[Quintus Lubbe]

[Bill Davis] “A lot of us here have long held the opinion that the longer a person has been editing in another NLE, the more difficult a time they’ll have adapting to X.”

I know what you mean… I’ve spent 8 years in FCP 7 and am finding this change quite difficult indeed.

[Bill Davis] “But you’ve GOT to decide to take the leap forward and jettison your past reflexes”

Have made that decision thanks to all the great suggestions and encouragement I’ve received on the forum. Knowing that there are other professional FCP X users so willing to help makes a major difference. Thanks again!

[Quintus Lubbe]

Thanks to you all for the suggestions, tips and encouragement. Moving into the FCP X world is truly daunting as it involves changing your mindset completely but I am determined to stick with it and learn!

As has been said here, it takes about 3 months to become familiar with working in a new environment and when you’re trying to earn a living on short deadlines the temptation to fall back to familiar territory is immense (in my case Legacy). But with the enthusiasm shown here I’m determined not to fall back to my old ways.

There is another issue that I’m finding on X which is killing me right now. When I hit the spacebar in the timeline, there is a brief pause before it starts playing and then again shortly after playing, audio continues happily along, but video will freeze and then pick up again. As you can understand, this makes editing quite frustrating (especially when you’re already climbing that learning curve!) when you’re not receiving immediate responsiveness from your GUI. I did a mavericks install over mountain lion and am wondering if that’s the problem. Anyone else had this issue?

Thanks again!

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi, Robert

Thanks for the tip. Did you do a clean install if Mavericks as I’ve heard that an install over ML could also cause this issue. I would hate to go down this route as it takes me out if action for a day I installing all my software again but if I have to I will.

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi, Trevor

[Trevor Asquerthian] “Mostly you need to put the music in a compound secondary storyline I think.”

I put this as a suggestion in my original post, but what if you then needed to edit the music in the compound clip. Wouldn’t that mean going back and forth between the compound clip and the original timeline. Eesh…

[Trevor Asquerthian] “For this I think you need to get into turning skimming off and on in the timeline as you need it.”

I hear you. I’ve spent the whole day hitting “s” only after making the cut, hitting “cmd z” and making the cut again!
Problem I find with using only the playback needle is that there’s no audio scrubbing. I tend to rely on audio scrubbing in the timeline quite a bit and am a bit lost without it otherwise I would turn skimming off in the timeline altogether.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi, Paul

Yes that’s it! Didn’t realize it kept the xfade as visually it looks like it just disappears.

Thanks very much!

[Quintus Lubbe]

Thanks, Don. I’ll give that a try. Think it takes some getting used to though and I’m not always sure that it is necessary to have clips above or below the primary storyline connected to clips in the primary. It would be great if you could choose when you wanted this functionality and when not. Glue some of the clips but not others.

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi, Robert

I’m having major lag problems on 10.1 and Mavericks. Everytime I hit play in the timeline there is a short but noticeable delay. Once playback starts there is again a lag while, it seems, the playhead needle tries to catch up. When I then stop playback the needle also carries on playing for a bit before stopping. This makes “gut feel” editing really difficult.

Have heard that this might be a problem on an install over ML and seems to disappear with clean install but haven’t had the chance to try yet.

My system is a Mac Pro 4.1, 16 GB ram, ATI Radeon 5770.

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi, Dean

I eventually found the solution. I had to bake the mesh and use that in mograph with a time offset applied to a random effector.

I also had the issue with not being able to view anything realtime on playback and I only had 12 instances in my cloner array. Rendering though wasn’t too bad although it was an uncomplicated scene.

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi Dean,

I’m having exactly the same problem and I’ve looked everywhere for a solution and have found nothing that works.
I have a fish that I’ve animated with an IK chain controllers and constraints. I then want to clone the fish but offset the animation. No matter what I try nothing seems to work, even placing all the elements within a null and cloning the null.

Did you find a solution to your problem? Is there anyone out there who knows how to achieve this?

[Quintus Lubbe]

Hi Erin,

Could you tell us how you solved this. We’re having the same issue and it’s starting to get really frustrating. Spent a fortune on sending drives and discs to replicating facility.

Thanks
Quinn