James Ewart
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[Herb Sevush] “As for time to think, I’m being fussy here but it’s actually time to NOT think I value most.”
Absolutely. Got the stuff loaded in and view a lot of it fleetingly. Now let’s digest it. Maybe tidy the office a bit. Go for a walk. What did I want? What have I got? How is this going to work?. Maybe not think about it at all consciously for a bit. And then something happens and slowly but surely it comes together.
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[Herb Sevush] “they were always talking about how fast video editing was, while I was always complaining about how crappy video editing was, and beyond the technical differences I always thought that it was the slowness of film editing that allowed for better editing “
One hundred per cent with you. It’s not a race is it? Well of course for some it virtually is a race I know. news in particular but still … time to think yes please.
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[Andrew Kimery] “I do not know. Whenever I’ve had to do this in PPro (or FCP Legend or Avid) I’ve just loaded the other angle into the source monitor, found the visual sync point, then edited that angle back into the timeline.”
In truth I can no longer remember how this works in FCP legend. i dare say I’d pick it back up but i do vividly recall being thrilled at how much better it was at all the preparatory and sync work than i had been used to in FCP7. Actually that was the turning post for me especially the ability to cut single camera multi take shoots in Multicam mode.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Thanks for the link, Herb. PPro can sync clips in the timeline after the fact like that too. I haven’t done it for a while but I think you just select the clip that’s out of sync, select the 2nd system audio it goes with, right click, and select Sync in Timeline. I think that’s the gist of it at least.”
In addition to syncing using audio waveforms after the event, there is another option “sync to monitoring angle” (as opposed to “sync angle to monitoring angle”) which I’m not sure that has been mentioned which is very useful although not sure if PP does the same.
Essentially if it isn’t syncing quite right or you don’t have audio for a camera for some reason it pulls up a two up display. Park the playhead on the monitoring angle in the Angle Editor and that is the right window and on the left window you can skim along the angle that you need to sync and match frames visually when you find the matching frame, just click and BINGO. It pulls it into sync for you.
Pretty cool.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Three months? You should know much faster than that.”
It takes me at least three months too especially when I have to learn it in between stuff (I guess that’s the same for everyone).
A 30 day trial really is of no benefit to me. I need to cut a project with something (albeit a simple one) to feel like I have got to grips with it.
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[Steve Connor] “So what are the benefits of the magnetic timeline over tracks?”
It’s lovely simply not having to worry or even think about what might be happening outside of your field of view. No “select all forward” necessary. Ever. No second thought given to what might be getting knocked out of sync ten minutes down the road or more. So you can concentrate on where you are. It’s a huge advance In my view.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
Not sure if this is what you need, but an extend edit is shift-x. You can also use the option left/right bracket as well as option backslash which will move the cut point closest to playhead/skimmer. You may have to select which cut point with the brackets, or select both with the backslash.”If you are using the option left and right bracket FCPX knows which clip to extend. The shift X option requires highlighting the edit in question which is one step more and I never us it
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[David Powell] “That being said, once I get to the timeline, I’m sorely missing an Avid/PP style extend edit among all the other trim features.”
Out of interest what are those trim features over and above the ones I use which are option left and right bracket for extending cuts either way?
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[Robin S. Kurz] ”
Which it is, if I only edit the video. Or even multiple audio tracks.No. Sorry you are mistaken. Take a look. It puts invisible edits in the audio track. That is what we are talking about here.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “But, yes, that’s what the “Reference New Parent Clip” command in the Clip menu is for, which essentially duplicates the selected MC in the Event and replaces it in the project. The exact same goes for compound clips btw.”
That does not work for Multicam projects if that is what you are suggesting. Perhaps I have got the wrong end of the stick?