Julian Bowman
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See, i get the organisational side of things, which have a lot of advantages as well as some frustrating short comings. My main issue with X is that the magnetic timeline causes more hassle than it cures and the software as a whole is so fragile and has so little annoyances in ‘why on earth did they do that or didn’t they do that’ that I feel like an Apple employee is sitting next to me intermittently poking me in the eye just to make my day harder.
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“You’re not doing anything wrong per se. It’s annoying to me that if you have two clips in a keyword collection and you choose to sync them that it drops it in the event instead of assuming that you want it in that collection as well. I would definitely send a feature request (I have). They do read and listen to them.”
Indeed. Ok, glad to hear it isn’t just me. Will add it to my rather long list of feedback 🙂
“Now, to help you with your issue. I’ve found that I can solve most of these problems by using Smart Collections. When I’m initially organizing a project, I’ll create a folder (that I hide later) which contains a number of smart collections and keyword collecions specifically used for organization purposes.
For example, if I’m shooting video only, and double system sound, I’ll place the video and audio elements in a single keyword collection to be synched. I’ll also have a smart collection which will gather any clips with both audio and video elements. It’ll be empty at first, but when I sync my audio to my video, the resulting compound clip with drop right into the smart collection where I can find it without having to sift through all my other clips.
You can customize smart collections in a variety of ways, even using keywords to limit and sort what they hold. They are super handy, and I don’t think enough people use them.”
Ok, will look into smart collections. At the moment I create a folder for a specific shoot, ie Shoot 2. Inside I have keyword collections for cam 1 cam 2 audio go pro etc. I then create an additional for shoot 2 synced.
I then click on the shoot 2 folder to allow me to choose the clips to be synced then after i have actioned all that I go to the event overall and drop the synced clips into the shoot 2 synced keyword bin.
If smart collections can circumnavigate the hunt for the synced clips and auto dump them in a specific bin then great.
I do also find it frustrating that a synced clip that is in the process of being synced cannot be added to a keyword collection. it makes an another BIP sound and won’t allow me to drag it into the keyword bin. I guess it is because it hasn’t finished doing its business, but still!!! 🙂
Anyway, cheers for the suggestion, will explore more.
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That’s great and not doubting it, but export reference file was a brilliant and beautiful thing 🙂
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Hmmm, bugger.
Ok, cheers for letting me know Steve. This feels a tad frustrating. Exporting is taking ages. Only silver lining is it is happening in the ‘background’ (unlike rendering 🙂 so at least the App is still usable.
Kind of going to miss the quick and easy export ability of FCP7 to get a draft out of the app though.
Have to say I hope they stop adding things to FCPX that look good on marketing bumph and start addressing a lot of the little quality of life and common sense issues FCPX has. We shall see.
Thanks again.
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Well, yes, but that means dealing with and sifting through a whole load more clips to just find the two I want and I may have hundreds in there.
Given I know you know the software well I’m guessing i’m not doing anything wrong here and it is just another feature than hasn’t been fully thought out yet but may, in the future, become less cantankerous (fingers crossed) 🙂
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[Trevor Asquerthian] “BVE was full of students to be honest.”
[Craig Seeman] “So FCPX is the future.”
Or perhaps it isn’t, of course. Could go either way.
[Trevor Asquerthian] “The biggest draw I saw was how to get your content onto YouTube.”
[Craig Seeman] “The future of distribution (maybe).”
or perhaps it isn’t, of course. Channel hopping though 50 channels of crap is bad enough, but trying to do it through 50 million channels of crap doesn’t lend itself to a pleasant and relaxing evening in front of the box.
[Trevor Asquerthian] “Apple had no stand at all but FCPx was on the Soho Editors (who charge for training) stand, along with Smoke. Did I mention they make money from training?”
[Craig Seeman] “Which may mean there’s an interest in learning.”
Which may mean absolutely nothing other than that some people might want to learn how to edit with FCPX, much like some people will want to learn how to be an S&M mistress. Doesn’t mean either will become mainstream occupations.
Hey Craig, fixed your post for you. You’re welcome.
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Personally I am finding that the magnetic timeline causes more hassle than it stops to be honest. The other day I was trying to shift clips along to the right, and what used to be TTTT then drag to the right became an exercise in cutting up gap clips and re situating connection points and in the end, after I did move it, my audio was out of sync with my video. Ok, I may not be as we’ll versed as many in the black arts of X, but intuitive this experience was not.
Overall my perception of the magnetic timeline is ‘meh!’. Seems to have traded one set of issues for a load of different ones. Just means I have to learn a who new bunch of workarounds from before just for the sake of Apple believing they reinvented the wheel.
I am wedded to X now, and sure it can work as an editing program, but to be absolutely honest I do not see it ever taking off in the same way as 7 did. It’s just too contrary for the sake of being cool… Hoxton Sqaure syndrome… And way too fiddly at the moment for the majority to care about. I don’t care about it and as I said I am wedded to it. x is something I am having to suffer as a means to a ends with regards to making my living. Shame really, but there you go.
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I am not a number, I am a free man.
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ha! Ok, we shall see, though don’t go betting the house on it, I am very happy with my antiquated method 🙂
Have now swapped the blade and blade tool around so the cut at playhead is now on B and it is much better so many thanks for that tip.
Is there anyway, now, of making the B as it now is cut on a clip I am hovering over? At the moment it defaults to cutting the primary unless I highlight another clip, when it cuts that – which is perfectly logical and understandable and I can’t complain about it, but I remember reading somewhere you can hover over a clip and hit C to highlight it so was wondering if this hover over state can be applied to B now it is a quick cut rather than the blade tool.
No worries if not as even this current method is far more preferable to me than the blade tool having that skim style about it.
Cheers.
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That was one of the things that put me off CS6 when I tried it, constantly having to hit space to start playing because I clicked ahead in the timeline. I dislike things that hinder they way I do things, and 7 did so much to allow me to just focus on my work. I heard Brett saying it used to perpetually play when jumping around in a thumbnail so I am hoping that returns too.
At the moment I am really disliking how X treats the zoom in/out keystroke when the timeline is playing – it zooms in out and forces the play head to the far left of the screen rather than zooming on where they play head is, like it does when the play head is static.
Conversely I am loving how I can cut whilst the play head is moving, delete the clip whilst it is moving, the clip settles into its new position butted up to the previous clip AND it continues playing from where it already was rather than back at the new cut as it did in 7. That is a joy.