David Parks
July 1st, 2011, 08:38 AM
So last night i bought and downloaded FCP X on my MACBook Pro Core Duo 13 inch with 4Gb of ram.
After an hour of taking some JVC HM100 Quicktime XDCAM 35 m/bs clips, a couple of shots shot on blue screen, also in the same format, and editing as if on a small commercial here are questions/concerns that have nothing to do with professional vs. non professional , but how can i edit with this.
I plan on spending most of the 4th really running through it's paces and i will be coming back and asking some questions. Also I have listened to 2 webinars and some Larry Jordan preview clips in order to get up to speed fast. Again, after looking at here at work, we have some to the conclusion that it won't work for our needs because the Event windows limitations for previewing footage is limited to only one window. We have projects that have hours of footage and typically have at least 7 to 15 bins open in Avid.
But, I'm looking at using for a small family project about my dad (a little documentary for the family) and small projects for my church. But here are my questions:
1. How go you fade from black on a key: I used the chroma key effect with a steel background and the blue screen. It keyed pretty good right off the bat (but it doesn't have near as many controls as I'm used to in Specta matte in Avid. But seems to key better overall than FCP7. I tried using the multi layer approah and the background didn't show up, I then nested the backgfround on toop of the key and it worked. However, when i added a cross fade to fade from black the background disappeared during the fade.
2. On an audio clip (music) how do you get rid of the waveform clip in the event browser, I know it is audio. I don't need the big waveform. I tried turning waveform off and the skimmer but no avial. What am i doing wrong here?
3. Also, when I turn off the skimmer, it doesn't come back when i toggle it on. This happened consistently.
4. Does the precision editor play and trim dynamically with ability to hear audio? It difficult to be precise with the basic storyline trimmer so when I double clicked on the transition the precision editor expands (cool) so i can see incoming and outgoing, but I coildn't hear audio. it seems it is an extension of skimming which isn't precise. And skimming stopped working, so am do i have something turned off??
5. Is there anyway to mix down multiple audio tracks into a single stereo track? This woulkd be really useful at least to keep the storyline from getting too cluttered. Do I create a coumpund clip??
From this point on I'm not going to compare FCPX with Avid. But, rather see if an old dog can learn new tricks.
Let me know if you guys have answers, David
After an hour of taking some JVC HM100 Quicktime XDCAM 35 m/bs clips, a couple of shots shot on blue screen, also in the same format, and editing as if on a small commercial here are questions/concerns that have nothing to do with professional vs. non professional , but how can i edit with this.
I plan on spending most of the 4th really running through it's paces and i will be coming back and asking some questions. Also I have listened to 2 webinars and some Larry Jordan preview clips in order to get up to speed fast. Again, after looking at here at work, we have some to the conclusion that it won't work for our needs because the Event windows limitations for previewing footage is limited to only one window. We have projects that have hours of footage and typically have at least 7 to 15 bins open in Avid.
But, I'm looking at using for a small family project about my dad (a little documentary for the family) and small projects for my church. But here are my questions:
1. How go you fade from black on a key: I used the chroma key effect with a steel background and the blue screen. It keyed pretty good right off the bat (but it doesn't have near as many controls as I'm used to in Specta matte in Avid. But seems to key better overall than FCP7. I tried using the multi layer approah and the background didn't show up, I then nested the backgfround on toop of the key and it worked. However, when i added a cross fade to fade from black the background disappeared during the fade.
2. On an audio clip (music) how do you get rid of the waveform clip in the event browser, I know it is audio. I don't need the big waveform. I tried turning waveform off and the skimmer but no avial. What am i doing wrong here?
3. Also, when I turn off the skimmer, it doesn't come back when i toggle it on. This happened consistently.
4. Does the precision editor play and trim dynamically with ability to hear audio? It difficult to be precise with the basic storyline trimmer so when I double clicked on the transition the precision editor expands (cool) so i can see incoming and outgoing, but I coildn't hear audio. it seems it is an extension of skimming which isn't precise. And skimming stopped working, so am do i have something turned off??
5. Is there anyway to mix down multiple audio tracks into a single stereo track? This woulkd be really useful at least to keep the storyline from getting too cluttered. Do I create a coumpund clip??
From this point on I'm not going to compare FCPX with Avid. But, rather see if an old dog can learn new tricks.
Let me know if you guys have answers, David