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Seriously Andreas, after three years of these post roundabouts you should know it better than anybody else!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I think you’re looking for a specific line that just tells you what you want, but you have to use your ears (it IS audio, mind you). Granted, I can see exactly where the dissolve happens when I look at my screen grab, but you’re perhaps just getting stuck in your head that you HAVE to have a direct hard dissolve icon to know where your dissolve is.
The reality is that many of us do this every day and have had performance boosts because of it. You don’t, and so it feels kludgy to you. The only way you’ll ever get it is if a client puts a gun to your head and forces you to edit with x, in which case 6 months down the road you’ll be like ‘Jesus, THAT’S how I used to do it?’
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “In short: your situation breaks the ability to perform edit point based audio slips and rolls while adjusting the incoming and outgoing dissolves to fine tune the audio patch. Although in your screengrab you seem to be AB editing two different pieces of audio: again, I’m talking about music cutdown editing for spots. something I figure we both do a lot of.
“The old FCPX7 is more of a hack IMHO. Our way is more like an actual audio mixer would do it in ProTools, Logic, etc. So much of audio dissolves in legacy FCP was a guessing game, hoping and experimenting repeatedly with “hmm, let’s try it with start on edit – no, – now let’s try end on edit ‘ maybe? Oh I give up.” With this, you can sub frame edit with such precision that it’s sick.
I get where you’re coming from – I had initial resistance – but this way is FAST and deadly accurate when you get good at it.
To your point of cut downs, rather than start with the :30 and cutdown to the :15, we just drop the :30 in a new project, lose whatever clips we need to lose, and then quickly adjust extensions which is pretty painless. If things are on secondary layers over a blank gap clip, the you blade the gap and extend/contract trim it until the space between whatever clips aren’t deleted is gone.
If you really want to have a hard split at a single point, you can just compound clip your audio – but I don’t prefer that method.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Funny – you beat me to it Charlie – but we are both doing it the same way.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I just played with it in X – unless I’m missing something really obvious, I don’t see how that dissolve is not near useless for audio?”
What you did there in that image – we never do that. You’re still approaching it from a track method, when the reality is you need to come at it from a layer method. We never, never, ever – NEVER – do dissolves like that on Audio only. The reason is – you don’t have the control that you want. You have to come at it from a Logic way – you control each layers fade transition with the white dot to do the audio dissolve. Once you get fast at it, you don’t miss how you’re doing it.
I made this little example.
This is exactly the kind of thing that you once you unlearn the old way – the new way comes of much better and you have more control over it.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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[David Lawrence] ”
Dissolve from black with transition alignment set to beginning (or ending) of clip.In FCPX, dissolves always center-allign between the gap and the clip. Not what I want.”
Oddly, I used to use the heck out of that too in 7, but I haven’t missed it in years. I’m not sure why. We have other things we do, like a custom made dip to black generator (as well as fade from black, and fade to black generators) that we drop on top if we don’t have footage handles. Also, just being able to drag the center of the transition quickly may also play a part. Also, just throw the clip whose dissolve center you want to change on secondary, put your dissolve on the end of it, and extend it wherever you want the transition to go.
End of the day, I think that might be a legacy X thing. After a while you forget you ever did that. At least I did.John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Honestly, they really must be panicking.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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WE CAN’T STOP NOW!!!
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Well that’s good to hear. I’ve found the biggest issues in adopting it were psychological. If you just jump in things tend to work out. It’s frustrating at first – like painting with your left hand (or right if you’re a southpaw), but once you get used to it, it ruins everything else.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Yeah, I was wondering if maybe you should just turn off proxies and it would switch to the high res files. In terms of libraries, you might be happier moving all our media to outside locations. We’re generally working with one library per project now, which makes for easier workflows.
I was also surprised you were working in FCPX. Times really are a changing!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
