[Richard Herd]

Yes and not just fast but accurate.

[Richard Herd]

[David Bralha] “change the color of a shot”

The color of shot? Like a dream sequence type of thing? Or you are trying to change the color of someone’s shirt?

[Richard Herd]

[tony west] “For me it’s more about the connected clips.

You can grab a huge group of elements by grabbing one clip and they all travel together.

Drag them all down the timeline and drop them in a spot in seconds.

Other NLE’s can be in a ripple mode but they don’t have connected clips”

Tony, that’s exactly what I was thinking!

[Richard Herd]

[Oliver Peters] “That of people struggling with X for quite awhile until something “clicked”.”

Just a quick note: The people struggling with X are the one who have used other NLEs. The “kids mostly” whose first (and only) NLE do not struggle with it.

[Richard Herd]

[Oliver Peters] “[Jeff Markgraf] “But overlapping clips in Avid results in overwriting”

Agreed. To clarify my example:

I just wanted to point out that there are older and other versions of the magnetic timeline. Not that they are necessarily equal to X’s approach.”

Where is the audio, re: Avid? Is it in a track?

I have always construed magnetism as more of an audio-is-magnetized-to-the video (and not the ripple construal).

[Richard Herd]

The fancy word is “contributory infringement.”

[Richard Herd]

Have you tried modify ?

Right click the clip in the project pane, choose Modify > Interpret footage… > assume this frame rate

type in the frame rate you’re wanting.

[Richard Herd]

Motion Shutter Speed is calculated as follows: Frame Rate * Shutter Angle. dSLRs do not have an option to control the shutter angle, the next step up in camera pricing allows the shutter angle to be controlled. If your camera does that, it might be called something else, like syncro scan.

In normal motion photography, regular sync sound at 24fps, with a 180-degree shutter angle, the shutter SPEED is 1/48. When shooting overcranked, say at 60fps, with a 180-degree shutter angle, the shutter speed is 1/120. Halving everything again, means the shutter angle of 90-degrees, at 60fps, gives you a shutter speed of 1/240. Check my math, but a 1/1000 shutter speed at 60fps is a shutter angle of 16-degrees. At those fast shutter speeds, you run the risk of creating funky-jerky-feeling footage. I call it “feeling” because, as an audience, we are used to seeing the motion blur of 1/48 and 1/240 shutter speeds.

You might try them all and vary the ISO as you go. See what happens, being sure to get your required shots, of course.

[Richard Herd]

Stick to your name. It’s already a brand. Lots of folks have done that too, not only photographers, but also fashion designers, etc.

[Richard Herd]

Mac or Windows?

On mac navigate to /System/Library/QuickTime

Look and see if the codec is in there. If it isn’t, you need to pop it in there.