Neil Goodman
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[Bill Davis] “If your orientation remains that editing begins and ends in the timeline, I’d fully agree.
The whole point about X is that it’s built to challenge that historical view.
In X, your editing can easily begin in the event browser. And if you understand that, when you finally get into a storyline, you can conceivably have an extremely large amount of your actual editing already done.
This is one way X can drive immense efficiency.
But you’ve got to understand the difference in order to benefit from it – and it’s still my contention that most editors who have trouble with X (not ALL, but most) do so because they’ve not yet come to understand this new two stage process.
FWIW.”
I edit most of my material in the bins or events as final cut x calls them before goin to timeline, but either way, once i graduate from rough cut to second and eventually final, ALOT of editing goes down in the timeline. Trimming/moving/replacing/deleting, etc ,etc. This is where X needs the most work IMO, especially trimming.
The process doesnt change from NLE to NLE. Same approach as Avid PPro or Final Cut Legacy. I dont know any editors who simply throw a ton of clips in a timeline and go with out selecting outs and doin marks etc. It isnt any different in X as building a rough cut goes and doing basic 3 point editing. X strength really lie in making arough cut, but once i have to do any complicated editing to get to a second cut or final, thats where it falls apart. again mainly in the trimming .
Its not like the timeline is hard to get used at all. Id like to say at this point i understand it and its behaviors really well. I jjust don’t think its superior to other NLE’s and its got a long way to go before it can stand in the same arena with Avid and PPRo
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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To me and alot of others, theres no denying the skimmer is great, and lots of other features are amazing but the timeline still needs tons and tons of work, and imo thats the most important feature.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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I may be wrong but Avid might override AJA’s control panel? Blackmagic has the some down conversion options too, alas i have never had to use them, but if your saying the Blackmagics downconversions take no effect while in Media Composer, it might be the same case for AJA.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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Yea, Media Composer is ideal screen resolution is 1920×1080. bump your monitor down to that, and youll be able to scale the window all the across again.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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its not the fault of the BM box. Seems like your client monitor doesnt support 1080p at 23.976 or 24.
Thats why in FCP 7 there was an option to have 23.976 to 59.94..unfortunately Avid doesnt have that option so not even the AJA box will help.
Cheapest solutuon would be replace that monitor that supports all the frame rates you need.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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[Shane Ross] “No. Export as a QT movie…self contained…using the sequence settings. Then take that into Compressor and encode to H.264. There are presets, but you might need to futz with them to make a high quality H.264. It would REALLY help to get specs from the client. They could say how to encode…what settings to use.
“you could also do a “non self contained” export, which will give you a quictime reference file, which i usually find results in smaller files when converted to h264. user mielage may vary/
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there might be, but im not restricted from any specify websites on this network. Its asking for email verification.
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restricted link.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Plus, I seem to experience editors that don’t need the speed do not muck with keyboard shortcuts, it is all mouse all the time and all menus all the time.
Editors that need to be fast use the shortcuts.
It has nothing to do with ability.
“I see people work this way too, whatever works for you in the long run. Using the key commands makes editing alot more fun for me, and makes me feel like im in control and not simply just clicking about on a computer screen.
If i was on the client side, and saw someone mousing and using menus all day, id probably look elsewhere on the next project to save time and money.
Can you trim more than edit point at once in FCP X? i didnt come across that in the ripple training?
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Nope wasnt set to live. I cleared all the renders and re rendered and its working fine now. Pretty weird tho. Thanks for the suggestions!
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal