[Nick Natteau]

Hi Spherico,

Thanks very much for your help. I just realized that after going back to that link you posted. From now on I’ll stick to SRT. I had no placement issues with the SRT format, all subtitles were properly centered. It’s also a much simpler text file to look at, showing just the subtitles with timecode and nothing else.

Not sure if you encountered this too, but Chrome wouldn’t let me upload any subtitle format to my youtube channel. It just didn’t respond. After clicking “upload” the window wouldn’t close:

No problems uploading with Safari though. Thanks again for all your help.

[Nick Natteau]

Thank you for your help Jeremy. In order for me to be able to see how great a percentage the stills occupy of the timeline, would I have to overwrite them all to the primary story line?

[Nick Natteau]

Hey guys, having read through most of this thread I’d like to propose one solution which happens to be working out great for me. I too am frustrated by FCPX being too limited in its search capacity when it comes to keywords and markers in terms of finding just the clip but not the specific range. So here’s what worked out for me.

I happen to be working on a long format WWII documentary that involves having to log many hours news reel footage from sources like America’s “Why We Fight” series and Germany’s “Deutsche Wochenschau”. I initially ended up creating hundreds of keywords which was insane. I then realized that rather than create so many keywords, the best strategy was to have as few keywords as possible and instead use the Notes Field to define what those keyworded ranges contain.

For example, in a news reel like “Victory in the West” I repeatedly use just a few keywords like “blitzkrieg, luftwaffe, etc,” that get repeated dozens of times. But in the Notes field I describe the specific scene for each instant of the same keyword. And because the Notes field is searchable, all I have to do is create a smart list for keywords, and any word I entered into the Notes field instantly pulls up just the keyword corresponding to that specific word in the Notes field. It works perfectly.

So the keyword “blitzkrieg” may be repeated 50 or more times in that newsreel. But having typed “Dunkirk, stukas dive bombing” in just one of those keyworded instances will pull up just that single keyworded range (not the entire clip) when I enter the same words in the Search Filter bar.

Having said all this, I really hope Apple improves the search filter. I agree that seeing the name of the clip in the List View mode of the Browser repeated hundreds of times instead of the keywords (or markers) is pointless. There needs to be a way to not see the clip names but just the keyworded ranges or markers without always having to twiddle open all those disclosure triangles. Until Apple improves the search mechanism to cover markers the way we would like, my advice would be to use keywords with corresponding specific words in the Notes field to find just that one instance you need. Hope that helps.

[Nick Natteau]

Just downloaded Duet and I’m running the latest version of FCPX (10.3.4). I’m sorry to say that Duet is not working at all with FCPX.
It works with other programs on my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina. But in FCPX, if I select “Viewer” as my choice for what I see on my “Second Monitor” , with Duet running this is what I see on my iPad Pro:

[Nick Natteau]

Thanks very much Robin. It worked! 🙂

[Nick Natteau]

“The dictation part is available/possible without the plugin either way. If someone doesn’t actually know that, then they’re likely to think they’re getting some amazing new functionality with this. 😛”

Hi Robin, can you elaborate a little bit further about how to do this? I went into my System Prefs dictation settings and downloaded enhanced dictation feature, but dictation does not appear to work in FCPX although it works in other proprietary Apple apps like Notes.

Would love to know how to do this without having to purchase a third party plugin. Thank you kindly in advance.

Nick

[Nick Natteau]

I forgot to mention that I use Premiere Pro CC which is why I posted in this section. Am I just better off creating dozens of subtitles in PPCC instead?

Thank you in advance.

[Nick Natteau]

OK I figured it out. I needed to make an adjustment layer on top of the video layer and apply all fixes changes to the top layer.

But another problem is that I have no sound. Even though the clip I imported into Photoshop has sound, once inside Photoshop, there’s no sound.
So what’s the procedure for fixing a clip with video issues (that has audio as well) in Premiere Pro CC? Do you need to unlink the video and audio portions of the clip, send just the video to Photoshop, fix it, then reimport it and make sure it’s aligned with the audio of the original clip in PPCC???

[Nick Natteau]

Thanks very much everyone for all your replies. This really helped.

[Nick Natteau]

HI Steve,

Thanks very much for your reply. I’m actually just looking to do an opacity fade really. I was hoping that there was a keyboard shortcut for fading opacity up and down without adding frames. Thanks again.