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My Eyes!

Posted by fcpxpert1 on May 11, 2017
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I’ve been working on a cut in FCP X of which I need a working copy in Premiere. So, after a quick run through X to CC, and a not so quick couple hours of cleaning up the FCP 6 XML mess and re-doing the mix, I had it back together.

I used the same Fx Factory effect in both, but had to match an FCP X Look Effect using Lumetri, and export a few speed ramped/retimed audio clips because, well… just because.

Anyway, leaving aside the fact that the the workflow, ease of use, effects application, compositing results and audio quality are markedly better in one of the 2 (guess which one! 😉) it ended up more or less the same. Here’s the question though…

Which of these 2 would you rather look at all day, every day? I mean really… 🙂

Don’t Fight The Magnetic Timeline – An Oldie But Goodie

Posted by fcpxpert1 on August 3, 2016
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The other day someone was asking (again) about the reasoning behind the FCP X Magnetic Timeline. I started to (again) attempt an explanation, and then realized that about a year ago I wrote an article for The Creative Cow that explains it pretty well. So, because I’ve been busy working and stuff and have nothing new to post, I thought I’d regurgitate the link to the article here, in case it’s of any use to someone. Many of you have probably seen it, but it’s all I got right now. 😉

I just re-read it and it’s actually not bad. Maybe someone else wrote it. lol

Click Here or on the pic to check out the article.

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Disable Connections “Lock” Trick…

Posted by fcpxpert1 on February 16, 2015
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Just another quick tip with which you may be familiar. If not, it’s very useful. As you probably know, holding the accent/tilde key down while dragging clips will “disable” clip connections temporarily. When you release the key, connections are enabled again. This tip shows you an easy, (and undocumented) way to “lock” connections off so you need not hold the key down.

If you don’t feel like watching the video… the trick is to press the accent/tilde key and, while holding it down, press the SHIFT key and then release both keys at the same time. To reenable clip connections, simply press the accent/tilde key again. Comes in handy…

Another One… Reverb Tail Out Trick

Posted by fcpxpert1 on February 12, 2015
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So, ya know how you sometimes have a clip, usually a music ender or something, that you’d like to add a reverb tail out to? And how you have to put it in a Compound Clip, add some Gap, go back to the project and extend the clip so you’ll have some media for the ‘verb to tail out in? Or you set an I/O range that extends beyond the clip, export it, import the longer clip you made and add your reverb.

I’ve been doing that in every NLE I’ve used. Actually… I think Vegas might act more lIke a DAW and verb will tail out past a clip boundary. But… you gotta do the workaround in FCP Old, Pr or MC.

Well, in FCP X, turns out you don’t need to do that at all. There’s an easier way – using the audio hold frame “panhandling” trick. Check it out, and thanks to a viewer of one of my other videos for pointing this out, it’s an enormous timesaver…