Jeff Kirkland
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What codec is the original footage? Any effects applied? I had very similar happen with some third party FX Factory effects a while back.
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If you’re trying to open the FCPX dictionary, it doesn’t have one. It doesn’t support AppleScript.
Currently you can’t rename the files in the finder once you’ve imported them into FCPX. You can virtually rename them inside FCPX through. It’s just a case of having to sort out that naming convention ahead of time, not a big deal overall.
If you absolutely had to do it, then I guess you could export an XML and trawl through that, renaming the clips as per the new Finder name, and then reimport the XML. But I think you’d have to be mighty desperate to go there…
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I thought they were pretty good. A couple of things spring to mind…
Visually, I’d have liked to see some of those nooks and crannies get some extra light. I noticed several,places where what we were talking about was almost lost in the shadows. I shot similar videos for an automotive service chain here in Australia a few years ago and I used flashlights and some nifty little magnetic flexible LED lights to get some light into those spaces. Small mirrors were also mighty handy for bouncing light around inside the engine bay.
I’m a qualified trainer and one of the basic principles of adult learning is that people want to know “who are you and what qualifies you to tell me stuff”, “what’s in it for me if I take the time to sit through this” and “why do I need to know it?”. So generally speaking the script for a good training video introduces the person speaking, and why I should believe they know what they’re doing (eg, Fred Smith, Senior Mechanic), then tells me what I’m going to learn if I watch the video (today I’m going to show you how to…. and this is why you need to know this), then show the training, then a quick summary of the steps if you feel it needs it (see – you did learn something worthwhile by watching this).
Hope that makes sense.
I’d also have tried to get some consistancy in the on-screen talent. I thought they all did quite well for non professionals but I’d maybe look at getting them to wear the same shirt with a company logo, or something along those lines. Even if you only have a couple made up in different sizes that you keep and get them to put it on when you’re shooting. Its something that would tie all the presenters together and stop them looking like they’d just wandered in off the street.
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No, it should just delete the links to the content.
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I’d personally colour correct the clips inside the multiclip editor once the multicam has been created. Any changes there will flow on globally to your edit so you can go back and tweak it at any time. One I’ve finished editing, I then usually do a secondary correction pass on individual edits in the timeline that don’t quite look right from shot to shot.
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Most likely you’ve somewhere along the line copied the contents of a camera card to the root level of your hard drive, causing FCPX to see the drive as a camera card.
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Sadly, for whatever reason, the Keyer effect doesn’t have built-in masking. You can use the built-in effect masking with a third party keyer like the Hawaiki one but ultimately the mask effect is more versatile than the built in option anyway.
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What version of OS X? I vaguely remember that sort of thing happening in older versions of FCPX when OS X moved to AV Foundation but from memory it was happening when plugins were applied rather than just a straight export. Could be related though as you are running a fairly ancient version of FCPX.
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Stack two copies of the clip. Use the mask tool to remove the TV in the top clip, key the lower clip.
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Are you both using the same version of Photoshop, bit depth, etc? I’d try the file on a different machine and see if it’s the file or that particular install of FCPX that has the issue.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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