[Tony Sarafoski]

Thoreau like Tom said double click, or right mouse click and choose open in timeline.

[Tony Sarafoski]

[Michael Garber] “I’m watching an interview select and for whatever reason, I want to go back to the original full clip”

Michael once you add your selects to a timeline, there is no reason why you can’t extend or trim the in/out points.

Unless your trying to do this in the browser instead?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Loren,

Here is another screen grab with now a second interview added.

The problem I find is, let’s say your working on a very long form documentary, and you now want to search for the words “what I love about AMEX”, because a few of the people interviewed answered this perticular question.

From what I can see you can’t…?

or am I missing something…?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Hmm… ok let me try this again.

You create a folder and call it Interviews, and place “all” interviews in this folder.

You then create a new folder “Interview [Rick]” and drop Rick’s “full length” interview in that folder.

Then you skim through Rick’s interview and add “answer” to selects.

You then create a new folder (calling it bites) and go through a 3rd pass, which at this stage you give these a more descriptive keyword.

Am I understand this right?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Loren, appreciate you taken the time to run us through this.

I will attempt to replicate your workflow with screen grabs, let me know if I’m heading in the wrong direction.

First you start by giving your Event and Project a similar title.

This is a workflow I also follow, makes using Event Manager X really easy 🙂

Next you add keywords to Audio, B-Rolls & Interviews

This is something I also do at the start of every project, and absolutely LOVE how FCPX handles this.

[Loren Risker] “Then I’ll go through the interviews and make a keyword for every answer I’m given called “answer.” If a subject is talking to the camera, it’s called an answer. I also keyword it with whomever’s name is in the shot.”

I perfectly understand your project is a lot more involved than mine, especially being a documentary edit, where you have multiple interviews & loads of cutaways, however I’ll try replicate this with the project I recently worked on, being testimonials.

Let’s say the interviewing person is Rick. You start by placing Rick’s interview in a Main Keyword Collection called “Interviews”. Then you skim through and begin making your selects, and add keywords to break these up.

From what I understand, if the interview is directly at the camera, you add “answer” to the select, and if you want to detail it even further, then you’ll add the name of the interviewing person, plus a short description

eg: Answer [Rick} – Hi my name is Rick

So if I’ve understood you correctly, your Event Library should look something like this?

Now from what I understand, if you come across a sound bit within that select, and you think you might use it as a quick drop shot, then you add a favourite!

[Loren Risker] ” I favorite my favorite quotes, but I know in my “answer” bin I’ll have everything everyone has said broken down into bites.

Am I on the right track..?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Funny you mention that Steve, same here LOL….

I posted on another forum that I was contact by Apple about a BUG find, half an hour later I received an email asking to keep all correspondence private.

I guess I can understand where Apple are coming from, it’s just that we get excited knowing their truly listening.

[Tony Sarafoski]

BINGO…! contact has happened, Noah is now assisting with my bug find 🙂

[Tony Sarafoski]

update: The bug report I sent Apple which included a private YouTube link has now been viewed. No email from Noah 🙂

Either they’ve had the bug reported before, or I’m yet to be contacted..?

Bug being the audio waves blurred in a timeline at random times. Never experienced this in 10.0.3, only 10.0.4.

Anyone else experience this?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Bill, what would your approach be in a situation like this?

[Tony Sarafoski]

I sent Apple a bug report today and also uploaded a video screen cast on YouTube (as unlisted), no views yet 😉 Video was uploaded April 30, 2012 2:27 PM it’s now 21:32 AEST, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt being from Australia LOL….