[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ll just add that it can be pain of your tablet isn’t large enough in comparison to your screen size. In pen mode, the bigger the tablet surface, the less fiddly the mapping is and the easier it is to use.

There is a mouse mode but it sort of defeats the purpose of having a tablet – although in your case you want a mouse replacement so it may work for you. Running a tablet in mouse mode would drive me crazy though 🙂

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m sure there will only be one FCPX version for sale on the app store but we may see the same system the IOS App Store implemented with IOS 7 – if you have an older IOS device you are now told that the current version won’t run and are asked if you would like to download the last compatible version instead.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’d have to ask what trick you’re trying to achieve? 25p to 50p you’re making up frames that don’t exist but it might be acceptable… 25p to 50i – yes, perfectly capable provided you use the right frame conversion settings.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I took it as meaning a new plugin coming to FCPX..

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Hi James,

Not quite. There’s a difference between opening a compound clip and breaking it apart. Each compound clip has its own internal timeline. Opening a compound clip takes you to that internal timeline. Any changes you make are global.

When you break a compound clip apart, you are copying the clips from its internal timeline onto your current timeline and so are no longer working with the compound clip at all.

Anyway, the workflow that works for you is the right workflow but compound clips can be incredibly powerful tools once you get to grips with them so they’re well worth persevering with.

Cheers
Jeff K

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[Jeff Kirkland]

And I’ll add that I also sometimes do it Brett’s way but that only makes a copy of the complete timeline while my method also lets me make versions of just parts of it.

As always, there’s always plenty of ways to get where you want to go…

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[Jeff Kirkland]

If you break apart a compound clip, you are essentially doing the equivalent of copying the contents out of the clip and pasting them to the timeline, just in one step.

When you select clips on the timeline and create a compound clip you are basically stuffing all of them into an easily managed container. The compound clip is created in the event library and a copy of it replaces the selected clips on your timeline.

Breaking apart the compound clip is essentially the reverse process. It replaces the selected compound clip with copies of the clips inside it. The clips on your timeline no longer have any relationship with the compound clip they came from (which continues to exist in your event library for later use).

For convenience I usually create an event to keep all these snapshots in so they’re separate from the rest of the project’s media.

I just find it a great way to have snapshots of the progress of my edit and know that I can either restore the complete compound clip or open it up and copy/paste just part of it back to my project.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Or slightly simpler is to create the compound clip, then immediately shoes to break the clip apart again. The compound clip you created is still sitting in your event browser and you can get on with your edit.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

It’s in the share menu to the right of the viewer or in the menu under ‘file–>share’. If exporting a still isn’t one of the available options on the list you may have to define it using the ‘add destination’ option.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Colour spaces would be the same for HD. PAL is true 24fps but compressor should handle the conform to 23.976 without any issues. Depending in where the footage is ending up, you’d probable get away with FCPX handling the frame rate conversion internally.

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