Tom Wolsky
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Sounds like the perfect guinea pig. She arrives with no preconceived notions of what the inert face should be or do. I’d be curious to see how she does. Please keep us posted.
All the best,
Tom
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Not seeing how changing the field order will deinterlace the video. It will only reverse the field order. I am also seeing progressive having the effect of deinterlacing the the image, which is what I would expect. Or perhaps I completely misunderstood him.
All the best,
Tom
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Video tutorials are easy in comparison to book production. I don’t think you appreciate how many people are involved in book publication and how complex publishing is, though much of it is self-inflicted by the publishers, big companies driven by multiple layers of committees.
Steve and Mark produce their own stuff. They had beta releases of the software after the showing in Cupertino in February. Pre-release versions after NAB. Same with Larry Jordan. Same with the other Peachpit authors. For book publication that’s not much lead time. In fact it’s quite remarkable that Diana got her book out on a wholly new piece of software so quickly.
All the best,
Tom
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These are entirely new books on entirely new software. All previous books were rewrites.
All the best,
Tom
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Convert the audio to uncompressed 48k. Don’t use compressed audio in FCP.
All the best,
Tom
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I think you’re reading too much into it.
The Weynand book is locked and with the printers. The Weynand book will release sooner. That’s the Amazon ship date.
The advanced FCP books are always later because they are dependent on the content of the first book. Some effort is made to reduce redundancy.
Young’s book is late because he doesn’t write for Peachpit but for Focal and doesn’t get an advance release of the software. Focal is slow.
I am surprised Lisa book is so far behind, and also this seems to be the first time she has a co-author.
All the best,
Tom
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“Fine if you don’t need many transitions between B-roll shots.”
Why? You can add transitions directly to the B-roll shots in the secondary. You can insert as much as you like into a secondary, everything on the storyline just ripple right along.
All the best,
Tom
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With the range tool active you can skim it to a specific frame and press I to add a selection to the secondary storyline, skim to the out and press O. It is almost like dragging.
This does need work. If a secondary storyline is selected then I and O should automatically be added to it an not selected on the primary. It’s really simple and not sure why it wasn’t implemented from the start.
All the best,
Tom
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“After I set my points, I can hit the Q key to make a new connected clip, the hit P and drag the connected clip into the secondary storyline. #awkward”
You don’t have to do that. If you select the secondary storyline you can edit directly into it. You can insert into it, you can append to it, you overwrite into it.
The only difference from legacy FCP is that when you insert into a secondary storyline it does not cut the primary storyline. An insert is to the storyline. The primary is untouched. If you want to open up the primary, simply insert a gap into it and make it however long you want.
All the best,
Tom
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“That’s very awkward. That’s fine if the next clip is added within the already existing secondary storyline or you’re willing to add a long gap to get to the point where you want to add the next clip.”
It’s really not that awkward as it sounds. It’s a very common technique I use when working with B-roll. It’s very much the way I worked in legacy FCP. I built the A-roll bed on V and then added B-roll to V2. Here I build the bed on the primary storyline, and then add the B-roll to the additional storyline. It’s very fluid and keeps everything in sync. This is exactly the way we used to build film reels, two or three rolls built with spacers in between, except now the computer makes the duration calculations for the filler instantly. It’s exactly the way we built sound tracks, pieces of mag film separated by slash.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press