James Ewart
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“Think “narrative” where you have endless takes of the same thing and you want to see all your options in context”
Thanks yes Robin I get that for Auditions but I think Multicam is a better option (for me) for this. In fact for any single camera drama piece I think I would now edit in Multicam mode. I do think Multicam is one of the great strengths of FCPX which one has to use to fully appreciate. It’s a treat in store for the uninitiated.
But Bret I still don’t really get making Compounds in the Browser unless it’s for clips with separate audio that has to be synched?
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My FCP7 is running fine on a sacrificial machine running Yosemite Beta incidentally. Are the updates still available online if you install from disk out of interest?
The UK and London in particular were about the last people in the world to adopt FCP Legacy. (Slated for years as unprofessional by the Avid community until one day suddenly everyone was using it). Very conservative market with many creatives and producers not really up to speed with the idiosyncrasies of the various NLEs. They just believe what they hear from Avid and Premiere editors in pubs. Not to mention the age of the machines in some facilities which would not handle FCPX very well.
It’s been said many times, the FCPX journey will mirror Legacy in so many ways.
But FCP7 dead? Not yet I don’t think.
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In QuickTime 7 you can change the properties from 720 x 576 to 1024 x 576 which is SD anamorphic (in PAL anyway).
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL923
it’s a feature not available in later QuickTime.
Probably you can also do it in Mpeg Stream clip or maybe even VLC if you export from VLC after opening.
I always used to use QuickTime 7
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I hated FCPX to start with and moved to Adobe originally which I adjusted to very quickly (taking keyboard layout from FCP with me).
If I’m totally honest I kind of liked the FCP7 interface (similar to Adobe after all) being rather unapproachable to the uninitiated. It protected my space.
I already have clients who used to use iMovie for fun who will put together bits and pieces in FCPX themselves and this annoys me as they would never have attempted even these simple little jobs themselves in Legacy or Premiere. But they can do it even though they do not understand the subtleties or full capabilities of FCPX. And because they can, they do.
I just wonder whether there’s something in this “liking it looking difficult” thing.
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Should I consider Resolve as a pure long form editing tool?
This time last year I was looking at Smoke.
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I don’t wear a watch. I will wear an apple watch!
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me too…love it but the waterproof/showerproof thing might be an issue. That said I already have one of these…
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Fort me the fact that when you selected “nest sequence” it was not called nested sequence in the browser seemed to throw me a bit. I don’t know why I just never quite felt comfortable with it in the way I do with Compound Clips but you have just given me the best explanation I ever got.
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Ahh OK.
I was wondering if there was a way to disable the clips in the angle editor without losing the bits you have used in the edit for this workflow. But just changing the view mode in the angle viewer I guess works just as well.
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It always kind of confused me with Nests that it did not name it as such in the browser. Not that I suppose anybody is that much interested.
