Scott Witthaus
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[Oliver Peters] ” What is the motivation over building your own with Motion or simply using the built-in effects in FCP X, Motion or AE?”
Mostly time. Rather be editing than creating an effect. Plus there are people a lot better at Motion and AE than me, so I give the nod to them to create effects and I will try and use them in my edit.
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[Mark Raudonis] “I’d argue that FCP-X is a tricycle.”
This is just hilarious. I guess Henry Ford could have put mechanical hooves on his first cars, because back then they just wanted a faster horse.
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[Oliver Peters] “With X, it simply stacks each clip higher. With tracks, you only end up with 2 video tracks when you add 5 b-roll shots. With X, you end up with the equivalent of 6, until you clean it up.
“Thats only if you use the old checkerboard method. Can’t you simply just cut them back to back and keep all b-roll at one level (connected clip level or a second “track” if you will)? Why have footage “underneath” other b-roll shots?
If I were using Legacy and tracks, I still would only have one video track. The b-roll would be a video-only edit to the video one track. That’s just my style. I hate cluttered timelines.
Scott Witthaus
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Wow, looking at these timelines, they BOTH look amazingly complex. And in Media Composer and PP it would look just as complex.
Not being snarky here at all, as I just want to understand other editing techniques. Since I started using NLE’s a long way back, I ways tried to keep a very “neat” timeline. It was, in fact, when I started working in FCP legacy that I noted other FCP editors kept a very “sloppy” timeline and the FCP tutorial itself (Action Sports and Shark Dive) taught a checkerboard timeline that I immediately ignored and then told my students to ignore as well.
Looking at these timelines (and the one Oliver posted in the Wav File thread) I would have tried something different to make it more manageable to the eye and brain. With FCPX (and DS, for that matter) I would use Compound clips to neaten this up (composite container clips in DS, but they work a bit differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD_1KYKIORY&app=desktop). SFX in one, titles in another, music in a third and so on. Only after one task is complete would those clips go into compound clips. For example, after cutting the base sound of on-camera and VO, I might move on to Sound Effects. Once completed, all those would go into a container. Same with music, titles, etc. I know some folks don’t like Compound Clips. Why is that?
All that said, I don’t do a lot of really long form stuff. Most is 15 minutes and under. And again, this is not being snarky, just want to understand how other editors think and work to perhaps improve my skills and understanding. Thanks in advance!
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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I got a feeling there will be plenty of food there. Get your $300 worth!
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One other small one. When you have the timeline view with no thumbnails or waveforms, please allow us to scale the sizes of the clips like other views.
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Avid should look at what it had in DS and start from there. Had the company properly developed that product and /or merged it with Symphony/MC (or at least the ideas and workflow) there would be no need for threads like this. Of course they killed it.
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What’s this all about? Does this have anything to do with the ACA? 😉
I think Media Composer needs to fix what it already has on it’s plate before adopting FCPX-like features.
I also think the user-base of MC would howl bloody murder with a “radical” change like that. Remember the Smart Tool? I was a beta-tester on that one, and you would have thought the sky had fallen.
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Not sure if this one made it on the list
– when pasting attributes, the thumbnail of the copied clip should show the attributes being pasted. For example, if I am pasting a color correct to other clips, the clip on the left of the panel, the source attribute clip, should show the color attributes to be pasted. Small one, I know.
Scott Witthaus
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[Michael Phillips] “I would think that best practices is an industry issue for anyone owning or interacting with an Avid product or solution and in my opinion should not be restricted to members only. “
Perfectly stated.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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