John Adams
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Scott — I know how you feel. I’ve been on FCP for the past 12 years as well. Making the transition to Avid as FCP7 dies a slow death. I’m surprised at how limited Avid is in terms of keeping a project organized onscreen (on a Finder level it’s great) and at the UI’s inconsistencies. (I know, FCP is not without it’s ‘idiosyncrasies’ too)
I’m willing to put my grumpiness down to unfamiliarity and I’m trying hard to avoid the knee-jerk whinge of “but FCP can do this, why can’t Avid”. But the fact remains that, even with the additional real estate of a 24 inch Cinema Display linked to my Macbook Pro, the screen looks like butt. The faster I cut, the messier the screen becomes and the more time I spend opening, closing, moving, hunting bins that get splattered across the screens. Sure, the tabbed bins are ok… But is this as good as it gets? Is this all that the fabled land of Avid has to offer when I’m looking for a quick way to isolate selects from sequences? Did the guy who cut Argo – he of Oscar worthiness – did even he have to put up with this? [shmarm is in full effect here, no harm intended]
Shane, I appreciate your insight and suggestions. I guess there are just fundamental differences in the way one edits and what one tolerates in the Avid environment. And us Avid newbies gotta just suck it up. A little clutter never hurt anyone, right? Sign me up for that tutorial, by the way 😉
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“The Automatic Duck tools are free now on the Automatic Duck website. Just use those.”
!!WOW!! I’ve been yearning for these plugins for years… never had the dosh to indulge in them. Why are they letting them go for free now?
Thanks for the info, Terence. This is a huge help.. so timely.
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don’t know if this will help but…
I’ve often had probs with stills in my timeline — ensure that they’re less than 4000 pixels in either direction (FCP’s max resolution is 4K). And if the stills are not required to be that big, then resize them to something less memory intensive (ie. as small as they can be without sacrificing image quality in your timeline).
If you think your project file is corrupted yet you can still open it, try copying all the bins/clips into a fresh project file — save this new one and work from it. This trick has saved me more than a few times.
best of luck — hope this helps
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on the other side of that equation — to ripple delete as you cut: Shift X
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cheers for the reply, Tom.
That’s too bad — I thought it might’ve been similar to After Effects which allows some of its UI setup to be tweaked via its pref files.
thanks
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Here’s a link from cinematography.com — their ‘best of’ list.
–> https://astore.amazon.com/cinematographyco
I’d recommend “Lighting” by Blain Brown. Excellent overview of the whole subject, a great nuts n bolts read about the technology, the tools, and strategies, with diagrams and examples. Includes a DVD illustrating the key concepts as well. Great book.
–> https://astore.amazon.com/cinematographyco/detail/0240807634His other book “Cinematography” is another excellent resource — very current and includes many chapters regarding shooting digital.
The lighting forum (all the forums, actually) on cinematography.com is always full of good info, often from seasoned veterans. Throw any specific questions you might have out on there and you’re sure to get helpful replies.
Hope this helps out. Like Tess mentioned though, the best teacher is practice and the confidence that comes with knowing your tools.
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