James Culbertson
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World football is a lot more interesting than American “football.”
But then so is Basketball, Lacrosse, bike racing, and any number of other sports.
The only sports more boring than American “football,” are baseball (by a slight margin) and golf.
I did find American “football” interesting in a communal kind of way for about a day last season… (I live near Seattle). 🙂
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Always toggle the inspector closed after you use it.”
That and toggling closed the timeline index do not appear to make any difference in my experience.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What format is your footage?”
Canon AVCHD. Even a 2 cam MultiCam assembly edit (no effects or titles) can be sluggish when working native. ProRes of any variety is snappy like expected. I assume something is off with my system.
I’ve disabled the movies folder which cleared up some beach ball delays. Are there any other suggestions?
(MacPro (10.9.2) 6 core, D700, 512 SSD, 32GB RAM, Pegasus2 R4 8TB
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Real time mixed res multicam…”
FCPX is a lot snappier for me on my new MacPro in almost all ways except native multicam editing. I’ve been doing a lot of 2-3 cam multicam edits lately and I would have expected native playback to be better, but get a certain amount of lag while navigating in the timeline. Not really a problem since I transcode all the footage. But I’m wondering what I can do to improve native playback in that scenario.
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Media is in the original library. It does not let me copy the clips over again since they are offline in the copied event. I’m thinking that if I deleted the offline clips I could copy the event again and it would copy the missing clips.
I ended up deleting the library and starting fresh.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “you say it as if that is a tangential use case…. It’s an over engineered timeline.”
Well, it is a pretty specific problem. I’m curious how you would do it differently considering all the options available for doing a replace edit in FCPX? Diminish the number of replace edit options? Perhaps allow key commands to do specific replace edit functions (which they did)? What else? How does Premiere or Media Composer do a drag and drop replace edit? And where else in FCPX do you see “grammatical garbage” and forced multi-step questions?
Personally, I’ve always felt that Media Composer was an over-engineered timeline. Certainly, Premiere is no less “engineered” from my perspective. So I guess it all depends upon how you like to work.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “- because it simply has way too much asshat preset grammar to allow that basic function. FCPX couldn’t actually allow a drop drop to the timeline even if it wanted to.”
Aindreas, you do know that what you are talking about only applies to the specific task of doing a replace edit (using the selection tool)? If you drag to the timeline using the selection tool (over an edit point) you can do an insert without any of the replace edit verbiage. You can also drag a clip into a connected clip position. Position tool allow you to do an overwrite.
Of course, all of this is irrelevant if you use key commands to do the replace command… you know, like most professional editors would.
So as usual you are incorrect, I’m assuming due to lack of experience.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “avid is a designed assault course of moronic obfuscation.”
Where were you in the early 2000s when I was trying to explain to AVID editors why I was using FCP legacy instead?
Can you notify me whenever you post… oh wait, I use FCPX primarily now.
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Portlandia skit?
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“FCPX is the best NLE on the market or not: the debate”
Changing the forum name to that would probably re-invigorate things a bit here.