Jacob Brown
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Just curious, is hitting shift-f and then hitting f really that hard? it’s two key strokes to favorite something from timeline, or am I missing something.
but Bill I have to second what you wrote here. it’s amazing the clarity you have going into an empty timeline when you’ve already organized and favorited your selects in the event browser stage.
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Mark,
It’s really not about using position tool and trying to edit in a “track” way. I do a lot of music video type of fashion film stuff that has me layering 3-4 video clips sync’d to music, and I shared some initial frustration in figuring out how to not have these screw up when i first started on X.
However I found that thinking about things Vertically — what is happening vertically in that slice of time — was the shift that made it click and made it powerful.
Instead of the position tool, most of the time its about using the holding the “`” key to leave connected clips in place as you move clip in primary timeline. About using secondary storylines. And about “lifting clips from storyline” tweeking them, and then overwriting back into the slot the lifting holds for them.
jacob
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So that technique worked like a dream.
In hindsight I wonder if it would have been faster and simpler to just disable clips (instead of replacing with gap) — since X2Pro will discard disabled clips automatically if you ask to in settings?
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ahh good idea thanks!
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pro version 2.1.9
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hey fabien, when you export feature length project with X2Pro do you ever go past 2 gig in file size?
my audio post team is telling me that protools will crash if file bigger than 2 gigs, but my X2pro export is 5.5 gigs.
is there a best way to split things to keep under 2 gigs?
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you disabled the clip. select it, press v. will be enabled again.
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a lot of times i export a tiff of the current frame through the share menu, then just drag/import that tiff into the appropriate event. its an extra step but then i have the frozen frame ready to rock right there in the event.
also, often times, i want to clean up the frame in photoshop before importing
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hey bill — looking forward to getting schooled on keyboard shortcuts
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With the feature I’m finishing up now I experienced a similar issue towards the end of the project.
One thing that definitely helped was deleting all render files — towards the end I started using effects more and I think maybe there are some snags as effect render and rerender. Or it may just be that the old render files (unused) start piling up and eating away at memory.
I also went out and bought a small thunderbolt raid to edit off of. (ended up getting the Lacie 2 big. it’s basically two 7200 rpm drives in raid) and that really smoothed things out for me.