Simon Ubsdell
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[Bill Davis] “I’m not saying it backs up your PROJECT. Just that it creates a persistent copy of the current OUTPUT state of your project. Yes, it’s an MPEG-4 file. But if you elect to Share a high quality version at any point, then you have quite a bit of protection from your project going offline or losing any clip connections”
I don’t see why you would want to use this rather than using the Share/Export Media option to make a ProRes master protection copy.
I can’t see any benefit in having an MPEG-4 version instead with all the compression artefacts that you are going to throw at your pristine program material.
This Media Browser option is really just meant so you can easily make an iPod/Phone/Pad/Apple TV version with one hit.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” Some will say that iMovie does this, and I would say it does some version of it, but they are different in how they accomplish the same methodology. iMovie is the concept, FCPX takes it a step further.”
Being probably the “some” referred to here, I would say that keywording does not strictly speaking exist in iMovie but the concept of favoriting ranges was well established.
The point I was making to which you are referring here is that it’s not a major step at all to go from range based favorites to some kind of keyword tagging of them that you can then search. The difficult and innovative bit was the sticky range based selections – the easy bit (well, what do I know, I’m guessing here) was to add on a bit of extra database sifting – as in assigning a searchable tag to those favorite ranges.
I really don’t think we should be getting that excited about some simple database functions here in the second decade of the 21st century. The part that iMovie had already achieved, now that was cool. (And let’s not forget that iMovie has long been doing its own ultra clever hidden database management with its grouping and sorting of automatically detected shot types. Now that’s very cool indeed.)
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[Jason Butcher] “We seem to have terrible problems with both Motion and FCP X. Motion quits/hangs/freezes almost after every thing we do – I had to get into the habit of hitting cmd-s after every change I made. FCP X seems very slow to change between projects, or when selecting an export option, and will often hang or become unresponsive when skimming or just moving the playhead, though usually will become useable again after some considerable wait for it, sometimes it never recovers. Sadly it don’t seem we’re having the same experience with Motion.”
I use Motion 5 all the time and apart from a few quirks I have found it to be more stable than Motion 4.
You shouldn’t be having the problems you are encountering.
Try deleting your preferences and if that doesn’t work reinstalling the app from the App Store.
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[Bill Davis] “Anyway, I was looking at the very first menu under Share – the Media Browser. I haven’t actually ever used it till now. But essentially it lets you burn a “digital copy” of your current timeline to a place in your Project Library call the Sharing Folder.”
I’m not sure this is right, is it?
The Media Browser makes MPEG-4 files that will play back on other i-Devices or a computer. As such it’s not really an option for backing up your project.
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[Oliver Peters] “It will be critical that Apple fix the very real performance issues this year, though.”
It will be interesting to see how far this gets how quickly.
There are loads of voices loudly proclaiming that it’s blindingly fast and reliable, so will Apple see it as a priority or will they do the easier thing and keep adding “features” that will do the job of selling more units more effectively?
Fixing performance issues just isn’t that sexy, as we all know.
(I’d also say that it’s probably only the more demanding users (of which there clearly aren’t that many as yet) who will be experiencing the worst problems.)
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[Walter Soyka] “My message to anyone would be to always continue learning, and to never accept artificial limits on your capabilities.”
Terrific and inspiring post!!!!!
The “keep learning” thing is the most important thing you can do both from a business point of view but more importantly from a personal growth point of view – and not just within the world of your immediate job.
If you only know one way of doing something, especially if that way has narrow limits, then you’re really losing out in so many ways.
Everything new you learn sooner or later feeds into what you already know and enhances it.
Sometimes it even pays to embrace things you don’t think you like – at the very least you will gain valuable perspective. And one day you might just find the job that is perfect for the knowledge you have acquired.
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This is a serious piece of advice:
Don’t render, ever, unless you absolutely have to in order to be able to navigate your edit.
Exporting an unrendered timeline is many times faster than rendering it before export.
Rendering is very slow – and generally undesirable. One the many reasons is that your renders folder can’t quickly get clogged up with an impact on performance.
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OK, I’ll try to explain.
Make your text layer.
Make a clone of the text layer (not a duplicate) and put it below the main text layer.
Apply a Simple Border filter to the cloned text layer. Set the colour to something you can see – the default is black so if your background is black you want know what’s going on!
Set the Simple Border width parameter to 100.
You will now have a box that exactly matches the main text layer whatever you do to that layer, whether it’s inputting different text or scaling it or whatever.
The only problem is that it exactly fits the text object with no extra space but that’s easily fixed. All you need to do is go into the properties for the clone layer and set the scale and position parameters to whatever you want.
If you want to be perfectionist, you need to offset the anchor point Y position so that any scaling you do is proportional, otherwise you will need to keep adjusting the position as you adjust the scale. If you set the anchor point right you can adjust the scale only and the position will take care of itself.
That’s it.
I forgot to add that you’ll need to set your text justification to centred for obvious reasons.
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Hi Mark
Here you go.
I’m honoured that you should think it worth a look!
All the best.
Simon
Simon Ubsdell
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