[Jeremy Garchow]

Also, check your keyboard shortcuts to make sure control-d is actually mapped to duration.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Can you send screengrabs?

[Jeremy Garchow]

You are typing 1 frame.

First, make sure all the stills are in the primary, or put them all in a secondary storyline.

Select them all, hit control-d, and type “1.” Make sure to include the period as that will be one second (and not one frame). All the stills will then have a duration of one second.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’m not 100% sure as it’s been a long time. It sounds like you have a presentation and not the original deck.

I thought you’d be able to “play” it with the builds? There is also the problem of Mac vs pc. Do you have Keynote? have you tried opening it there?

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but I seem to remember exporting a movie of the builds.

You can also do a screen recording and manually step through the builds for editing later.

[Jeremy Garchow]

And After Effects is terrible with audio.

I’d suggest over cutting the VFX shots in to your timeline. This will allow easy relink to new VFX shots as they are updated/changed, and keeps a reference to the original media in your timeline.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I guess I look at this differently.

C selects the clip under the pointer. That’s how it works. ‘C’ does not select the clip under the playhead, so if you do not want to select the clip under the pointer, don’t hit ‘c’.

If you look at the playhead, the clip that is underneath it is selected by default when you pause playback. When you stop playback, the top most clip that is under the playhead is loaded in to the inspector. That’s what this little ball means:

So to select the clip under the playhead, don’t hit ‘c’ as that will select a clip under the pointer. Hit select above/below or next/previous, and you will be able to select the clip under the playhead. And toggling the skimmer (and clip skimming) on and off will focus the select functions to the playhead.

I guess if you were to ask for something, it would be to add a command that is to “select clip under playhead” which, essentially, is ignoring the pointer.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hi, Joe. I will repsons to you here as I don’t know if you will receive responses on the video comments section.

[Joe Heslin] “”Good job with the extra smoke trails. How did you do that, if I may ask?”

I used Trapcode Particular in After Effects.

I also Luma matted the existing expulsion/smoke on separate layers, and composited that in as well.

I could have used Particular to make more smoke, but I wanted to get this out quickly. ☺

As mentioned, it’s not perfect and needs more work but shows a proof of concept.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

FCPX is different in that there’s two playheads.

The ‘s’ key temporality disables one of them called the skimmer. So if the playhead (not the skimmer) is on or near the clip you want, simply hit s to disable the skimmer, then hit select above/below (or next/previous) until the clip you want is selected.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

I must have misunderstood you. I thought you wanted him to remain after the explosion.

Here’s something I knocked together in 15 minutes, so it’s far from prefect, and I don’t have the full version of particular on this machine, so there’s a big red ‘X’ from the demo version, but you can see the intention.

Looks like Joey’s going to make it after all. Yay Joey!

12486_sorryjoey.mov.zip