Nikolas Bäurle
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Events and Projects are always inside an event. Working with an external drive is the way you should be working anyway. You shouldn’t have any hassles.
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The only thing that needs to be in your ssd are the Motion Templates in your Movies Folder. If you’ve built any custom templates you would need to back them up. And Final Cut Backups go in the internal drive by default but you can change the location in the settings.
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It is kind of strange that something like that has been an issue for so long. I would think that programming a curve would be more complicated:-))
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I never actually considered using the crop tool, I’ll try it out. The problem is I rarely need to do simple moves for my X jobs. I have been using Ken Burns and prefer it to keyframing for simple animations. But most of the time I like to mix things up anyway, especially when cutting star-news stuff.
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[Bret Williams] “I thought it was always the easing that was the problem. It would default to easing some things but not others. If it eases the linear motion, but not the scaling, then you get what appears to be a curved path.”
That’s exactly the bug I’m talking about. Here’s a screen recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmVzfoyYKM
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No, temporal interpolation is still the same. But easing opacity still works for those who need it :-))
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I just realized that the Bezier curve bug is fixed in X. Interesting. When you do position and size you get the Bezier, even though all keyframes are set to linear in the viewer. By clicking on the checked linear setting again the curve changes to a straight line. I’ll post this on the FCPX or NOT Forum, see if I can get some confirmation.
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[Mark Suszko] “The “weird s-curve” is a Bezier, and it’s usually preferred over straight paths.”
I personally like working with that Bezier curve, especially for one of the jobs I had last year. I was actually one of the few people defending FCPX keyframing on both FCPX forums last year. I’m not so sure if most prefer the Bezier, at least not from the reactions I was getting, especially since you can’t change it in X for some reason , which seems to be a bug. In Motion when you keyframe Position and Size it defaults the position to Bezier which you can change back to linear. In X when you change the spatial interpolation to linear you still have an s-curve, but only when keyframing both position and size. If you only do position you get a perfect straight animation.
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[Bret Williams] “The backup projects shouldn’t be accessed directly, but by the restore function. I think that’s what it’s called.”
I don’t see why it should be a problem to access it directly. Its simply a copy of your master library. If you have a screwed up library and restore from backup it doesn’t fix it but simply opens the backup. If you double click the backup in the backups folder you get the same result. Of course, it is faster to do it from within X. But, what’s interesting, you don’t have to go through “open from backup…”, you can click on “other…” navigate to the backup folder and open your backup like any library. Same result in the end.
Today I deleted a library to see what would happen with the backup. When you open the backup X can’t find the original library so it asks you to choose a new location, then you give the backup a new name and save it, an offline library opens, in this case relinking is necessary. Whether you do this from within X or open the backup folder doesn’t make a difference.
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Grant if you don’t want to use Keyframes you could try FCPX which has a Ken Burns option in the crop settings 🙂 You get a start and end frame you can move around and resize in the viewer. But when the movement ends and you want the final position to remain there you need to freeze the final frame, or cut and type in position numbers.
In X keyframing position and size is still buggy, since it makes this weird s-kurve. I have a feeling Apple hasn’t figured it out yet, and thats why we have this Ken Burns option.Its better to use keyframes and FCP 7 gives you straight movements, I doubt you’ll find anything easier, and a Ken Burns filter or option like in X is not always a good solution, since it might require some extra steps you won’t need to do when using keyframes.
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