Nick Toth
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Or maybe not… the Volumetrix transition plays back fine when un-rendered but after render the incoming transition blows the text up to full screen for the transition and then it cuts back to regular size. The outgoing transition is fine for some reason. Will keep trying…
NT
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Jeremy – thanks for clearing this up. I was trying different combinations of storyline vs. compound clip and it never worked right. I followed your steps exactly and it works. This cleared up the issues I was having with idustrial Volumetrix as well. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
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This is one thing that’s pretty lame with X. I did some experimenting and found that certain transitions work without effecting the layer under them but it needs a work-around. The way I did it was transition from an empty text clip to one with text. From what I can tell, not all transitions work but the blurs do.
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I am editing spots on FCP X. Have been since it came out. It’s different but I prefer it to FCP7. You’re right about the demands of spot production versus long-form but I prefer X for both.
The idustrial plug-ins don’t always work properly. I have seen what you describe.
Sometimes I have to be creative in how I approach something that I would have done differently in FCP7 but that’s one of the things that I was looking for – to find new ways to do things and not rely on doing things the same old way with the same old results.
I am using an early MacPro with 16 GB RAM and a Radeon 5770 under Snow Leopard. I would like to see if Lion makes a difference but I haven’t had time to make the transition. My main complaints are the interface lags sometimes, I still have some issues with text reverting to default parameters (specifically line spacing) even with the 10.0.2 update and rendering can be very slow with a complicated project. I look forward to broadcast monitoring but I have checked my work by playing it back with FCP7 through a Kona card and I’m seeing results consistent with what what I see playing back on the desktop.
I have gone back and forth with having background rendering on or off. I finally decided to keep it on with a delay of about 15 seconds. If something is not fully rendered when it comes time to export I just go ahead and export.
From my observation, this version of FCP is very hardware intensive, specifically video card performance, storage performance and amount of RAM.
You don’t mention what you’re using for storage. If it’s not fast you will have problems. It also sounds like you are leaving the skimmer on based on what you said about transitions attaching themselves to other clips. Turn skimmer off (hit “S”) when you don’t need it. It comes in handy at times, especially when viewing clips in the event library but I rarely use it in the project timeline. One thing I use all the time is re-timing to make things fit. On-camera guy takes 24 seconds to say his piece and I’ve got 22 seconds to fit him into? Retime and I’m done with pitch correction already applied. Do that in FCP7!
In my day-to-day experience I have found a lot more to like about X than you might expect from reading these forums. There are lots of little things that IMHO are just “better”. Some peoples brains just work differently than others. I had no problem adapting to “reversed scrolling” in Lion for example. For other people it’s the end of the world.
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I have been editing for nearly 30 years and I have edited with FCP since version 1.25. Any time I tried to use iMovie I couldn’t do it. It made no sense to me at all.
FCP X however made a lot of sense to me, especially once I learned where everything was and how it worked. It didn’t really take that long to get up to speed with it. As far as a “non-pro” using it? Sure, some will be able to and some won’t. That’s true of any editing software. My son did several videos in high school on FCP 7 and all I did was show him how to make titles and spent about 5 minutes on how to trim and edit footage on the timeline. It’s not the software, it’s the person using it.
Since X came out I have been bouncing between X and 7. Does X annoy me sometimes? Sure! But so does 7. I do legacy SD projects in 7 just as a timesaver. I do new projects in X usually in HD and I prefer it to 7. However, it all comes down to using what I feel is appropriate for the job. I lean toward X going forward while using 7 for the convenience of working on existing projects (at least for the time being).
I recently made a good deal of money editing on a client’s system.
The software? FCP-HD 4.5. Guess what? It still works and I got paid…
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Use the skimmer to find your edit point. You will hear the pitch corrected audio. Then hit option left or right bracket to trim from the front or back of the clip to the position of the skimmer. Use “s” to turn the skimmer off and on so it’s only there when you need it.
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I see this. Notified Apple about it.
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Nice job!
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I have exported un-rendered projects. It takes longer than exporting a rendered project which would indicate that it’s rendering as its exporting. No issues with the exported file.
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That annoys me as well. I reported it to Apple.
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