[T. Payton]

Willy – Sorry I forgot to mention when I said modify it you’ll need to do that in Motion 5. Right click on a title in the browser and choose “Open in Motion”. Or you can easily make your own in Motion. Just look at home some others are created.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Back to the original topic, it was mentioned in another forum that Apple held a meeting at IBC with some Apple resellers, but he was under a NDA and couldn’t share details. He only mentioned something “good in the next few weeks.”

See the post here.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Haven’t seen MTV, but a title that scales and “pops in” is easy to do. In fact there are a bunch of things like it in the FCP X titles already. Just find one that is remotely close and modify it. There is one called “speech bubble” that has several different shapes. That might work for you just fine.

BTW. You might want to post in the FCP X Techniques forum instead of this one. This is a debating/venting forum and you’ll get a faster response over in FCP X Techniques.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[Ben Scott] “this was what I needed to know for editing tomorrow (my own wedding)”

Congrats!

[Ben Scott] “was kinda wondering why smaller clips couldnt be created though, unless working exactly to full length of event (which u shouldnt)

editing is about cutting it down to something watchable, small source clips is part of that (if they have a long audio section seems to be of little consequence)”

Humm. I’m not sure what you are asking. Can you try to reword your question?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I did some more testing and I made a mistake on that last post.

In step 3, you need to select the Gap clip AND the video clip. Then move your playhead to the beginning of your master audio, and then choose “paste as connected clip”.

Also scratch my comment about pasting in the same point in time. ;(

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Jordan – I feel your pain, however don’t fret. I am in the same boat. I looks like a bug because it appears works the other way around, i.e. a single video clip and multiple audio clips. I’m guessing it is a problem with not creating gap clips correctly when syncing.

Good news, there is a simpler workaround than manually syncing. Just do this:

1. Sync each video clip to your “master” audio clip individually.

2. Rename your new synchronized clips “master”

3. open the other syncronized clips, copy the video clip to the clipboard, and then on your master compound clip choose “Paste as Connect clip”. It will place the new video exactly where it should go in sync with the audio (regular paste will not). It doesn’t matter the position of your playhead, it will add gap clips as needed.

4. Rinse and repeat step 2.

5. When you’re done pasting all the video clips, turn off all the scratch audio by select all the video clips (either by hand in the timeline or better yet in the timeline index) and disable all the scratch audio for all the clips by deselecting the audio under channel configuration.

BTW. If you really want to manually sync, it is surprisingly easy because FCP X can work with subframes and the audio waveforms are very clear. Use Option > and Option < to move audio by the subframe (add shift to move by 10 subframes).

(On a side note, doesn’t this drive you crazy! FCP X appears how have some incredible power as none of these features are in FCP X: pasting a clip from one sequence to another at the same point in time, subframe audio editing, group operations on clips. But then they missed properly implementing the audio sync feature for very common situations like ours. Plus the thing is horribly buggy and slow. I love FCP X and hate FCP X at the same time!)

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Ted,

I have a slightly slower machine but the same graphics card and I have had the spinning beach ball even on proxy footage. I have also played with the fastest macs at the apple store and also has spinning beach balls. From that I would say that some of the issues are inherent with this first version of fcp x.

Here are a few things I have found to minimize the beachballs:
– ensure your project is in a fast drive
– turn off background rendering in preferences
– turn off waveforms in event browser
– view the timeline in the “pill mode” ie no audio waveforms or filmstrips

I also think that handling h264 is really best with a newer iMac i7 for example. But for a Mac Pro I would stick with prores, or optimized as it is named in fcp x. Proxy is fine too but it shouldn’t really be much better than full resolution prores.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Cool workaround.

However, I just thought of a different way that is more flexible. Select the clips and then in the inspector and then make any adjustments needed: turn off the effects/reset the color board, delete the filters, etc. and it will turn them off/delete for all the selected clips.

As a bonus this techniques also works to add filters to multiple clips. Just select them, and double click on a filter to add the effect to all selected clips. Works for audio filters too! The only thing it doesn’t work on is the color board. ;(

While you are at it you can make pseudo “groups” of clips by changing the name in the inspector (a little wierd yes, but it doesn’t change the file name just the clip name in the timeline) and using the timeline index to select all the clips in your “group” at once. So you could create a group for SFX for example and then modify the audio levels. Or perhaps a color grading group where you add filters for that group.

Maybe there are other ways to pull this off?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[Oliver Peters] “So, are you creating a compound clip in the Event by combining several clips and then loading and editing that? This is possible to do, from what I’ve seen, but it seems backwards, except maybe for multicam.”

Oliver – According the to the FCP manual compound clips have all the same functionality as projects and you can create a empty compound clip in an event to make a “sequence” so to speak. Just click in the event browser, deselect everything by command-shift a and then option-g to create a empty compound clip. I tag them with the keyword “sequence” so I can keep track of them easily. It is much easier to do in practice that it is even to describe here.

The difference between the edit living in a project and the edit living in an event is only the location of the database that stores the file. In a project the edit is the only thing in the database file, while if the edit is in an event it is part of the event database which also contains references to all your clips. The problem that I was describing comes because FCP X is saving with every keystoke to the database (to illustrate this, adjust the color board pucks with the keyboard and then try it again with the mouse and listen to your hard drive access, and notice the delay when using the keyboard) and for whatever reason this saving is bogged down when an edit lives in an event and isn’t bogged down when the edit is in a project.

My guess as why this slow down is happening is that because FCP X offers unlimited undos (not a hundred or a thousand, but unlimited), it is actually keeping a journal record in that database file of ever single change to a file. (!) If you watch the project and or event folder you can see this journal file being created often times. This has the advantage of not loosing your work, but the current disadvantage of some speed issues with large edits.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Your exactly right, I named the post incorrectly. I should read “Quicktip Locating the path of Offline Clips” or something like that.

Where this helped out was yesterday is I had was a very large project that was offlined in iMovie and I had several offline stills called the same file name. I didn’t use it to reconnect but rather located the files and then re-edit them in to the sequence.

By the way, the event command “Organize Project Files” is pretty fantastic for preventing all the offline problems.

I seem to recall something about FCP X assigning a unique ID to each clip in an event and it therefore counting offline if it doesn’t find that ID.

Pastor Conference – Thanks for noticing. I assume it was great and glorifying to God, but I don’t speak Spanish so I am waiting to get the translations done. 😉

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque