Loren Risker
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Using the favorites can be a great way to make a quick bookmark, but if your favorites overlap they get combined into one. I highly recommend assigning a keyword as soon as you make a selection, and before you drop it into the timeline. I also find it annoying that you lose the ins and outs, but for now I find I like that it forces me to be more disciplined about organizing.
OutOfFocus.TV
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Here’s how I’d approach it:
1) Duplicate the clip of the woman and stack a copy on top.
2) Put the clip of the man on top of both of them. Now you should have a stack of 3 clips.
3) Crop the clip of the man using the “crop & feather” effect instead of the normal crop in the clip properties. Adjust the “width” and the “x position” until you have it where you like it. Lower the feather to get rid of the hard edge
4) Do the same thing for the second shot of the woman (not the bottom clip, the middle clip)
5) For the very bottom clip adjust its color or opacity to soften it.
So the idea is using the “Crop and Feather” effect you can get rid of the hard edge, and by having 2 copies of the clip of the woman you can adjust the colors of the left and right separately. Having a feather on the woman’s clip will allow you to blend the 2 clips if you have different color effects for both.
Hope this helps!
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I’ve had these problems before, but not in awhile. Are you running 10.0.4? I think earlier on I skipped transcoding, and now I never skip that step, so that might be related.
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After reading through the posts, my best guess is you had your FCPX set up to not copy files to the event folder and to crete optimized media.
That means you have optimized media to play when that option is selected, but no original media to make proxies of.
If you aren’t getting the option to make a proxy file, it likely means that either you’ve already created the proxies, or the source footage is offline.
Verify that the source media is there by selecting “Use optimized/original media.” If the clips come back online, right click it and show original in finder. If the clip is in the optimized folder and not the original media folder, then there’s your problem. If you original media folder only contains shortcuts and not the actual files, I’d suggest moving the files in there.
The easiest way to do that is to go back to your import/capture preferences, select the copy files to event folder on import option, and drag the original files into the event and let it copy over. At this point you should be able to create proxies.
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FCPX does make proxies of h.264 footage, just to clear that up.
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h.264 is an excellent and widely used delivery codec, both for uploading to video sharing sites such as youtube and as downloadable files.
avi is a wrapper which can contain a variety of codecs, including h.264.
A 40 minute film is going to result in a large file – like several gigs – unless you step it way down. The image quality will suffer, however.
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h264 is a good choice for wide compatibility. Will work on macs, pcs, and most smartphones. I’d suggest making a smaller mobile version but decreasing the resolution and bit rate.
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[Michael Garber] “when you keyword the answers, do you include the interviewer’s question in the first range pass?”
I don’t include the questions, but I could see how it would be helpful. The reason I don’t is I never put the interviewer’s questions in the edit. I personally don’t care for a behind the camera voice. So the quote needs to stand on its own, and therefore I shouldn’t need the context.
Also, for my style I never have a person talking for more than 30 seconds without chopping it up. So when I am finding “answers” I break up what they’re talking wherever there’s an opportunity to separate it.
This is another reason I like FCPX. I found FCP7 was too rigid once you made subclips. With keywords, you can always get back the media from outside of the range so it encourages tighter sorting.
[Michael Garber] “And then you would further refine with more keywords – general summations of the answer/topic the interviewee is discussing, correct?”
Exactly. I try to keep these subjects short. After reading this thread however, I’m going to experiment more with markers to put in more detailed descriptions. However, I find with the amount of footage I get and the amount of time I spend on the edit I can hold those details in my memory and it might not be worth it to me to get that detailed.
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Tony,
That’s still not quite how I approach it.
I see no need to have a tag called “interview rick.”
I would only have 2 tags, interview, rick.
That way in the Rick bin will be EVERYTHING related to Rick, not just interviews. And in the interviews there will be everything that’s an interview, not just Rick interviews.
I’m including a screengrab. Notice this combo of Keyword collections and Smart Keyword collections. Now if I’m looking for a shot of Zach performing, I can make a smart keyword collection of Zach, b-roll, live. And if I want to narrow it down to b-roll from just one show, I can add 042412-NaturalChild-ElRrio. In the screengrab I have 2 smart collections so far, Seth Answers and Wes B-Roll.
So the idea is I do all the general broad sorting at the beginning, then narrow it down with smart collections as I’m editing and realize I want something specific.
Note that I’m not done sorting this project, but when I do, there will be subject keywords as well. So I’ll probably have one for each venue (“Blue Lagoon,” “El Rio,” “Sugar Mountain”). I’ll also have ones called “New album,” “Touring,” “Nashville.”
Once I’ve gone through everything 2-3 times, and my keywording is thorough and as general as possible, I’ll be able to do more specific smart collections. It won’t take into account what they say, but as long as my keywording of subjects match up it will be easy enough to find say Zach talking about touring on the first day.
Does that make sense?
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Tony, that’s nearly exactly how I do it. The one difference is how I tag “answers.”
I would add 3 keywords where you made 1 long one. First tag would be answer. Second tag would be speakers name, and third tag would be the subject.
I like having everyone’s “answers” in one answer bin, and then use a smart collection to combine answer, speaker, and subject.
