Simon Ubsdell
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Hi Geoff – you must be unlucky for some reason.
It works perfectly for me, just tried it again to make sure (I really like the way you can influence the “hold” duration in the middle), and I’m definitely getting full fade at both ends. It works whether I double click the transition in the menu or drag it from the menu.
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But surely that’s exacly what you get with the Fade to Color transition, or am I being dense? You need to put it between two adjacent clips on the primary storyline …
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I have to idea what the answer is though I’m guessing the underlying architecture of storylines is rather different to the nesting architecture of compound clips hence the need for both and why they have different properties. But as you say there does seem to be a measure of redundancy here as if they haven’t quite made up their minds.
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You’ve lost me – what’s the difference between the two?! Fade to Color defaults to a fade to black but you can change the color. Do you need soemthing else?
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Hi Geoff
Yes, it does exists – it’s in the Dissolves section of the Transitions menu and it’s called Fade to Color.
Hey, you know some stuff does work – not a lot, but some 😉
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[Bradinn French] ” Am I correct that we cannot keyframe timing in this current iteration?”
Sadly I’d say you are correct at this stage, although to be fair they probably think they’ve given you enough tools to kinda do the job.
Only they kinda haven’t, sorry!
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[john spirou] “Dont you think , those controls are enough for a NLE program ?”
No of course I don’t think they are enough in a pro NLE which is why I tried to clarify the point. I am surprised that you are satified with this limitation – others besides me clearly aren’t.
[john spirou] “If you want more control, you can get Motion 5 for 49!!!”
Of course any animation is far better done in Motion (which is why I bought Motion 5 and am delighted that the app hasn’t been killed off) but at present there is no Send to Motion option from FCPX except for built-in templates so this doesn’t really have any bearing on the discussion at present.
BTW, do you have to be so contemptuous of anybody else’s observations all the time?
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[Simon Ubsdell] “the inability to organize Projects is a real issue unless you’ve only got a couple of edits in your chosen Event.”
I realize of course that it’s perfectly possible to organize your Projects with folders which is fine. But what would be preferable is for the Projects to sit in the Browser (as per your Compound Clips idea) where the power of keywords could get them properly organized – it’s almost as if, with Projects, FCPX is stuck in a different, more traditional mindset when the rest of the app has moved on with the whole metadata thing. Whichever way, there feels like an undesirable disconnect here.
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Hi Tony, I wanted to ask you how you were dealing with making duplicates of your Compound Clips and how you were then organizing them.
The only way I can see of doing it is to select the Compound Clip in the Browser and make a New Compound Clip from it (Opt/G), open that up in the timeline (I’ve mapped this to Cmd/O) and then break it apart (Shift/CmdG). It would be nice if there was an easier way to do it.
I am then using keywords to segregate the different versions as appropriate, but moving edited spots between my work-in-progress area and my finised edits area involves editing the keywords which feels like a more laborious process than simply dragging it from one bin to another used to be. (In a sense, “copying” something from one place to another seems to be very easy but “moving” is much less so.) I’m sure there’s a better way that I’m not seeing.
I can’t help thinking (or maybe that’s just wishful thinking!) that we will soon see Projects disappear and some more advanced way of handling sequence organization implemented. As you have pointed out, the inability to organize Projects is a real issue unless you’ve only got a couple of edits in your chosen Event.
I’m currently working on a typical FCP7 project where I already have 15 different versions of the same 30 second TV spot, with about another 30 versions of other spots in the same project that I need to access, along with their work-in-progress versions (which I like to keep separate from finished versions that go to the client). FCPX doesn’t seem to have a way of addressing that need adequately at present but it could be just another thing I’m not understanding right.
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[Geoff Dills] “Try “lifting” the clip to a secondary storyline, putting it above the main storyline, retime, trim, replace.”
Yeah, that’s how I do it was well but it’s quite a lot of extra work. It’s just a shame (and quite ironic) that they finally addressed this long-standing problem in FCP7 and then forgot to implement something similar here!
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com