Richard Herd
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Here is the Jim Giberti Technique: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/29301
The 50-50 is this. Click a piece of audio and then hit CMD-8. You’ll see the Audio Enhancement menu pop up on the upper right corner. The 50-50 is where I set the sliders in the compression, the very top one. I’m not in front of my X right now, so I can’t remember what they call it in there, but…
Click the audio again and hit CTRL-A, to bring up the audio animation “stuff.” In that animation, it is called Compressor — which by the way is Key Frame-able. Audio compression is not the same as file compression, fyi. Audio compression is a dynamic way to keep the sound level about the same level. There’s more powerful effect from Logic in the Audio Effects menu, but this one works very well, for me at least.
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[Jim Giberti] “or stuff like complex audio tracks where you need to go back a forth a lot during a mix to tweak individual clips.”
That’s what I assumed you avoided with your Technique. I was really working hard to create a bussing system. That is, when the track is set as the primary, I put the various clips in there according to role. I created my own roles also. So each primary is a series of clips of identical roles, which is what I did in 7 btw. I kept dialogue on 1 and 2, for instance. FX on 3 & 4 and so on.
Then I make all of the clips on the primary an entire CC. And I only “mess” with the CC. First I set the dB to -12. Then I set the compressor in the enhancer window to 50-50. Then I apply EQ. I have not had a reason to jump into the clips. I can stay comfortably in the CC–which is also a Primary.
It would be nice to CMD-] and then wherever the playhead was positioned in the CC, that’s where I would end up in the clip. Seems like an easy fix.
Said it before, I’m gonna say it again: I sent Apple an enhancement note: Color Coded Roles not only do I want to define the role, I want it to be a definable color, so all my FX are RED–or whatever color I feel like.
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[Jim Giberti] “Are you using a template to start like the one I posted?”
Funny you should ask. The answer is yes, but your post was from October or so. I just assumed that’s how you did it. So your post the other day was exactly how I’d set up the audio. I guess I should’ve said something sooner.
To be sure, I don’t set up the pseudo-tracks first, but I do set them up when I get to them. That is, I am very careful to keep all dialogue with the original media in a CC. Then I don’t touch it. When the scene is cut, then I effect the CC audio, not the individual clips. I found the enhancement tab to be extremely useful, a nice compressor for example was quick and effective on the whole “track.”
After the dialogue was done. I created a quasi-track that I used for sound effects (lots of ocean ambiance in this particular cut).
Today, I shall do the music!
These pseudo tracks are all connected to a 5 second gap clip (a slate if you will) before the picture begins.
FYI: 10.6.8
Mac pro with 16 GB
X-1.0.2 (Because multicam doesn’t matter to me, I didn’t update. Glad I didn’t!) -
[Jeremy Garchow] “Yes, but in my opinion, of you want an asset manager, get one.”
Got a recommendation?
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[Michael Hancock] ” never got my head around how FCPX renamed projects and bins and sequences, et al.”
FYI: It ain’t painless. But now that I know it, it’s actually faster than 7. But that first project was a real PITA.
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There’s only 2 FW800 on the client’s machine. I can only plug in two at a time. Right now we’re up to 7 drives. This guy, Byron, has been shooting since the 1940s; he’s 87 — WWII footage (not war footage, but on leave) from Bolex transferred to MiniDV. (I’m trying to talk him into transferring the 16mm to an HD format. This doesn’t even begin to discuss his stills collection: large format, large format 3d, and other amazing stuff. Next week I build his Web site, so I hope to share some of his stuff.
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[Michael Hancock] “So all projects have to be online all the time?”
Not exactly. There is a significant difference between Events and Projects.
Media show up as Events.
Projects show up as Projects.In 7, you would have to import the media into the project. That is not how X does it.
Describing it here is silly. Until you actually do it, it won’t make sense.
All I’m saying is sometimes I need to make a reel and the footage is on another drive somewhere else. I would like X to tell me where it is.
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You’ve got it all wrong. Some drives fill up, but they still have footage on them. I want X to tell me the name of the drive and what is on it. Basic database stuff.
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And I never thought 7 was perfect either.
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CMD-[ and CMD-] is the short cut.
[Jeremy Garchow] “a decent way to view the contents without losing sight of the entire timeline”
I also keyword the CCs and then they are skimmable in the browser.