[T. Payton]

If you my experience there doesn’t seem to be a way to get into slip OR slide MODE via the keyboard.

It really has to do with the fact that you need to select both left and right edit points of a clip, which can currently only be done with the trim tool and clicking or option clicking the cursor on the clip. So neither slip nor slide can be done via the keyboard.

Slide Mode:

Slip Mode:

However, there is a way to take an extra step to sorta pull off a SLIDE edit:

1. Switch to position tool with P
2. Move to the beginning of the clip you want to slide with up and down arrows or ; or ‘
3. For this example Nudge your clip left with < or > add Shift to make it 10 frames at once. A gap will be left after your clip.
4. Move your playhead to the right side of the gap clip.
5. Select both sides of that edit point with the backslash key (above the return key)
6. Move your playhead to the right side of the clip you slid.
7. Press Shift X to extend your edit.

PS. I can never remember which is slip and which is slide. Sorry if I got those switched, but I think you get the point.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

If I get what the OP was asking—that is ONLY using the keyboard to enter slide mode I have not found a way to do it.

One thing that is interesting is if you simply select a clip, by clicking or with c, and nudge it with > or < it does a slide but in “positing” mode, i.e. it leaves a gap. That could be very useful sometimes.

With that said, I have thought many times I couldn’t do something in FCP X only to find later that FCPX could indeed to it. So I would keep experimenting. Sounds like great enhancement request.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Try this.

Plug in your camera. Chose just one clip and file > import > reimport from camera.

If that fixes it rinse and repeat.

Btw. If you see a camera icon on the clip and hold the mouse over it you’ll see a little note about what to do.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I couldn’t decide which way to go so I am trying both. 🙂

The BlackMagic is cheaper and works well but no HDMI Calibration and I loose my CRT output, so I am torn.

I’m doing some tests, and I found that I can have both Matrox and Blackmagic drivers loaded and even switch between them in FCP X:

Cool.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

That is actually the new default behavior since 10.0.6. The playhead doesn’t move when selecting clips.

I don’t particularly like the new behavior all the time but when a few of my fellow editors saw it, they think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

BTW. If you really need some help in a hurry please feel free to contact me directly. My email is my creative cow user name without the space or the period at my company name in my signature .net.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Alex,

I don’t know how experienced you are with editing and heavy compositing, but generally you are always going to need to plan and evaluate the best workflow for each project. NLE’s can create a bunch of cool effects with generators, etc, but overall I have found that it is best to render heavy motion graphics or effects work in a separate compositor, typically After Effects or Motion, or even FCP. If you think of a NLE as a really good “assembler” it might help. Evaluate the elements in your project. Figure out what is the best way to create those elements. If they are truly going to be unchanging, create it in motion and render out the clip. If it is something that you really need to change, like the timing of an effect then go ahead and let that composite happen in the NLE timeline. From what you are saying about your project I think you are spending unnecessary time, not because of a fault of FCP X but making it continually render and re-render parts of your project.

Planing and refining your workflow is going to make all the difference in the world in regards to your efficiency.

If you would like some help evaluating this and your workflow, please feel free to contact me directly. my email is my first creative cow username without the period and space at my company name in my signature .net.

So in answer to some of your other questions:

[Alex Ojeda] “It renders, i preview it, and now the footage on the drop zone do this weird flash, kind of like a stutter, and the logo shifts its position for a half a second, making it look weird.”

Try putting the generator populated with your drop zones in a compound clip. Then put the transition on the compound clip. If that doesn’t work, just export just the generator range with some handles an then reimport and use that clip as your source.

[Alex Ojeda] “the background render window, it says “processing, transcoding”. I don’t know why it should be transcoding if it already took more than half a day to transcode my imported clips.”

That simply means that it is converting it to the destination codec. Totally normal.

[Alex Ojeda] “my footage is AVCDH from a Sony Camera, imported and transcoded to ProRes422 (which took ages to transcode). “

How much footage did you transcode? ProRes 422 is 6 times the data rate of AVCHD. It is always going to take some time to deal with transcoding that data. Especially since you are working on a non RAID system. (i.e. your MacPro internal drive is getting about 90 MB/sec on average, a decent RAID is 200+ MB/Sec)

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Have you done any FCP X training? I would strongly recommend it as I don’t know if we can walk you through all the steps here on the forums.

I would recommend Ripple Training, Larry Jordan, or Lynda.com. The Apple Pro Training series from PeachPit is also excellent.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[Alex Ojeda] “Im going insane here, honestly. “

Hopefully we can talk you off the ledge. Your specs look good.

[Alex Ojeda] “No much filters, mostly generators, lower thirds, titles, etc. ive created in Motion 5. And most of them with drop zones, behaviors, keyframes. Very little almost to none filters, because it already happened a while back, as most generators are in 3D, that the filters didnt render as they should in FCPX, so I took them off a while back.”

Ahh Motion 5 Generators, those can add HUGELY to your render/exporting times. Especially things like motion blur and 3D shadows. Add drop zones to those and I could see it taking that long. 3D=three times as long and 3 times as much $$.

If you must have that I would strongly recommend testing your export in Motion, and perhaps building elements there. You will have a much better chance of getting export times that you can live with.

I’m not understanding you exactly, but did you mean to say that removing the 3D generators still results in long render times?

Why don’t you try this as a test. Put about 4 minutes of h264 video on your timeline, copy and paste some kind of color correction on all clips, and then add a title over all of it. Share that Master File, with ProRes and h264 and see what kind of results you get from that.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Make sure your event browser settings are “Group Events by Disk”:

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque