Shay Carriere
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On 7 my preferred zoom method was to hit the zoom tool and then click rapidly a few times to zoom in and then hold option and same thing to zoom out, but for some reason in X it refuses to let me click quickly (zooms once then stops no matter how many clicks).
Anyone else have this problem?One other PITA for me is my logitech wheel tilt to scroll the timeline horizontally, it does this thing where it moves a bit, stops, and then accelerates into the scroll. Can’t figure that one out either.
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Can I ask, what would be your workflow for a long form edit (like an hour of footage), where you’ve sent an assembly edit to a client and they send notes back referencing the media player timecode?
With FCP7 I would move through the sequence making cuts and then once I had completed the edit, slam everything back together to get rid of gaps.
But with FCPX, once you start making cuts, the magnetic timeline closes gaps, making any timecode references useless.
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I had a similar question about timing out bullet points with narration.
I’m trying to use compound clips to contain the text and it would be nice if the playhead lined up ‘through’ a compound clip from where the playhead is in the main project, but it doesn’t seem to work this way.Is the ‘break apart clip items’ …adjust timing….then redo the compound clip method still the best way to go?
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Another option if your background is dark is to duplicate the text, make it white, add a fast blur and set the blending mode to add. Drop it underneath the original. With the fast blur you can get a pretty good spread and it renders pretty quick.
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I got this same error on three occasions. It happened whenever I tried to change the multiprocessor settings and then render. All I’d do was save out the project and restart AE and it rendered fine.
I just figured it was an issue with the ‘aeselflink’ send instructions hanging since I would still see them in activity monitor even after cancelling a render.
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From what I understand, the only thing the multiprocessing option will do is render multiple frames simultaneously, whereas having it off, all available cores render the same frame, thus making the gains negligible.
The rest of your post is good info. I didn’t realize the dual GPU’s have no bearing on the speed of RAM preview and now when I think about it, I really only did go from 4 to 6 cores, though I thought the different chip architecture between 8 years of development (from my 2006 MP to this new one) might have made more of a difference.
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I’m referring to RAM preview.
The RAM preview calculates around 2-3 frames per second, whereas my 2006 Quad core Mac Pro doesn’t do that much worse in a side by side test.
I guess I was just expecting a ‘knock my socks off’ improvement, but it’s most likely held back because CS6 is not optimized for the new Mac Pro. -
I fully agree with John; It killed me to know that the photographer was making twice as much money for half the total hours put in, and was probably commended by the bride and groom for their reasonable prices while I would be grinding for however much I could get.
On another note; editing weddings without some sort of template in mind; stock footage, music, etc will make you want to stick your thumbs into your eye sockets.
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I fully agree with John; It killed me to know that the photographer was making twice as much money for half the total hours put in, and was probably commended by the bride and groom for their reasonable prices while I would be grinding for however much I could get.
On another note; editing weddings without some sort of template in mind; stock footage, music, etc will make you want to stick your thumbs into your eye sockets.
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I tested both DV50 and uncompressed 8 bit; it doesn’t change at all to my eye; there is still slight colour banding at points and it just doesn’t look ‘as good’ as if the AE footage was thrown into an animation sequence.
On a side note, I never realized you could throw DV NTSC footage into a DV50 timeline without having to re-render the timeline, so thats pretty cool.