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It’s the technique of click hold your mouse and move over a range of clips and they select. It’s not a tool but a computer technique you use in most software
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One thing that might make a difference to changing is to get people to use devices like Elgato Streamdeck. This makes the transition between editing software less of an issue as it maps keyboard shortcuts or macros. Once you get used to not having to know the shortcuts, then editing muscle memory based on knowing keyboard layouts is reduced. Apart from everything else, having icon based mapped edit functions makes all NLE software better
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Good comprehensive and fair review as always Oliver. In my world I’m seeing a stampede from Pr to Resolve and further movement away from FCPX. The reasons are clear for many editors and film makers. Resolve is far more stable and better featured than Pr. Editors are also finding that the shuffle from their NLE to Resolve happens anyway for finishing work. I have retired my standalone Fairlight and now use the version built into Resolve. This has been enormously helpful in reducing both computers and program switching.
FCPX was never much of a player in my circle of clients but with many film maker friends jumping into BRAW with BM cameras FCPX is a no go zone. I’m still to see ProRes RAW on any jobs. With BRAW I’m also seeing less and less ProRes camera files of any type. Those editors have also discovered that being able to layer audio clips on a track works better than magnetic timeline in avoiding overwriting audio and in fact that clip layering in Fairlight is a really powerful way to create cleaned up dialog tracks and vastly reduce track numbers. This then flows onto better use of track and bus based plugins.
So lately I have been doing day courses to get editors familiar with Resolve and complete their migration. Once they see how jumping between pages for specific tasks and the power on the Color page they just wonder why they wasted a year of subscriptions to Adobe when they could have bought Resolve Studio for life
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You could start by trying Resolve’s Smooth cut to morph the layers on the edit page. I’m sure Fusion would have options too but if you get a good match just with basic sizing then Smooth Cut is a pretty good morph tool.
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The check box to untick is called Use Track Style. I didn’t have the software open and didn’t remember what the box was called
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You should be able to change each sentence if you untick the box to use the system settings. That opens up a lot more controls and is specific to that text box so it can be different to all the text boxes.
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I would start by checking the length of the two in the Media pool page. In mixing the final there may have been some music edits that change sync. The other possibility that has happened to me is the music is mixed from an analog tape and was not synced to anything. I used to re-sync remixes all the time like the Midnight Oil DVD “20,000 Watts RSL”. All the re-mixes had to be sped up or slowed slightly to match the original video clips. Also there were often edits that I had to recreate as well. Personally I prefer to take a 44.1khz mp3 and sample rate convert to a wav file before editing. Likewise I would take the final mix and make is 48khz 24 bit. 32 bit is overkill for a mix. It’s overkill for almost everything.
I’d also add that if the frame rate has been baked in as the file is bwf, then check that it is 24 and not 23.976. If it is then change that in clip attributes to 24. It will speed the file up .1% which might be the drift if the mix has been entirely in the digital domain and not anything involving analog tape
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I would go through and turn off individual nodes to see if there is anything happening within nodes that might affect sizing or aspect. You can do node based sizing. I have not seen this behaviour. Are you using third party plugins? Or round tripping via Fusion for any reason? I’ve seen aspect issues in Fusion if you don’t start with a background in the right aspect ratio and then merge the still over that background to set correct aspect.
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You can adjust all sorts of sizing parameters on the Color page. This might be where you have accidentally changed aspect by changing the width. Have a look at your various sizing options. If width or height is not 1 then reset to 1 and it should be correct. If you trim sizing and copy grades it can send the wrong setting to multiple clips.
The sizing panel is on the lower right on the grade page (I use two monitors)