[Scott Witthaus]

[Douglas K. Dempsey] “The denigrating appellation “FCPX is iMovie Pro” a couple years back … turns out to be true.”

Using that logic, back in the day Symphony should have been called Avid MC Express Pro…..

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Agreed. I am working on a gig where we are taking an hour and twenty minute doc and seeing if we can cut it down to under an hour. I took the entire thing in and then created keyword collections for various scenes and locations. As I cut things out, I create Compound Clips of the deleted sections in case the director wants them back in or moved to another section (hindsight; I could have just created a KC of deleted section as well). But the orignal file is still “whole”.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

I use compound clips to group “things” that I am “done with”. For example I was on a gig yesterday where the client wanted to use just certain parts of a music bed. I cut the song up to make it work, did the mix and was finished. For simple organization, I put all the music cuts into one compound clip. Same thing with various sound effects. Of course FCPX then creates a new clip in the event for each.

Secondary story lines for me are a way to keep my options open when cutting cover footage and the like. I probably don’t use them as much as I should and need to learn more about using them.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Easy there, fellas. It’s just software…

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Hey Oliver –

Many of the agency folks I gave the FCPX-101 class to were working on Air’s and had no problem with a variety of footage.

Scott

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Bobby Mosca] “So which NLE did he use?”

Sounds like the nightmare was FCP7. Confusing subject title.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Eric Santiago] “My main Avid editor will not let go and will die if Avid fizzles out.
He vows to never learn another NLE (even though its the only one he knows) again.”

This is an almost unfathomable attitude. Obviously staff and not a freelancer.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Great story. I will be showing this to students in the fall as a great story, simply (but wonderfully) done with gear that is readily available. Great stuff, thanks for posting.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Charlie Austin] “OK, I’ll bite. 🙂 What specifically do you not like about it?”

Here ya go, Charlie: “Well, it’s not like FCP7, of course!”

😉

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Lots of fun!

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter