Misha Aranyshev
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[Dylan Reeve] “I personally don’t like the method of having effect editor in the viewer, I’d much rather have it as a separate panel, it seems more flexible.”
I personally don’t want to see FCP interface turning into a loose collection of poorly integrated modules like Avid interface has become over the years. The effects tab in FCP can be torn apart from the Viewer and either left floating or docked to the timeline. What’s really needed is making it stay there you put it until you drag it back. The feature is there, it’s just not finished.
[Dylan Reeve] “As for the relinking – The reason that this is impossible in FCP, as far as I can determine, is that FCP has no real media management to speak of. It’s come from roots where things like tape numbers and timecode were unimportant, or not even there. While the metadata is supported now, it’s not given any level of priority. Media in FCP is still managed in a very simple way. “
That didn’t stop FCP team from building conform changes into Soundtrack Pro. TC and Reel metadata stored both in the FCP project and in the QT file itself. QT metadata available to the apps via relatively clean and modern API. That’s good enough ground to build a robust MM on.
Again, feedback Apple was getting about media management in FCP all these years was “Fix the damn Media Mangler!” randomly popping up on the forums. It wasn’t “Make FCP able to reconnect based on Reel and TC metadata instead of file name and length” with a few dozens names signed below.
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[Dylan Reeve] “(in Avid this is made even easier by being able to hit ‘Esc’ to switch monitor focus and switch the output on the client monitor easily to compare”
Q toggles between Viewer and Canvas. The output to the video monitor switches along.
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The short answer to your questions “You can’t”. The slightly longer one is you should file a feature request with Apple. Since 1999 the addition of new features real editors need and fixing the bugs real editors encounter happened pretty much only when many real editors pestered, bothered and nagged Apple for months.
You problem with editing effect breaking ganging would be fixed if all Viewers you can open in FCP were “blessed”, meaning you could open the reference clip in a new Viewer, set it to Gang, and at the same time set the old Viewer to open. Now all the additional Viewers in FCP are crippled and only the first one is full-featured. I’ve been asking for more “blessed” Viewers since FCP2.
I honestly don’t want to see an “avidism” like filler or effect on an empty track in FCP but I would like to see an easier way to un-nest items on the timeline and that would solve you problem with the same effect across multiple clips. That was requested by some editors too.
Below is Log&Capture feature request I filed a couple of years ago:
First of all get rid of that pseudo-overlay that pops up when you capture. It’s a shame. Simply make data entry fields non-editable like the Name field during capture. They still must be “live” though – during batch capture Current, Duration, In, Out et al must reflect the parameters of the clip being captured. During Capture Now In should reflect the starting TC and Duration should be calculated on the fly.
Add the equivalent of CHAR ON switch found on professional VTR’s to the Log And Capture window. Overlay incoming video with current TC, Cueing source material, Capturing… text in BIG BOLD TYPE so it’s clearly visible when you glance at the screen from across the room. That’s where an editor or assistant is often happen to be during long batches. Make “time data” and “time data & status” selectable. Make “On video”, “On black” and “Separate Window” options.
Allow Markers during capture. This must’ve been there from the beginning.
Enable Marker shortcuts during logging. Next Marker, Previous Marker, Edit Marker, Delete Marker must work in Log and Capture just like in the Viewer or Canvas.Enable editing from Log and Capture to the Timeline. F9, F10 should insert, overwrite into the sequence current clip in the L&C window as an offline clip. With modifier (Option?) they should perform edit and start capturing media.
Add Eject command. Both button and ejecting after all clips on a tape are captured.
As for relinking to the file of different length I see the value of such feature and if you start a petition I’d join. There used to be an annual Top 10 FCP feature requests poll here on the Cow and there is a dedicated FCP feature request forum on 2-pop too.
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FCP reads ALE. It is under Import>Cinema Tools Telecine Log. That will get your Avid bins into FCP. You will have to recapture all the media. You can transfer sequences via Automatic Duck or EDL but it won’t reconnect to the media. You will have to manually replace all the clips on the timeline. In short you better finish this project in Avid.
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Forget Cinema Tools for the moment. Import ALE in FCP and try to reconnect clips in the bin to the QT files. If the TC track in the QT files is correct it might work. Check it against the slates and the burn-in. Then select all the clips in the bin and do batch export. This will give you individual clips CT will like. Create new project and start working as if you had individual files from the beginning. I might experiment with batch-exporting reference movies instead of self-contained but only if you have very loose schedule.
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You can also use square brackets to ripple 1 or 5 (with Shift) frames, but extend edit only works with roll. I find it faster to hit X, play into the clip hit O and ripple delete (Shift Backspace or Del)
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Macs always supported both serial protocols.
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[Chris Borjis] “some of the older decks have 2 rs-422 ports”
“Editing” VTR’s do. To control another VTR with.
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Sounds like they are doing one-light for editing and then will transfer selects with full grading.
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If you want FCP to let you edit files it uses while it is running try “Open in Editor” from within FCP.
[CoryTV] “Adobe apps on my PC can actively edit and save files while their open in different apps and they dynamically update…”
PPro’s code is relatively modern. FCP’s code is very old.