Comments on: Bottom 10 Final Cut Pro …. tips?

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:13:32 +0000

Two things that annoy me in FCP: I make keyframes in the motion tag, say pans on stills, then add a cross dissolve between two clips in the timeline. The motion effect stops during the midpoint of dissolve, so I have to change the length of the effect in motion tag so the movement will continue through the dissolve. In Avid, that is automatically calculated, the extra frames needed for the dissolve are there. My next peeve in FCP is how it treats the use of edited seq in the viewer window, in Avid, I can take an edited sequence and throw it in the playback window, as if it were a clip. When edited into a new sequence, I can still trim out the length of clips and get all the extra frames that are in the digitized footage. In FCP, if you need more frames to lengthen your scene, you must go back to your clip bin, find the original footage and add on. That is a big pain in FCP. Avid automatically treats each clip in a copied sequence as if is still connected to the digitze bin, so you can make versions of edits, easily. Also, slipping trims in Avid (leaving clip same length, just changing content in-out points) is so much easier than FCP. One keystroke gets you in trim mode and you can slip frames in a clip using the keys. and see the result in the trim window. FCP requires mouse manipulation and screwing around in an imprecise manner with “tools”.

By: Michael Scully

Michael Scully — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:44:22 +0000

ALSO, batch capturing has been causing me a problem. The tapes I am trying to grab from ALL have TC but it will begin to address the assigned TC to capture, then stumble and stutter and fail. I have a DSR 11 deck, and 2.5 GHZ Dual G5.

Thanks.

By: Michael Scully

Michael Scully — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:40:18 +0000

Great blog. I am a producer who learned FCP simply for the post production edification and so directors and editors couldn’t BS me anymore. You guys could. I am the beneficiary of your knowledge and sophistication with the software and the art. Thank you.

By: editblogadmin

editblogadmin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:42:27 +0000

Good point Bruce. I replaced the default FCP zoom keys on the keyboard with this new feature when it hit … but i didn’t update this list! Maybe folks will read the comments.

By: Bruce Sharpe

Bruce Sharpe — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:37:58 +0000

Re “smarter zooming in the timeline”: In recent versions there is a command to “zoom in on playhead in timeline”. I assign that to the key Shift-Command-+ and use it as an alternative to Shift-+ zooming.

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By: editblog-admin

editblog-admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:49:30 +0000

To get timecode from an SD stream it needs that 422 connection as that’s where it gets the tc from. There are some external boxes that can take the info an embed it into a firewire signal as well.

By: mAuKi

mAuKi — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:55:30 +0000

very good article
i have a question about final cut:
does anyone know how to capture a clip with external timecode, for examle if you have just a sd stream without rs422 connection (aja io) and you are using “capture now” option. i could’t find it anywhere to set it properly. any ideas?

By: Dan B

Dan B — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:44:39 +0000

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