[Kyrina Bluerose]

Thank you so much for your thoughts AND for the links! It’s interesting to see the differences between all these programs. 🙂

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Thanks! Text editing is the phrase I should have used, but love all the great suggestions; thank you!

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Thank you! Will explore these suggestions.

Anyone familiar with Lumberjack? I think I saw a presentation at LACPUG awhile back.

It would be nice to work within FC.

[Kyrina Bluerose]

wow, thank you so much for your generous replies, Joby and Ronny!

Yes, I am totally still learning – on my own with Lynda and Macprovideo. They teach how to use the program, and naturally a beginner is trying to learn about what they can do to their project, and there isn’t much mentioned about any of this technical stuff except in passing as if everyone knows it already. Thank you for helping to fill me in on the mysteries in the background! No, I don’t know anything about it and I’m grateful for your shining a light. I have compressor but haven’t looked at it yet. Now I have a reason ☺

You rock!

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Thank you so much!!!

I am doing that now, but still running into some problems. I can only chalk it up to my computer being too small to handle the project I’m trying to create. Since I’m a relative beginner I never expected that, but here I am. Example: I switch from proxy to optimized view in order to share with the composer. After a very long render (as shown by the dots, and by the background tasks progress), I play to double-check – and playback is sluggish, jagged of video (audio playback seems fine.) Playhead jumping ahead and stopping approximately every 15 – 30 frames. No evidence of rendering still present, but acting like it. Then I spent an entire overnight opening, allowing render start, render get stuck at a different % of render complete, force quit, repeat. So many secrets behind doing a project.

Thanks again.

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Thanks, Ronny!

Still pretty new. Computer is likely smaller than my projects. Plus, I don’t know about ” background render on/off” so I shall look into that. I assume it was set for on since that was what showed in the background tasks window. I turned it off for now. Is there a shortcut to render a clip when I’ve made adjustments, or do you do this at the end of each day, for example – or just when you’ve finished the project?

Thanks for the directions to the draw mask effect – I’ve definitely used it, but never in conjunction with using curves while color correcting. The options I have found are “add shape mask” and “add color mask”. (have not had any success using color mask; it seems to screw up everything) How do you use the draw mask when doing color correction in curves?

Forgive my ignorance; it is really frustrating to try to troubleshoot via how-to’s, and so helpful to be able to ask questions.

Much appreciation for your sharing your admirable knowledge!

[Kyrina Bluerose]

forget it. random glitch. not sure what I did but it’s working again.

Much appreciation for your sharing your admirable knowledge!

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Good ideas; thank you!

I will research what auditions are.

Much appreciation for your sharing your admirable knowledge!

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Wow; thank you!!!

You sure know a LOT about this stuff; I appreciate the time you spend answering my questions so thoroughly.

[Kyrina Bluerose]

Motion – also a great suggestion.
don’t know it yet, still self-training FCPX, PS, LPX. Maybe next will be Motion, LR, & Flash.
not great at learning programs, but somehow it seems necessary to be able to use them.
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