Jean-françois Robichaud
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What looks like a paperclip in the picture actually marks the in/out points of the selection. It doesn’t look like a paperclip when a longer selection is made 🙂
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Very good theory. Sounds plausible.
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Thanks for that, I didn’t know about this.
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I think the main drawback of the FCP X’s Event-based media management is its name, as silly as that sounds. It makes one think of iPhoto type management, but that obscures its real versatility and depth. You get to choose how your media is organised; you don’t have to use the time-based paradigm. There is nothing you could do before in terms of organisation that you can’t do with this. I haven’t hit any limitations so far. It actually saddens me that I’ll have to go back to FCP 7 for my ongoing projects.
The thought of having all of your media (spanning all your projects) available at the same time might seem overwhelming, but they’re really neatly hidden in their own separate hierarchies, so they don’t get in the way of what you’re doing now. Archiving Events to external media can be done from the Event Browser with a simple drag and drop or menu selection.
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I also do a lot of videos where I need to assemble multiple layered components. I think it would be well suited to a compound clip, though there would be different ways to approach it using a secondary storyline or simply connected clips. I would definetely go with the compound clip, as it’s a tidier approach IMO, but others might approach it differently. I can’t see how FCP 7 would make it better. I think one of the largest misconceptions regarding FCP X is that it forces you to work one way and that’s it. Through my own experimentation, I’m starting to realise that it’s very versatile. Just reading the new FCP X forum is a testament to this; early adopters are finding varied ways to do specific things and that just proves the misconception to be false.
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“On the other hand, if you are a traditional broadcast editor whose focus is strongly project or episode-orriented, the event approach is not only not of use, but quickly begins to add needless clutter and overhead.”
Could you elaborate on that? I don’t see how that is the case. I’ve been testing the media management capabilities of FCP X by creating a number of dummy projects composed of media from past projects and I’m very pleased by the versatility it provides. It actually saddens me that I’ll have to to back to FCP 7 for ongoing projects.
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“Any clip that is not in the Primary Storyling (the darker gray section of the timeline) needs to have the command Create Storyline (Command G) applied to it before you can add transitions to the clip. Not sure why?”
That’s exactly it. Connected clips are for single elements to be linked to the main story line. If you want to have any kind of interactions between 2 or ore connected clips, they must be turned into a seconday storyline. Think of it as creating a track that only spans part of the sequence. It’s actually quite intuitive when you start getting used to it. When you try to use FCP X with the standard editing paradigm, you’ll keep hitting hurdles and get quite frustrated at its apparent limitations (talking about actual timeline editing here, not about other missing features which are quite real). Once you adapt to its new timeline design its actually refreshing and in many ways simpler yet more reliable than the standard approach.
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“So… why would they release FCP X now then. With Lion available next month.The four weeks hardly make a difference.”
Then again why not? FCP X works today as a standalone application. There doesn’t seem to be much reason to wait before release. People who want to can use it now, and it works very well as standalone application, as long as you have a simple workflow. If 3rd-party hardware requires Lion, then it still gives people the chance to become familiar with the software.
Apple has got to have the worst transparency issues in the business. I don’t have a crystal ball so I don’t know what are their plans for FCP X, but I do have an hunch as to what they have in STORE: App Store purchases for extra features; for 3rd-party tools, that’s a 30% cut for Apple, if there’s no way to bypass the store. Why did you think they went all App Store with the release?
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“Real FCP did not defaulted to either insert or overwrite. You, an editor, decided that for each clip you put on the timeline the moment you were putting it on the timeline. This is The Right Thing. Setting Insert or Overwrite as a mode before you start to cut is the wrong thing, no matter which of them is default.”
You can do choose whether to Insert or Overwrite a clip by using the shortcuts (W for insert, D for overwrite, Q for connect, E for append) or use the buttons above the timeline. It’s true that dragging a clip only allows an Insert or Connect edit. I can’t find a way to overwrite while dragging… so far, RTFM they say, but I haven’t had the time :).
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I would imagine you’d set the song audio as the main timeline, then “connect” the video clips to it.