Nikolas Bäurle
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Is the iTunes icon greyed out?
You can actually drag folders containing sound files into the musik browser and it will add it to the list. As workaround you could try and drag your iTunes music folder into Xs music browser. I did this once when X didn’t see my Soundtrack Pro Sound FX
At the places I work we’ve been having a different problem where X doesn’t let me pull in music from the sound browser. Then I download again, two versions appear in X and one can be pulled in. In our case there seems to be a reappearing user problem.
You could be having a problem with your user account…
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Bret, yes, just tried it, you are correct.
But the example I posted was about the back and forth movement between the same Keyframes that people have problems with. In my example the image stays put. Even with that funky s move, if I scale, the image stays still between keyframe B and C.
Thanks for bringing up the s curve, hadn’t thought about it.
For what I’m doing on X right now Its not been a problem since i usually whipe the image off, or let it fall or jump out of the frame. If i want that perfect straight movement I always use Ken Burns.I also tried it in AFX just now, perfect linear. In Motion I get a curve for the size by default, and change it back to linear in the Keyframe editor.
The thing thats really missing in X is a decent Keyframe editor or ar least a little more keyframe controll like for opacity:-)
Nonetheless I still like it for what I’m currently doing and its a step up from Legacy.
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Bret, I didn’t know Avid extended Keyframing:-) I never thought of that, since I always thought it was normal to move keyframes after adding transitions.
I have to admit that I’ve rarely had to use Avids Keyframing, and in my case its actually more about the way that Avid dealt with effects in general that I stopped liking once I started using FCP 2. To me it was more a user interface issue than anything else. The fact that you could simply drag a jpeg into FCP, and didn’t have to use the pan and scan effect was one of my main issues, and I liked not having to nest each effect. At some point I started fiddling with AFX and Shake, and I kept on getting FCP jobs, so I only and still use Avid at DW-TV, and in Newsediting or Documentaries there just isn’t much animating going on, since the grafics department delivers all that.
In the last few years though I’ve had to animate jpegs and build some cut-out style animations more and more, and Motion has come in very handy. For the things I’m doing, AFX is too much, Motion is more intuitive to use in my opinion, and for the simple things its faster.
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The keyframing really needs improvement, but its not useless. I’ve been using it a lot in the last few months and I’ve figured out its quirks and how to work with them, I don’t do simple edits, in my case I like and need Bézier curves for what I’m doing currently.
But how much keyframing do we really do as editors? Over the years I’ve bee involved with different kinds of formats and when I’m doing high end work for commercials or TV I rarely get asked to animate anything complicated. Perhaps some basic title animation. And most editors I know, myself included use other software to do any complex keyframing anyway, I use motion, others I know prefer AFX.
I never liked Avids keyframing, but I’ve always liked working with the software. FCP Legacy was affordable, that’s why most of us got it in the first place, honestly I never really liked Legacys UI, but I had to make it work and I still like and use the software a lot.
The fact is that Xs quirky Keyframing issues haven’t hindered me to do my work, especially since X is so damned fast (imac 2013, SSD, thunderbolt drive).
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Here’s a quick screen recording I just did. Sorry about no sound and the framerate a little off, but you should see whats going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdmxUfIpCik
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If you only use the inspector you will get a linear movement. Using the viewer you get curves. The keyframing is really not that bad once you get used to its quirks. I’ll post a link of how I see the bug. I work with keyframing at Promiflash in Berlin, and I would never in hell get the work I do done as fast in Legacy.
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Ah, sorry , misunderstood. I wouldn’t do screenshots. Exporting a still is better since you actually get what’s in the timeline and it won’t look compressed.
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Are you in Proxy mode by any chance? If you share a still from the timeline without adjusting anything it should have the same quality as your footage
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The cropping is a good idea. You could use the event viewer if your trying to match one image to another, but if you want to adjust both images and match them to each other you would need to adjust one image first, compound it and load it in the event viewer, your cropping workaround is better. Personally I always correct first and then color grade after , so I match the images using the event viewer and when everything looks alike I start adding the grading. Most of the time I simply click on one clip, adjust it, click back to the other, click back and forth to compare. It’s something I’ve also done in the past with Legacy, at least to me it feels like I can see the difference better by clicking back and forth rather than using both viewers.
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Whenever I have to use FX Factory Stuff or Magic Bullet on FCP 7 I cringe, it is so much faster in X, even building a simple title in Legacy has become very annoying to me.
The most important thing to me is the rendering speed and the fact that I can edit without having to render, or if I’m using a slow system or older drive have to render less. Now, in Legacy you can render references, which you can’t in X, and I’ve had arguments about this, and realized that sometimes the X haters I know forget that a reference is only fast if you don’t have to render anything.
Currently I’m editing a lot of industry stuff on Legacy, and X I use at Promiflash, Avid at the DW. Whenever I’m on Legacy and we have tight schedules and the client want something from Magic Bullet or a Vignette first I need to warn them that we need more time to render if we add this or that. And certain clients need to see FX and titles rendered which takes time if after every change you render again. Before X came out this was never a problem since that’s what was available, but now on X I feel so much freer. You want to preview the effect, click on the effect icon and hit play or scrub through it. Showing FX to clients and rendering them is so much faster.
There’s still a lot of negativity about the magnetic timeline. I do sound recording on Avid for DW-TV, and I still do a lot of mixing and recording in Legacy. Using roles is much faster than tracks, and for the time I spend in X moving clips around to where I want them to be, I spend more time in Legacy during editing making sure not to overrite clips by accident. And by the way, having fixed tracks doesn’t mean that everything is nicely organized, I often have to deal with very sloppy fixed track timelines when recording or mixing.
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