Simon Ubsdell
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When you open Motion 5, you get the option to open a Final Cut Title template. Choose this, make all the changes to the title you want in order to get the look you are looking for (background, font, size, placement – anything and everything – it’s infinitely flexible), then choose Save As and save it to your Favourites folder.
It will then be avaiable for use from the Title Browser in FCPX.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “replace as we have come to know it”
Here’s the description of Replace Edit from the FCP7 manual, as I wasn’t very clear in my account of it:
A replace edit is a specialized form of overwrite edit. A replace edit places the frame at the current Viewer playhead position at the Canvas/Timeline playhead location in your sequence.
It’s the “sync edit” factor that is crucial to this tool and that’s what has been taken away in FCPX – at least until they rethink it 😉
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[Tom Wolsky] “Yes, you use the replace from start or replace from end function to maintain the clip duration. I said there was a replace function but it worked differently.”
That really isn’t replace as we have come to know it. As I was saying, I need replace for eye-matching – the classic replace mode enabled you to find a sync frame in both source and timeline anywhere inside the clip and perform the edit without having to go to the head frame on both clips (which is laborious in the extreme and without Gang as well pretty much unthinkable). I know it probably doesn’t sound like a big deal if you’ve never had to do this job – but trust me it really is.
I have to say Replace was one of the single most powerful tools in the box for many purposes besides this and it’s not there in FCPX.
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The pre and post-roll settings in the playback preferences have no effect when playing a selection or a range or when using play around.
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[Tom Wolsky] “You do have replace, but it is drag and drop with different options.”
No, sadly, Tom, Replace in FCPX is not the same tool as the Replace we know from other NLEs. I have already commented on this below along with remarks about how it affects Audition but I’ll repeat it here:
First of all it doesn’t work using the sync reference from the source/record playback heads (to use antiquated terminology, sorry). Secondly, it is a ripple edit function (!) so that if your source clip is a different length from the destination it changes the length of your timeline. All this is a bit of a shame because it means that the nice Audition feature doesn’t work for me – I don’t want to have to go measuring the lengths of my source and record events all the time, that’s madness and undoes any advantage I get from Audition, to say the very least! OK, so Replace from Start and Replace from End don’t ripple, but the Replace and Add to Audition does.
Simon Ubsdell
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Agreed.
Curiously Gang is about the only thing that I quite literally can’t do without (and I’d seriously hate having to do without Replace) and that’s not being some kind of prima donna – it’s a hardcore fact of life. For almost everything else, even the major stuff, there is some kind of fudge or workaround or third party solution, but not this.
To be honest – and no doubt it’s a failure of imagination on my part – I don’t see how I will be able to eye-match with FCPX now or in the future a) without these essential tools and b) without some kind of dual monitor arrangement that enables you to see your source clip and your timeline clip side by side. I know that sounds very antiquated in this brave new world …
As I say, I wish I never had to eye-match anything ever again – but I can’t see that happening 🙁
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[Scott Bellefeuille] “I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this when working on a project with a lot of media?”
Noodling around with a few short clips works fine but throw some seriously long material at it and it FCPX is not happy – certainly my MBP really struggles to cope with source material anything more than 10 minutes long (even if it’s ProRes LT). Bring the same material into FCP7 on the same machine and no struggling at all. I am coming to the conclusion that long clips are an issue – not that I’ve tried FCPX on my MacPro yet so that’s a guess based on the MBP experience.
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“Solo” doesn’t work on video clips. On audio clips it’s fine – non-solo-ed clips grey out and the selection is solo-ed correctly. With Video clips the non-selected clips grey out in exactly the same way leaving the selected clip apparently solo-ed but all the video still plays and all the audio mutes.
Simon Ubsdell
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Thanks, Tom. That’s what I thought, but I was wondering if anyone here could think of a cunning workaround.
You know how they say “it’s always the little things”? Well, in this case the lack of a gang feature means I won’t be able to use FCPX until it’s fixed. Seems absurd, I know, but it’s entirely true. I can’t even begin to think how you would eye-match edits without it.
I wish I didn’t need to be able to eye-match because it’s no fun at the best of times! Without Gang it’s a nightmare, and without a traditional Replace tool (FCPX’x “Replace” is no such thing and seriously mis-designed in my view) it’s an even worse nightmare.
Simon Ubsdell
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Speech analysis is built into Abode Premiere Pro – as in free. And it works well enough.
You know, just saying in case you’re interested 😉
Simon Ubsdell
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http://www.tokyo-uk.com