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James Ewart
June 13, 2015 at 12:05 pm in reply to: Media 100 is making a Come back!

Thanks for this. I downloaded out of curiosity having worked with it a little many years ago.

Bit of a shock getting used to the interface and that would take some acclimatisation for sure. But it does the job.

However my first 1 minute clip I imported into my bin took over a minute to ‘render’ in. I would have a tough time getting used to that I think.
James Ewart
June 11, 2015 at 6:44 am in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

I absolutely get that I may think I’m changing the “rate” at which the title fades up whereas a simple dissolve would do, if not an identical job, something that was almost identical in much less time.

It’s just a question of habits with me.
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 11:50 pm in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

[Bret Williams] “A standard dissolve (which you could copy and paste with an option drag) has the same easing controls and an additional ease amount slider. I think you get what you get with the curves”

No maybe I am. Really?
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 4:11 pm in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

[Bret Williams] “I don’t think anyone would notice because I don’t think there is anything to notice. It’s the same thing.”

I’m not sure it is. With keyframes it can be more gradual or a curve. More like the handle fade options. Or no?
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 3:18 pm in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

[Bret Williams] “And why wouldn’t you use a dissolve that has both a hot key and the ability to numerically change duration or drag out the duration all without ever opening the inspector?”

I really don’t know. I just like doing it in the Video Animation window and adding keyframes if the basic handles don’t do it. I should try dissolves guess. Just feels like more control but nobody probably notices the difference..
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 1:47 pm in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

I like to use the fade in handles a lot when making little title stings. Small scale compositing – nice to have the title fade in and out when it’s on a different layer.
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 1:10 pm in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

Was there a toggle on and off command in FCP7 for Show Opacity line? I can’t remember or was it just in preferences?
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 9:03 am in reply to: FCPX Opacity Levels – Is there a way of keeping the opacity level line on the video clips, just like the audio tracks have?

I’m sure I knocked the opacity bar down a few times in Legacy without noticing, but I still find going to the Inspector clunky and the two step process to get to it in the timeline does slow me down a lot. The inability to control and drag keyframes in the Inspector makes adding keyframes there almost pointless to my way of thinking. (Unless you can and I still don’t know about it).

A nice feature that I have requested more than once would be a shortcut command “show opacity bar” to take you straight there. I’m sure that’s what we Show Video Animation the most for no?
James Ewart
June 10, 2015 at 4:17 am in reply to: Retiming bars

Thanks all.

Senior moment!
James Ewart
June 3, 2015 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Long time editor’s frustration with FCPX

[Robin S. Kurz] “Surely by TIMECODE, no? “

You argue and pick for the sake of it.

I like to see the timeline as the plays in sync.

You don’t. That’s okay. But I do.

You are a perpetual antagonist on this thread Robin.

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