Tony West
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[Herb Sevush] “What doesn’t make sense is calling it an ”event” unless you’re a wedding videographer. “
An “event” is simply something of importance that happens at a given place or time.
Yes, a wedding is an “event” but so is the World Series game 7. Some might be less impressed by someone covering one rather than the other, but under the definition they are both events.
The Olympics is an “event”
If a player gets traded and and there is a press conference, that is an “event”
A bin is a name for a folder that holds footage from an event you covered. Apple just short cut it and called it the “event” itself.
I don’t really get the problem, because to me, Game 7 is seen by millions so it’s a bigger “event” than a person’s wedding.
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[Steve Connor] “Clearly Phil is happy with his choice of NLE, is there a reason we are trying to convince him about FCPX?
“He said his employer will expect him to use X, in the future and that he was learning it for that reason.
I think people were trying to help him learn it so he could use it faster when he has to use it for work.
for me, sometimes when folks write something that I have never seen anybody else write before I ask questions to see if they know something I don’t know that I could learn from. Sometimes there is something to learn. sometimes there isn’t.
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[Phil Lowe] “As I record voice-overs (VOs) on the fly right to the timeline, I tap the F3 key at the beginning and end of each take, double or triple-tapping on restarts. “
What do you do if they were recorded in the field? In another studio?
[Phil Lowe] “Avid also provides a filmstrip view. I’ve never used it because, again, it affects performance. As someone else noted, a large project in FCPX will also suffer from performance issues having to refresh all those thumbnails”
That got fixed in one of the updates and even before, It’s never slowed so much that I couldn’t use the thumbnails or waveforms and I don’t have a new MP by any stretch. I use both of those on a huge project.
[Phil Lowe] “Different strokes. ;)”
Indeed, I don’t need to see that information about format or frame rate in the TL the whole time. I already know what I shot it at. I want to see the clip instead.
It’s visually faster and the thread was about speed.
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[Phil Lowe] “The biggest thing for me – in looking at both – is how much more information the Avid timeline presents me without having to hover or click on anything.”
I prefer to see the waveforms in the TL. It’s a shame you have to turn those off for performance.
When a have VO’s I can “see” where the breaks in the takes are and it’s faster to skim up to the next take visually.
I also want to see the video thumbnails to quickly see what’s what.
Those things are more important to me then seeing the length of a source clip when it comes to speed.
That blank TL would slow my workflow down.
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[Andrew Kimery] “I hope the screening the other day went well. “
Thanks Andrew, yes I did. I can’t say enough positive things about the Laemmle theaters. They really know how to treat an independent filmmaker. They digitally put my movie poster up and had the Q and A mic ready for me. Just awesome.
On the transcripts, I would have liked to have had them but I just didn’t have the budget for it. With that many interviews would have cost some cash and I wanted to spend what little money I had on rights to music and footage.
Bringing it back around to the thread and speed when it comes to X, to me in a word………multitasking
When Apple decided to embed the audio with the video on the clips in the timeline that really changed things, because when you move a clip that has video and audio you are moving multiple things at one time. You are doing that over and over again.
So if you have a video clip that has 4 tracks of audio on it, you are moving 5 things at once, instead of selecting 5 things.
It’s as simple as you picking up 5 items on a table and the other person picking up one bag that has 5 items in it. They are going to pick that bag up faster than you can pick those 5 items up every time.
Even when you move something and something else moves out of the way in X that’s another form of multitasking.
That’s what the video that I posted shows. That video is one big multitask move.
Thomas Grove Carter’s video that started this was really cool, but his audio was separated already and focused more on organization.
I love the organization in X but other NLEs can do much the same these days.
What they can’t do as well because of the tracks is what I’m talking about here.
Of course X has other things that help in speed also like the skimmer and others.
I know it’s not “highbrow” to talk about, but it’s a big factor.
That’s why I will still work with X even when it begins to bog down on complicated TLs
All the multitasking that I’m doing outpaces any spinning.
I’m also having fun with it : )
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[Joe Marler] “Have there been any behind-the-scenes accounts of FCPX being used in docs?
“I used it on my doc, but I would be curious to see the workflows of other doc makers.
I did a great deal of keywording and made notes in favorites. One of the things that we don’t talk about much is the time it takes to do a doc.
I worked on mine for 5 years. I had over 30 interviews in that time and I really relied on my notes in favorites, not only to find things quickly but just to remember what a person was talking about 3 or so years ago. Who said it best, interview 9 or 27
I spoke with the Producer of Dateline: Saigon (an amazing documentary that you will be hearing about no doubt) He told me it took him 14 years to put it together.
It’s not really about speed of cutting over that length of time, but what it is about is the speed in which you can find the shots that you are looking for. It’s all about organization.
I had never directed a doc before or been on the big screen. All in all it was a good experience.
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[Phil Lowe] “That means being able to lay things out on a timeline and drag them around “
kind of like this? Indeed, I like to drag stuff around also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZgVZd9UmQ
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[Neil Goodman] “Just wanted to point out Keywording and rating has been around in Avid for 20 years. Just not called Keywording.
“To be fair, the level of detail that you could search at in X was not available 20 years ago.
That Find Tool in MC got really refined in v6 that came out after X
When I chose X in 11, it was the only program that I knew of that could recall clips with this level of detail.
Other programs copied this and now they can do it also, but that wasn’t the case early on.
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[Steve Connor] “I watched your MacBreak Episode, I think using JKL slows you down a little, I use the skimmer for range marking and I think it’s faster.”
+1 the skimmer is one of the main things that makes cutting in X fast. I hardly ever use JKL anymore.
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[Oliver Peters] “Often you spend more time moving the connecting points to attach them to the desired clip before a move is viable”
I don’t really find this the case for me. I would say that anyone having problems with connected clips in X should avoid X all together IMHO The entire TL is based on connected clips.
[Oliver Peters] “managing the timeline movement while dragging the clip is quite unwieldy.
“I don’t really have trouble with this either. I like how that blue line pops up in the timeline as if to say “are you trying to put that here?” As soon as that line come up I just release the group of clips and they pop right in. I don’t even have to be that close to it.
It’s funny, the entire timeline is based on you being able to swap clips around easily. That’s the whole point of it. It’s almost like saying, the thing about a school bus is it’s too hard to load kids on it : )
I guess it’s in the eye of each editor. It’s the whole reason I started really looking at X
In my first project with it I wasn’t really sold. The client wanted a lot of shots swaped around and after doing that, I started really liking it.