Nikolas Bäurle
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Ignacio, sorry, I wasn’t paying attention while typing, of course not Event but Effect browser thumbnails. FCPX generates these files in your internal drive probably when previewing Effects. Don’t worry about it. If your events and Projects or online and you have them on your External dive, there’s nothing to worry about.
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Event Browser Thumbnails are probably in there by default. X does show you the internal drive, even without an event.
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Ignacio, are these folders directly in the Final Cut Events folder and there’s no actual Event? I have this as well, since I use my internal drive when fiddling or trying out things in X. I wouldn’t worry about them. as long as your footage resides on your Events in the external drive you have nothing to worry about, the internal folders have nothing to do with your External Drive
You don’t need to tell FCPX where to save render files it will always saves them in the Project Folder you are working on. I do however see Render Files every now and again appearing in Events, perhaps some Compound rendering going on? Thumbnail Cache and Render Files can be deleted without a problem, so if you needed to share your Projects , any missing Render files can be re-rendered.
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The pain gets worse when I’m “forced”:-) to do a title in FCP 7 and I hear the producer snickering in the background.:-) It used to feel fine, but now that I’m used to the speed of X I’m starting to have anger management issues with Legacy. Even preparing tracks for export takes longer compared to Roles.
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Your keyframe are bezier, trust me this one. No need whatsoever to use any workarounds. I deal with FCPX every day. I tutored one of our editors at Promiflash.tv and the problems we’ve had animating stills was pretty much exactly like yours.
I’ve gotten used to it, I agree it’s not perfect but not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It’s not at the level of Motion or AFX, but compared to Avid or Legacy it’s much better, in my opinion. And there’s some cool stuff you can do with keyframes and compound clips in combination with transitions, sometimes workarounds can produce very interesting result.
I’m aware that for high level Keyframing FCPX or Avid or Premiere don’t really cut it. Most people I know working FX or design use AfterFX.
I would recommend using the inspector for keyframes, your animations are very basic, using the inspector makes linear keyframes by default.
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Sorry Andy I misinterpreted your response.
Personally I like the Keyframing, it’s not on the level of Motion or AfterFX, there is some improving to be done, but it still works very well, I use it pretty much everyday, in a tight schedule. Perhaps it’s just a matter of taste.
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I need to disagree with Andy on the “Add Edit” solution. This movement is not a bug but simply a bezier Keyframes. You can adjust all of this in the viewer I watched your example video and your full frame keyframes are beliers, which causes the movement.
if you click on the transform button in the viewer you will should see an animation path with a long curve.
Keyframing in X work perfectly fine and is a lot better than in FCP 7.
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You need to set the interpolation to linear. Using the keyframe controlls in the viewer you simply click on each keyframe and change it to linear.
using only the inspector X sets the interpolation to linear. You can click and drag to change a value in the inspector, so you can still place images intuitively.
In the viewer or timeline the interpolation depends on the order or changes made to each keyframe. In the viewer each bezier keyframe has handles you can drag to change the amplitude of the movement.
Personally I prefer movement when animating stills for certain projects, especially when stacking images or having stills bounce off of each other, gives it a more organic look.
Nik
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Hit V for visibility.
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If you do a lot of Multicam I recommend FCPX, the workflow is a lot faster especially with automatic sync. FCPX also renders Proxies so you can switch back between a proxy and high quality.
I cut a Multicam project last year, using 2 different DSLRs and a Sony XDCam on my LaCie 1TB fW800 drives, other than a few hickups worked very smoothly, not one crash, in proxy.
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