[Jim Waterwash]

Thanks Michael.

Yes my 4 clips are each over an hour long and it is very difficult to navigate long clips within the event browser.

I’ll try out your method of smart collections. I’ve always been a bit confused by the overlap in the role that Favorites play. Nice to see another use for them.

[Jim Waterwash]

Yes, it’s my understanding that the intended way to reuse and organize clips in FCPX is by key-wording them in the event browser. Doing so does create sub-clips in the event browser.

My questions revolve around the easiest ways to select and keyword regions, when most of the edit info is coming from within a project timeline (eg. descriptive CutNote markers).

The issue here is that I am bound to working from the project timeline (vs the event browser), because it is there that the client referenced time-code exists.

It appears that FCPX is geared to more easily have the client use the event browser to make their own selects. Unfortunately, it’s not easier to do from within the Event browser and expecting a client to do it this way is unrealistic for me. (Besides the fact that Events cannot be collaboratively shared across computers, but I won’t go there)

I’m just making sure I’m not missing some obvious workflow that should exist for such a common scenario.

I’m starting to think there is no easier workflow. In that case, I am also suggesting that apple allow a region to be selected within the project timeline, and allow that region to be “Reveal in Event Browser”

[Jim Waterwash]

Thanks for your response.

So what IS the intended workflow in the situation where you have created 6 hours of time-coded footage that needs to be extracted via time-code instructions? I’m all for changing my ways and even embracing new workflows with clients. Having the client buy and use FCPX is out though.

On a related note, I bought CutNotes for the iPad in hopes that the client could use their iPad to document their desired edits. The benefit is that the list of timecodes can be imported into FCPX via a duplicate project with the markers already present. But then I have the same situation, where I have easy access to the time codes, but no easy way to turn those marker titles into sub-clip titles within the event browser.

[Jim Waterwash]

Maybe make sure the audio formats are the same? 44 vs 48, etc

[Jim Waterwash]

Great, thanks! I don’t think I would have ever tried that.

[Jim Waterwash]

Not being able to keyframe color corrections is stopping me from realizing some creative ideas. When the tool gets in the way, that’s when I find a new tool.

This is frustrating, especially considering that “Color” shows up in the Video Animations keyframe editor. Are they trying to fool us into thinking it’s possible???

[Jim Waterwash]

Not sure why it works this way, but I went through every compound clip that I had and turned off every possible adjustment (Color, Transform, Crop, Distort, etc) that might be causing the encode to re-encode. I also broke apart a clip that enclosed the entire 5 min sequence. My encode time dropped down to about 40 minutes from almost 3 hours before. I had made no modifications to any of these parameters, they were all in their initial states and even checked for any keyframes that might have been placed by accident. I had assumed FCPX would just ignore these when it came time to encode. I guess not..

Call it a bug or just call it weird, but that’s how I fixed this problem.

[Jim Waterwash]

Just to be clear, Osculator and TouchOSC are working fine. Don’t want to stop anyone from exploring this route..

[Jim Waterwash]

Thanks, I guess I was hoping for something that used a bit more intelligence and would round the points on the curve, so if one keyframe was too off, the keyframe values themselves would be altered. I saw there was an “average” function within the keyframe editor, so I guess I need to look further into it.

[Jim Waterwash]

Without knowing how the internals of Motion works, there seems to be something else going on.

I can load up the project that has the 5 minute ProRes video that has been previously analyzed for smoothing (not sure if it ever completed), and all I have to do is click on a layer and the ball spins for 2 minutes. In FCPX, they show you when the program is working on tasks. I like that. Is it possible that Motion is still working on analyzing my video? Motion.app keeps going to about 100.1 % of my CPU, there seems to be no disk bottle neck. I’m not even trying to play the timeline, I’m just clicking on a layer.. Seems strange that that would be the GPU, if I’m not even playing. Anyway, thanks for your help so far.