Jeff Kirkland
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You can press F to mark the Favourite, then press Tab, then Enter, then type your text. It occasionally doesn’t work because the new favourite isn’t highlighted in the list , especially if you’re not marking favourites sequentially, but it’s better than having to grab the mouse every time.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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As a solo creative, i shoot most of my own footage but there are projects where I act more as producer/director and will send others to do the shooting. I also have several clients that I just edit for, and two clients that I just have me do audio mastering/colour grading.
I’ve been a freelance shooter/editor for almost 30 years but I’ve occasionally worked full-time for production companies and I’ve maybe spent four years out of those almost 30 just editing.
If it’s just me, I own a Sony FS100, some Panasonic GH4s, some Canon DSLRs (7D, 70D, 550D), some Go Pros, a DJI Osmo and some video cameras (an ancient Sony FX1, Canon XA10, XA20). I’m primarily capturing ProRes via my various Atomos recorders but otherwise it’s AVCHD, MP4, or similar. I also regularly get footage from a Sony EX3 and occasionally from HDV tape.
Being solo, I’ve had the luxury of editing all of the above exclusively in FCPX since the day it was released.
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Yes, I’ve had the same. Annoying to say the least.
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my thought is that, if you’re asking about tracks, then you may have watched training but you haven’t quite absorbed it. Or maybe you’re jumping around from topic to topic rather than watching something that starts from core concepts and builds up from there.
So to answer the question, FCPX has a primary storyline where you do the bulk of your editing and to which you connect other clips or secondary storylines as b-roll, along with titles, etc.
Everybody is going to do a rough edit but the key to X is the preparation you do before you start adding clips to a timeline.
In this case I’m not sure what you are editing that you’ve ended up with the need to blade through multiple clips at once – or at least to have to do it a great number of times. Part of your initial workflow should have been grouping those clips in some way. Clips with seperate sync sound would become synchronised clips, or multicam clips, or even just compound clips if nothing else was more appropriate.
Then you can favourite the good bits and/or reject the bad bits before putting the footage on the timeline. At the same time you assign roles to video and audio so you can easily find or select those clips once the edit begins. You might also assign key words to specific parts of clips.
At that point, you’re good to go and start editing.
I guess the main thing is that your initial edit should really be clips on the primary storyline, even if those individual clips are actually a stack of other clips grouped together in some way or another during your initial preparation in the Clip Browser.
The approach is slightly different if you’re editing to an audio track for a music video or similar, and other people will probably have different approaches, but hopefully I’ve mentioned something that can point you in the right direction to get started in FCPX.
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Your best bet would be to open a copy of the title in Motion and modify it there.
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Yep – I’d definitely tell you to read the manual or watch some FCPX basics training videos. It simply does not work the way other NLEs do, and while if you search hard enough you’ll find advice on how to emulate legacy workflows, every one of them will slow you down and leave you wondering why anyone would bother using X.
Not sure if there’s any X equivalent of what your trying to do. I’d normally blade all, at the start and end, then vertically select all the clips I want to delete. To me it seems like an awkward way of doing it. You’d be better off creating a synced clip, then marking favourites in the clip browser. Or creating a synced clip then highlighting and marking sections as rejected in the clip browser.
One of the biggest things to learn about FCPX is that it’s metadata driven so the more you can do in the clip browser before moving to a project timeline the better.
Speaking of which, yes you do have to select all the audio clips and mute them because there are no tracks but if you’ve set up your metadata correctly and assigned roles as appropriate, the it’s just a quick search in the timeline index to select the clips you want and turn them off.
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I was about to ask the same about the built in LUT but that aside, you can load the Canon supplied LUT from whichever folder you put it in.
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If all you’ve done so far in Premiere is create Multicam wouldn’t it be easier just to start again in FCPX? It’s syncing and Multicam workflows are quick and would probably take less time and give you a better foundation to edit from than messing around with bringing stuff over form another NLE.
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Resolve would have been another option.
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I’m assuming that the OP is talking about making a snapshot of a project vs a duplicate. I my understanding is right, a project duplicate will share charges made to things like compound clips, Multicam clips, etc but a project snapshot breaks those connections and stands alone.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Melbourne, Australia | Twitter: @jeffkirkland