Tony Silanskas
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[Nick Toth] “No need for rigs or anything else.”
Aren’t the rigs needed to have slider controls in FCP X so you don’t have to open Motion to make changes? This would be great if the basic controls were just there in FCP X.
tony
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Craig, really appreciate all your input here as I’ve been working through all this myself. It’s hard for me not to feel that the Events and Projects mentality is straight from iMovie and then someone created the advanced nests with Compound Clips and they couldn’t figure out which was better or to combine them into one thing so they left them both in for now. And keeping the name “Projects” was not a smart idea because there is almost no professional that would only have one timeline for an entire project.
Events, as they are implemented now, work great for RAW FOOTAGE but once you start adding “pro” stuff like graphics, music, VO, animations, etc. it starts to get unnecessarily messy since the Projects are mostly detached from them.
And another find I found today was that when you open a Compound Clip you made in the Event Browser and then render something in it, a Render Folder gets created in the Event Folder in the finder and NOT the Project folder. And, if I wanted to do this, I could not find a way to duplicate a Project that has one of those Compound Clips in it and duplicate the render files from it since they weren’t in the Project folder, so I’ll lose those renders when transferring to another system. Do we really need two Render Files Folders, when one of those folders isn’t easily transferable to other systems when sharing timelines? I know I’m over thinking this to an extent but as I’ve said before, unnecessary duplicate functions cause unnecessary frustration. Maybe this will all be explained when the FCP X manual gets finished. =)
Here’s a thread that’s been ongoing about this stuff if you want to read some more thoughts I’ve been having:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/191
tony
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If the frames are skipping in the viewer like that than the clip has already had its duplicate frames removed so it should be 720p30 at 29.97. What settings did you use to import the clips?
tony
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[Nick Toth] ” it’s very much like the older versions but with some elegant enhancements.”
If you are saying that Projects is an elegant enhancement over sequences, I’ve personally yet to see that and curious as why you like them over FCP 7 sequences since I’m still trying to figure out a workflow for myself. You can read the thread I linked to above for my opinions on them but in a nutshell to me they feel like iMovie leftovers since FCP X introduced Compound Clips and they do almost everything a FCP X Project does. The problem is neither them do everything that FCP 7 sequences do.
tony
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I haven’t done this yet, but you could probably open a copy of the “Crop & Feather” effect into Motion 5 and then add a Drop Shadow to the Rig (those new Motion things that you can add sliders, checkboxes, etc. to different parameters and such for easy changes). Then save it as “David’s Awesome Drop Shadow Remixed” to get you by until Apple adds one on it’s own.
You don’t have to use the Crop & Feather effect but thought that might be a good starting place and a useful addition to that effect.
tony
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If you’re talking about having your “range” marks stay with the clip after you clip off of it then no, and I have not found a workaround for this. I agree that this is annoying as I frequently want to go back to certain clips and can’t remember where I last left off.
As long as you don’t click off the clip the range markers (in and out points) won’t move. You can use the “Insert” and “Overwrite” keyboard shortcuts while scrubbing through a clip with “J K and L” which will put the part of the clip you selected in the timeline but not deselect the clip in the Event browser.
tony
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Ok, well my limited knowledge of the HPX370, is that it’s like all DVCPro cams… if it was recorded 720p30 then it really is 720p60 with flags inserted to tell the computer that it is actually 30 (well 29.97). If it was recorded 720p30N (native) then it doesn’t record duplicated frames (like in 720p60 mode) but just the 30 frames so an editing program should know the difference.
What I am getting at is you said FCP is seeing the footage as 720p60 so maybe you could try loading in the footage in 720p60 (instead of 30) straight off the camera and either remove the duplicate frames later with the DVCPro Frame Rate tool in FCP or just edit in a 720p60 (59.94) timeline.
tony
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Yah and I think you and I discussed this on here somewhere this past week. Just felt like bringing up the fact Apple enjoys secrecy and surprising people since there isn’t a written explanation (that I have found anyway) of what it does. Maybe Apple is wanting us to tell them. =) They put it there and are like, “We think this could be something professional but don’t know what to do with it yet so let the real editors figure it out for us.”
I’m just joking with this but I think we all need some humor after this past week.
tony
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Ah, don’t you just love progress ;-)”
Yeppers. And love how the “basics” always come in handy when you need to find workarounds. There’s a solution for almost anything… you might not like it but it works.
tony