James Ewart
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[Walter Soyka] “But you do have to worry about splitting clips that intersect the playhead on the timeline. These would require healing.”
Good point thanks.
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[Bret Williams] “Gaps. You could also copy, then ripple delete key, then paste insert. In any app it’s going to require a bit of surgery unless you just happen to have the perfect situation. “
Well option drag works for me. You could knock me down with a feather! Select the clips. Hold down option key and drag ’em back where you want ’em. Amazing. I never knew that. Everything just jumps out of the way. And on my old iMac the gaps get closed as well.
A lot for the FCP7 shortcuts don’t seem to work any longer. Way off topic I know but ‘T’ no longer toggles shortage the select tracks options. f9, f10, f11 don’t work either.
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[Bret Williams] “A simple copy and paste insert would’ve been a better start.”
I’ve got too much time on my hands. Quite interesting going back actually.
For sure select clips – cut – paste insert and then delete the gap is tidier and much faster. With paste insert you don’t have to worry about anything bumping into or overwriting anything which the clip makes a bit of a hoo ha out of. (Correct me if I’m wrong here please). Perhaps you do have to make sure you have linked the audio to the relevant video clip first?
What did we used to call gaps in the timeline BTW?
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How easily one forgets.
lt is utterly brilliant.
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[Andrew Kimery] “No company is going to be 100% transparent, but Apple is notoriously super secretive, which I think is part of their allure and certainly drives the rumor culture, so I’m always surprised when someone implies that all companies are as super secretive as Apple. Apple doesn’t interact with it’s users the way that some other companies might and I doubt they ever will. And considering their success it’s not like they need to change their MO anyway.”
But wouldn’t it be nice? After all we are customers. Be nice to b treated with a bit more courtesy. For example to give us hint at areas they are looking at developing and other things they are not. Are they worried we would leave in droves if they told us they have no plans ever for a “send to mention” feature for example.
It sure would be helpful for us to know a bit more and I am no corporate bigwig obviously but what harm could it do.
Yes Andrew a Roadmap would be nice.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “That sounds great. Can you recommend any training that might be particularly suited to, say, a German-speaking user?”
😉
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Most certainly. But here, too, you need to differentiate between “learning by doing” (which I may unfairly be assuming was the vast position of your learning X, for arguments sake) and learning in a structured classroom environment with a trained instructor. Or do you not believe you would have learned FCP (or any app you use for that matter) better, more efficiently and most of all sooner that way?”
I did a one day course “introduction to” which I found pretty useful but only to a point. The helped me with the terminology that was doing my brain in “ahh so match frame is called reveal in event browser”. All that stuff. Really helpful (not being sarcastic it helped get me going with X when I was close to jumping ship to Adobe). But I think I only get to grips with software when I am using it “in anger” albeit on a personal project that I have generated for that purpose.
I actually found the Ripple tutorials incredibly helpful however because I could dip in and out. Try stuff out. Go back to it.
Ideally I would have liked an instructor sitting next to me for a month but that was being my budget unfortunately.
I was never a particularly successful classroom scholar so it may just be me.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “[Herb Sevush] “Bill Davis has repeatedly said that it takes months to truly master FCPX in all of it’s depth and that it is especially hard for experienced editors who have to first “unlearn” so many of their old habits.”
“To be fair that was the case with me – it did take me months to feel I had mastered FCPX. Actually all these apps seem to take me a few months before I feel I have mastered them.
Don’t all these applications take everybody a few months to learn? And aren’t we all continuing to learn about them all the time? I know I am.
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[Richard Herd] “And changing audio output settings (ergo omf) is simply ridiculous: new sequence, change audio settings, copypasta. Roles win for this every time. There is no reason this cannot be done in Premiere via the mixer interface: I need a little button [export stems], and then whatever name they are is what they are named. When someone else (say in ProTools) opens it up, they see exactly what my mixer is. … and now I’m writing that as feature request”
We agree 100% 😉
This was a bit of a hint though was it not. Nice to feel that God is listening.
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What I don’t understand is why somebody from Apple do not participate in this way.
I hate these stony silences and then out of the blue and update.
Why can’t Apple keep us updated on their plans for the development of the software? I know it’s all top secret but three months off why not give us the nod maybe?