[Michael O’reilly]

I figured it out – park the playhead, make the cut with blade tool, change the angle, repeat.

(I may have prematurely posted because of my experience with FCPX. After a while I did not trust myself that I would be able to figure anything out intuitively with that program or find it in the manual and relied a great deal on others)

[Michael O’reilly]

one more multicam question:

When the multicam clip is chugging along, I can easily choose between the angles and when doing this, that is effectively performing an edit. But is there a way to choose my angles/edits, when the playhead is just parked on the timeline ?

When parked, if I choose an angle, it will switch to that angle in the viewer. But if I jump the playhead and just park it and choose a different angle, no edit at that point is performed.

Not sure how much sense this makes. But the bottom line is that sometimes I can’t/don’t want to choose my angles/edits in real time but would sometimes prefer a measured pace.

can this happen with Multicam ?

[Michael O’reilly]

Thanks both Alex and Massimo for your responses.

You know, I just figured that out right before you posted. I am so relieved to find an NLE that thinks like me and I am so excited to have that dynamic link with AE, which I have been using since it was COSA!

So once you make a multicam clip, anything you put in there will be accommodated and displayed in the multicam viewer ? And anything you do to the source sequence (don’t know exactly the terminology just yet) will be updated in the multicam sequence ?

Thanks !

Michael O

[Michael O’reilly]

Marco – thanks for the video – I can get it too work (that is I see the values changing when I play back) but the diminished FPS playback (even if my frame size is 12% of the original) does not allow me to judge whether the effect is appropriate – I know motion is supposed to be an app where you don’t render, but maybe I am doing something wrong ? I see there is a RAM preview like in AE, and it seems to render the frames but does not playback.

Also thanks for the URL’s to learning resources – I am going to have to stick with lynda.com since I get access to that free through my work.

Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

Many thanks Marco ! Gonna give that a try tonight.

Best – Michael O

[Michael O’reilly]

Thanks for that response Marco. I can convert the stabilization to keyframes in motion or FCPX ? And while the slider concept seems totally doable, would you be able to point me to a URL that explains it in detail ?

Working with FCP since 1999 and I feel like an idiot with FCPX – its like learning to write with my other hand.

[Michael O’reilly]

Noah, that is a great idea. I did get a trainer to show me the basics of Davinci Resolve since I had NO experience with that. But I had not considered a trainer for FCPX. Since I know FCP7 so well, I did not think the transition would be that rough. Could you recommend a service/URL or an individual that would deal with the Philadelphia area ?

Thanks !

[Michael O’reilly]

Very true, thanks. I guess I am a lil wary since this is a big project and I would rather not have to redo a lot, especially in the import phase. Diving in this weekend. Michael

[Michael O’reilly]

Very helpful – thanks Oliver !

[Michael O’reilly]

thanks for those responses.

Noah, while a decent suggestion, as I get into the training, I am becoming increasingly frustrated and it is taking me further away from what anyone teaching FCPX should be doing: Setting the student up for the tectonic shift from FCP to FCPX. And I would say that Bill makes a better stab at explaining that than anyone I have seen. But it could reveal itself through the training, I see your point, however I am still having difficulty in figuring out why connected clips are useful. The trainer herself encourages me to connect music to gap clips – itself seemingly a workaround to the connected clip concept.

But I am not convinced that there is an old head vs. noob dynamic going on here. There seems to be a little bit of the apple “welded the hood shut” (like iDVD) mentality here.

Noah, also thanks for the link. I had landed there previously but discarded it as outdated since it seems to deal with version 10.1 (he never mentions collections) and as I indicated, I was looking for current information.

Michael