Julian Bowman
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Great, cheers Tony. Now I know it is called transform I can see that in the Inspector.
Not sure I like the visual keyframes being attached to the clip in the timeline, but at least I found them. For a bit I was wondering where the hell the visual side was. Personally would have preferred it in the inspector, but then again, personally I would have preferred FCP8 so I guess i’m not going to get much sympathy 🙂
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Blinding Tom. Many thanks again. That’s exactly what I wanted, to enlarge the clip and place it where i wanted. Now I know the tool I can research it further.
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All seems fine Tom, it’s just the same folders and content in the library with third party stuff but bunged inside the app. All seems to be working fine, and now my browser area things are far neater 🙂
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great, cheers, I will let you know 🙂
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does that mean the can’t be deleted or hidden or anything like that?
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Cheers. Having spent a day looking (and posting a lot on here) I am feeling comfortable enough to, well, not hate it off the bat. I’m still not 100% convinced by any stretch but I am now willing to give it a go. So thanks for the support. It’s quite a hassle having to do this, i’d much rather be spending my christmas break guiltily gorging myself on festivities 🙂
But Tom, despite my disagreeing a tad with you on this, many thanks for all the help in answering my questions to date. I really appreciate it and the speed with which you did it, it has helped me reach this point where I am comfortable with moving forwards. So cheers.
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i have to admit i am not very good at bothering to give feedback. mostly seems like a waste of time as my voice is very small and i tend to think if someone wants to improve what they do they’ll search out ideas (like i go to forums to read and try and learn). But if anything thinks this is a good idea they are more than welcome to do it 🙂 I’ll just work with what is there really. Sorry 🙂
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ok, that’s a valid suggestion, will see how i get on with it. My default position (ie where my hand and thus the cursor rests) is generally on the timeline but i will try and see. Cheers for pointing that out though, appreciated.
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Maybe, maybe not. The point of my work is to deliver my clients a good film they are happy with. How I achieve that is kind of irrelevant to anyone other than me. I don’t want to leave Final Cut Pro but it has been EOLd and I had to upgrade my OS to use a plugin I wanted. At some point I’m going to lose FCP7.
But making FCX work the way I want it to work isn’t counterproductive I don’t think, as long as I am happy and the end results are good. From what I have seen so far I can pretty much replicate tracks and (most of) my preferred way of editing, whilst retaining the use of all the plugins I have bought that mostly work in X.
I just don’t like the programme moving my stuff around. it is none of its business, it is mine. I do see limitations to the way I work in places but i will circumnavigate those, and I’m sure if i stick with it there may come times when i have a better look at the magnetic timeline, but I’ve read a lot about it and mostly it just doesn’t seem to be for me. Tracks are. And sadly CS6 had too many frustrations for me, more than X with my trackifying of it.
I have been self taught all down the line and working for 10 years. I’m sure the way I use/d FCP4.5 to 7 would have had people saying “what are you doing” but i’m still here and I like the way I do things. They will morph a bit in a new environment, but I’m far from convinced I will ever stop using the terms ‘project’ ‘sequence’ and ‘tracks’ and that the magnetic timeline isn’t really for me.
Never say never, but I wouldn’t put your house on it down William Hill.
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Yes, I saw the ripple basic one and Ken’s basic one, am probably going to cough up for one of those now i have the basics in my head with regards to, well, what i wanted to be able to achieve. Any advice on which of those two are the best? Ripple’s is a tad cheaper and both seem very comprehensive.