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Library -> Event -> Project
Project -> Bin -> Sequence (i.e. folders are optional, events are not but possibly should be)With more custom searching capabilities but less flexibility
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The skimming doesn’t work as I need to play to mark music beats. The markers are a workaround, although they seem a bit flaky as to wether they mark the primary (gap) clip or the selected secondary.
I’ve tried putting the music in a multi cam clip and editing within that – which seems better than a compound clip to be honest, but still clunky. The control+s trick to checkerboard I had forgotten, so thanks for that.
All in all I still can’t see myself putting much work FCPx’s way for the moment, which is a shame as I really like the organisation (keywords, used sections, rejects etc).
See you in 11 months when there is a new version out to tempt me again…
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I am assuming that you do not have matching timecode.
Here you are running into the limitations of Avids multicam implementation.
Your options are, I believe:
a. Do mix downs (or QT ref exports and reimport)
b. Amend aux timecode for each clip so that they correlate to shoot time of day – then you can multi-group by timecode
c. At each edit point in your assembly sequence – Match frame to every clip in the stack and then group those clips by in point. Name the group appropriately (eg the mark in point for cam1 ) and edit onto new video layer up to the next edit point. (Good idea to also add audio)
Subsequence that top video track and corresponding audios and you have a multicam grouped assembly to edit from.
C is best/easiest option but I wish Avid would automate it. Doing it more and more as I get spanned clips on multiple cameras. And encourage shooters to use time of day – now that tape is dead we don’t care about preroll.
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EVS have a product ‘Director’s Cut’ which will create multi grouped clips in a sequence via XML (or AAF for Avid).
It will also monitor the vision mixer / switcher and add that info to the sequence as cuts.
It is very cool for tapeless multi camera shoots, but not a trivial installation (requires EVS server and IPDirector and additional box to interpret switcher if required).
Not sure it fits your timescale or requirements, but shows it can be done ;-
https://www.evs.com/solutions/live-post-production
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Pretty sure that stereo tracks still don’t work with group clips. Can you auto sync them in groups of 8 or 12 audio tracks then group those with the video?
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V7 Sapphire looking v good – although blend modes with avid fx v easy
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Add alt to the ‘add audio track’ eg alt+control+u
This will ask you where you want the track
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I would’ve thought that the timeline should obey the selection (as it does when you edit from source to record) and thus if the destination tracks were not selected then they wouldn’t be overwritten. This doesn’t seem to be the case.
My next step was to lock the audio tracks so they wouldn’t be overwritten. That doesn’t work either… (prevents you from overwriting / inserting anything).
Like most old-school avid editors I don’t normally drag and drop, but I absolutely agree that this behaviour is infuriating if you do.
I’d recommend a visit to community.avid.com and make your enquiry there… greater minds may know workarounds or you can make a feature request there.
In the meantime get to love the mnemonic keyboard shortcuts for editing from source to record – Vinsert and Boverwrite. (or just map them to F9 and F10 like in FCP).
If you enable edit from bin then you can use the shortcuts from the bin window direct to the timeline (only in text view though, not script unfortunately)
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Nothing.
Audio mixer is track based (i.e. keyframes stay fixed in time)Clip keyframing (manual entry – with pen tool for example) is the one you need if you are moving clips about.
Put a feature request in that you be able to control clip envelope from audio mixer, including automation.
You won’t be the first…