John
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Page Up / Page Down will move you up or down the sequence one frame at a time.
Shift-Page Up / Shift Page Down will move you 10 frames up or down in the sequence.
Also, another handy short cut to know is…
While having a layer or multiple layers selected you can use Option (Alt-PC) Page Up / Page Down to move those layer(s) up or down in the timeline. (Adding Shift will again move them by 10 frames.)
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You select the clip you want to go to the end of and just hit the letter “o”. “i” will go to the in point. I am not aware of a down arrow type of keyboard short cut.
It might also be helpful to know that “j” goes to previous keyframe and “k” goest the next keyframe. (The keyframes do have to be visible.)
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Stephanie,
I used to be a big wacom tablet guy when it came to editing but when I got a an apple magic mouse my editing got even faster. I love the gestures on the magic mouse and “swiping” the timeline with a simple finger movement. I still use my wacom for detailed PhotoShop work. Some will say that you will have less wrist fatigue with the tablet but I haven’t noticed a change when using the magic mouse.
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I was just watching lynda.com’s “After Effects CS6 New Featureswith Chris Meyer” and he mentioned that this feature in not included anymore. They (adobe) made several changes to photoshop and AE that made this not compatible anymore. He didn’t give any suggestions that they are working to get this feature back.
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Thank God for the Cow. This is great work around. Thanks the for the help!!
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I realize I can right click the other sequences to close but I have about 14 other sequences that open at the same time. I was hoping for a right click, option click or something that would just open the one sequence. The only work around I have come up with is to pull the tab for the one sequence I want open to a new place on the screen then close the other group of sequences.
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I have had to this several times. The best method I discovered is to open your PPT and to “save as”. Then select “Portable Network Graphic(PNG)” and save every slide in your PPT. This will create a folder of all the slides as PNG files. I found PNG files to be higher quality than JPEG files and for some reason handles fonts better. In most cases these PNG files will be 720X540 (The square version of 720X486) in general FCP will conform this file size to your sequence settings for you just fine.
Here are a couple of other notes.
1. If this PPT was created on a PC I would highly recommend opening the file in PPT on a PC and do the PNG “save as” at the PC. There is a good chance that there will font issues like kerning and leading even if you have the same font(s) on your Mac.
2. If small or thin fonts were used you may have to add the the flicker filter to that PNG still.
3. If there were any cute transitions you wanted to maintain they will not be part of the PNG files.
4. Most people who design PPT presentation ignore title safe. You may have to shrink all of you slides down a little to get them to line up with safe title. -
Ian,
There is certainly and advantage to finding a friend with a PC. We have an old NT with a Osprey card that we capture anything that needs to be turned around in realtime. Having Flip4mac available in compressor really comes in handy when you’re working in FCP and at the end of the day you need to make WMV files of all 10 of your timelines and the client wants a high and low version of each. Set the batch and when you come in the next day your 20 WMV files are all finished. Regarding the time to compress I have discovered that choosing variable bit rate (VBR) encodes faster. The down side it that if you will be eventually streaming this file you will want to choose constant bit rate (CBR). CBR files stream better than VBR.
John
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It may be a bit more expensive to buy a pre-built system but if your not that confident building your own system I would recommend Discmakers. I have been extremely happy with my discmaker Reflex7
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Thanks, Michael. At least now we know what we’re dealing with.
John