Jeff Kirkland
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No need to apologise. We all have tools we like – some new, some old, some just plain dodgy. In the case of The Levelator, feel free not to use if it doesn’t appeal. Some of us have grown to appreciate its magic though. 🙂
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Levelator is a bit more involved than just a compressor in that it tries to intelligently boost and compress audio while not raising the noise floor. Like all automated tools, sometimes it works great, sometimes not so much.
I used it extensively when I was editing podcasts for The Conversations Network, and it was created for them to standardise audio levels from show to show. I still use it from time to time when I want to tidy up inconsistent audio levels in a final mix.
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Just trying to get my head around what you did….
You delete libraries in the Finder. You delete projects and events from inside FCPX. You’re saying you deleted projects and/or events in the Finder?
If so, delete the library and start again – you’ve screwed the library’s database. Or more precisely, FCPX is heavily database driven. If you’ve deleted something but the database doesn’t know it, weird things will happen.
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8gb of RAM is rarely enough to run FCPX so I’d look to at least doubling it if you can. The other thing of course, is that you say you’re running Lion and you’ll need to get updated to Yosemite to run the latest version of FCPX.
After that, as Noah says, do some training courses. Linda.com have a good but slightly outdated (last time I looked it was still based around 10.0.x versions) course on documentary editing in FCPX. I’d do a course on the basics and then go check out that one for some advice on organising files for a documentary.
FCPX really shines if you get the metadata and organisation sorted before you start editing so it’s really worthwhile getting the foundations right before you start.
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At the end of the day audio editing isn’t FCPX’s strong suit. Sometimes there’s good reason to send the audio to an external app for finishing.
But I can say that I’ve been exclusively editing in FCPX since the day it was released and I could count on one hand the times I had a zero crossing issue, and I can’t remember any time I couldn’t massage it away by tweaking the edit at the sub-frame level.
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I use the fade handles for a quick fix otherwise I use CTRL-S to reveal the audio, zoom in as much as needed and massage the edit a little. Usually only takes a few seconds to sort out.
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Highlight the clip in the timeline, create a compound clip. You now have a copy in the Clip Browser complete with effects, etc.
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As far as I know, tracking is one of those things in Motion that doesn’t translate to FCPX. You need to use something like CoreMelt’s TrackX plugin instead – or as mentioned, do it in motion and export the ProRes file.
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Alternatively, select the entire timeline, crate a compound clip from it, then select section of the new compound clip and edit that back into a new timeline. Ormolu an just edit the compound clip on a timeline and cut away the unwanted sections.
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Firstly, is there a reason to be using a version that’s so old? In 10.2.1 you can get what you want, safely, in a couple of mouse clicks. In 10.0.9, unless you really understand what you’re doing, messing with the project structure can be a step on the road to relinking nightmares.
Second, if you’re asking that question, then it’s crossed my mind you may want to dive into some training materials before you go too far. This aint your gramdma’s NLE and understanding the basics can save new users a lot of frustration. There’s nothing worse than doing weeks of work only to discover you’ve backed yourself into a corner because you missed some basic step in setting up the project, or worse, approached the edit like you would in a more traditional NLE.
Having said that, one of the reasons I liked FCPX when it first came out is that I was a long-time Vegas editor and for some reason it reminded me a lot of that.
And finally, I’m not sure if the FCPX Library Manager app still supports a version that old but if it does, it can delete those high quality media files but will try to do it safely and not let you delete any files that don’t have a source media file available. Or I think it will, it’s hard to remember back to a version of FCPX that’s that old.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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