DVD Studio Pro where you just open the project and swiftly format a new DVD. Maybe Final Cut X will have some better BD functionality.
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Thanks for tip! That’s a very helpful idea.
Once I have the disk image saved what is the best method to replicate Blu-ray discs from it? I have an external BD burner attached via firewire, and I’m running the FCS suite. Does it require additional software like Encore or Toast?