Mark Morache
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Well, that sucks. Could they have been getting complaints about the timecode/hover with the trim and blade tools? How does that just disappear.
It’s like running to the store because you’re out of milk, coming back to find that someone stole your spoon, and now you have to eat your cereal with your fingers.
It was a function I actually used! Grrrrrr.
Perhaps if they make the “show skimmer info” work in the timeline as well, with the source timecode, not the timeline timecode. Or just bring back back the source-timecode hover for the blade and the trim tools.
And I think you meant control-Y.
Thanks.
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The good news is that you can still use FCP7 for logging and transferring. I often do.
I also use Clipwrap for rewrapping.
Finally, I frequently use A Better Finder Rename for renaming my media with useful names.
I log and transfer, rename, then re-import. Not a bad workflow.
Someday we will be able do this all in FCPX, but at least we can still do it.
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I’ve been running both since day one. Occasionally the wrong version of Motion will open, but that’s about it.
Just follow the Apple instructions.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722
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Yep… don’t see any reason to add markers on the inside of a clip. Add all the markers you want to the outside.
If you start adding things like b-roll to the inside of a clip, it gets promoted to a compound clip, with all that entails.
Good luck.
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Make your audio tracks larger using the clip appearance window, under the right part of the timeline.
Option-click to add keyframes. Click and drag to move them up/down/left/right. Select one and cmd+ or cmd- to raise/lower it.
Use the range tool to elevate/reduce a range.
Read the manual man.
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Hmmm…. it’s not just the fan. FCPX has my cores running full tilt. Quitting the program and reopening makes this stop.
Still not sure what it’s doing.
I never though not rendering would take so much power.
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Grant… you gotta give us some more information about the format.
I edit four channel source audio as well, and I always try to do that without breaking the audio apart from the video, unless I absolutely must.
FIrst, turn off the tracks you don’t want on. Do that either in the audio inspector, or by opening up the clip in timeline mode and using V to disable the channels.
Now from here, if I want to ride the levels of multiple channels, I use the open in timeline option, and inside the clip, I ride the levels, then close it back up.
There are other ways to do this. If you are recording a concert, or something that won’t need many cuts, you can break apart the audio, and then place all of channel 1 with the board in a giant compound clip that you can see in the timeline and ride up and down with keyframes. Likewise for channels 2, 3 and 4.
The fact that the audio is unsupported is a problem. That’s why we need more information.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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I just purchased one of these. I’m quite happy with it. My Lacie Rugged drive is starting to act a little flaky at the fw800 port.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEQM7750GB16/
You need to get the external power supply to use the esata, but the 800 is plenty fast for editing on X.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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[Andreas Kiel] “It’s not a good idea to create a Motion Template for each clip, which is doable and will work, but for what price (meaning effort, storage space and cluttered interface in FCPX)?”
Yeah. Actually I created one motion template that put on a timecode window, created a larger black box with extra room on the left where I put a text box that I could edit in my FCPX effect window.
One motion effect, but I had to type in each clip number individually in FCPX.
It went pretty quickly. A couple of minutes max once I created the motion effect.
So, what would I need to do exactly to try to tackle XML, and the workflow I desire?
I tried laying three five second clips on the timeline, and attaching a title clip to each one for the duration, and exported the xml. I opened it up in textedit, and upon first glance it looked too confusing. The first clip started at 0, and the xml says start=”13890877/24000s” ??
offset=13890877/24000s ??I could see where the clips were, and where the text of the clip names could be modified, but I have no clue how to automate the process.
If you had some suggestions about a learning curve I could follow, it would be a fun adventure I could take when I come up for air sometime! Thanks.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Yeah, I figured.
So what would be involved in trying to automate this?
Learn XML?
Learn Xcode to create an app to take the xml and create the new xml with attached text clips?I would love to get into all of this someday, but I’m just struggling to keep ahead of my edit deadlines these days.
I wish there were a way in motion to extract the title from the clip in motion, and insert it into the text field. Then it would be a simple motion effect to publish into FCPX.
Any XML experts out there want to take this on?
I only have 50 clips, so I’ve published a timecode window effect in motion with an extra text field I’m modifying by hand for the 50 clips. Much faster than learning how to code.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com
