Gerald Baria
Forum Replies Created
-
Ok, as I understand your workflow, you use seqences to chose your useful clips and then pick those up to drop into your final output sequence.
Question.
You do this becasue you just like doing it, or is it because bins suck, and this is the only efficient option ( i.e. WORK-AROUND ) you and other similar editors do to “adapt” to FCP7’s UI?
And that’s exactly my point. Apple might have sent /interviewed high level editors and how they worked and observed this frequent but “unintended” use of sequences to pick good shots.
So they though of a genius solution. 1. Skimmer 2. Keyword collections.
Because as I see it, you can do your workflow in FCPX faster and more efficient by doing the following.
1. Import your footage and tick organise in to keyword options, this will give you a rough initial organization at least for the focal length, shaky, shots that you might have.
2. Keyword collect all your “scenes” into how you might wanna view them. This puts all related media into one word, (“like scene 1,scene 2, scene 3, like how it is in the clapper.or wal,talk,run, etc”) you can click that keyword and boom, everything else disappears but the clips that you organized for that keyword.
3. Then you further narrow down the shots that you actually want by marking them as “favorites’ (pressing in out points the pressing f). The you click above to just show favorites. Now if you put the skimmer at the beginning of that organizer window, press space, you can play our all your favorites as if its on the timeline. Voila, you’ve just created a rough cut in a few minutes. If you like them all, press ctrl+a then E. They all drop in the timeline.
4.Then put your transitions, cut adjustments, edit audio, balance out exposure, then when you think that particular sequence is almost ok, select all convert it into a compound clip, then you can move on to your next scene.
5.Repeat from Step 2.
Optional. You can do a lot of step 2 first before you start working on your timeline, after you have selected all your usable clips in step 2.
The idea of discovery, and making things up as you go along, is still there, your just doing it in the right place. Apple made one for you. They saw how pathetic you look using the timeline to do stuff you’re not supposed to do in there, so they made a special section on FCPX to do that part of the workflow for you. Faster. More efficient. Organized. And it has its own real estate on the upper left hand side of you mac. Is’nt that great?
I cant see how not so many people can see this. Its like apple saw you homeless, so the gave you a house.
Quobetah
New=Better -
As I see it the main thought behind the magnetic timeline is like how you mentally create a story in your mind. That there is a “backbone”, and actual point, a summary, an abstract, a direction that encompasses the whole piece. And from there breaks away all the little pieces of the story into the secondary storyline, etc. Like when you write a book, theres the main story, and the character bakcstories just branch out of it. And clip connections and compound clips are like how you do a story board, scenes are separated scene by scene. They are like mini-stories, that when brought together creates the entire movie.
I took a look at the demo video of that Audi on the FCPX site, and how the video was structured on FCPX on an iMac at an Apple Store in Shanghai (they don’t have one where I live), and what I noticed, during the part where there was commentary that they did not isolate the just the audio of the interview and place the video inserts at the primary and just synced it, they placed the entire video with audio interview on the primary storyline, and during the times that they need the race track video inserts, they just placed it as connected clips above it.
I think the magnetic timeline paradigm trains us to a more organized “mental process” of creating the story, a workflow for our mind. I see a lot of people here having the habit of dumping everything in the timeline and making choices from there, creating the story “as they move along”, and I think thats a very messy disorganized way to work.
Apple/Steve Jobs has always placed great thought into how every single product is brought out. How each component should make sense. Maybe this is their way of teaching people to not just have a minimalist clutter free hardware and software, but having a clutter free mind as well.
Quobetah
New=Better -
[Andy Neil] “As a former news man, I don’t really see a problem with cameras in the hands of more people. Sure quality of picture goes down, but also more news actually gets captured on video because eye witnesses now can record what’s happening.”
Exactly. Now with everyone having some sort of recording device, more of the real story gets presented. At the end of the day in journalism, its the content that matters, not pixel to pixel sharpness.
Quobetah
New=Better -
[Steve Connor] “I do believe Gerald was not being entirely serious.”
BINGO!
I’m a bit surprised some people here can’t determine the difference.
Quobetah
New=Better -
Another example of democratized talent coming out from the woods with little resources but genius product!:)
Quobetah
New=Better -
[Don Scioli] “BTW, your spelling, writing and grammar…are you, a), a bad typist; b), illiterate or C) Foreign?”
All of the above.;)
Quobetah
New=Better -
A lot of points was raised ,Its one of the topics that was delved into in the documentary, that even with all these access to the same tools that real, long time pros have, there are still so much crap on the internet. Its because a lot of these people does not have talent.
Its a kind of security blanket to all the people currently making a living doing creative jobs that there is still hope that even if more people are getting access into how their jobs are done, there is still a chance to sell quality work because not everyone can make good poop. Most just makes poop.
On the other hand, those that are on the other side of the coin, who have so much talent and bringing in their product like everyone else does, they risk the chance of not being recognized enough because of the sea of poop that they have to get into to get noticed.
Yes of course experience contributes into the quality of work that you eventually gets out of, but with art or the creative industry, things constantly change. Tastes change. Whats relevant 50 years ago, looks ridiculous now. And thats where raw talent seeps thru, that with the latest trends in the creative industry, those that were born into this and have their minds melded into the present and the hear future, those are the ones who will succeed “today”. Tommorrow they may not. the ones successful yesterday may not too. They could, but there’s no guarantee. Cause the arts is that volatile.
Quobetah
New=Better -
Basically the democratization of pro tools from hardware to software is a double edged sword. Negatively, more mediocre crap is distributed more and more in all of the distribution channels that people frequent, theres a danger that as we are exposed more to this mediocrity that we will become comfortable in it so eventually we will get lost in a sea of mediocrity and be happy with it. A line in the movie said, if the van gout or hitchcocks were born today, they wouldn’t have been discovered, cause their work would have been lost among all the garbage on the internet.
On the positive side, while before only people on huge studios on hollywood, bollywood or any major city where all movies/studios can create great content, now an extremely talented person from a remote place in afganhistan, or indonesia with an good pc and decent internet can do his masterpiece and share it for the rest of the world to experience and he can get recognized. The hidden talents all over the world gets unleash and a glimmer of hope is opened for their discovery. And thats a great thing, considering the movie’s opening quote, how humans are great at creating stuff. That given the right tools, almost every time, humans create something amazing.
And technology is only a first step, on all fronts, technology always comes first, then some artistic genius does something amazing with it. So tools like FCPX, powerful at its affordable price, is only another tech that is given to a loot of people, but its up to them to do something great with it. Because at the end of the day, Its talent that makes great content. Not a multi-million dollar equipment list, or 5 decades of experience or an NLE which conforms to what you’ve always been used to. ITS TALENT, PERIOD.
Quobetah
New=Better -
Its a movie about the proliferation of “consumers” doing their own music, videos, photographs with their own cheao consumer equipment not requiring big huge expensive studios and how these “consumer” are reshaping the entire creative industry. The democritizatuon of art. FCPX’s target audience was supposedly these “consumers” right? It a very well made documentary, shot on RED. Pretty amazing issues raised.
Quobetah
New=Better -
Keyword collection are NOT like bins. IT IS LEAPS AND BOUNDS MORE ADVANCED AND USABLE THAN BINS!
Quobetah
New=Better