Mark Smith
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The iMac is “arranged ” in system prefs as the monitor on the RH SIDE of the set up panel with the menu bar above . The secondary monitor appears on the LH side of the panel
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I work with C300 Mk2 files all the time and no audio issues with either of my systems . I do have a BMD ultra studio which is not connected to either system at the moment . I could plug it in and see if the problem occurs….
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Green screens after transcoding are virtually always because you don’t have the correct plugin to handle the type of media you are importing. Does your transcoded file have audio and a green screen? What type of file are you trying to import?
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“Jump in and get it done ” can work – but if you are new to the app then knowing some basics is a good thing because without that knowledge I can pretty much guarantee you end up feeling like you’re in some sticky web that tries to thwart you at every turn. When I started in X after having used FCP 5,6,7 I though I would just jump in and make something happen and I did- it wasn’t pretty. I had to take a step back and get a few concepts rearranged for myself before I could make further progress.
Project have different thresholds of organization required. If you have 3 interview s totalling an hour and some b roll, you might just jump in find your sound bites, and slap them in the ime line as you go, paste b roll add titles and done. Not a lot of need to keyword, favorite tag etc. I routinely deal with projects that have gazillions of hours of potential footage, so if I don’t do a solid job of screening & tagging, I’m sunk, going nowhere. Its up to you to figure out where that transition zone between jump in and get it done vs take the time to organize lies for you and your project. -
+1 about making a big effort in the browser to screen, favorite hide & tag your material.
1) you get familiar with the material
2) you get organized
3) the actual composing part of your edit will be much easier
4) selecting clip ranges and hiding the “junk” is one of the best features in the browser behind all the tagging and logging features. -
As I informed my wife who is a fearsome editor in her own right – ‘insert gap’ is not to be ignored. She liked to work in 7 – throw a bunch of clips on the timeline and park some clips she had plans for way off to the right. Transitioning to X was hard for her because of magnetic TL , but once I showed her insert gap, she was cool.
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The transition will be a bit of a haul I suspect, but get the tutorials and go thru that. There are a few get out of jail keystrokes, like the P key followed by the grave key that you should know. FCPX does not work like 7 and so forget your 7 work methods and learn some new ones. X is actually pretty liberating in a way because for me it lets me concentrate on the ‘editing’ part – trying things out quickly, auditioning clips, moving things around easily , with less distraction from what I call the fiddly little parts of editing that 7 encompasses.
The browser organization and search tools are first rate and I suggest spending a serious amount of time there learning what can be done. Doing this will pay forward many benefits once you start cutting. -
I think you’re right- its more of a bug than a feature request.
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Filed a feature request to Apple.
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Brian-
You may not understand the situation fully–I have about 10 lower thirds in a small project that were based on a stock text FCPX template. text background parameters are published with that template.
What I want to do is select instances of the text template in the time line index , which when I do, I see in the browser as x amount of items selected. I do see the text template background color as active and can change the color. When i do change the text background color, only one lower third background changes and the remaining text backgrounds are unchanged.
No compound clips are involved in this at all.