Marcus Moore
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Let’s not forget MOTION $49, COMPRESSOR $49, and the (still for sale) APERTURE $79. Aperture was a big seller if you look at the “Top Grossing” or “Top Paid” listings. Motion and Compressor, due to volume and price, probably make up significantly smaller proportion of the total revenue.
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Exactly. And unless I’m wrong, loads of Siri APIs are coming in iOS8 and Yosemite- so perhaps even if Apple doesn’t incorporate it themselves, a 3rd party might be able to write a plugin or extension against the siri API. I dunno, but it would be another big feather in X’s metadata cap.
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Sub-clips don’t exists in X- so regardless of how you’ve tagged a file with keywords or favourites for organization in the Event Browser, the file that you’ve edited into the timeline all point back to the original file.
The Timeline Index can’t point you to a specific iteration of a clip- but it will show you all iterations of that clip, regardless of keywording or other tags.
Right now you can search back from Timeline into Event Browser [SHIFT-F], but more cross-talk of metadata would be great, and I think it’s certainly possible now that they’re all in a single database.
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There is no current version of “duplicate frames” indicators ala FCP7 in X. But besides the other answer above, you can also open the Timeline Index (lower left button), and if you suspect a clip has been used before you can type in a search for that clip, and it will show you how many instances there are in the sequence. But that’s not exactly the same.
Now that we have used/unused media ranges in the Event browser, I’d expect this to return in a future update.
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I don’t think that grouped Roles are necessarily better in and of themselves as far as mixing is concerned.
The advantage conceivably is that it does the same thing as tracks without sacrificing the fluidity of the magnetic/connected clip/”trackless” timeline that’s at the heart of FCP X.
Thinking of a Role as a LPX “Stack Track” is apt, hopefully with the ability to collapse or expand individual Roles to hide complexities when you don’t need to. But at the same time all the elements within a Role maintain their individual clip connections to the Primary Storyline.
I think it would mean that we would need a new tab or alternate window where the Timeline Index sits, which would give you the same info as a traditional track would- Level, Pan, Bus, FX, Color coding, etc..
But I don’t see any way around the idea that Audio Components would have to be exploded in this view, so that their Role information dictates it’s position, rather than living in the grey space right below the video.
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At present, no. But in both visual organization and grouping/bussing of audio elements, Roles could fill this gap. But it’s not there yet.
They overriding key is to give the organizational and mixing function of tracks without compromising the flexibility of the trackless timeline.
Here’s my thoughts on Roles-
https://disproportionatepictures.blogspot.ca/2014/05/roles.html
Working up a follow-up post to address audio components. They present a special problem, since they’re linked visually to video elements. If we’re going to see a “Roles organized” timeline, I think we’ll need an alternate mode that allows FCP X to break up audio components and group them by Role.
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I somewhat agree-
https://disproportionatepictures.blogspot.ca/2014/05/roles.html
Roles could simultaneously enable better Project organization and improved audio workflow/mixing options.
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The difference between what I’m suggesting is the same as the difference between changing individual clips in the timeline and existing Audition clips.
Select a group of clips that make up the sequence you want to version. Right click and MAKE SEQUENCE AUDITION.
Immediately your current cut of those clips is saved and a duplicate version is created. Now you can edit away at those clips any way you like, not in a compound but right in the Project timeline. They’d have to be bounded somehow, like with a Storyline container or colour or something to signify the clips that make up the sequence. It can be longer or shorter. With different A/V bleed in/outs. Different music.
Then when you want to bounce back and forth between the versions just use the same command key CTRL+OPT+arrows.
You’re right there’s a lot of stuff in this patent that’s hard to see how it plays out.
Before any of this though, I’d like to see a better connection between media in the Project and the Event. Have new metadata that’s added to Event clips filter down to parts already in a Project, or have metadata (like Roles) you add in the Project filter back up to the Even (and all subsequent instances).
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To be fair, I think you could have made the same “what’s missing?” statement about the bins and sub-clips structure in Legacy, until ranged key-wording and Smart Collections came along.
I too am working from a template project for this series, but it seems to me to be an analogue solution to what could be a more seamless experience. Theoretically.
This type of thing only makes sense where there’s lot of repetition. Of assets. Of structure. But there’s loads of scenarios like that. Like the 39 episodes of this show I’m cutting. Or the 70 quarterly fund manager updates I do.
If you could define what a project is (common assets, default transitions, graphic inter titles and lower 3rds), then common quick keys would apply those elements because FCP X knew they belonged to a particular job. COMMAND-T just doesn’t give you a basic title, but a title in the right font with the right style and right build- because you’ve defined it.
Again, milage may vary. But I would like this very much.
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You’re right those are the two basic concepts at play here.
In the TV show I’m working on now, I’m using Auditions way more than I have before. It’s just too easy to have a few versions collected for review with the director- different lengths, different overlaps to preceding and following shots. being able to version “scenes”- whether you’d call them a compound, storyline, or whatever- the same way would be very nice.