Mark Morache
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Select your clip, and open up the video properties window. There you can easily adjust the scale and position.
You can also do this in the viewer by selecting the transform button in the lower left hand corner.
If you’re basically producing a slideshow, try the “Ken Burns” effect that’s built in.
Check out the manual:
https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.1/#verb8e5de9c
Unless your pictures have a 16×9 aspect ratio, they will either come in with the black bars or part of the picture will be cropped out. Using the transform tool you can select which part of the picture gets used.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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No worries.
For me, I feel like FCP knows where I’m going and has anticipated things for me. I’ve always loved FCP because there is 5-10 ways of doing things, and they are all good. There’s not a lot of compromising to get things to work. (FCP in general) Apple has always had that magic combination of hardware and software that lets me be creative.
FCP is not necessarily intuitive in the sense that I can learn it without looking at a book. I’d say it’s intuitive in that once you “understand” the software, it just makes sense, and you can find things and get them to work easily. The workflow works like your brain does, so that you and the application start to work in sync. In my world, I depend alot on muscle memory, so that my brain is free to create. That’s what I like about Final Cut in general.
FCX is like that, but it’s quite immature so it’s not there yet. I believe that it will get there.
I feel like Final Cut is like driving a small sports car, and Avid and Adobe are more like driving the family van. They will all get me where I’m going, but I’ll have a lot more fun in the sports car, and fun is an energy that feeds our edits.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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I think you can also try re-importing the missing media, and it should relink.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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I haven’t experienced the greyed out undo yet.
I make a point of stepping out of my project every hour or so, and duplicating my sequence without making a copy of the render files. I can always re-render, but if my edits disappear, I’m sunk. It doesn’t take very long, and it doesn’t take much drive space.
I imagine someone could write an automator script to create copies of the CurrentVersion.fcpproject file every ten minutes, so worst case scenerio an old project could be re-opened.
Not having a “vault” like FCP7, is one of the largest issues of this software. I don’t like playing Russian Roulette.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Not sure what you’re looking for Mike.
Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s all important to me. It’s like asking which finger I like better. I use them all. I like them all.
Not transcoding…that’s huuuuge.
Short render time, with occasional work in the background. That’s big too.
Our system at work has true background rendering, with 5 dedicated computers, and that’s an awesome thing. I hope FCP heads that way sometime.
Sifting through the footage, that’s huuuuggge. The instant filtering by typing in part of the name, is tremendous. Filtering keywords, favorites and rejected is gigantic. I’m hoping they can add a filter for used footage, and give me the reverse match frame back.
Snappy timeline work, that’s enormous. I get a physical charge from moving things around in the timeline. And it’s not just arranging things. I’m enjoying the skimmer. I don’t need to click to play things anymore. I slide my finger gently over the trackpad and hit the spacebar. It’s so elegant, it gives me joy.
The worst thing for me is wasted time. There are countless times when I’m organizing, or transcoding, or rendering when I’m thinking “I could be doing something useful here”. I still get this in FCX, but some of that is stuff that they will hopefully fix or add to later versions.
The seemless workflow from mind to hand to timeline is what we’re working towards here, and I’m so addicted to it that I have barely touched FCP7 since June.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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James,
You don’t need to worry about panning or compound clips. You can use the “roles” that’s built into 10.0.1 and beyond.
https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.1/#verb71cbcbe
I generally first lay down all of my narration and interviews into my timeline, then work on the b-roll and natural sound pops.
Once all the primary audio (the channel 1 stuff) is in the timeine, it’s a simple matter of selecting the clips and assigning them a role. I call mine “VO”
I then make sure that everything else gets assigned “Dialogue” which is the default role for most things.
When you export your clip, you can export with roles, so that you get VO on one channel and everything else on the other.
You aren’t even limited to two channels. I usually export 4 channels, and put music on 3 and 4.
When your quicktime clip gets back to the shop in Australia, they can reassemble it for air.
I recommend that once you export a clip, that you bring it back into Final Cut Pro X, and break apart the clip to make sure the audio is split up the way you want before you post it. It’s very easy for an errant clip to end up in the wrong channel.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Did you try “Export using compressor settings”?
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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That’s pretty basic stuff Bob.
You can simply option-click on the audio level line to add a keyframe, then drag it up or down, or with it selected, hit option-uparrow, or option-downarrow to bump it up or down.
Here’s a link to the area of the manual.
https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.1/#ver717f5914
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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If you can get your hands on FCP7, you can do this work quite simply.
If you need to forge ahead with FCX, I’d either try using “export using compressor settings”, or just export using Command-E, to create files with the native codec.
Exporting using compressor settings would be a bit faster than exporting to compressor, because compressor won’t need to open and make you select your settings. You would need to use one of their settings, or open compressor and create your own setting. You can also save a bit of time by turning off “open in application”. Make sure the background is on, and do this for each of your clips. You won’t need to wait for each one to render or encode before you set up the next one.
Using command-e will create a new file about as quickly as your computer can copy the media. A minute or two for a four-five minute video perhaps? Then you can select all of your exports and use compressor to encode them all. This method will effectively double the amount of space needed for your media on your hard drive because you’re exporting the clips in their native format, but if space isn’t an issue, it’s another way to go.
Good luck.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Looks like another item for the very long list for Apple’s feedback.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
You can do this very easily in FCP7.
There needs to be a way to batch export projects, and clips as well, for crying out loud.
100 videos? Really? Ouch.
In the future, you might try creating longer timelines, combining your clips, exporting them in their native format, and using Quicktime PRO to chop it up into smaller bits that you can toss to compressor.
Until they bring this function back, you need to find a workaround.
Maybe someone else can come up with a more user-friendly one. If it were me, I’d totally do this in FCP7. I’ve done this for logging clips in 7. I placed everything in one big 4 hour timeline, applied my timecode reader, and broke it up into smaller chunks by selecting ranges of clips and creating sub sequences. Then I could easily select my subsequences and batch export them.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com