Member Since: February 23rd 2002 Friends:  Abraham Chaffin  Chris Harlan  Steve Brame  Tim Wilson | | | | |  | Can a drop zone cointain sound?by Michael Paul 2 weeks agoI've googled for this but I could not find an answer. I've creatd a template in motion with a drop zone I want to use in final cut. Now I "drop" a video with audio into that drop zone but I won't hear | Re: Can a drop zone cointain sound?
by Bret Williams 2 days ago
What you really want to create is a title. Titles can do everything a generator does, plus include the background and that background can be used essentially like a drop zone. So you would lay the mot
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| | | |  | Keying out tricky spot on greenscreenby Gary Caganoff 4 days agoHi, Any hints on keying out this spot (an abrasion on the green screen) by his left hip He moves across it many times in a 7 min clip. Gary Caganoff, Lysis Films. Editing on FCX, shooting on Sony A7s | | | | |
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| | | | | FCPX Always needs to Re-renderby Matt Whittemore 7 days agoHi there. I searched for a thread about this but didn't see any (strange). Whenever I close FCPX with a fully rendered project then open it back up, everything needs to be rendered again. Is anyone el | Re: FCPX Always needs to Re-render
by Bret Williams 7 days ago
Well, it's known to me. Whether the cache is just getting unruly or one just needs to delete their prefs more, it's still a bug imho. I see people post about it here from time to time. Could be some s
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| | | |  | FCP X Explained…by Robin S. Kurz 1 week agoQuite possibly the best, comprehensive and astute comparison and highlighting of old and new that I have seen to date. (both live and now "on tape") Bravo Jes s. Well done! https: www.youtube.com watc | Re: FCP X Explained…
by Bret Williams 1 week ago
I find myself using the position tool for moving VO or music from a connected clip to the primary. Usually when replacing one or the other. I could use the cmd opt down arrow but it doesn't work if yo
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| | | |  | A depressing visit to the Apple Storeby Claude Lyneis 3 weeks agoI stopped by to see the newly remodeled Apple Store in Emeryville yesterday and while the store looks beautiful and there was a line of customers (presumably waiting to get an iPhone 7), there wasn't | | | | |
| | | | | "Edit" generator in FCPX - even possible?by Michael Paul 2 weeks agoIs it actually possible to edit a generator I have created in motion in FCPX I would say the answer seems to be NO. Generators are the way they are and there is no way to "break them apart" and treat | | | | |
| | | |  | Painting in time with the musicby Terry Maloney 4 weeks agoHi, :D I watched a tutorial on how to paint lines in Motion 5. If I got a Wacom tablet, could I draw lines and scribbles in time with the music. (Yes, I want to be able to go back and edit it in spots | Re: Painting in time with the music
by Bret Williams 2 weeks ago
I don't know about fairy tales, but I know there's no 2015 Mac Pro. _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com Plugins & Templates for FCP X Editors & Mot
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| | | | | Footage becoming interlaced in FCP 7by Gabriel Rougeau 1 month agoHello, this may be the wrong sub-forum, but it's been awhile since I posted here. I have a Sony NEX VG10 camcorder, and I've been told that this camera only films in progressive, so I figured that it | Re: Footage becoming interlaced in FCP 7
by Bret Williams 4 weeks ago
But what frame rate did you shoot at 24M is a data rate setting, which can be used with 60i, 50i, or 24p. _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com Plugi
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| | | |  | The iBagby Oliver Peters 1 month agoHere's what Apple has been spending time on instead of FCPX or the next Mac Pro :) It s hard to believe this is even true. So sad. http: www.gizmodo.co.uk 2016 09 apple-unveils-bag https: www.theguard+1 | Re: The iBag
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
Does OP stand for Oliver Peters or Original Poster _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com Plugins & Templates for FCP X Editors & Motion Graphics Arti
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| | | |  | Will FCX be around for a while?by Glenn Payne 1 month agoHi guys, I'm about to invest in a nice imac and I'm planning to use fcx. I'm just wondering what the word on the street is about fcx. I'm willing to dive into the magnetic timeline world, but I'm just | Re: Will FCX be around for a while?
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
Seems you could easily add a small bit of data to the clip in the timeline that details WHAT keyword collection it was added FROM. IOW simply reproduce the browser state at the moment of addition to t
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| | | | | Adobe Team Projectsby Oliver Peters 2 months agoTeam Projects https: blogs.adobe.com creativecloud unveiling-connected-creativity-ibc-reveal-2016 And where's Apple in all of this After all, they do have a cloud service :) - Oliver Oliver Peters Pos | Re: Adobe Team Projects
by Bret Williams 2 months ago
Apple is demoing real time collaboration in iWork apps. That would be a likely move for FCP X as well. We'll see! _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.c
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| | | |  | Good newsby Steve Connor 2 months agoAlex 4D just posted this https: jobs.apple.com us search#&ss=47429395&t=0&so=&lo=0*USA&pN=0&openJobId=47429395 Anyone here want the job :) | Re: Good news
by Bret Williams 2 months ago
Hopefully they worked the last guy so hard he finally quit. _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com Plugins & Templates for FCP X Editors & Motion Grap
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| | | | | backing up noobie questionby Ian Thomson 2 months agoHey all, So....this is probably a noob question but I am having some weird issues with archiving Libraries. After a month, post delivery, I tend to archive my Libraries online (using google drive) whi | Re: backing up noobie question
by Bret Williams 2 months ago
Yes you lose all your finder related folders and X puts it all in one folder. But you do not lose your keywords. They're still right there in your project. You can have X create keywords based on impo
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| | | |  | Sales motivation?by Mark Suszko 3 months agoI'm lately seeing a number of tempting half-off type offers for different FCP-X plug-in products and the like, all kind of urgent in their cut-off dates. It makes me wonder, do they know something I d | | | | |
| | | | | I've lost my headby Bret Williams 4 months agoA year or more ago I clicked on my head and said "remove my head from forum" or something like that. It was reminding me of just how addicted I was. Well, the first step is admitting you have a proble | Re: I've lost my head
by Bret Williams 4 months ago
Sounds good. Guess I'll have to up my postings to get my head back up though. 18th poster of all time just ain't good enough. :P
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| | | | | Compound clip audio weirdnessby Bret Williams 8 months agoSomeone smack me and tell me what I'm missing here. I have a compound clip nested within my sequence, and the 8 audio tracks are being merged. Usually, expanding audio components shows all the tracks  | Re: Compound clip audio weirdness
by Bill Davis 8 months ago
Bret, Personally, I'd go back the the original clips - Open in Timeline - and completely delete all those empty tracks. We've seen that when X sees a bunch of empty tracks, (even if you're not activel
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| | | | | MP4 vs AVCHDby Bryce Douglass 8 months agoI have a Canon XA25 which shoots in AVCHD or MP4. I have been shooting in AVCHD then transcoding to Pro Res as I have had playback issues etc with multi cam etc. if I switched to MP4 would I have to t | Re: MP4 vs AVCHD
by Bret Williams 8 months ago
It's not as intensive with your iMac as with say a Mac Pro. You have h264 acceleration on that iMac processor where the xeons do not. Pro res is still a little smoother to edit with but not noticeably
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| | | |  | iphone4 video in FCP7 for youtube exportby raju bhai 9 months agoHi, I have an iPhone4 video that i just wanted to cut a section out of in FCP7 and then export it for youtube. It is a 36 min video. When i import the iPhone clip into FCP7 and drop it into the fresh +1 | | | | |
| | | |  | Why MXF4MAC cannot open my .MXF file??by kim manis 10 months agoHello, Has anyone use MXF4mac for playing back MXF file I have been using it for a while until today it doesn't work anymore I don't know if there is something wrong with the codec in my .MXF file or | | | | |
| | | | | mixing frame ratesby Bret Williams 10 months agoIs there an issue with mixing frame rates in resolve I've got a multicam edit that is 29.97 except one camera that is 23.98. I ported the project over from FCP X so I could do better color correction, | Re: mixing frame rates
by Bret Williams 10 months ago
This also brings up a good question. Why is there a pull-down menu setting for timeline frame rate, and then right underneath it a "playback" frame rate FILL-IN box Isn't that just asking for trouble
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| | | | | Creative Cloud Holiday Discount Accounting?by Bill Davis 11 months agoSo lots of email today and ads with DEEP discounts for a first year of CC. Like pushing near 70% off. IIRC the earlier discussions here the idea advanced was that the subscription rate didn't reflect | | | | |
| | | | | Does anybody know about this new plugin?by Daniel Brown 12 months agoI wish a had bookmarked this article, so I apologize in advance for not having more information. I read an article and watched a video on this new plugin. (I cannot remember if it was just for Mac or | | | | |
| | | |  | Fusion and OFX Supportby David Mathis 1 year agoWhile waiting for Studio for Mac OS X, I would like to see expanded OFX support, perhaps something from Red Giant and others. Otherwise, very pleased with Fusion overall, great software! Kudos to the | Re: Fusion and OFX Support
by Bret Williams 1 year ago
Where are you finding the time David In trying to cut the Adobe cord I've had to learn Motion, and still keep up with AE. And before that of course ditch legacy and learn X and some Premiere. Now I'm
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| | | | | Panning Audio in resolve 12by Bret Williams 1 year agoComing from a FCP 7 background, where there weren't any different types of audio tracks, this whole premiere-like audio setup is a bit foreign. In 7, a channel was a channel and a track was always a s | Re: Panning Audio in resolve 12
by Bret Williams 1 year ago
Obviously you can't animate a pan in the media window. My problem is that only s stereo clip will pan in a stereo track. I've read the manual on it and honestly it doesn't seem to correlate. It's defi
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| | | |  | How long to export 5 min of HD footage?by Benjamin Cohen 1 year agoI am using CC 2015, a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Super Clocked ACX 2.0 Graphics Card, a i7 Core, 16GB of BallStix Memory, Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH LGA 1150 Z97 Dual Thunderbolt 2 ATX Motherboard i'm using a | | | | |
| | | |  | does your NLE match your budget?by Brian Cooney 1 year agoI've come to the conclusion over the last few months with the apple adobe saga and all that is in the mix, that we probably can't blame the manufacturers if we are still trying to keep up with the lat | Re: does your NLE match your budget?
by Bret Williams 1 year ago
You've got the cred so I'm trying to give you the benefit. But you just kind keep saying the same thing without really giving any specifics. What kind of stuff are you doing with these clients that yo
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