Michael Garber
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[Steve Connor] “So apart from having to re-learn some aspect of editing, what do you think FCPX is lacking that makes it “Consumer” and not “Pro”?”
Reliability. I have found more bugs and strange behavior in X than I care to elaborate on here. That is the line in the sand for me.
Michael Garber
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Also, I make new shortcuts for waveform and vectorscope that are more in line with cmd-7.
ctrl-cmd-7 is waveform
opt-cmd-7 is vectormakes for quick moving between the two and also for turning off the monitor when things start to slow down.
Michael Garber
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Likewise, I add some keyboard shortcuts. One of the big ones for me is I make “Open in timeline” opt-T.
Michael Garber
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I agree that favorites is a great tool for logging. It’s aaaalmost a magic bullet for me. My biggest concern with favorites is that, if you accidentally press the U key (conveniently located next to the I key), you lose all your favs in a clip. Yep, I know I can remap the key or undo it – but if you (or a ripe young assistant editor) are unaware that it happened, you could be seriously bit in the caboose.
I have been adding keywords to selects and adding notes to those keys – esp for interviews. I then favorite the Keywords ranges so I can treat them like subclips. Just an FYI, for those working this way, there is a bug that occurse if if you add a second keyword to the same range as the previous keyword, you lose the note.
Last, I’m combining groups of keywords in smart collections for easy searching.
Michael Garber
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Shane,
This is GREAT news. Thank you. I was trying to figure this out and was the one who originally asked Mike. So, I’m glad that this chain got started. Hate seeing my monitor change frequencies every time I click on a clip.
Question: does this convert video to whatever setting you want in the preview monitor, as well?
That is a huge plus knowing that it works with Premiere. Hoping that same workflow can get going in X, as well. I have a Kona 3 and playback through X is very bad.
Michael Garber
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Thanks Jason! I’ve been trying to figure that one out.
Michael Garber
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…and together, we shall rule the galaxy… er, yes, sounds like a great idea!
i’m PM you with my contact info.
Michael Garber
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In the last post, I said that I’m sending them feedback constantly. Been doing it since it came out last year. And have sent them 5 bug and feature requests just today.
Yes, notes go away if you add a keyword to a keyword.
Michael Garber
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Thanks, Loren. I have been using a combo of your system as well as Jeremy’s.
1st pass general keywording – names, location, etc…
2nd pass on interviews – marker for question, additional keywords for “answer”. Add notes on the keyword for answer with subject’s response.Here’s where I’ve come across a major hitch. Once you do all this, including adding a note for the response to the keyword, IF you add another keyword to further refine the answer, the detailed log note is ERASED.
This brings me back to my general frustration with FCPX (ok I could post this in the debate forum, but I’m not.) Every time I try to go through and give it another chance, I find all these niggling bugs and lacking features. I really feel like all of us on this forum are bug checking for Apple. Where’s the check or reimbursement for our time? Grumble grumble.
Just in the past 2 hours of logging, I’ve sent Apple 5 consecutive feedback messages today with other niggling problems. I’m talking really specific workflow issues. Stuff that’s just odd or strange.
I watched an interview with Michael Wohl the other day where he explained how much detail went into FCP. 4 years of development. And they were really able to program for the minutia of editing. I really feel like FCPX was, by comparison, slapped together. There is just sooo much missing. It’s like they didn’t fully think through a lot of the steps – or issues weren’t fully troubleshooted in-house before features were released.
In this sense, I feel very limited by X. I want to drive the software at full throttle. But it just won’t let me most of the time. Sorry for the rant – and now back to your regularly scheduled FCPX Techniques forum infotainment. 😉
Michael Garber
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Hey Jeremy. Thanks, and I was aware of that. Just wondering if Loren leaves the interviewer’s question in when he keywords “answer” so that he can hear the original question – and then favorites or adds additional keywords to the answers.
I’ve been doing some tests with footage I shot the other day and I’ll be doing some off-the-cuff tutorials that I’ll put on Vimeo. Are you or anyone else aware of any tutorials online that go into the real nitty-gritty details of logging and keywords? I’ve seen some on Macprovideo and all the other major sites. But there doesn’t seem to be anyone giving insight into how to log footage for, say, a cooking show as opposed to a documentary.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company