Julian Bowman
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I think you’ll be waiting a long time for Mr Jobs to bring amything new out. He’s dead.
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I may get this a bit wrong, but I need to do something similar when I record two channels on a stereo file and FC gives me a single track file.
It can be done and is easy when you know how.
Highlight the file and go to the inspector, somewhere in there ( near the bottom I think) is an option to show individual mono tracks rather than a stereo track. Choose that and you gain access to the individual channels.
This side of things isn’t very elegant in FCX but it works. I have a tendency to break the channels apart and separate them from my video clip just so I can view my audio as separate tracks because I prefer seeing everything in my timeline rather than having it all tucked away into a single does all file. I am a bit of a nay sayer about all this enforced de-cluttering that X does but once you get your head around it the workarounds are easy and become second nature even if a it annoying that they need to be done and you need to ‘unpack’ your timeline just to work it as ,you may wish.
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FCP7 doesn’t have a share menu.
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The things they watch that are streamed to iPads, laptops etc. Are they clips of pussy cats and yodelling babies or of broadcast TV shows watched through an alternative medium? My money will be on the former.
Kids/adults with console games will always have TVs. Given a choice of watching a film on a TV or an iPad the TV offers the better experience.
TVs are social. Families can gather around one and interact around what is on. iPads and laptops are individual.
I had one friend, ever, who never had a TV. Kids over here love their console games or wanting to watch stuff on decent sized screens. The portability of smaller devices and the ability for the, to enable solo engagement with TV shows definitely has a place, but given unlimited funds do you think all young people would forgo a 42″ plasma in exchange for an iPad? I don’t. Perhaps funds are an important element of BIll’s observations. Ad perhaps teenagers desires to be away from they parents and/or siblings is a part of Alex’s.
Broadcast products companies are going to struggle in terms of obtaining the ludicrous sums of money needed to make high quality TV shows, especially as mostly advertising is ignored and therefore waning in importance and one would assume the ability to generate revenue, but also because most new alternative streams of consumption generate poor financial return (Net Flix, YouTube, P2P bit torrent…. The Spotify model is not a long term solution), but people will NOT stop wanting what these big production companies deliver.
YouTube and FCPX may have theoretically ‘democratised’ TV production and consumption, but most of the DIY stuff it has enabled it still shit and not worth watching and Broadcast stuff beats it hands down.
So sure, TV is being consumed differently, but what is being consumed isn’t changing in the same way. but Bill, don’t let points outside your limited view get in the way of your rather zealous promotion of apple edited YouTube shite being the future of televisual production/consumption, because then your world may collapse around you and no one with buy your self published e-book/zine or invite you to report an NAB and then that will give you even more time to swan around these forums annoying people.
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“I learned at NAB Show 2013 that although Adobe’s R&D is all done in the USA, the overwhelming bulk of programming is farmed out to India.
Apple’s R&D and programming is 100% USA made and supported. ”
Er, but don’t Apple farm their hardware manufacturing out to Chinese sweatshops where employees commit suicide at a rate that would make a sociopath blush?
Cherry picking is an easy game.
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Cheers Jeremy. Will look into that a bit closer when D-Day arrives 🙂 Appreciated.
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Hey Christian, I appreciate all that. I am (psychologically at least) gearing towards trying this. I need to clear a current job (asap) before starting a new edit and will try the SSD and Radi in between. Have backed up everything I don’t want to lose. Only headache looks to be my Apple Mail app. Still doesn’t appear to be a simple way to just copy it over, though i googled some work arounds. Anyway, when I get it done I will report back to the forum as to whether it helped or not. Hoping it does as many others seem to be running FCPX without all the lag i get on machines about the same as mine.
Again, many thanks for the suggestion and the time taken in your explanations 🙂
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Aye, I guess locking roles would work. Would have to mean I’d have to bother learning about them 🙂 but a small price to pay. It would lock and protect all the audio in one keystroke, so great.
(I do actually have a rudimentary understanding of them, just never use them in my editing style/workflow)
And yes to the music. I would actually like to be able to connect clips to other clips not on the primary. Came across some limitations of the current rules which forced me into making compound clips just to circumnavigate issues created by everything attaching itself to a primary clip.
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It’s not the same. You highlight the clips (in itself taking longer than the f6 key I had bound) and then you do a cut and the highlight is removed, or remains to the left of the cut… so you need to highlight them all again to do the next cut. I often just go through and strike a handful of cuts, or sometimes across the length of a song on the beat.
Anyway, it is just a limitation of the design philosophy, and one that obviously not all editors using it will come across because not all editors edit in that manner. I do at times, therefore I would like to at least lock everything below the primary.
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I do this too, although my cut all is attached to the ` key (muscle memory thing from my 7 set up).
Oner annoying thing about X over 7 is in 7 i could lock all audio tracks with one button and so cut all would only cut all my video and leave my audio alone, which was particularly useful to me when I had audio i was keeping and 2 or 3 camera views stacked on each other and i used the cut all to mark my camera angle changes, or cut to a beat or some such. Can’t do that anymore because I cannot lock all audio… even allowing me to lock all below the primary would be great.