Scott Witthaus
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[Walter Soyka] “but you have to jump to the flow graph to get at the compositing structure.
“Avid|DS had node-based compositing and effects inside a track based NLE. Loved it. Certainly better than the barely comprehensible timeline AE presents (love what AE does, not a fan of the interface). JHMO
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[John Rofrano] “It only affects future clips created from that media”
Which for me is totally fine. In fact, desired. I will use the “source side” color correction to get a basic grade and then tweak each shot in the timeline as needed for final grade (admittedly easier for me doing 30 second spots to 5 minute pieces rather long form). It’s what I do now using copy and paste.
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Is it just me (and I don’t have to do credits for commercial and short form marketing work) that feels it’s kind of crazy to have to use 3 different software packages to do credits? Or is that normal for long-form, even in Avid world?
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[Herb Sevush] “I have to spend hours on something that should be near instantaneous,”
How are you billing? By the hour? 😉
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[John Rofrano] “Right-click on the clip in the browser and select Open in Timeline, add any FX you want and then close that timeline. The clip in the browser will show the change and anytime forward when you drop that clip into your storyline it will also have that correction applied”
Ya learn something new every day. Thanks John!
Scott Witthaus
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1708 Inc./Editorial
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Or you can create an adjustment layer (via an empty text project from Motion) and place that on top and add the effect from there.
When staying in X, I usually do a base pass with my first correction then tweak or add a correction as needed on a per clip basis.
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[Jeff Kirkland] “You could possibly apply the correction in the clip browser rather than the timeline”
I didn’t know you can do this in X. How?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Can this be a sampling issue?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Put each performance in a compound clip. They show up as usable media and stitch them together in that new Full Performance project sequence.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Misha Aranyshev] “Short-attention-span-instant-gratification crowd is quite big. It makes sense to cater to them if you’re after the numbers.
“Would you care to expand on this? Right now I am having difficulty connecting the above to anything.
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1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Phil Lowe] “I would encourage them to do whatever it takes to get to speed as quickly as possible.”
Sounding like a broken record again this year, but I just finished teaching a technical “bootcamp” to 38 graduate marketing students who start the semester in one week. Only 4 had edited before, 2 on Premiere the others on FCPX. After 2 hours of lecture and demo from me on our Terrablock system, how to set up FCPX libraries on that system and basic FCPX import, organize and edit functions they were ALL editing at the end of the 3rd hour. And experimenting with some cool shit. Barely a question asked. I guess I shouldn’t be astounded after 3 years of seeing the same thing, but I was again. And in three weeks after they finish the Lynda.com FCPX essentials class, they will be that much better. Apple has done something very good with X. So much easier learning path than with FCP7.
So it seems ease of use and speed don’t seem to be an issue unless one is trying to “unlearn” another software or forcing a work pattern on X that should not be done. Just my humble observations.
[Phil Lowe] “I don’t even use Append. It’s superfluous to my workflow.”
Too bad as it might really speed up your work. The Append function is one of the most useful functions to get a project rolling. I use it all the time. Get your good clips and soundbites in a row very quickly using Append and then polish from there. It just makes the process go faster. In my educator role I tell my students not to sit there looking at the footage waiting for inspiration, rather get some stuff on the timeline (append) and start working it around. That’s where the inspiration comes from; doing the work.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter