[Herb Sevush]

[Scott Witthaus] ” What’s your definition of Dynamic Trimming?”

My definition would be trimming, both rolling and ripple, within the context of viewing your material at playback speed. In order to accomplish this you have to see both your current source and the source you are cutting to (heads and tails) when making your live (dynamic) decisions and have to be able to implement your decision without looking away from the screen.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] ” I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that in a lab somewhere some storage engineer is close to something that’s going to make LTO look like 8track car audio soon.”

The argument that X shouldn’t bother to figure out how to do this because it probably won’t be necessary 3 years from now does nothing for someone who has deliverables today. Of course it would be better to archive ALL of the material, but sometimes it’s still impractical for a given budget and workflow. Your arguing from the myopia of your own workflow – you don’t need it, ipso facto it’s not essential. It was your same reasoning about the whole topic of exporting EDLs. Given the business model Apple has constructed around X it wouldn’t surprise me to see a third party solution, as this seems to be their method for handling these kind things.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “Honestly, “media with handles” sounds like what I was doing back when my largest hard drive was 500 megs. Not something particularly relevant in a world where I can carry 4TB in a drive the size of a paperback book”

What if you need to back up to LTO tapes, the best current archiving medium, but one that is both much slower and more limited in size than your 4TB hard drives?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] ” It had 541,648 keyframes.”

OK, I give up. How do you count the number of keyframes in a project?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Neil Goodman] “This – i actually thought the video did more to show the shortcomings of Dynamic trimming in FCPX than anything else.”

I never use JKL dynamic trimming, does not fit my style. However I do know what it is, and what it isn’t is what those two guys were trying to do with X. That was a “hustle” presentation by guys trying to sell you training materials. Adobe recently went all in on developing dynamic trimming in Ppro to woo Avid editors. All the features are there, dual displays, looping edits, both ripple and slide, with no need to ever touch anything but the keyboard. I don’t know if Adobe succeeded in what they were trying to do, but they were actually trying. If you need real dynamic trimming, X is not for you (to quote Bill Davis) “period.”

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] ”
After Effects ships with pre-written expressions saved as animation presets which allow you to fade layers without keyframing. Search the Effects & Presets panel for “fade” and you’ll get a few drag-and-drop presets:”

Thanks, as always you are a fountain of useful information.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Mark Suszko] “AE has more firepower, without a doubt. However, not every gig you do NEEDS a lot of “firepower”. For the more average daily tasks like building an animated graphic, I think both apps do about as well. But Motion to me seems easier, cleaner, simpler to understand on sight.”

To me Motion is an “editors” tool and AE is an “EFX/Compositors” tool. Having switched to CC I very much miss the ease of Motion, I much prefer groups to pre-copming and I sorely miss the ease of throwing some fades onto a clip without resorting to key framing, however the inability to “send to Motion” from within X is another nail in that coffin for me.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Marcus Moore] “That’s active development.”

After Apple published their white paper listing all the things they were going to do to bring X up to speed after the initial release I will admit I was very skeptical. However they did exactly what they promised they would do and within the time frame they specified. Since then, as far as I can tell, they’ve changed the structure of the library database and changed the whole “persistent in and out point” thingy on clips. Not counting handling new codecs and surface GUI changes, which is maintenance type stuff – what has come off your own “requested feature” list in the past 15 months? Or is X perfect and not in need of improvement?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[tony west] “For me Herb, I want the power of audition but I want to use X so RX gives me what I’m looking for.”

I totally get it. Before switching to Adobe I used Soundforge to clean up my audio and they have many of the Izotope filters bundled in and the quality is great. I’m still tempted to buy RX4 Advanced to use ambience match, the room tone filter, de-reverb and the leveler within Audition – tempting despite the price.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[tony west] ” I just want to clarify to Herb because he asked a very specific question.”

Well, to make it more specific, since you can’t access the spectral analyzer function from within X what exactly is the process – I’m imagining it’s open RX4, then load the video clip with the audio your working on, then find the part that needs fixing, make the fix, save the changed file, then reopen in X and the change is made. Is that it?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf