[Michael Gissing]

And if there is overlay on tracks above the clip you wish to export, you can either turn off the tracks above, temporarily move the clip to the top track to render or simply copy it and paste the end of your timeline to do the render.

Bring the QT rendered clip into the timeline and replace the one you have sliced up. No-one has mentioned that you can also turn the sliced up clips into a single compound clip to apply keyframes. FCP7 did not handle compounding that well so most of us avoided it but it is a way to achieve what you want.

[Michael Gissing]

I’m planning my next hardware upgrade so this news is very opportune. Of course it’s a PC grunt box so no limitations.

[Michael Gissing]

A few thoughts.

Fusion will probably give you the range you need. It will also be able to add a bit of motion blur if it is a bit jittery.

Also you can also keyframe anchor points on the Y axis to get the credits out of frame. Another workaround off the top of my head would be to keyframe the maximum Y, compound the clip and add a second Y axis keyframe range to the compound. Kind of like a final master speed control if you want to make it a bit faster.

[Michael Gissing]

[Bill Davis] “I suspect Apple is making so much noise about future deprecation so that aware editors don’t make the same mistakes in the future.”

I’m curious Bill what you are going to do then. Will you go through all your projects over the past 6 years, find all footage that is in codecs that will not be supported, open them and replace all those shots with transcoded files in Apple friendly future codecs?

You might be lucky and only have some drone or GoPro footage but seriously are you going to transcode all that and replace those shots so your old FCPX projects will open in the future?

[Michael Gissing]

[Oliver Peters]”Prores as a codec is independent of Quicktime”

Deliverables I have had to provide have always speced ProResHQ.mov. I know it can be wrapped as mxf. Even if the specs changed to dump QT in favour of mxf, it still is a proprietary codec.

[Michael Gissing]

It can only be seen as bloody mindedness. I’m always keen to support open codecs and get ProRes removed as a standard delivery codec. Firstly it’s quicktime and secondly it’s proprietary. DNx is a much better family of codecs being free, open and cross platform and mxf, not in the antiquated quicktime wrapper.

If this was anything to do with legacy codecs and legacy wrappers, 32 or 64 bit then quicktime should be the one depreciated. I’m also watching with interest if Apple adopt BRAW. If not then I will actively steer editors away from X like I did in the early days. Having eventually made a fully featured NLE of X and removed much of the island mentality, this is retrograde and a return to the island. Given the move to open X to allow third parties to continue the dev, this announcement will make many third party devs wonder.

[Michael Gissing]

I want it back where it was behaving as it should. I was helping a friend finish her show and it drove me nuts not having such a basic feature. Copy paste was also weird causing a crash. I put it down to being on Mac not Win but clearly they have removed something I need on every job.

I figured out the work around with the compound clip but I just want to make a duplicate timeline with one click.

[Michael Gissing]

[Tim Wilson]”I get the impression that Grant is having fun with all this, and now that I live on the sidelines instead of in the game, it’s sure fun to watch.”

I know he is having fun and his passion for the industry is like a little nuclear reactor at the heart of BM. But it’s also good to see Apple coming out with some interesting features, especially opening up hooks to X so third parties can do the lifting but inside the app not as brittle external plugins. Smart and hey I’m happy when Blackmagic get the odd reminder that they are in competition.

[Michael Gissing]

[Scott Witthaus]”Is it best to uninstall the previous version?”

I never have. Sometime they advise backing up the database in case the conversion of the DB corrupts. Again that hasn’t happened to me over the past four years but it isn’t hard to do and a good way to backup all your projects at once so I do it regularly anyway in case of a drive crash.

Otherwise install over the top. I presume Mac is the same as Win & Linux but if you search the Blackmagic Resolve forum that question may be more specifically answered

[Michael Gissing]

[Andrew Kimery] “There is also the trend with NLEs to put what I call ‘good enough for editors’ tools into the NLE while also providing ways to send the edit to other speciality apps if need be”

The world is rapidly moving to do it all so the next gen really are generalists. They get across all four tabs. But even for those that don’t I have a group who recently asked me to coach them about making podcasts. When they asked about editing the sound, it was hard not to go past Fairlight in the free version. They used it and loved it. There really isn’t a better free audio editor. Next thing they start thinking about Vlogging and want some pointers about editing. Same with a stills person who is now producing stop motion. She saw me edit, grade & sound post her recent animation and was blown away. Once she saw the grade tools, she asked if she might use Resolve to replace photoshop.

So while I get the concerns about old school editors not wanting to drill into the grade, VFX and sound post, even many of them are switching. Last night I was booked to do a day training a local production company in Resolve as they are ditching Adobe CC. All their editorial team also shoot and they are a one stop that has to deliver everything from cinema commercials to web. The future as well as the present seems to be demanding generalists and so a brilliant NLE with so so grade & mix tools is not going to cut it. Once they go through the realisation that they have to move to Resolve anyway, they will do what this company is doing and say, lets just stay in Resolve and that’s why rare beast like me that cross the grade, mix, edit, finish divide are going to be busy training the new breed. It happened a few months back at a local media college and inquiries are coming in.