Simon Ubsdell
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No, you’re absolutely right – it’s a limitation certainly. One of the many, many things for Apple to think about fixing one day 😉
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Not as far as I know – you’d have to use Quicktime 7 to import them first as an image sequence and then export a movie.
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These are not available within FCPX – there’s a thread about this below somewhere for more info.
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A workaround is to add the dissolve, then select it and type +13 if you are in PAL land like I am or the equivalent value for half a second in your territory. (This is assuming the default transition value of one second – a different value can be set in the Editing Preferences.) You’ll end up with the dissolve starting at the point you want it to start.
Not an instant fix – but pretty quick all the same.
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[Brad Baker] “You can also use ; and ‘ to jump from favorite to favorite in the filmstrip view.”
Exactly what I need, thanks. Years of experience have taught me that breaking my material down with keywords would both not be a good use of time in my case, it would also mean that it takes more time to access the material and review the available options. Workflows that require a progressive refining and selection of the material would clearly benefit, but it is essential for me to be able to access everything instantly all the time rather than have any search process standing in the way of that access, however sophisticated and fast it might be. Your tip solves all that for me perfectly. It’s good to know that non-typical workflows like mine can still be well accommodated by FCPX.
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[Craig Seeman] “In Filmstrip mode, change the thumbnail duration to some number like 1m or even smaller (down to 1/2s).
What I’m wishing is a key command to do this.”Because this is how I had it in FCP7, I’ve already mapped the zoom function onto F1 (zoom extents), F2 (zoom in) and F3 (zoom out) which means it’s easy to scale the Brwoser clip with a single key rather than using the slider or Cmd-/= which of course gives the same result.
So zooming in and out is easy for me, finding those little green bars is harder – which is why I’m using the Favourites tab to find them in this case. I will also look at breaking up my longer clips into keyword selections (Scenes/sequences) to make them shorter to search. Skimming through very long clips is a chore.
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Boris Transfer FCP is being “actively evaluated” for FCPX:
https://www.borisfx.com/aboutboris/boris-fx-apple-final-cut-pro-x.php
Probably not for $99 though 😉
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[Craig Seeman] “Just hit F and marking and click on the green bar to get the range back when needed”
The issue for me is that my source clips are typically 90 minutes long or more so finding a one second long green bar by eye can be a tricky business 😉 (I cut movie trailers which explains the typically long source clip/tiny selection ratio.)
But I am finding this very useful, thanks.
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The good news is that Automatic Duck’s OMF export (5.0) seems to work perfectly with ProTools despite earlier fears that the magnetic timelime might not translate properly.
https://www.automaticduck.com/products/pefcp/#
The bad news is that it’s going to cost me an extra $495 for something I had good reason to expect would be available inside FCPX. So that $299 purchase price is now really $299 + $495 and counting – not quite so cheap any more. But at least one of my major worries has been laid to rest.
Simon Ubsdell
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[David Lawrence] “Let’s start with something simple – entering time code values to set the head and tail of a source clip. How do you do this in FCPX?”
Ctrl/P then type your inpoint timecode; Ctrl/P again and type in your outpoint.
Done.
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com