Tony West
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[Herb Sevush] “[Tony West] “Instead of your audio being separate by default, embed the audio with the video by default.”
NLEs that I’m aware of have audio sunc to video by default.
“Not really what I was meaning. The audio and the video in X is one clip that you move all at once. Not lassoing the audio along with the video to move it.
[Herb Sevush] “[Tony West] “Trim both the audio and the video at the same time by default.”
Again, this was true of FCP7 and is true today for every NLE that I’m aware of, which is why I have to go to the trouble of unsyncing them when I start editing.”
I have not used Prp so you would know better than me but at 5 in the video, he selects LINK to trim both audio and video. Is LINK the default mode in Prp? It didn’t look like it was in the video. In X you would not select LINK to trim both.
[Herb Sevush] “This is the aim of all software, but it’s pretty hard to accomplish given the number of different work flows and editing style out there. The best you can hope for is to find something that works for you — which apparently you have.”
Sorry, I wasn’t saying “me” I was saying that Apple was making that guess. That “they” were betting more people would want it to default that way. I’m not really saying that they were right or wrong, I’m saying I believe that’s what “they” were doing.
Of course if they sell enough copies to make them happy then they would feel like they guessed right.
I’m guessing : )
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[Simon Ubsdell] “then maybe you need to be doing more thinking about what you’re doing and less random moving of stuff around?
“Maybe I want to experiment on how things flow with different options.
Now if I’m working for you Simon and you have the clock on me, maybe I have to follow your instructions.
Since I’m not, I guess I’m free to experiment if I want to.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “a) I’d almost always sooner leave a hole rather than ripple.”
And I wouldn’t.
If I’m cutting a spot that needs to be a certain length and I tend to replace the shot by dropping the replacement shot on top of it. No hole.
If time is not a factor, like cutting a doc, I just cut the shot out and leave it closed. Why would I want a black hole there?
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I think the discussion of swapping shots and tracks may have gotten us away from his main point in the video.
His real focus seems to be on Apple’s decision to change the default mode on many of the task that have been the opposite for years.
Instead of leaving a hole in the timeline by cutting a section by default, leave it closed by default. (ripple)
Instead of your audio being separate by default, embed the audio with the video by default.
Trim both the audio and the video at the same time by default.
Make what you would choose most often during an edit the default instead of the second option.
I agree with his main point because more times than not it’s defaulting to what I want anyway.
I think he has hit on something in this theme.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Steve Connor] “I don’t agree!”
I agree with your disagreement! Do you agree?
“hahaha
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Cool, now back to the arguing : )
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So it will look like this
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Click at the bottom of the selections so that video is not highlighted.
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I would never really go dialog to dialog leading in.
For me it’s more like, I hear the truck coming before I see it. I hear the truck sound on the back end of a guy’s interview.
Then I move the truck up because I want it to come in at the back end of a gals interview. It’s still leading in, it’s just leading in behind a girl now instead of a guy. Nothing to clean up here.The point I’m making is it’s super easy and fast, that’s why I’m dong it.
I didn’t really do as much swapping before using X because it could be kind of tedious. It isn’t with this program and that has changed the way I edit.
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[Herb Sevush] ” I would have to clean up and move the other audio that got pushed aside “magnetically” when it found it’s new home,”
Not necessarily Herb. It’s a good point that you are making but I would only add that “pushed aside” is not really an accurate description of what’s happening. “Pushed aside” makes me think something is being moved left or right. They move vertically either up or down to make room which is an important distinction. So your prior clips still start and end in the same point as before the move. (clips that are located near the new move)
So if my overlap sound was leading in on the original scene it will still be leading in on my newly selected scene (or vice versa). I find that I often don’t have to do much cleanup on these moves if any.
At least that’s been my experience. I will also admit I was surprised at how little efforts it was myself.
I would move entire scenes just to see if it made the story pop more if a certain person opened the scene or another.
It was actually fun and like Bill suggested I found myself trying things more often because it was so effortless.
