Mark Morache
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I’m going to ditto the above. I’m enjoying the new library system.
I’ve been fairly religious about keeping my media in external folders, and I’m starting to wonder why.
The organization within FCPX makes it so easy to find and share media between projects, or to locate it in the finder, I’m considering letting FCPX do all the work of keeping my media for me.
Why not? However every project will have files that will need to be stored outside the FCPX library, like psd builds and scripts, so I think I’ll adopt Don’s plan of the folders holding the library as well as any extra material. Maybe a future iteration of FCPX will include scripts as assets and have a way to sync them with a project.
Now, if there was just a way to perform a spotlight search inside the FCPX library packages, that might make it even better.
–> Mark
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Is the overall clip volume at zero? Or are there any other effects on the clip?
If there are other clips playing at the same time, it adds to the output level. There may be some audio that’s hidden until you expand all your split tracks.
I did a test, and I can’t get the clip over the limit I’ve set by changing the gain, so I don’t know why you’d be having problems.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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The problem here as I see it is not that it’s difficult to do things like this in X, but X is so powerful, it’s deciding which way is your favorite.
Instead of trying to pull your music in and out of your primary storyline, go ahead and cut the music in the secondary storyline, and make matching edits to all your other lanes as well.
You can map a keyboard shortcut to blade all of the lanes at once. I’ve mapped it to shift-cmd-b. Blade all of your lanes at the in and out points of your music edit, select and delete the clips.
Your music in the secondary storyline will be cut into two separate storylines now, but you can merge them back into one by selecting all the clips inside both and hitting cmd-G, as long as the clips don’t overlap at all. In fact, you can select the first clip inside the first secondary storyline and shift-click last clip inside the second secondary storyline clip to select all the clips between the two, then merge them.
Another way to make your music edit is to turn your timeline into a compound, make the edits, then break the compounds apart again. After you break it apart, the compound will still live in your event, but you can either delete it, or keep it as a snapshot of your project before your trim.
Many ways to do the same thing. X rocks.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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I’d be tempted to either move your vo into the compound psd clip, or break it apart in your timeline, add your effects, and create a new compound clip out of it.
I’d love to have a way to expand the compound clips in the timeline without breaking the compound apart, sort of like avid, where you can expand your effects and see them in the context of the timeline.
Meanwhile, stepping in and out is really annoying. You could also copy the portion of the vo into the compound clip just for timing, and disable it before you step back out.
Even though some things might be a little awkward in X, there are usually numerous ways to deal with it.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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I haven’t run into that. I’m wondering… are you mixing frame rates or anything? Maybe it’s trying to find the next closest frame.
It’s easy enough to adjust afterwards, it should work.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Yes… I recently had a project with about 300 clips. To use the word annoying would be extremely kind.
How about irritating
exasperating
maddening
irksome
galling
aggravating
enraging
vexing
and generally just plain effed up beyond all belief.
thanks… i feel better now.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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You may not be able to search, but this trick might make it a bit easier to relink.
You can go to the FCPX library, control-click and select show package contents. You can take any of the folders inside the package and drag it into the sidebar as a shortcut. Now when you’re trying to relink insice FCPX, you can go into the package container through the link you put in the sidebar.
There may be an easier way to do this, but this might help.
As for me, I like to keep my media outside the library, and FCPX seems to know that now.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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I too wonder about the rendering. I see that when you create a project, you can set the rendering to several different flavors of pro res, or uncompressed.
I liked knowing that FCP7 kept the timeline codec the same as the footage, and I thought rendering the footage with the same coded, giving me essentially the same ones and zeros, be they pro res, hdv or xdcam.
Most of my editing these days is xdcam 35. I believe that when I edit, anything I render is done in pro res, and when I export my final video as xdcam 35, that everything probably gets transcoded again. If the renders are pro res, why would it not recompress the entire timeline? If it didn’t recompress clips that were totally unaltered, I’d love to know that.
I gotta say however, I really miss qt reference clips. If you exported a long clip and needed to make a very short fix, you didn’t need to wait for the entire thing. I like to use turbo hd by elgato to do my h264 compression, but it doesn’t work with X, and I don’t like exporting a huge pro res file first.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Yep. You can also modify lengths with a + or a – to add or subtract time to/from the current duration.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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I played with the loudness button in the audio enhancements at first. My experience was that it was basically a form of compression, but without the controls you get with the compression effect.
I use the compression effect all the time. You can compress the audio as much or as little as you want, but there’s also a limiter in the effect that you can use to create a ceiling for the audio levels.
I also have pretty good luck bumping the audio up one db at a time with control +, until the tops of the waveform just start to turn red, then back it off a click or two.
Apple has given us many tools, and I look forward to getting even more ease and control in the future. (audio level animation via the trackpad or an ipad anyone??)
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com