Joshua Pearson
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yes that’s what i’m talking about… overwrite edit into just the audio or just the video portion of clips in the main storyline. And please let me paste insert and paste overwrite a clip in a secondary storyline.
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I agree with you Andreas… i was trying to say i want to simply “cut a piece of room tone directly into the audio of an interview clip, thereby in effect “embedding it”, directly in my main timeline, without clicking into another timeline, or opening as timeline, or making a compound clip, or “detaching’ the audio. A more complicated way of saying, i want to alter the audio “track” as if it lived in a “track”, which in the main storyline it doesn’t, unless you of course “detach” it… My way of saying, the functionality of the main storyline is strange and requires odd workarounds compared to treating all “tracks” or “layers” or “lanes” as equals. Thats what i want! Equality for all clips!… X unfortunately forces a hierarchy. And to make it slightly more annoying, secondary story lines do not behave like the main story lines, which i wish they would. Thats all.
Otherwise I do really enjoy keywording and much of the organizational side of X. And straight cutting into the main storyline is great… its just the fiddling that gets slightly weird.
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yes i’ve done all that… it just bugs me that these little tiny clips will be dangling off my storyline… i want the little tiny clip to be safely embedded into the main audio clip!…
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I have been intensively editing a long-form doc in X now for a few months, and while I like some things about editing dialog & audio, others seem strange and non-sensical.
I like the speed and fluidity of chopping up dialog & rearranging it in the main storyline. However, when i want to do something really simple to the audio of a video clip WITHOUT detaching it, like cut a piece of room tone in over an off-camera cough or interviewer voice, it is not obvious how to do such a simple thing… Sometimes i turn the clip into a compound clip and do the editing there, but I don’t like going away to a different project timeline to do that… my main “project” takes a while to come back… other times i have detached the audio and fiddled with it in a secondary storyline, but i don’t like doing that… so i have found workarounds but none of them seem intuitive and natural as they would in an NLE environment where all tracks have the same properties… yes, there it is, the “T” word… honestly I really do miss tracks sometimes. And I really miss tracks when i create a secondary storyline and think it will behave just like the primary storyline, and therefore be sort of like a new “track”… the inconsistency between how secondary story lines and the primary operate seems a bit strange to me… like i wish i could copy & paste inside that secondary storyline, but nope. X is a strange beast.
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Answered my own question by searching older posts… playhead must be on edit point.
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Its kind of amusing to me how much functionality on FCPX is “sort of random”… i actually am enjoying using it heavily for the first time (played with it since day 1, now finally doing a high profile long-form doc for a major client), but there is a sort of funny “looseness” about the interface, where sometimes things will work & sometimes they won’t, sometimes the browser clip is activated, sometimes its not, sometimes ranges play only within the selection, sometimes they don’t… sort of feels like its been screwed together loosely, with screws too big for the holes, and the whole thing rattles a bit…
not missing FCP7 yet though… fingers crossed as over the next few months i build a densely cut 2-hour timeline. Very curious about performance when that happens.
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actually its functionality seems fickle…. now i can’t seem to get the , or . commands to nudge when i have both edges selected… i can drag it but no key commands. But it worked before…
nor can i select either edge with the [ or ] keys at the moment.
strange…
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ah yes its working for me now
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I’m sorry but what you are describing sounds slightly ridiculous… why in the world would you want to perform all those extra steps to bury edits within compound clips within secondary storylines when you can do all that so simply and easily and quickly right on the “front page” of any other NLE? Shackles of laziness? Sounds more like unnecessary extra work that simply slows one down. Overly complicated.
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I have no problem with the horizonaital magnetism, but I really don’t like the vertical gravitational pull of clips to the timeline… if i have music track that is “down” a few “lanes” because there are other audio tracks between it and the timeline, and for whatever reason I want to cut it at the very end, I really would like that new little end piece to stay where it is and not float up toward the timeline… that is unnecessarily confusing, visually… i currently like to use tracks to visually “feel” the organization of the cut… i understand how roles does the same thing, but i.e. i like my music all to sit on 11,12,13,14, not checkerboarding all over the place like it might do in FCPX…