Tony West
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I’m back in business after finding this post
“This worked for me. Go to your Movies folder, right click on the library that won’t update and select “Show package contents”. Move this file to the trash: CurrentVersion.flexolibrary. Then, re-open FCPX 10.3 and go to File > Open Library > Other and direct it to the library in question. ”
Worked like a charm.
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Yes, all of the above.
I know that “Neatvideo” and RX 4 are not supported. I used both of those and didn’t on the other projects that opened.
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I would be careful Craig. I have one major project that keeps crashing when I try to open it.
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Seems like it should be more space between those words. Too tight.
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[Michael Gissing] “I almost never ripple but so often I am editing within a fixed time structure. “
An important distinction, as I pointed out in the other thread.
Ironically I am actually a proponent of creative space. I think it can be very powerful when you leave that space after a person makes an important statement. Let the audience take in what they just heard before jumping right into the next topic.. I often tell my interviewers not to step on the person. Wait a beat so I will have that space.
At the same time I’m not a proponent of “wasted space” Things that are mistakes or irrelevant that can sometimes take up space that is better used elsewhere.
For example………….uh
Most people do it in an interview. Most people do it naturally when they speak. Uh uh uh uh uh uh I don’t want to hear it. It’s a waste of space.
A) being the beginning of the statement (B) being Uh (C) being the closing of the statement. (B) needs to go with no space “intentionally” Ripple that shut like it was never there.
I remember one of my first jobs in major League baseball was to edit videos for the big screen. Rap was coming on strong and popular pop songs were starting to include a rap section within the song. Conservative midwest was not having it, and ordered me to cut out the rap part leaving the rest of the song in tact as if the rap was never there.
That sounds crazy to younger readers but that’ how things were back then. They had their own agenda (as people often do) and it wasn’t space.
It’s no different than other programs. You are typing and you notice after proof reading that you typed the word “the” twice. You delete the second “the” and it ripples shut by default because more times than not you don’t need a space where that second “the”was.
Cue someone writing that they leave a space for that second “the” : )
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Oh my bad, I thought it was kind of obvious. I guess not.
He wrote “I only mention it because in a recent thread some commentators expressed confusion about this.”
That is him referring to a recent thread in which Andrew is correct when he said,
“I agree.
I think the original discussion centered around Lift vs Extract (aka delete and ripple delete) and which is the more ‘natural’ default setting. This discussion thread seems to be mixing that with using black as a pacing and/or stylistic device.”
By the way, the only confusion was his bring in that topic (which is separate) in the “Lift vs Extract” discussion.
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I think we all use those types of techniques when we need them Michael. Just seems like there may be two different topics mixed in here as one.
The original thought has somehow morphed into an overthought out conversation about something totally different, which is cool, as long and we know that to be the case. Doesn’t quite feel like that’s the case for some reason.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “This being the case, most editors know the value of black as an architectural component, a space where meaning is immanent for the time being.”
This being a component that will stay in the final edit? Or, this shot needs to go?
Or your doc is 240 minutes long when it needs to be 90?
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[Andrew Kimery] “[Tony West] “Sorry Andrew, I have been out of town : )”
And you don’t check the COW on your phone before you go to bed every night? For Shame. ?
“hahaha I know, what am I doing : )
[Andrew Kimery] “With regards to keystrokes, I’ve rolled my own”
The funny thing is I have also. I like to roll most things into a single Key stroke. If somebody sat down to my keyboard they would say whaaaaa???
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Sorry Andrew, I have been out of town : )
I have used that method myself from time to time and even put in the X place holders, but I was talking about being mostly done and the client walks in and says, “That person doesn’t work here anymore. Lose ’em”
No need for a place holder at this point. They like everything about the video but that one shot.
I just want to cut them out and ripple it shut the most efficient way.
Is Shift Delete vs just Delete that big a deal. No.
All they did is reverse it from Legacy.
I don’t think the guy in the video was saying he couldn’t get his work done the other way. He just thought this way was more efficient.
I think most people are going to just cut something out, on a typical edit than use placeholders.