[John Godwin]

I think he was saying the same thought that had occurred to me over the last couple of days. In a time when it’s easy to google someone’s name and instantly get a lot of information by and about them, it’s good to consider that whatever one posts is likely to be there in the electronic ether forever. The tone and temper of one’s online remarks might be a factor when a client considers handing over work or sitting in an edit room for hours or days with someone. I didn’t take Craig’s remark remotely as a threat, more as a reminder that we’re all creating an online history that we have to live with.

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John

[John Godwin]

I’m sorry you’re having a problem. All I know is that the copy and paste works for me here, on a Mac pro tower, and iMac and a MacBook pro. I’d try opening a new project and seeing if that one behaves normally, in case the problems are some form of corruption in the current project.

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John

[John Godwin]

It’s late and I just got home from an early 4th of July party. But.

You should be able to drag the b-roll and place it where you wish over the soundbite. The b-roll audio should appear under the soundbite clip. Once you get the b-roll placed highlight it and make it a compound clip, then add dissolves to your hearts’ content. Easily move the entire compound clip or step into it and easily adjust individual items.

There are at least 2 other ways to do this, I think. Working a few of the free tutorials on the web can help get you up to speed pretty quickly.

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John

[John Godwin]

It appears you have to set up an account to download. Is that the case?

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John

[John Godwin]

Ok, I figured this one out:

1 Click on the little symbol on the upper left of a clip.

2. Open Video Animation.

3. Use the little blue checkboxs and turn off the effects you don’t want to copy

4. Option-Apple-C

5. Select the clip you want to paste to and Option-Apple-P. It pastes only the effects that are turned on.

There may be a better way, but that just worked. I only was testing the video effects, so don’t know if the audio effects copy as well. Hopefully there is a better way to do this that’s fewer steps

I get the feeling the most rushed feature of this release may be the manual and help files. There seem to be a lot of undocumented features.

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John

[John Godwin]

You have to first convert them using XDcam Transfer, then import them. It’s been working fine here. Hopefully Sony and Apple will get a better import setup working soon.

Hope this helps …

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John

[John Godwin]

Clarke’s Law:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Change “scientist” to “editor” and remove the unintentional ageism..

As a bonus, Clarke’s Laws 2 & 3:

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

To me, the basics of editing are to take slices of imagery and sound and rearrange and enhance them in a way that tells a story and/or communicates information usually with a point of view. How you achieve that technically is a detail dependent on your media, technology and resources, and your specific ability to use those tools.

On a different note, nobody said that change is always good. Just that there is always change.

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John

[John Godwin]

I read them all. I can still quote Clarke’s Law and the 3 Laws of Robotics. Heinlein’s slang is getting a little dated but his tech and human nature concepts and just the way he carries you along with his style still make for a great read..

Maybe those guys taught me that the only certainty is change.

I think the single viewer is because Apple designed FCP X with laptops and eventually tablets in mind. And touch control. I miss the source viewer myself and the idea of editing with waving hands and fingers sounds like a great concept and a questionable reality. If you’ve played with iMovie on a tablet you’ll know what I mean.

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John

[John Godwin]

I’m not angry, just a little tired of certain patterns. It’s pretty clear there are some people who are really angry and unhappy with FCP X and Apple. I’m not personally thrilled with it, either. I wish Apple had kept FCS3 going for a while. I wish they had handled the entire affair differently.

But they didn’t.

I actually think it’s great that a lot of people have made a fuss about all this. I think it’s made Apple take notice and I think that’ll benefit FCP X users (and maybe even FCS3 users) in the short and medium run.

So, Apple messed up. We know that.

I think that point has been made time and again here, and that eventually making the same point to the same people becomes not useful. I personally understand that some people are incredibly angry, and not unjustified in it. I haven’t seen anyone arguing that people shouldn’t feel angry or let down. So, accepting that, I just wish we could move on in a more productive way, and not rehash it.

I’ve been working some with FCP X and find there are things I like and things I don’t and things I think I can get used to. I’d like to engage in some learning and contributing here in the FCP X forum. So far all I’ve figured out is how to copy selected effects from one clip to another without having to copy all of them, but I hope to be useful more than once.

I apologize if you misunderstood the Heinlein quote, or if I misused it. No intention of calling anyone names. The point of that quote is that some people can only see things one way, and it’s a waste of time to try and convince them otherwise. I fall back on it sometimes when I feel I’ve hit a brick wall. I guess I will reconsider that, as we know how things in type on the Internet don’t always come across as we intend.

Heinlein, btw, is a very interesting character, if you’ve never read his stuff. To a kid in the 50’s and early 60’s it was really eye-opening. As an adult I don’t agree with all his personal philosophies but owe him a big debt for stretching my mind way back then. I don’t know that it’s ever regained it’s original shape.

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John

[John Godwin]

Glad you approve. Since dinner and wine (without the “h”) is being served, I retire. I learned a while (with the “h”) ago that online posting and alcohol (with the “h”) do not mix.

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John