[Richard Herd]

I’ll try da vinci. Good idea.

Thanks!

Any hope that X will compete with Smoke? (Camera layers, expressions/scripting, lighting, etc.?)

[Richard Herd]

[Jeremy Garchow] “you can get OMF/fcp7 XMLs/EDL”

Can I XML to After Effects? The one thing that’s been very painful is getting footage into AE. (Paint Roto tool is what I need. If you know another option, I’m open to that too.)

Thanks!

[Richard Herd]

God I’ve a bunch of those in Legacy and a few premiere.

There’s a hidden preference in X called “make the clients agree.” Once you click that option it makes the whole process much more efficient 😉

[Richard Herd]

[Carsten Orlt] “The idea of taking away the tracks I think! started by thinking about the problem that if you have 2 items on the same track and change the edit so they collide, now they move out of the way and the connection point stays intact while you can edit what you want, not needing to move clips to different tracks.”

Yes and it’s a brilliant idea.

[Carsten Orlt] “Disadvantage is that you can’t keep your track system visually organised. “

Huh? What do you mean? I use the Jim Giberti technique and I create several secondary storylines. Then I put FX, Foley, and Score on each secondary and I am sure to use Roles also. The next big deal for me is if X can assign color codes to roles.

[Richard Herd]

I’ll say it again. You can do tracks in X. The Jim Giberti technique works well.

The confusion is they aren’t called tracks. They are called “secondary story lines.”

The other important thing folks keep skipping is “P.” The letter P on the keyboard, turns of magnetism. It lets you “Place” the clips.

Oh yeah, one more thing: select a clip in the timeline and hit Shift-F, and the clip appears in the browser with the I and O marked.

[Richard Herd]

[Steve Connor] “In down and dirty editing what can’t you do in FCPX that is vital for “Professional” editing that you can do in other NLE’s”

You cannot export a range.

[Richard Herd]

Organizing in X is unique. Before I even open up X, I have found it beneficial to organize the footage into folders using the finder. After it’s in folders (psuedo-bins), then I open X and make sure the button is clicked that folders are imported as keyword collections. And then I finally import.

When I get new footage, I add them to the appropriate folder and then I import the item from the folder.

I do this for two reasons:

1. I like bins as an organizational/logical tool.
2. It makes sure the keywords stay regularized by event. It’s really easy to create an event, but keywords from one event do not translate into the other event. Yes, I can cmd-click multiple keywords, but that’s not really organizing.

Another word to the wise, when the first piece of footage is added to the project timeline then the project setting will duplicate from that setting, so be sure to pick a piece of footage that is Apple Pro Res and not h.264 — even if the first piece isn’t really the one you want.

[Richard Herd]

[Todd Terry] “we also underwrite some programming on the local public radio station. It’s not advertising per se of course, but does add a little bit of gravitas with the corporate crowd”

What a great idea!

[Richard Herd]

Often I organize my footage in the finder using folders BEFORE I bring anything into X, and I make sure the preference is checked to make folder keywords.

For example, I got a bunch of audio from the audio guy, over several days, including changes. And I put it in a folder named AUDIO and then inside of that are folders named FX, FOLEY, SCORE. As changes occur, I can simply drop them in there and then I drag and drop into X and the benefit is the regularization of the keywords.

[Richard Herd]

Did X.0.4 fix the DVCProHD slow mo? x.0.3 does not recognize the DVCProHD 720p60 codec when overcranked.