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Comment on Roll on the dead cats by Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:02:35 +0000

very nice analysis

Comment on BVE2013 – Did the dead cat just bounce? by BVE2013 – The Aftermath… | defril

BVE2013 – The Aftermath… | defril — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:58:41 +0000

[...] and audio consultant Nick Way - www.nickway.co.uk). Incidently, Matt has an excellent post on BVE2013 on his blog. Unfortunately, the room was less than a third full, partly, it seems because the brochure [...]

Comment on About by Denes Ujvari

Denes Ujvari — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:37:29 +0000

Editing is a journey from chaos to order. It defies the second rule of thermodynamics which says everything must turn to chaos.

That is GOLD, really like the web site
cheers
Denes

Comment on Blade and a J-cut, two bits! by Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:56:26 +0000

Guys, owe you all virtual beer for this. Will practice until it’s muscle memory.

BTW, any chance of a vision dissolve that doesn’t touch audio? (grins, ducks, runs)

Comment on Blade and a J-cut, two bits! by Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:20:59 +0000

Chris Phrommayon reminded us (via Twitter) of the Shift-\ shortcut to select expanded audio edits. You can then use the keys to roll the edit. Pity the trim tool can’t be used to do this.

Comment on Blade and a J-cut, two bits! by Scott Simmons

Scott Simmons — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:50:58 +0000

I think this post and the comments trying to explain how to do it shows that the magnetic timeline leaves something to be desired when it comes to BASIC editorial things we have to do over and over and over again. It goes back to my early argument that while a lot of FCPx technology is GREAT the app wasn’t designed by editors who edit every day. That’s its biggest overall fault.

Comment on Blade and a J-cut, two bits! by Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:57:42 +0000

So that’s ‘do your radio edit, expand all clips and use the trim tool to roll the video edits a little later’

When clips are expanded, you can ripple the video and audio separately, but you can only roll video.

As expanding clips makes the audio look like it becomes a set of connected clips, the FCP X magnetic timeline metaphor requires that you cannot roll audio edits, because independent connected video clip boundaries can’t be rolled.

I propose then that the trim tool can be used to roll any edit – including two new cases – when editing audio in expanded clip mode and rolling the finish and start of adjacent connected clips or storylines.

Comment on Blade and a J-cut, two bits! by Martin Baker

Martin Baker — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:26:37 +0000

It’s easier than that.

If you’ve edited a sequence (sorry project…) for dialogue timing and want to work through and delay some video cuts, then the easiest way is to choose
View > Expand Audio/Video Clips > For All
Then you can just select the trim tool and quickly delay any video edits you want without affecting the audio timing.

Alternatively if you’ve edited for video timing and want to pull the incoming audio earlier so it starts on the outgoing video clip, then expand the clips as above, select the trim tool (don’t forget you can temporarily select the trim tool by holding down T and clicking on an edit) and adjust the incoming side of the video only. I’d say this trimming operation is actually easier in FCPX than it was in FCP7. No clip collisions to deal with.

The Apple help doc doesn’t really help much because it shows an unusual example where a different number of frames are being trimmed off the incoming video and the outgoing audio.

Comment on FCP-X – from ‘the editor’s NLE’ to ‘the content creator’s editor’? by Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:04:55 +0000

Firstly, remember this was a sneak peek, not an official launch, so details are sketchy and still subject to change. Frustrating, but it’s the way it is.

That makes it hard to be specific on how FCP X will implement metadata. Adobe Premiere ‘gives good demo’ on this front, specifically using a transcript to tie into video. MP4 does have ‘text containers’ within its file structure, and this should be a source of searching. I don’t want to use words like ‘should’ here, but again, that’s reality at the moment.

Metadata can also mean things like ‘shot markers’ and ‘essence markers’ – Sony cameras can insert these markers both on a shot by shot and a moment by moment basis, but FCP7 and below chuck this info out. I can insert useful metadata like the name and affiliation info of an interviewee into the QT-wrapped MXF, viewable in QT Player. FCP 7 and below ignores this info, FCP X should – ‘SHOULD’ – pick this up.

Will the metadata fill in the Google/YouTube forms? Maybe, though I sincerely hope there’ll be more to it than that. I’m still playing with YouTube subtitles for a bit of video specific SEO, and I hope there will be more space for transcripts and so on.

Comment on FCP-X – from ‘the editor’s NLE’ to ‘the content creator’s editor’? by video4marketing

video4marketing — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:14:48 +0000

I was thinking along those lines too.

Just one question; does it mean now, with metadata, that video uploaded on You Tube for example will be indexed by Google by looking into those metadata as text, what video was lacking so far (at least that’s my understanding)?

Or, I got it wrong, and metadata is simply just to help in collaboration between applications in post production environment?