Tony West
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btw, how much effort is required to sit on one’s butt and type words hehehe
Not to sound like my dad, but my, have things changed.
I had to swap out the distributor cap on a late model BMW the other day.
Now that took some effort ; )
(just having a little fun is all)
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[Jules bowman] “Or you could just leave it as FC10 or Not: the debate.
Which would take less effort?
“but be less accurate
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[Jules bowman] ” This is a general editing debate forum”
Then you could go with the name “General editing debate forum”
instead of of
“Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate”
I’m guessing you wouldn’t get the same numbers though.
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If I’m reading it right, I would just duplicate the project then cut OUT everything that is not a goal or hit leaving only the high lights.
No need to paste or go back and forth to that old project.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “This is one of the things I have being doing in FCP Legacy for years – CtrlB (or whatever else you want to map) toggles the visibility in Legacy (and Ctrl S toggles Solo) just as V toggles the visibility in X. It’s interesting that you prefer the “old way” of doing it rather than using Auditions ;-)”
It’s kind of the same.
The old way had the track spread out which I don’t like as much as X. I like the “option” to spread them out when I want, but I want it to default to one like X does.
Not to mention the old way was 32 bit and X is 64
I don’t have patience for 32 now that I have used 64
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[Michael Sanders] “As a mater of interest, why are you using this method over “Auditions”?”
It’s a good question, because auditions works fine for this very purpose.
I have not really counted, but it seems like auditions is more key strokes than the way I do it.
When I stack graphics it’s fast to toggle back in forth this way.
It’s ONE key V V V V back and forth
One of the things I like most about apple products is there are often many ways to do the same thing.
Let’s say I have 3 employees stacked up.
They pick employee #2
Employees 1 and 3 are still sitting there in the timeline and I can just grab one of them and drag it further down in the timeline to replace another shot.
I like having them sitting there. It just seems faster to me.
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I have a dental video with a VERY picky client that constantly wants changes. Also not sure what she wants.
It’s a decent size practice with a good size staff.
They have multiple staff members that can do the same job so she wants to mix in different people to show diversity.
It’s a family practice so the family members feel they all have equal say and they all don’t agree on what shots should be used where, but one member is more vocal and dominate than the rest.
Here’s how I have approached the project. Since I already have done a video for them that they just want updated, I put the original video in the primary. Then I stack new shots of new employees on top of that. I also connect new VO under.
Since I’m not sure which employees they want to use for which tasks,(and they don’t sit in the whole time) I stack up multiple choices in the timeline. Then when they come in, and start to argue over shots I simply hit the “v” key and toggle through their choices.
I could expand the audio tracks and just leave them that way in the timeline if I wanted them that way.
I like them better collapsed for stacking.
Even when they settle on a shot I don’t cut out the other shot. No need to. I just leave it dark because they may come back and want it changed again. At that point I would just hit the V key and I’m good to go.
This has worked out great for me.
I used to get kind of frustrated with a bunch a changes, but with X…….and 64 bit speed, editing is more fun for me : )
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[T. Payton] “And if you go to Lion frankly you’ll get used to the grey icons on the side bar. It really bugged me to, but I just let it go. Now I see Apple’s point as it is a distraction visually with the colored icons ;)”
You and Bill make some good points. I have most of my apps in the doc now anyway.
I really never thought it was distracting.
In Itunes podcast were purple and if that’s what I wanted my eyes went right to that color.
Now I have to look a little more closely because they are all the same.
I should have control over how I want my folders to look. It’ my computer : )
As Bill said, they are testing on the newest stuff I’m sure so I need to get with it.
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[Lance Bachelder] “Why are you still running Snow Leopard? Could this be an issue?”
I’m still using Snow also Lance because as crazy as it sounds I don’t like those grayed out folders in Lion.
(I heard there is a third party to fix it though so I will be moving over I guess)But I have not had any problems (knock on wood) and have huge 1080p file projects.
I wish we could pin point it.
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A great post.
Thanks Steve
