[Kevin]

Hi Rafael,

Thanks again for posting back. How are people editing Canon footage then. My project seems to haveworked buut he playback was a little choppy. It exported fine to Pro Res though. Would one batch convert the footage before importing to FCP?

Warmest.

Kevin

[Kevin]

Thanks Rafael, that worked! I appreciate you posting back. One follow up question. Does one edit natively in FCP with Canon 5D media. I ready that people are converting the footage before editing so that playback is smother an realtime effects preview are available.

Thanks again,

Warmest,

Kevin

[Kevin]

Thank you Tom, Michael and Andreas, these are awesome tips. Love the text generator trick. What i was trying to accomplish also was getting past the drag and drop action and being able to hotkey select folders to spped up the process of adding filters. Any thoughts?

Thanks again for all the great and prompt feedback.

Warmest.

Kevin

[Kevin]

Hey Tom, thank you for taking the time to post back. I wasn’t clear. What I meant was how can I apply a group of filters (in a folder) to a clip in the timeline. Sorry for the confusion.

Best,

Kevin

[Kevin]

Hi Jerry,

Again many thanks for helping me on this hotkey question. Now I’m quite baffled. I did a clean install and checked four other workstations and had three editor friends try use the F9 hotkey to take a clip from a preview window other than the main on and they all report the same – that those the F9 hotkey only takes the clip from the main window. Is it possible you were opened the same clip in both prewiew windows and the clip that was inserted was actually from the main window?

If indeed it’s not possible to do what I’m trying, I wonder what the logic is in having to drop the clip over the pop-up windows to get footage from a secondary window into the timeline.

I’ve tried using the F9 key directly and a custom keystroke for insert edit both with the same result.

For now I’ll battle on witht he manual adding of clips from the additional viewers but if you can think of anything I can try this end I would be extremely grateful.

Agaain many thanks,

Kevin

[Kevin]

Hi Jerry,

Now I’m even more curious. I’ve tried on my own machine which is a G5 PC Mac and also on four other stations which are intel iMacs and also on a MacBook pro – all with the same result. no matter what preiview window is active the system shortcut keys apply to the clip in the main window! I did made the system setting chanhce so that the prescribed FCP hotkeys are functional i.e. F9 is insert edit. So if you’re abl to do it I’ll definitely do a new install and see if that will give me that functionality from all preview windows. Excited to try and againmany thanks for stiking with me to a resolution.

Best,

K.

[Kevin]

Hi Jerry,

Thank you again for helping me on this.

Very curious though. I’m on the same version 6.0.5 (and have been trying the accomplisg the samething since FCP came out!) andI’m notable to do what you’re doing.

I have two clips. I open one in the main viewer by clicking it. I open a second clip i a new viewer. Even if I’m active in the secondary viewer the clip marked in the primary viewer is what I get in the timeline when I use the insert edit shortcut key.

If I just open one clip in a new viewer, and invoke the insert edit command I get a slug appearing in the timeline which I guess is consistent with the main viewer being the only one that the command keys work on.

The only think I can think of that possibly differnt is that I have hotkeyed the “/” symbol as the short cut key command for insert edit (via the customizable buttons list). I do this because on my keyboard the F9 key itself doesn’t work in FCP as it’s the key for >>).

It is possile not having the F9 key itself available is the culprit here?

If so do you know how I can make a system change to allow that key work as the insert edit key in FCP?

Again thank you for your help. I’m very encouraged by the fact that you can do what I am hoping to be able to do at your end.

Again thanks for your continued support.

Kevin

[Kevin]

Hi Jerry and many thanks for your response. I’m pretty certain I’m right though. FCP shortcuts are only active in the main viewer. If for example I have two viewer windows open and I have a clip marked in each, it doesn’t matter if the secondary viewer is active, using a the FCP keyboard shortcuts for insert edit, overwrite etc will only effect the main viewer. In the example above even if you’re working in the secondary preview window, pressing F9 will insert the clip from the main preview window into the timeline. I would dearly love to be wrong on this one as I’ve been trying to figure out a way to use the shortcuts from additional windows forever. If you can tell me I’m doing something fundamentally wrong I would be ecstatic.

Being able to use shorts cut would shave days off some of my edits this trying to accomplish the above through Quickeys. But if it can be done in FCP I’d be over the moon.

Again many thanks for your feedback and for taking the time to post.

Peace,

Kevin

[Kevin]

Awesome. Quick followup Nate. When you say you gave the client a tape at the end of the session, is that a keyed video with an alpha channel or footage that you’ve monitored through Veescope that will be keyed later. Sorry if this is a basic question.

Warmest,

Kevin

[Kevin]

Thank you Emre for posting back. I looked into mochaAE. Hopefully I won’t need it but it good to know that there are fallback plugs that can help.

I’ll actually be shooting bluescreen. Would blue kinoflos be beneficial there?

Again many thanks,

Kevin