Nick Meyers
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i like to use waveforms for cutting dial, sometimes too,
but i use the VIEWER.
great for finding an audio point in a flash.in the viewer, there’s no picture or fx to scrub through,
so no canvas re-draw time.
and the waveform is as big as you;’ll ever need itso i double click a clip into the viewer
it;s very easy to locate where i want with the left/right arrows.once the mod, or beginning or end of a word’s been found, there’s a few things you can do in the viewer that affect the timeline:
– add a marker if you want
– or f will matchframe back to the timeline (yes works that way, too) where you can blade the track with Control V, or whateveryou can also EDIT in the VIEWER:
– while you’re in there, if you invoke the roll tool (r), you can mark an in or out point,
and the timeline clip will be rolled to that point.
(I use this a lot to tidy up ins and outs of audio VO grabs)– or call up the ripple tool (rr) to do a ripple edit the same way.
once you get used to it, it’s faster than turning waveforms on an off, and scrubbing in the timeline.
nick
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Waveforms are the most RAM intensive things you can have enabled in FCP.
more RAM might help (you dont say how much you have)better, just turn them off.
you don’t need them on ALL the timenick
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“20+ Clips? That should only take a few minutes. Load 5 min of slug into the viewer. Use the DOWN ARROW to get to the head of each clip, press F9…down arrow again…F9.”
a few seconds, really 🙂
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Will needs “trim down these 20 min files and make a few smaller files,
so exporting it is.
unless he made x number of copies of the master file, then trimmed down each one!or used FCP to Batch Export or Media Manage.
really, it;s not so complicated a situation.
people do this every daynick
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“Sounds like the best way is QT Pro, seems pretty simple”
deceptively simple, perhaps.
but if you do it that way, you have to do the same thing 15-20 times.
and accurately marking in/outs is not easy in QT
so that’s 15-20 operations instead of just one if you batch export.also, i’m pretty sure that if you do it from QT, then you will be re-compressing the shots,
losing qualitynick
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but it WILL LOOK BETTER on a 4/3 display.
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“it doesn’t delete the master file, it actually edits the master file”
i’m not so sure that’s actually possible.
even if you only needed one “edited” file,
i imagine if you were able to see the actual contents of the drive you’d find that the new “edited” version was in a different physical location on the diskso while on the surface it seems like it is affecting the original file, it is copying a part or parts of it to new locations on the disk, and flagging the original as “deleted”
or so i imagine…
and if your drive was really full, i think you;d run into some serious problems with the MM,
at any rate i think it’d take about 10 times longer than it should!nick
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i think the idea of crating a letter-boxed 4/3 master is a pretty good one.
last time i tried blowing up 4/3 to cut in with 16/9 footage, and then reducing it back to a letterboxed version for 4/3 broadcast, the 4/3 was noticeably poor quality.
so i made a special 4/3 version of the program instead.
this was before FCP had it’s “Motion Filtering Quality” optionsmy guess is that most TV out there are still not widescreen, but the number is growing fast.
you may have a better idea of what your audience will haveon a widescreen TV, the image would be a 16/9 box-within-a-box.
most Widescreen TVs would be able to zoom that up.
but i couldn’t comment on the qualitynick
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you would NOT export from a timeline.
that will lose your original TC & Reel#2 ways to do this in FCP:
1) Batch Export
open your captured tape in the FCP viewer,
mark up your selects, and make subclips of them.
gather your subs in the browser, and batch export -
2 ways to do this in FCP:
1) Batch Export
open your captured tape in the FCP viewer,
mark up your selects, and make subclips of them.
gather your subs in the browser, and batch export