Simon Ubsdell
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Hi Dave
To be honest, I don’t know for sure – my experience is that it makes no discernable difference, and I do have a very considerable number of my own templates now filling up the system.
What I have found though is that actually applying some apparently simple effects can really give your RAM a massive hammering – and as a result if you’re not careful you start having to render in order to be abale to carry on working.
And that’s something you absolutely don’t want to have to do, because FCPX is truly terrible at rendering!
Timothy Payton has a good post about this here:
https://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/2175-looking-for-a-reason-to-actually-render-in-fcp-x
It is truly astonishing how slow it can be – whatever happened to all that 64-bit power?
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Those who never spent any significant time learning iMovie substantially overestimate the supposed complexities of FCPX.
iMovie aficionados on the other hand have found it very easy to make the transition.
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Ben Scott on Nov 11, 2011 at 2:10:15 pm
also would like to have effects which can choose different start durations for things like different leaders, but maybe compound clips are the way to go for these elements
Not sure quite what you had in mind here – sounds like an interesting idea but could you elaborate?
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If you know iMovie, then moving up to FCPX is very straightforward, as Apple explain here:
https://www.apple.com/uk/finalcutpro/imovie-to-finalcutpro/
I have seen several users make the transition very quickly and easily indeed, whereas it is clear that users coming from traditional NLE backgrounds find it all much more mystifying, as evidenced throughout these forums.
Essentially FCPX unlocks most of the limitations of iMovie and hence makes a great deal of sense for those who want a bit more out of their editing app.
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Here’s a new effect for measuring pixel height – there are four versions (1080, 720, PAL and NTSC) – for measuring legal text height (and anything else you need to measure in vertical pixels).
3254_tkycaptionheightmeasurement.zip
It’s essentially two horizontal lines that can be place wherever you need them (vertically) and you can adjust the gap between them in precise 1 pixel increments (from 0 to 300 pixels).
Make sure you use the version appropriate to the project format you are working in as using the wrong one will give an incorrect result.
The default setting is 17 pixels which should give you a “safe” size for UK advertising if you make a lower case “w” sit exactly in the gap with no space top or bottom.
Please make sure this corresponds with any specific local instructions before relying on it.
I don’t know what the requirements will be in other territories but the template is easily adjustable so you can save off whatever you need.
You can also adjust the colour of the lines for optimum readability.
Note that this is a Title Effect – so add it as a layer above any text you are entering and make sure you disable/delete it before output!
Unzip and move all four entire folders into your User/Movies/Motion Templates/Titles folder – preferably in a new folder of their own so you can find them easily from inside FCPX.
Simon Ubsdell
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I can only speculate why things were done they way they work but it might have to do with the relational database aspect between Events and Projects, which might have been difficult with Compound Clips.
It sounds like you could be right on this nbut it does seem a bit screwy – why would they want to have this sort of limitation?
My feeling is that in the course of time we’ll see Projects disappear and a more flexible implementation of Compound Clips take their place.
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This leads to an important feature request. The ability to easily convert Projects into Event Browser based Compound Clips.
Agreed, but this sort of begs the question of why we have Projects at all and why all Projects aren’t just Compound Clips.
There seems to be an unnecessary redundancy here that could be solved by doing away with Projects and the clunky Project browser and having everything available in the Event browser.
The Project Browser looks very much to me as though it’s an iMovie holdover that never got around to being reworked in the light of Compound Clips. I don’t think anyone could claim it’s an elegant way of addressing Project organization.
Simon Ubsdell
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It would be great if you could “connect” to a secondary storyline but you can’t.
What I was imagining you were asking was how to transfer clips that were already on the timeline into an existing secondary storyline.
Unless I’m misunderstanding you it seems you are trying to put everything into a secondary storyline, which kind of defeats the object of this way of working – you might as well be editing in the primary if what you want is the ripple behaviour.
However, I would have thought that generally when cutting a music promo the desired thing would be to not have the events ripple but be working in a way that you could easily shuffle clips around without affecting the overall sync. If I’ve synced a clip to a particular music event I want it to stay there and not get rippled out of place when I add or make changes to clips earlier in the timeline. Hence my recommendation for putting the music track in the primary and then connecting clips to it. Secondaries in this instance should only really be needed for applying transitions (and it would be far preferable in my book if this procedure weren’t a necessity).
As with all editing, there is absolutely no right way or wrong way of doing something – the right way is the way that feels most comfortable for you and your particualr way of working.
Simon Ubsdell
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I have had this problem a lot this week – intermittent and clearly related to FCPX running out of RAM as it seems to like to do …
Simon Ubsdell
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I’m on the latest and greatest iMac 3.4 i7 with 16GM ram and the 2GB graphics card (and running the system from an SSD), so I feel it should be a bit snappier.
It’s really telling thst you’re having issues even with a beast of a machine like yours.
Speed is absolutely the thing that will either sell me on this or put me off it altogether – not interested in waiting for anything in this day and age, let alone hanging about while the UI redraws itself.
My worry is that these issues are probably not trivial and there is a lot of work to get it operating at a decent overall speed.
And the project I have been have trouble with from this perspective was only 90 seconds long! I’d hate to think of how unpleasant it could get with something more long-form.
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com