Nick Toth
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “Or what is often a bit easier then double clicking on just the right height is the shortcut Control+S.”
Indeed!
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Just double-click on the audio track and it will collapse. You probably double-clicked on the clip when in waveform only view.
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You don’t need to Command click on the edge. Just click on it.
Also you can position the playhead or skimmer between two clips and use the bracket keys:
[ = select left edge
] = select right edgeAn upcoming video from FCPExchange will have Steve Martin doing an entire edit without touching the mouse. Looking forward to that one.
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Checked out your presentation over the weekend. Very exciting stuff. Between that and Ronny Courtens recent FCP Radio interview, I’m really curious to see what the response of the community will be. Thanks Sam!
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I’ve had warning signs and messages on some projects. If I know everything is OK I just ignore it. I assume its some slight corruption of the database. Sometimes snapshotting a project will clear it or copying a project elements into a new project may. Sometimes they just go away on their own.
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Like Ronny Courtens said on FCP Radio recently – trust someone you know, not somebody on the internet.
I’ve been editing for over 30 years and there is not a project that I have done (from commercials to corporate to TV) that I couldn’t do in FCPX and it would be a lot more fun.
And quicker – the first time I did something on FCPX the first thought that came into my head at the completion of the project was “I shouldn’t be done yet”.
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I have seen Comcast specs. There is nothing unusual about them. I believe they will take MPEG-2, ProRes or H.264 in 1080i or 720p.
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@Joe Bourke
There was also a hybrid system called the Mickey, which worked on Mac computers. It was essentially a computer controlled A/B roll edit system with the precursor elements of an NLE built in to it. If I remember correctly, the plan was to be both an edit controller, as well as work with digitized elements on a computer EDL, gradually going to a full NLE at some point. I don’t think it made it. I can find no reference to it in my searches, but when I was working as a freelance producer, a facility I used was using it. It was a step above the hardware edit controllers, but not much of a step…
This sounds a lot like Matrox Studio which ran on Windows 3.1. We had it in for testing for a couple of weeks back in the early 90’s. It looked great at all the tradeshow demos. In actual use it would be fine up to a point and then something would inexplicably go berserk. At one point, with the sales rep and a producer there in the middle of a project it crapped out once again. I literally went out to my car and cried! It was removed from the premises soon after.
Long before that I used an EECO Ives editor. For basic AB-roll editing it wasn’t bad. No EDL but it did have a GPI to trigger the DSK! LOL
Also used a Calaway which was a software/board package in a DOS computer. For its time it was pretty powerful with extensive EDL, multiple GPI’s and multiple source editing.
I haven’t thought about these systems in years!
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What Bret said