[Geoff Dills]

Quote from Jobs in a 1994 Rolling Stone piece: “I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

Just occurred to me there might be a way to do this inside X, and so I clicked on the inspector’s Video tab of the selected generator in the timeline and was able to use the color board to adjust color.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

The power of Motion to customize effects, generators, titles and transitions is what Motion is best for at this point in time as it’s a pain to roundtrip from X. But what it can do is allow you to make your customized Motion creations available easily in X. It took me about three minutes to do what needed done for a color control in a gradient, but I already knew the basics on how to do it, just had never done it with a generator.

In Motion, if you click on the far right of each parameter you want to “publish” (that’s what it’s called) to X, a pull down menu appears and one choice is publish (or unpublish if that control has already been published). When you’ve selected all the parameters you want to see in X, do a save as, give it a name, and when you open X you’ll find it in your generators. If you take a gander at the sister forum, X Techniques, you’ll find an amazing number of things some very sharp minds have kindly offered to share with the rest of us slobs.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

Looks like Motion is needed, but you can easily create a NEW generator and publish the color controls as well as any other controls you like so you can easily access them in X.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

[Geert van den Berg] “I think this is not the case with FCPX because (while you can use ProRes as its native codec) it will handle most codecs in the timeline directly, so the output of a Quicktime file has to be rendered to one specific format.”
” In my case the formats of choice are IMX and XDCAM because those are the final delivery requirements that I need to create (we ingest in those formats, or recieve mxf’s in that format, do the titling and then wrap the deliverable).”

I’m curious if you select XDCam on the export settings of the share menu does it do a copy of XDCam material or does it process it in any way?

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

What I’ve done is gone to a variety of computers and watched. Not very scientific I know that’s why I’m curious if anyone has done a more scientific analysis.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

[Craig Seeman] “I’d like to see an option which would allow one to switch between the wheel and the board.”

One option to use a wheel can be done via a motion invented grading tool

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/1160

part of the genius Brendan’s Color Grading tool.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

Works with BetterTouchTool.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

I have two finger swipe left and right to scroll left and right on the timeline, three finger up and down to home and end, pinch to zoom, three finger left and right to go previous edit, next edit.

These all functioned well in Fcp7 without BetterTouchTool, but for some reason I haven’t heard anyone have any success with FCPX. I haven’t created any new ones yet but believe some with more brain power than I have will come up with good ones.

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Geoff

[Geoff Dills]

I haven’t seen any issues with my uploaded videos looking any different from what I see both while I’m editing, and in a Quicktime player. The only calibration I’ve done on my monitor was using the built in tool in the OS. I just did a test with bars to Vimeo both straight from X and then a ProRes export compressed with Compressor and then uploaded to Vimeo and all outputs look the same.

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Geoff