Gregor Queck
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Quotes I find interesting, because they are true for me:
“The creative process is inherently messy, which is often in direct conflict with the housekeeping a technical collaboration like filmmaking requires. Apple has acknowledged the dual need for freeform experimentation and order in a way I haven’t seen elsewhere…
“Final Cut Pro X freed up time for creative work because the software is so effective at searching and skimming media.” – Dave Cerf, Editor
When I have an editorial idea (“let’s rearrange the order of these shots”), I have to translate that into a sequence of editorial actions and then perform those as quickly as possible before I (or the director) loses patience. Musically speaking, it’s like hearing a melody in your head and wanting to know how it sounds out loud. With Final Cut Pro X, you can learn to express that melody almost as quickly as you’re conceiving it. Maybe you won’t be that facile your first week, but eventually… ”
Great article, I think…
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In FCPX you can simply pinch in/out with the trackpad which I find ulta-useful….. and it zooms around the pointer…..
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It’s the sibling of the white point/ YellowRec® in the timeline. If you select a clip in the timeline you change its values in the inspector, no matter where your playhead is. If you don’t select/deselect a clip, your inspector shows ever-changing values, depending on the clip/white point under your playhead…
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Just try:
° click on ‘Scale X’ , you get the blue rectangle.
° mouse over ‘Scale Y’, change the values by click-drag (without release). The blue rectangle stays at ‘Scale X’ .
° type on your keyboard some number.
° the input goes to the blue rectangle, no matter what field you just changed by mouse/trackpad.
° you can move the blue rectangle by tab/shift-tab and so the focus of your keyboard input.
° if you had no BlueRec®, you didn’t know where your keyboard input would go….. see, some logic here……:)
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[Simon Ubsdell] “If you click in a number field, an ugly, clunky blue rectangle appears, which remains even when you move the slider or scrub the number field for a different parameter. There is of course no logic to this and I would suggest there is no good reason for the rectangle highlighter at all. Just more random “design” seemingly hurled at the UI without thought or oversight.”
The blue field has the purpose of directing keyboard input. Even if you scrub some other field your keyboard input is directed to the blue rectangle and you know it since it’s highlighted.
Seems you sometimes write ‘hurled without thought or oversight’.
Please no fake news here at the cow!
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You can try to import the original AVCHD.
I use it from a Sony a77 with no problems whatsoever….I suspect it has problems with the MTS files as I had…
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Another way is to retime the music to fit the frame rate:
Count the beats, lay markers on the music, count the frames (seconds) -> observe what you usually ‘cutrate’ is (e.g. every 15/30/45 frames), divide, (retime to fit the markers to your ‘cutrate’) -> conquer 🙂. . .
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Thomas Grove Carter:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-grove-carter/one-professionals-look-at_b_12894856.html“I was very skeptical about the addition of the Touch Bar. It looked like the result of an incestuous fling between a keyboard and an iPad mini (with Retina display). But I also felt skeptical about insert tech you use all the time now originally too. Once you begin to use it, you’ll see. Your cold heart will soften.
The first revelation for me was the potential of sliders. Gradual, precise and fast inputs.
For years we’ve had single mouse inputs on a graphical user interface. Over time we’ve added more buttons and scroll wheels, trackpads with gestures. The Touch Bar takes this step further by allowing multiple inputs at the same time and combines well with the trackpad. The more I’ve used it the more I’ve replaced certain keyboard shortcuts. Why would I use dual-hand/multi-finger shortcuts if the button was there in front of me? And it’s contextual. It changes depending on what I’m doing. I’m editing picture; it shows me relevant trimming shortcuts. I’m editing titles; it shows me font, formatting and colour options. All without the need to open other menus. It works, it’s faster and it’s more productive. I believe it’s only a starting point, as developers learn how we all use this thing, it’s going to get better and better. But even the short time that I’ve been using it with Final Cut Pro 10.3, I can already feel it becoming part of my everyday editing process.”
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Final Cut Pro 10.3 New Features Lesson 1: Exploring the New UI by Ripple Training:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTJ6Gmah8n4
The other one is a bug and you can report it on the feedback-page…
This bug seems to go away by using the command: File -> Delete Generated Library (Project) Files
and deleting all render files etc. ……. sometimes………. 🙂. . .
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