Tony West
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It’s on the first page when you click on “Mac”
It’s placement is about where I would put it.
The link to buy FCP is basically 2 clicks. “Mac”, “FCPX”
In the top order of the page it’s Mac, iPad, iPhone, Watch, TV, Music, Support
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[Andrew Kimery] “FCP announcements would be front and center on Apple.com? Yeah, but those days are gone and never coming back.”
It seems to be right up front on Apple.com to me. They are using it to sell their new computer.
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Just kicking back around to the main point of his video, he wasn’t trying to show that he was fast in this one program (because he would be efficient in any program. He didn’t start editing when X came out) his whole point was he is more efficient in “X” then he is in tracks because of the way X works. Not because he learned this program and didn’t bother to learn the other programs that put him at the top of the game. Because of the program itself. The example he uses to show that, is cutting a 60 to a 30. I think that was the first time he mentioned speed.
“this is quite a good example of how fast I can be in Final Cut”
Then he goes about cutting the 60 down faster than anybody could in a track based program.
Many of us have to do that same thing. Go from 60 to 30 and even to 15. Even if all things were equal with assembling the same 60 in other programs X would run away with it in the end as this example shows.
You have put all of your creative juices into the 60 and now you just need to knock it down. Many times based on what the client is telling you they want. fun time is over at this point. You just need to knock it down, and I want to knock it down the same way he knocked it down.
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When cutting sound in a doc there are so many variables. So many times a person makes the point I want but then they try to go into another point that I don’t want and I have to cut it off but make it sound natural, as if they stopped there. That’s when I tend to go for the fade handles and I like the handles because I like the control. How much fade I want.
My narrator was a professional and cut her tracks in her studio. Sounded perfect and I didn’t have to do anything with that. Most times when the narrator is speaking I put music under them anyway as a transition to help move things along for the viewer.
I tend to not like to see people sitting in a chair on camera for too long so I will show them briefly and then go to the b-roll of what they are talking about. I’m a big fan of the J cut so most times I’m cheating in the sound of the b-roll under them so it’s covering the room tone in that spot.
It just depends, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t fade my sound bites 90% of the time. The narrator alone would cut down my percentage. Thats certainly not to say it’s not worth dong 90%, I’m sure Andrew’s mix sounds awesome.
I just don’t think I did it myself that many times.
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[Oliver Peters] “No. Adding something which is essentially a programming hack – or even a mistake – is not a viable solution. Plus it only works in a very limited situation.
“It’s not a viable situation for “you”
Because you said it looked “gunky”
You first said that you couldn’t do it “Now if you could only add the equivalent of an audio cross-fade with one keystroke. Sigh”
Then when Nick pointed out that you could do it by using the app
You tried to move the goal post a little.
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[Oliver Peters] “PS: Then please explain to me a faster way with an L-cut (sync dialogue) to achieve a 15-frame video dissolve with a 4-frame audio crossfade? “
You are jumping topics a bit. Your original point was
“Now if you could only add the equivalent of an audio cross-fade with one keystroke. Sigh”
So that point is settle now right?
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[Oliver Peters] “[Nick Toth] “Use Alex 4D’s Sound Only transition to get a cut with an audio crossfade.”
I have it. I don’t like the fact that it gunks up the picture part of the timeline with icons for non-existant dissolves (0-frame dissolves). So I don’t find it useful and would really like to find a proper solution.
“OK, you would rather do those extra steps because you don’t like the way the transition looks in the timeline?
So now we are no longer talking about speed at this point, we are talking about “aesthetics”.
It looks like you are slowing yourself down and not the program.
I’m sure it’s OK as long as you are to charging someone by the hour ; )
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[Oliver Peters] “OK. Detach (or expand) two clips. Extend the length of each clip to create an overlap between the two. Add fade to each. I’m trying to understand how that would be fewer clicks.
“I wouldn’t “detach” the audio. I prefer break apart clip items
1. select both clips or as many as you like
2. break apart clips items
3. select audio
4. hit dissolve
That’s only 4 clicks
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[Steve Connor] “[Brian Seegmiller] “Even though it does not look like a cross fade is there it is. I just did an experiment. I put a cross dissolve one two clips, expanded the audio and the audio clips overlapped each other. When I played it back it was not abrupt and each clip faded in or out like a cross fade.
”I think they’re talking about audio ONLY crossfades
“The way X’s timeline is set up it pretty much eliminates the need for and audio only crossfade.
Go back and look at his timeline. He has a lot of audio there but by overlapping the clips in that trackless timeline it creates a nature crossfade. He is just putting clips over other clips to produce the sound that he wants.
I work exactly the same way in X with sound. I bet if you asked him he might say he doesn’t want to have his clips “glued together” with a crossfade transition. He would just break that apart anyway when he starts to move things around and cut them down.
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[Walter Soyka] “I’m just surprised to hear some people who have argued so passionately and articulately for the strength and flexibility of databasey, search-don’t-sort keywords/smart collections in the past now also arguing for static, sort-don’t-search events.”
Bill is correct. It’s not an either or, it’s both sometimes.
I used the sports example because I thought that would be simple for people to get and you kind of get it, so lets go deeper.
Documentary example
This is just one person in the doc and as you can see there are 13 tags just for this one person alone. There are “40” people and most have much of the same stuff she does. That’s not counting music, RX Work, Motion work, B-roll from other locations, Historical Footage, Historical Pics, AEC docs, EPA docs. DOE docs and more. I didn’t want a keyword collection that just said Historical pics, there are almost 1000 of them. They need to be tagged within the event.
If I put all of this stuff together in one event I would be scrolling through some 700 tags. That’s inefficient.
Everyone had their own family pics, work pics, government documents and so on.
I wanted to be able to go to the person and all their stuff in one click. The only way you could best me Walter would be if you could do it zero clicks. I don’t think you can do that, so at best, you could only tie me : )
Library “The Safe Side of the Fence”
Event Denise
Key Sit down
Key B-roll office
Key B-roll documents
Key B-roll meeting
Key B-roll research
Key Claim forms
Key DOCA
Key EEOICPA forms
Key letters
Key Media interviews
Key Work History forms
Key Family pics
Key Work Pics
Key MCW documents
