[Jacob Brown]

noah am curious what you meant by using Color Finale for masking?

is that in combo with SliceX?

i usually attempt to do keyframes by hand in FCPX, but if it’s a 2-3 hour type ordeal, then no of course that’s a waste, and i use slicex (unless i’m really feeling adventurous and want to go into resolve).

i’ve read that slicex+colorfinale is good combo for some things though…

[Jacob Brown]

cool. color finale is an AWESOME tool for color. i usually use the fcpx tool to do a quick shadows/highlights/saturation adjustment on an adjustment layer, then put color finale on a second layer to add a LUT and use the color wheels to do some fine tuning.

but i’m not sure how color finale will help with your key?

do you use slicex/trackx? it has a really powerful masking tool that it can then track — i believe that it plays well with color finale, though i haven’t used them together yet.

[Jacob Brown]

video isnt loading for me, but why not just draw a mask around the face and track it by hand if only 50 frames?

[Jacob Brown]

never tried, not sure if that would work or not. i think if u just have the clip in the CC won’t slow u down too much, but yeah for sure, it’s a work around.

if its too slow, you could also export each full length CC as a pro-res and reimport.

[Jacob Brown]

another way woudl be to turn each video clip and each audio clip into a compound clip of equal length on the time line. then when you create your multicam clip, you simply line up each clip to the far left side.

because each compound clip is of same length, synch will be maintained perfectly

[Jacob Brown]

i’ve done a good bit of compositing in FCPX and never had a problem (other than transitions in composites never working)…

i wonder if you need to have project set to a 4444 color space though so it works with alpha channel? just a guess tho.

[Jacob Brown]

haha funny. 25 was i think because it came from europe or something. 60 was indeed for slo-mo.

of course all problems avoidable with proper planning. but sometimes you’re young and hungry and take a job at very last minute and it all just sort of happens without any planning.

anyway, glad everyone had fun replying to this one at least!

[Jacob Brown]

Wish I had.

I guess my point was that every single thing that tripped us up were things that are no-brainers in FCPX. And being used to FCPX at this point I didnt anticipate a single one of them.

[Jacob Brown]

hey Julian, someone may have already kind of mentioned this, but if you were to turn the video tracks into a single compound clip after you had resized and repositioned, then you would i think be able to edit in the same way….without effecting the audio track or having to drag select after every cut.

then after you make your edit, you can just select all the clips and “break apart clips” and end up with yout stacked and cut clips

[Jacob Brown]

ok cool thanks will check it out. if i am not getting actual file/disk errors, how do i direct it to repair things? does it run on individual files or?