Member Since: February 15th 2008 Friends:  Jay Carr  John Mendelsohn  Justin Hall  Lawrence Eaton  Michael Angelo | | | | |  | red boxby Jim Schatz 3 months agoCan anyone tell me what the red box is in my browser window and how to get rid of it. It appears within photos that I crop and on the outside border of ones that I don't. Thank you. | Re: red box
by Andy Neil 3 months ago
Jim Schatz "what the red box is in my browser window and how to get rid of it" It's an indicator that you're zoomed in on your display viewer and you're not seeing the whole frame. If you click and d
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| | | |  | Beating a dead horseby Herb Sevush 3 months agoBeating a dead horse should be the name of this forum. For those who keep insisting that the Apple rollout of FCPX (as opposed to the product itself) was brilliant, Andrew Kimery, in a different threa | Re: Beating a dead horse
by Douglas K. Dempsey 3 months ago
More concerning to me is the current Tim Cook era. Meaning, Apple is so deep into being a "bling" company and their "cutting edge" efforts are along the lines of pushing single-port USB-C onto machine
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| | | | | Editing a Multiclipby Andy Neil 5 months agoI'm having an issue with my multiclips and would like to know if I'm doing it wrong or not. Multiclip is built using two video sources and one audio recorded separately. When AE built multiclip, he op | Re: Editing a Multiclip
by Andy Neil 5 months ago
Andrew Kimery "PPro will automatically create 8 audio tracks in my timeline (assuming it has less than 8 to start with). even though I only have 3 activated." I'm not sure we're talking about the sam
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| | | |  | Paste into secondary storylineby Scott Witthaus 6 months agoIs there a method to copy clips from one project timeline and paste them into a secondary storyline in another project Thanks in advance. Scott Scott Witthaus Senior Editor Post Production Supervisor | Re: Paste into secondary storyline
by Andy Neil 6 months ago
Copy Paste doesn't work into secondary storylines (sadly), even if you select the storyline container first. If the copy paste is in the same sequence, you can select the clip you want to copy and the
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| | | |  | Tags in FCPXby Mark Smith 7 months agoHere is my question: I want to create some videos that are destined for web use that I would like to be searchable on on the website by sections. Think of it like chapter markers. These videos would b | Re: Tags in FCPX
by Andy Neil 7 months ago
Mark Smith "I'm no web master dude, so hence the question." You're directing your question to the wrong place. You should be asking webmasters and HTML gurus. That's where any parcing of meta-data is
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| | | |  | Wish List For Next Updateby David Mathis 7 months agoOnly thing I can think of at the moment is a precision editor in a secondary storyline. Would like to import a Motion project or send clips over. Could always export a range of clips with roles as sep | Re: Wish List For Next Update
by Andy Neil 7 months ago
That's it My list grows every time I edit with FCPX. My new biggest wish is for UI snapshots or workspaces. When I do color work, I want to bring up the color board and the scopes. But I hate how the
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| | | | | Moving clip anchor problemsby Andy Neil 7 months agoHey guys. I'm working with 5K proxy material on 10.2.2. I got to a point in the edit where I needed to set a secondary clip anchor to a different clip in my primary. I couldn't figure it out. Of cours | | | | |
| | | |  | Long time editor's frustration with FCPXby David Berez 1 year agoLong time reader, a very rare poster. First off, thanks to the Cow Community. Without a doubt the most impactful change in my 30 plus years of editing is the online communities. Its not hard to rememb+1 | Re: Long time editor's frustration with FCPX
by Andy Neil 1 year ago
There are currently very limited options for the UI layout, mostly just single and double monitors. However, I might be able to help you a bit with your mouse clicking. You can assign keyboard shortcu
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| | | |  | AVID - Why Not?by Rich Rubasch 1 year agoHad a revelation yesterday... Many of us migrated from AVID to Final Cut 7 when Final Cut 7 cost 1 5 that of an AVID seat. Still, Final Cut 7 had its issues and we all complained about media managemen | Re: AVID - Why Not?
by Shane Ross 1 year ago
Do you need a good compositing NLE Don't use Avid. Premiere is much better suited. Do you use a lot of stills in your projects Don't use Avid...I do and it's a pain compared to FCP 7 Premiere pro. Bet
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| | | |  | Another player enters.by Jeremy Garchow 1 year agohttp: www.sonycreativesoftware.com catalystedit keycode=65066+1 | Re: Another player enters.
by Andy Neil 1 year ago
Can I just ask why anybody would think that knob icons are a good idea anymore I hate them so much. Using a tablet and pen, I never get useful control over things like pan with those godforsaken knobs
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| | | |  | still driving me nutsby James Ewart 1 year agoI can get over most of it but ... We come back to this time and time again. Calling a timeline a project is so hopelessly confusing and if anything it becomes more annoying as time goes on. Language i+4 | Re: still driving me nuts
by Andy Neil 1 year ago
Dean Neal "Getting hung up on the nomenclature for the sake of comfort to me is missing the premise of X. " I seriously doubt anyone's really getting hung up so much on the nomenclature that they're
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| | | |  | Continuing a bezier ?by Hans Douma 2 years agoHi all, Could you please give me some help with the following: I have a map spanning 3 pictures, stitched together. I want to draw a line onto that map, following a road. No problem, except the 3 pict | Re: Continuing a bezier ?
by Andy Neil 2 years ago
SHIFT+V as Bret said will show images past the canvas borders. Also, in the preferences, you can adjust the transparency level of the space beyond the canvas frame, so you can make it effectively 0 an
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| | | |  | PPro offers what BIG advantages over X?by Bob Woodhead 2 years agoOne client seems to be moving to PPro from Legacy. As much of my work for that client is "independent" workflow, I'm still at liberty to choose my tools, but I'm planning on investing some time into t | Re: PPro offers what BIG advantages over X?
by Shane Ross 2 years ago
Ability to export AAF for ProTools without the need for a 3rd party app. (XtoPro) Ability to import XML files from FCP Legacy projects and bring in full projects without the need of a third party app.
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| | | |  | Indulge a FCPX noob for a moment pleaseby Daniel Frome 2 years agoLet's pretend I have two segments in a sequence, "SEG A" and "SEG B" which run one after another. I have a music track under SEG A, and a different music track under SEG B. If I cut a section of SEG A | | | | |
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| | | |  | FCPX: A Lesson in Languageby Philip Bowser 2 years agoFCPX re-invented the wheel in a number of ways. Whether that wheel is as effective as previous wheels is still up for debate, however you can't deny Apple's courage and determination to change the NLE+2 | Re: FCPX: A Lesson in Language
by Shane Ross 2 years ago
One of my favorite bits of script writing lately...from the show SLEEPY HOLLOW: Ichabod: Do you know that in my day, the word "awful" meant awe inspiring And the the term "intercourse" meant conversat
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| | | |  | The Honda Ad Timelineby Bill Davis 2 years agoJust had an on-line chat with the editor of the Honda ad and got permission to post a larger timeline screenshot. I wanted to post it here because over the past few years we've had a lot of questions | | | | |
| | | |  | how do YouSendIt?by Mark Morache 2 years agoThis may not be the right forum for this, but I love the community here. I use dropbox to share my large files with others, but often I need to receive large files from others, and DB folder sharing s | Re: how do YouSendIt?
by Oliver Peters 2 years ago
YouSendIt is now HighTail. Personally I do almost everything with WeTransfer. It's web-based and I've had good results. Free with a limit of 2GB per day. More if you sign up. The good part is you can
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| | | | | Ramp Behavior, somewhat confusedby David Mathis 2 years agoGreetings! I am trying to build a custom transition for FCP X but running into a brick wall of sorts. I want clip A to scale down to zero on the x axis from right to left and have clip B scale up to 1 | Re: Ramp Behavior, somewhat confused
by Andy Neil 2 years ago
Some things are better done with keyframes. Clip scaling is one of those things. Particularly since you want the transition elements to start and end precisely. Just ditch the behaviors and go with ke
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| | | | | Use project as templateby Morten Slemdal 2 years agoHi! I ve just made my first motion project. A map that shows an arrow from New York to SF, with key frames, to show the movement. My next chapter will be from SF to Napa Valley. I want to use the same | | | | |
| | | |  | detach audio slip videoby Craig Alan 2 years agoIf I detach audio from a clip and then try to slip the video the audio keeps moving because of the connection point. Other than moving the connection point out of the clip its connected to is there an | Re: detach audio slip video
by Dave Jenkins 2 years ago
You should be able to hold the tilde key and slip the video without affecting the audio. Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA Mac Pro 3.5MHz 6-Core Late 2013 FCP X
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| | | | | Thought bubble with video clip inside?by Mike Ron 2 years agoHi, I'm familiar with FCPX, but I'm a beginner in Motion. How do you make a thought bubble with a video clip inside of it Here's an example of the result I'd like to get: http: www.revostock.com After | Re: Thought bubble with video clip inside?
by Andy Neil 2 years ago
You do this by duplicating your thought bubble layer (which you make with the bezier shape tool). You put an outline on the top layer and then add an image mask to it and drag the bottom layer onto th
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