Jason Porthouse
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Oliver, that certainly chimes in with my thoughts. I created a title first (modifying font, size, colour etc to suit) and then duped this, changing text, colour and position accordingly on subsequent titles. I need to try the long way – using a ‘virgin’ title for each occurrence and modifying each parameter on each title to suit, and see if that sticks.
It’s a shame that such bugs exist, as they undo any of the speed benefits that X brings in terms of constructing edits.
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No, nothing like that. The projects were fine, the machine was shut down, and on restarting and opening FCPX they’d changed. I’m assuming some kind of database corruption/glitch…
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No Chris, I haven’t had a repeat of it so far. I’ll keep a weather eye out though…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Hi Richard,
No, they were just clips in the primary storyline. One clip in each project (2 of about 15) had simply extended itself to it’s full length, just as if you’d done it manually. I did wonder if I (or my client) had accidentally stumbled across a key combination or obscure shortcut that ‘replaced clip with entire original’ or ‘extend clip to it’s fullest extent’ but no…
No damage was done to the edit as the clips post this offending one were intact, just a few minutes down the timeline. It took me all of a couple of minutes to fix, so no biggie, but puzzling and a little worrying nonetheless.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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[Neil Patience] “Whilst you may think this is somehow ‘traditional’ this is what just about every broadcast documentary has to go through.”
Oh I know all too well Neil, and I wasn’t implying any criticism of the workflow. It’s exactly what I’d do (minus laying back audio on the master in one run – as I said the dubbing mixer has always done that in most instances I’ve used one). I was using ‘traditional’ in the sense of our well trod paradigm in the broadcast world – and I totally agree, FCPX has thrown too many of these out for me to be truly comfortable. What’s frustrating is that it would only take a few additions (as others have pointed out, match framing etc) to be truly powerful IMHO.
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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I’d be interested in this too, though your workflow (whilst perfectly fine) is ‘traditional’ in it’s conception. With X having no tape layback, you’d be looking at doing this some other way – I’ve always let the dubbing mixer layback audio on the master, but I guess in X you’d need to export a final QT, and use something like Blackmagic’s Media Express for layback to SR. And you’d be looking at roles for export to ProTools rather than tracks (seeing as there ain’t none!)
As to how well broadcast safe filter works – well that would be a test, assuming it’s not going through a legaliser.
I can see no reason why it shouldn’t work – but as you say, living on the bleeding edge can be a precarious place. It hurts when you fall off.
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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You need to make a new project first. Once you’ve done that, drag you clip from the event viewer to the project timeline.
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Loretta,
Opening a clip on the timeline via that command is different to inserting it in to a project (edit timeline in old FCP parlance) – it’s a bit like the old ‘open in viewer’ command in legacy FCP. It enables you to place effects and minor adjustments at a clip level before you edit in to the project. So what you;re seeing is normal. If you edit the clip in to a project it will remain connected…
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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I’ve just completed 8 weeks cutting a broadcast doc on Avid after having not touched it for nigh on 5 years. I have to say that the transition, whist not without issues, was a lot less painful than expected. My problems were as much about muscle memory and the whole PC/Mac thing (I use Macs, the Beeb use PCs) than anything else – though this was a doc with little effects work, and that would have stymied me far more. The Smart tool (though hated by some) goes a long way to making the timeline almost as malleable as it is in FCP, and that is one of the things I love about FCP.
With the introduction of FCPX I’m likely to move towards Avid again, though I’ll keep running FCP alongside as it will be fine for my work for a good few years yet. In your situation, I don’t think you’ll have problems with either MC5.5/6 or Premiere – but MC may be better prep for the outside world. Though who knows where we’ll be in 3 or 4 years’ time. Cutting on iPads?
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Second doing it in software. I’ve used Compressor before, and had good results, but have also used MPEG Streamclip with good results too, and it seems faster than compressor.
Cheers,
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*