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[Aindreas Gallagher] “see? didn’t that sound convincing?”
Always 100% convincing to my ears 😉
I should also have added to my previous post something that someone else brought up and is quite a big thing for me and that’s that I am always using Ins (and sometimes Outs) as temporary markers both in the Browser and the Timeline.
The non-persistence of Ins and Outs in the Timeline is perhaps a bigger issue altogether than the fact that they won’t stick in the Browser. In fact, it’s a massively annoying issue in the Tinmeline – and no amount of “favoriting” is going to sort that out.
Again, blame the iMovie architecture. That’s really what’s at the root of this and so many other issues.
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I would recommend very highly that you check out Andreas Kiel’s outstanding app Motion Template Tool, available from his website spherico.com, which handles this issue extremely efficiently.
A lot of people have got into a lot of hot water by not observing standard practice with moving and copying templates so an app like this is of great value in keeping the process on track.
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Thanks, Andy!
I should perhaps point out (without I hope blowing my own trumpet too loudly) that what got me thinking about this was looking at Graeme Nattress’ Curves plug-in for FXFactory which seemed to be a really good idea but had some significant limitations which I think this goes some way to addressing.
With “Curves” you can either have an effect that controls luma or one that controls RGB but not both at the same time.
The RGB layout (with three curves side by side) strikes me as a majorly suboptimal use of the space.
And of course my version allows you to control the saturation (not allowed for at all in Curves) not just overall, but also individually in the blacks and whites.
I think it terms of providing a single effect that does everything at once without cluttering the screen real estate this is an improvement on “Curves”. (Of course Curves scores over my version at this point in being able to color correct in log space.)
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I really hate to disagree with you Aindreas, because you are so often dead right about so many things, but here goes.
The real issue isn’t that FCPX doesn’t allow for persistent Ins and Outs, it’s way simpler than that.
FCPX doesn’t allow for persistent Ins OR Outs.
It’s only about 5-10% of the time that I have any interest in setting Both an In and an Out in the Browser whatever NLE I am using.
(It’s called 3-point editing for those who perhaps aren’t familiar with the concept. I like my In AND Out to be set in the timeline not in the Browser – I like the Browser to give me just an In OR an Out.)
And I am afraid that the apologists who will tell you that Favorites take care of the lack of persistent In AND Out haven’t thought about those editors who only want one of those and don’t want to have to be bothered about both.
If I have to use Favorites (when I don’t care where either my In or my Out is respectively) I will have “favorited” the entire clip either from the In point to the end of the clip or from the Out point to the start of the clip respectively.
That’s why it’s not good enough. Yes, if you always needed to set BOTH In AND Out then favoriting solves the issue (if you like that kind of thing). But for editors like me it really doesn’t work at all.
Let’s be clear about why FCPX works the way it does in terms of range selection. Range selection is unquestionably (if you know what you’re talking about) a legacy of FCPX’s iMovie origins. iMovie works with ranges ONLY and does not allow you to “set Ins and Outs”. What clearly happened (to my mind) with FCPX is that in order to graft on a veneer of “pro” functionality Apple realised that they would have to implement some way of setting Ins and Outs. But this is simply a disguise for the underlying iMovie architecture – which hasn’t changed. You aren’t really setting Ins and Outs in any traditional sense – you’re just substituting a keyboard manoeuvre for a mouse action defining a range in the iMovie sense. It’s equally obvious why the “undefined” range point will default to either the end of the clip or the start.
Aindreas is quite right to suggest that the problem is architectural – and the “faulty” architecture comes from iMovie.
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hmmm.
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Try using about 100 for the Amplitude – the light doesn’t go all the way off which is a bit more naturalistic I think. Higher values will turn it off completely if that’s what you prefer.
Have a look at about 300 for the Speed value which looks fairly “disco” (!). The slider only goes up to 100 but you can type in a larger value (or scroll within the number field itself) to get high values than that.
Don’t bother too much about the Phase – that will just determine whether the strobe start on or off.
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Apply an Oscillate behavior to the light’s Intensity parameter and adjust the Amplitude (how bright and dark the strobe gets) and the Speed to suit your project.
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In the behavior inspector tab choose the kind of mode you want from the Unit size selector.
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A very basic question but – does your client understand that the default import of any PSD will be a merged single layer? Unless of course you hold down the option key on import which is when you get the option to choose all layers.
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An absolutely brilliant analysis!
[Bret Williams] “But it sure started a firestorm of people talking about how they hate it or love it for a year now.”
It’s an interesting variant of Caligula’s famous dictum – oderint dum metuant (let them hate me as long as they fear me).
Apple’s version would seem to be: Let them hate us as long as they keep talking about us.
Did they really figure the hate into the equation?
If they genuinely did, it’s a massively bold move – and makes them almost as terrifying as Caligula himself.
Simon Ubsdell
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