Episode 69
FCG069 - So you wanna learn FCPX (feat. Chris Fenwick)
I’m just getting started here! Yea, that’s Al Pachino from Scent of a Woman but today we are talking to the brand new FCPX user and I’m going to walk you thru the main stumbling blocks and pitfalls that trip up someone who is brand new to the app. There is a healthy dose of, “This is how I do it”, but I also try to explain the other ways of working in Final Cut Pro X. If you are a more advanced user and find this to basic, maybe you’ll be able to share it with the new users you know and get them up and going a little faster. Interface tour Libraries, Browser, Viewer, Inspector, Effects Browser, Timeline, Timeline Inspector. Exporting logic - “Texas Master” verses, Send to YouTube etc.
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- Chris Fenwick
- Guest Name - @twitter
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00:00.001: So that's why I use the Adobe apps.
00:00.001: So manage libraries where is the library method, where you just trust Final Cut, put anything in the library you want.
00:00.001: So, leave in place is going to do two things for you.
00:00.001: It's kind of cumbersome and it's very manual, okay.
00:00.080: Final Kat 10 is a referential app, and it is looking for media that is all over your hard drive.
00:00.160: Anyway, I don't have a guest.
00:00.160: Client came in, they had some musical ideas, and they were like, and I said, Hey, have you tried Premium Beat?
00:00.160: I just think of so many times in the past where I'm like, Yeah, this is what I want.
00:00.160: And the render files were extensive.
00:00.160: So all of the render files for all of your projects or timelines are also stored in the library.
00:00.160: You want to be really careful in the inspector because although there is a button that says, Hey, I can browse on my iPhoto images and bring them in, or Hey, I can browse on my iTunes music and bring that in.
00:00.160: And you can sort by the clips, you can sort by markers and tags, you can sort by roles.
00:00.160: So we're going to call that the library method and the leave and place method.
00:00.160: At any rate, I set my still image to something that is relevant to what I'm working on.
00:00.160: or a template library with a template event with all of the folders and keyword collections that you tend to use on every job.
00:00.160: And I have one folder called 00 Sequences.
00:00.160: Well, you could do that too.
00:00.160: And I'll tell you the easiest way to deal with that is just go to your generators over in your effects browser or lay in a slug and just stretch it out the length of your piece.
00:00.160: that if you go to the App Store, the Apple App Store, and you just search for compression, let's try comp I'm going to try that.
00:00.160: is we will hand that drive to another person.
00:00.160: and organize their folders.
00:00.160: I heard so many times when I'm looking through a folder full of stuff and somebody will say, It's called blah, blah, blah, and I'll look up and down that folder multiple times and I miss it.
00:00.160: And if you go back into the history of Apple and you listen to some of the old keynotes and stuff, like for example, when Randy Eubilos created the first I call it the Black Eye movie.
00:00.160: is that Apple has tried to create an application for everybody.
00:00.160: And I kind of admit that, you know, when I first started hearing Philip Hodgetts preach the metadata thing, before I had decided, yes, I want to use Final Cut 10, I would just roll my eyes.
00:00.160: You know, like I said, it's only training I've ever paid for.
00:00.160: A lot of my training is designed for people that are already well versed in the basics and they're just trying to do some more advanced workflows.
00:00.240: But I decided for multiple reasons that I really wanted to take the time and kind of do a special episode for somebody who's just getting started with the application.
00:00.240: And I don't want to waste your time, but it also might be something that you could refer somebody to who's just getting started.
00:00.240: It is a great utility because when you launch when you get their app, when you download their app, it comes with a handful of plugins.
00:00.240: There's a company called Haiwaki Color, I believe, and I don't know who the developer is, but they just made a new match color plug-in.
00:00.240: These are some of the things that you want to keep in mind as you're going.
00:00.240: Now the library method, so let's talk about what a library is.
00:00.240: And then we had a thing called a scratch disk.
00:00.240: And it also keeps track of all of your timelines, what we would have called it, projects, what FunnelCut 10 now calls it.
00:00.240: Now of course, and this is a problem with any nonlinear editor or any editing package, I think that the developers of these applications think that we're just only ever going to use their application, and that's not really the case.
00:00.240: There's always going to be outside applications.
00:00.240: I use them all the time, and my kind of general rule of thumb is: I mean, obviously, I'm going to use Photoshop if I'm retouching images, but if I'm making a static
00:00.240: And my reasoning has always been that I use the Adobe apps instead of using the onboard character generators.
00:00.240: And I've done this in all edit systems I've ever used.
00:00.240: Is that quite often the clientele that I'm dealing with, they are highly branded and highly stylized and highly aware of exactly how things are supposed to look.
00:00.240: And let's face it, virtually everything is designed in Adobe apps.
00:00.240: You know, a poster or a brochure or something, and they want me to like animate that and make it, you know, come alive, if you will, they know what it's supposed to look like on that brochure.
00:00.240: They're going to see, like, oh, the kerning is a little different or the leading.
00:00.240: Quite often, what we'll have is we'll have one person creating assets and After Effects and the other guy building out the final timeline.
00:00.240: What you're going to do is you're going to double disk usage.
00:00.240: Now you're taking up 200 megabytes of space.
00:00.240: We have one event in the library, and that is for that job, and then everything else is subdivided inside of there.
00:00.240: You know, like the cargo pants analogy.
00:00.240: And I actually use those pockets.
00:00.240: and I know where I store things, 'cause my pockets are kinda like bins.
00:00.240: Because what I'm really doing is I'm putting everything into my library, and then I am using the power of Farrakhaten to examine those things or sort those things
00:00.240: keyword communication device.
00:00.240: To look at my media because I am using the Final Cut libraries and events and the filters and the searching and all of the stuff.
00:00.240: You know, when they first start, when they get their head around that metaphor, it's like, whoa, this is totally different than it was in the past.
00:00.240: And I've told this story in the past, but I'll do it briefly here, of the job I did for BMW two years ago, where they warned me at the beginning of the two-week job.
00:00.240: the first page or the Final Ka 10 page, it you know, you gotta dig for it.
00:00.240: across the middle of the screen, and it's toward the far right side, and basically it looks like a couple of little sliders.
00:00.240: In other words, like going up to the half-height door and asking the librarian, hey, for the last two weeks, I've been giving you stuff, and some of the stuff I've been telling you is related to the pets.
00:00.240: To the right of there, if you open it, is the inspector.
00:00.240: And it's also where you can apply all of your audio filters and video filters as well.
00:00.240: Now, as a professional, or again, I don't like delineating that, but for people that are doing more advanced workflows where you might be sharing with other people.
00:00.240: And then in the far left, lower left-hand corner, is a little tiny button.
00:00.240: to me, I think is one of the more powerful things when you get down, especially toward the end of a job where you're trying to ascertain like how many music cuts or whatever is in a piece.
00:00.240: So anyway, that is your basic user interface tour.
00:00.240: And there's a few things you're probably going to want to tink on or think about how you're going to use it.
00:00.240: And some of them are kind of dumb.
00:00.240: But the other thing you could do is, you know, a lot of times, like, you know, 120 beats per second, it's going to be about a second long that you want your stills for.
00:00.240: And he says, you know, you have less problems.
00:00.240: Set your still image duration to one second and then import all your stills.
00:00.240: I have one that I have a smart collection that finds all of my multicam clips.
00:00.240: And instead of digging through the project's keyword collection like ah, or smart collection, where's the one?
00:00.240: I also have a folder called Zero One Media, and that's where I would put one keyword collection for every card.
00:00.240: And if you've heard me talk before, that's where anything that I create, like an After Effects that's rendered and animated, I put in there.
00:00.240: And then I also in the graphics folder I have a thing called PNG.
00:00.240: And I have all my music and sound effects and VO in there.
00:00.240: regardless of what library it's in, and all of a sudden I have my standardized workflow all good to go and ready.
00:00.240: And you embrace it, it really does save you a lot of time.
00:00.240: Because, like, I've considered myself kind of a power user in Final Cut 7.
00:00.240: So that's pretty easy too.
00:00.240: Or, you know, one clip before the end of the timeline.
00:00.240: And it'll leave a slug there.
00:00.240: And now anything that you pick up and move will treat it just like it was in Final Cut 7.
00:00.240: So that's two ways of thinking of the timeline.
00:00.240: Is exporting.
00:00.240: one of the default settings is master file.
00:00.240: And we call it the Texas Master because it's the big file, it's the big state, it's the really big one.
00:00.240: Now, I will say that a lot of people don't want to do that, and I understand why they don't want to do it.
00:00.240: Export that big file and then take that into a compression tool.
00:00.240: There are plenty of other media encoding applications.
00:00.240: So that's why I do that.
00:00.240: You know, it's just it ties up your app.
00:00.240: Everything that we do in our office is designed around being able to access something again and open something again.
00:00.240: I don't know, wo uh Civil War reenactment videos.
00:00.240: If you have moved things on your hard drive or tried to clean things up, you know, the stuff will get lost and you'll have a bunch of missing media.
00:00.240: rush to get going.
00:00.240: It's like, okay, I hear you say that, Randy, but let me say that, you know, as an editor, that's what we do.
00:00.240: too much time to set something up.
00:00.240: And the interviews, I'm completely sold.
00:00.240: Mark Spencer and Steve Martin, not that one.
00:00.240: They do a lot of stuff for free on MacBrick Weekly, and a lot of that stuff is available through fcp.
00:00.240: If you want to get well versed in some of the basics of Final Cut 10, I would highly recommend their training.
00:00.240: And they wanted to make sure that everybody made that transition.
00:00.240: They have a whole new um paid um what do you call it, uh lesson about audio sweetening.
00:00.240: So thanks for listening.
00:00.320: So it's a great resource.
00:00.320: And a little bit of trouble finding a guest, and I didn't want to not have a show tomorrow.
00:00.320: about just some of the things that you need to sort of keep in mind when you're just cracking open this application for the first time.
00:00.320: So, anyway, before we get started, I want to thank a couple of people.
00:00.320: And I also want to thank Nicholas Bond and all of the gang over at FX Factory.
00:00.320: Functional version of the plug-in, except for it is watermarked, but it gives you the idea of what you can and can't do with something.
00:00.320: And they have great stuff from a lot of people.
00:00.320: And I watched the tutorial and it's fascinating.
00:00.320: Go support what Nicholas is doing and go support what Premium Beat is doing.
00:00.320: Do you want to sort of abandon yourself to the library method, or are you going to use the what I call the well, what Apple calls the leave-in-place method?
00:00.320: Surrendering yourself, so to speak, to the library method may very well be the best way to go.
00:00.320: Now, why would you want to not use the library method if the library method is so convenient?
00:00.320: many times we are working on one project together, or not everybody, but a couple of machines will be working on one project together.
00:00.320: And we're going to talk about that next.
00:00.320: So across the top of the screen, upper left-hand corner, you have your libraries, and you'll see the little I call them the purple windows icons, and then you have your purple events.
00:00.320: And I have yet to discover a reason why I would want to have multiple events inside a library.
00:00.320: One of these days, I'm going to find somebody who can really explain a good reason for that, but I will say that in our office, we start a library per job.
00:00.320: Or sift through those things or filter those things in different ways.
00:00.320: Instead of being the guy who has to put the stuff on the shelf, imagine you had a librarian, and I could say, Here is my cell phone, put it on a shelf.
00:00.320: It's like, okay.
00:00.320: And then, when I come back, all I got to do is ask for it.
00:00.320: And the librarian will come and give me my cell phone.
00:00.320: But I could make a keyword collection and I could tell the librarian, I want you to remember everything that I ever give you that is a communication device.
00:00.320: And he's going to bring me all of those things.
00:00.320: Now, because I had already been tagging these things with the keyword pet, it was a real simple matter to go to my keyword collection called Pets.
00:00.320: So anyway, that is the way that the library and the browser work in your favor.
00:00.320: If you're going to be sharing this file with somebody else and you're not using the full library method, you don't want to use your
00:00.320: iPhoto button or your iTunes button.
00:00.320: And you are not importing everything into your media, all of a sudden they're going to have missing media, and that's not cool.
00:00.320: And again, you have your effects, your iPhoto iTunes, which I don't use.
00:00.320: 1.
00:00.320: I don't transcode media.
00:00.320: Or am I going to leave in place?
00:00.320: It's going to save you disk space because copying stuff into the library means that you're going to double your disk space that you're using.
00:00.320: what you'll end up finding is that you can save yourself a lot of time by sort of standardizing some of this stuff.
00:00.320: This I've talked about this in many iterations, but it's always good to have a standardized way of working.
00:00.320: And I also have a keyword collection that's called current.
00:00.320: clip number nine and clip number ten, or what was nine and ten, and then I would do a ripple pace, which I believe was Command Shift V.
00:00.320: And if you want, you could put all your stuff above the slug that's pictures and all your stuff below the slug that's audio.
00:00.320: And the Texas Master is a full-sized, you know, full resolution, the codec of your timeline.
00:00.320: you know, tempting options inside of Final Cut.
00:00.320: Yeah, as in to quote John, there's about a hundred options of things that you can use.
00:00.320: And basically, from that one little tool, you can export to anything.
00:00.320: Share to YouTube.
00:00.320: And again, I know a lot of people that very much swear by the send to YouTube thing.
00:00.320: That you need to open up that project and export that file.
00:00.320: Sound effects.
00:00.320: Well, Fenwick, that's kind of a waste of space.
00:00.320: I just put I want to keep it all self-contained and in one spot because what happens quite often
00:00.320: And when you open up our job folders, you'll see there's a let me think, I don't I think I may have trimmed it down by one folder.
00:00.320: So those are apps where when you open it, it is looking for media that is on your drive.
00:00.320: We have our folder structure, we put things where we want, we start importing things into our timeline or into our edit system, and then we edit.
00:00.320: For example, using the library method or the managed library and letting Final Cut kind of deal with things for you.
00:00.320: we get an amazing organizational tool with the libraries and events and keyword collections.
00:00.320: And I will tell you it is the only um training for Fannock Haten that I have ever purchased is the stuff from Ripple Training.
00:00.320: you know, Ripple Training.
00:00.320: Turn, but you know, frankly, I've been talking for nearly an hour, and it'd be amazing if I didn't say anything wrong in all that time.
00:00.320: I want to recommend that.
00:00.320: So, but thanks for listening.
00:00.400: getting started issues with Funnel Cut 10.
00:00.400: And walk them through the handful of things that you kind of need to know when you're just starting to get over that, and we've called it this many times on the show, the learning wall.
00:00.400: And they have great music on their site.
00:00.400: Also, so if you don't know, FX Factory, fx factory.
00:00.400: gives you the library has in it a database which keeps track of everything that is in your browser.
00:00.400: And you can see all of the different things that you're sorting through.
00:00.400: In various ways.
00:00.400: Lower left-hand corner or lower, what do you call it?
00:00.400: Still, image to come in for.
00:00.400: is the I turn off the create optimized media for multicam clips.
00:00.400: Cut and ripple.
00:00.400: Flying through this stuff here.
00:00.400: A lot of people don't think about that.
00:00.400: And that might be really attractive if you don't have enough hard drive space and you don't want to create that Texas master.
00:00.400: Any video converter, it's called.
00:00.400: Is dated and it has the name, and because it's dated and starts with the number, it always sits at the top of the folder.
00:00.400: Since the mid nineties when I first started using After Effects, you know, the origin of that is After Effects and many other applications, by the way, are what I call referential apps.
00:00.400: But I highly recommend their training and even their plug-ins.
00:00.480: Package contents, or a package.
00:00.480: There are some advantages to it, and in a more simplified workflow where you don't have to integrate with a lot of people or other applications
00:00.480: and all of your media can live outside of the library.
00:00.480: You know, allow Final Cut to import all that stuff into the library, which might make it easier to keep everything tidy.
00:00.480: Basically, what you're doing is you're throwing everything into that library, and then you're sorting it.
00:00.480: I might have a walkie-talkie that I use on the set.
00:00.480: Show me all of the still images I have to choose from that I haven't used.
00:00.480: And um and then, like about, you know, a day or two before the end of the trip, the producer walked in, she goes, Hey, let's do that pet video.
00:00.480: This is also under the import checkbox.
00:00.480: I don't create optimized media, so I turn that checkbox off.
00:00.480: And, you know, I'm going to say I totally disagree.
00:00.480: And so one and three would collapse against each other.
00:00.480: And that's stuff that I did all the time.
00:00.480: I don't have to think about it.
00:00.480: file, you're going to find export XML, but that's not what I want to export.
00:00.480: Video compressor, any HD, any HD, let me see, any
00:00.480: A week, a month, a year later.
00:00.480: Now one of the things that we do to make that easier is we always create what we call a job folder.
00:00.480: nearly twenty years ago, of creating a standardized way of working.
00:00.480: one came out that they had they were very generous and there was about two or three different episodes or chapters of their training that they normally charge for.
00:00.480: That they gave away for free.
00:00.480: If you've gotten this far, I feel like I should give you a prize because not many people want to sit around and listen to me talk for fifty minutes or an hour.
00:00.560: Take media that's created or garnered on one machine, reach across the network and put it in a designated place.
00:00.560: So that's like having a keyword.
00:00.560: Show me all my footage that was shot on day one.
00:00.560: seven, there was that little button under the the viewer.
00:00.560: What do I do here?
00:00.560: There are many people that say I'm crazy.
00:00.560: There's other stuff here.
00:00.560: So for example, in my temp library, I have an event called starter kit.
00:00.560: And if you you know, if you were a power user, I'll say, you probably did things like this.
00:00.560: The fourth folder down.
00:00.560: I have a tutorial on my website about using After Effects and Funnel Cut 10 together.
00:00.640: things that are difficult to learn in Final Cut 10.
00:00.640: the j the project file, which we would open up, and then we would see all of our bins.
00:00.640: A guy with a bunch of shelves.
00:00.640: Section.
00:00.640: So that's the prefs walkthrough.
00:00.640: take clip number ten, drag it over, wiggle my new clip down in between the old nine and ten, and then I would have to delete the space that I left where the clip number two was.
00:00.640: But if you want to if you don't want to surrender to it yet, then use the P key.
00:00.640: maybe After Effects project files that were created to make After Effects animations that happen to be in there.
00:00.640: But what that has done for me is it's made me want to be very unified in the way I store things.
00:00.640: But he was right.
00:00.640: I would encourage you to look around and take a look at it.
00:00.640: But trust me, you're going to love what they have.
00:00.640: To the grill here, and I ask that you, if you, even, you know, what I'll tell you what, even if you don't go spend money with them, go at least check out their stuff.
00:00.720: That's the way Final Cut 7 works.
00:00.720: By the way, at the end of the two weeks, we're going to ask you to do a video about all of the pets that were on the road trip.
00:00.720: I'm just getting started.
00:00.800: concerning the Final Cut 10 timeline.
00:00.800: Because to be able to, and I had to know that that was even a possibility.
00:00.800: Actually, I think it it do you can tell it what codec does to output.
00:00.800: The base file output.
00:00.800: But what happens a lot in our business is that, you know, we make a deadline, we finish it, we get it out the door, and then
00:00.800: Okay, let's change this.
00:00.800: it's not worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater because what we also get is we get an extremely fast time line that shuttles like crazy.
00:00.880: But that is stored in the library.
00:00.880: 2 or 120, which would be one second and 20 frames.
00:00.880: And I realize maybe you don't do that every day, but we do.
00:00.960: somebody just the other day, one of my clients called me and he said, hey, one of my friends is trying wants some advice and we got to talking and I realized that there's still a lot of kind of
00:00.960: I could pick it up out of the timeline and drag it down my timeline, put it kind of above number nine.
00:00.960: Last thing I want to talk about is archiving.
00:01.040: As it turns out, quite often, a job is never really done.
00:01.120: Text graphic, I will actually use Photoshop.
00:01.120: I work in a workgroup environment.
00:01.120: Another thing to keep in mind is that those, you can sort, because you can put multiple keywords on things, I can quote unquote store it in different ways.
00:01.120: The standard things that I do all the time.
00:01.120: And there's tutorials on my website about it.
00:01.200: Good morning, welcome to another episode of Final Cut Grill.
00:01.280: It's just me.
00:01.280: tour of the screen.
00:01.280: Filters, transforming, distortion, cropping, all of that stuff.
00:01.280: Frankly, all kinds of crazy stuff.
00:01.280: They'll go, oh yeah, I'm just throw this stuff in and start editing.
00:01.280: His argument was setting up a project was too difficult.
00:01.360: Thanks for supporting our sponsors, FX Factory and Premium Beat.
00:01.440: Oh, okay.
00:01.520: It'd be video renders and audio renders and timeline, you know, waveform renders, and all that stuff gets put there.
00:01.520: So I come to the library.
00:01.520: There's basically nothing to do in general.
00:01.520: And this is where you make the commitment.
00:01.520: So nowadays, when I want to move something, it just it works for me.
00:01.520: And exporting clips from your timeline, there's two major ways of thinking about it.
00:01.520: Some people number them so that they have a logical flow top to bottom.
00:01.600: All you have to do is go into what's called the position tool.
00:01.600: Whereas if you were doing the Apple prescribed method and say, I'm going to go like, you know, file.
00:01.680: And that's really the key difference between Final Cut 7 and Final Cut 10, or frankly, Final Cut 10 and anything else.
00:01.680: Well, I would put a copy of each one of those sound effects into the noise folder or the audio folder in every job folder.
00:01.680: You'll learn for stuff.
00:01.760: I got to tell you, I just leave all that stuff at default, I believe.
00:01.760: And don't get me wrong, I mean, I don't get a penny from these guys, but like I said, it's the only training I've ever paid for.
00:01.840: My office cell phone my office uh desk phone would be keyworded with communication device.
00:01.920: I carry stuff around in them all the time.
00:01.920: So at the bottom of the editing tab, I like to do two things.
00:01.920: And I know that's going to be the docs folder where all of the scripts and stuff are.
00:02.000: I'm going to totally trust the library method.
00:02.000: So you're like, okay, and I think it was like, I want to say like command shift C or command shift X.
00:02.000: And they're trying to make they are trying to make some of the things easier.
00:02.000: He was right all along.
00:02.080: But at any rate, back to the library.
00:02.080: Okay, that's good.
00:02.080: Well, thanks for listening to this kind of off-the-beat, unusual episode of the show.
00:02.160: It doesn't tie up your app, it bogs down your app.
00:02.240: Oh, the other thing I want to mention about the timeline is that there are times where you don't want to deal with the ripple, with the magnetic timeline.
00:02.240: And that way I won't knock stuff out of sync that's anywhere past that.
00:02.320: If you're tired of listening to me, you may want to sign off now.
00:02.320: One, it's going to allow people that are on other computers to reach in and touch, manipulate, modify, or update files that you are using.
00:02.320: And if you want to cut a clip out of a place in the timeline and not have it ripple, maybe because you don't want to knock stuff out of sync with it, that we're hitting music beats or something.
00:02.320: You're like tying up a bunch of hard drive space with okay, let's talk about that.
00:02.320: And they gave them away for free because back in the transition from 10.
00:02.400: Now, in Final Cut 10, in its current iteration, Final Cut 10.
00:02.400: And then the other thing to think about is if you, you know, I've had people complain that they just want to pick something up and put it at the tail end of the timeline.
00:02.400: Feel free to share this with people that you know that are trying to get over that learning wall that we talk about all the time, you know, without too many cuts and bruises and contusions on their forehead.
00:02.480: Okay?
00:02.480: So all of my sequences and ways of looking at sequences are in there.
00:02.480: I did that all the time.
00:02.480: So, ripple paste would actually take that last clip, which might be your final graphic, and push it down to the end.
00:02.560: We use Premium Beat all the time here at Slice where I work.
00:02.560: Okay, so the scratch disk was where you captured all your media to, and where Final Cut rendered all of its render files to.
00:02.560: I will just say I haven't had those kind of problems, but I certainly respect Alex.
00:02.640: And in the library method, the library file, which is really what's called a
00:02.640: And anybody can look at it, but I want to give you the terminology that we'll that we use in the show and actually what Apple uses.
00:02.640: They sell their plugins through fx factory.
00:02.720: You know, I anybody who knows me, and they people make fun of me, I'm always wearing cargo pants, either you know, six-pocket cargo pants or shorts.
00:02.720: So that would be like I was searching for the word cell phone.
00:02.720: Oh, that's kind of like the magnetic timeline.
00:02.800: So you might have a 100 megabyte file outside the library.
00:02.800: So when actually, we're going to talk about that in a moment.
00:02.800: And my keyword is communication device.
00:02.800: Well, that's guess what?
00:02.800: Okay, one of the things that I want to recommend that people do when they're getting started with Funnel Cut, and again, and
00:02.800: They'll open it up on another machine, and they need to make sure that all of the stuff is there, okay?
00:02.880: Then you go, Ah, I just spent all this money.
00:02.880: There's four or five systems around the office, and we're quite often we're all working on separate things.
00:02.960: And the reason for that is if you put this job on another hard drive on a hard drive and give it to another person
00:02.960: And when you export a master file, you're going to do what Alex McLean and I call the Texas Master
00:02.960: So any video converter, no space between any and video.
00:03.040: As a matter of fact, they just announced, and I haven't downloaded this one and tried it yet.
00:03.040: And anyway, it's worth looking at.
00:03.040: You've probably heard me talk many times about how I always use Photoshop and After Effects.
00:03.040: So you might want to consider digging a little deeper and getting out of the library model.
00:03.040: And so I don't have to remember where what pocket, back to the cargo pants, I don't have to remember what pocket I put things in because I'm just going to make a request.
00:03.040: Now I need to make one for the iPad.
00:03.120: And I take all of my stuff and I have to put it on the shelf.
00:03.120: So to the left of the effects browser, again, we're doing a round trip around the user interface.
00:03.120: And this is in seconds.
00:03.120: From that file, I disseminate all of the various compressions and sizes that I need to deliver.
00:03.120: Now, archiving is something that's very near and dear to my heart because
00:03.200: And the reason I use the Adobe apps is that for text stuff.
00:03.200: There's like one of those little half-sized doors.
00:03.200: Now this is the thing that I've complained many times, that in the Apple publicity on the website, there's only one photograph where you can actually see the inspector open, and it's nowhere near
00:03.200: So anything that's a still image, whether it be a PNG or a JPEG or whatever, that would go in there.
00:03.200: And I think the problem is, and I've said this many times, I'm not, it's kind of embarrassing to admit it, I'm not a really strong reader.
00:03.360: So, anyway, that template event allows me to grab those four folders and drag them into any new event.
00:03.360: So that's my this last 69 episodes has been my personal testimonial about why I use Final Cut 10.
00:03.440: And when you open that guy, you get what's called the timeline index.
00:03.440: Next thing I want to talk about is the preferences.
00:03.440: I think when again, when you start to understand how the magnetic timeline works for you, it's actually really, really powerful.
00:03.440: Thanks for listening.
00:03.520: I would leave that in the default settings.
00:03.520: And the biggest thing that everybody talks about is, oh, I hate the magnetic timeline.
00:03.520: It's like, oh, hey, we want to revisit that project.
00:03.600: And it's like, why bother?
00:03.600: That's a communication device.
00:03.600: Primar most of what we deal with is like H.
00:03.600: This is also where you would create proxy media if you wanted to do that.
00:03.600: Alex Lindsay from Pixel Core, he will tell you flat out: transcode everything.
00:03.680: It also has all of your render files, or what Final Cut 10.
00:03.680: So if they're taking a piece of artwork that was
00:03.680: And actually, come to think of it, the guys at Ripple they call it a managed library and unmanaged.
00:03.680: I want to export the file.
00:03.680: Okay, fine.
00:03.760: Number one, I want to thank the people at Premium Beat.
00:03.760: You'll save a lot of time.
00:03.760: I love the magnetic timeline.
00:03.760: And frankly, it was very powerful.
00:03.760: And then at the top of it is the one library file.
00:03.840: If I'm making an animated text graphic, I'll use, of course, After Effects.
00:03.840: So the library method will keep all of your renders and all of your media inside that one library.
00:03.840: Show me all of the JPEG images or the still images that I have to choose from.
00:03.840: You have your transition, your text, your generators.
00:03.840: And interestingly enough, people are saying, Oh, I want to work that way.
00:03.920: And I thought it would be an interesting thing to kind of sort of do an experiment.
00:03.920: Once again, it seems like I say this a couple of times a week, and I do, but once again, solved a problem.
00:03.920: And I think that for somebody that needs to work with other people
00:04.000: This is episode 69, and this is going to be a special episode today.
00:04.000: Oh, I'm in the wrong thing.
00:04.000: I have a smart collection that finds all of my projects.
00:04.000: Not the least of which is you can export directly to YouTube, directly to Vimeo, or even directly to Facebook.
00:04.000: And I never even import anything into my app until I have put it in the place where it needs to be.
00:04.160: But when I take a thing like my cell phone, my cell phone is going to go in the
00:04.160: And the reason I do that is, you know, many times you'll have many, many versions of a timeline.
00:04.240: I need my cell phone.
00:04.240: But there's a little um a little button in the center bar.
00:04.240: And then there's the more advanced I need to work with other people method.
00:04.320: And it took me a while to get there.
00:04.320: So that'd be a good place to get started.
00:04.400: Now I'm going to assume you've used Final Cut 7, and if you haven't, then fast forward a few minutes.
00:04.400: It's not in seconds and frames.
00:04.400: Press the letter P on your keyboard.
00:04.400: These guys are gifted instructors.
00:04.400: This is episode 69.
00:04.480: Now, I'm not a big fan of Apple Compressor.
00:04.560: com is basically what they have done is they've built a little ecosystem.
00:04.560: Now you could put the media outside the library, and you could then tell Final Cut or
00:04.560: Likewise, in the import window, in the second thing they're transcoding, I turn off create optimized media.
00:04.560: So what I would do is instead of lifting that clip out of clip position number two, I would and I can't remember the keyboard shortcut because it's been a while.
00:04.560: So I'd rather just do all that stuff outboard.
00:04.560: And what that means is we had to satisfy that sort of Randy Ebilos, it took me too long
00:04.640: Okay, so let's get started.
00:04.720: Am I going to embrace the managed library method by leaving it on copy to library storage location?
00:04.720: How do I do it?
00:04.720: And from that file, we generate anything we need to do.
00:04.720: It has all the media, it has all the renders, it has all of the
00:04.720: Unless you're using a managed library or the library method where you bring all of your media into the library.
00:04.720: And to kind of wrap things back up from the beginning
00:04.800: Now, if you think about the way we used to move clips around in a Final Cut VII era.
00:04.880: And quite frankly, a lot of times you can garner those assets from a client and say, can you give me that file?
00:04.880: The lower pocket on the left side.
00:04.880: So now, if I come to the librarian and I say, give me all my communication devices, I don't have to remember where they actually are.
00:04.880: Then I would take my timeline, my playhead, down to the space between
00:04.880: And the advantage of using my method, where you make that Texas Master, is that quite often I have to deliver in multiple formats.
00:04.880: So I think one of the things that has really been the thorn in people's side when it comes to Final Cut 10
00:04.960: Now the other reason why I'm doing this is I've had a busy personal week.
00:04.960: And you're really better off organizing your stuff ahead of time.
00:05.040: It's worth checking out.
00:05.040: Now, where do I get the video filters from?
00:05.040: If you want a bunch of stills up for a long period of time, set it for ten seconds.
00:05.040: This is also where you set the default duration.
00:05.040: Now if I want to cut something out of a time line or delete something out of the time line and actually leave a space, I can still do that.
00:05.120: So, for starters, you have to decide, and you don't need to decide this right away, but it's something that you're going to deal with.
00:05.120: But the problem is, or the advantage is rather, of Fancha ten is I don't have to be so literal about this one thing is in this one bin.
00:05.120: So my cell phone will be keyword with the keyword communication device.
00:05.120: But typically what we do in our in our office is we export our ProRes files from there.
00:05.200: Now again, if you're just getting started, you're probably going to want to open up the Final Cut Preferences.
00:05.200: And then the destinations tab is where you would choose all of the different ways that you want to be able to export.
00:05.200: What's it's the most current one?
00:05.200: So I'm going to have to do the same thing: file share devices, 720p.
00:05.280: It doesn't really do what I want.
00:05.280: And again, let's go back to the Funnel Cut 7 versus Funnel Cut 10 world.
00:05.280: And generators is where like you would get like a slub of black or a frame of white or quite frankly, there's tons of things in the generator browser now.
00:05.280: Open library, temp library.
00:05.280: I get it.
00:05.280: And maybe I have a lot of muzzle blast shots or something.
00:05.360: And I had reached out to a few people, and things didn't work quite as smooth as I was hoping they would.
00:05.360: That's what I believe he even said from the stage.
00:05.440: And our bins were kind of like folders, and inside those we would put things.
00:05.440: And I hand them my cell phone.
00:05.440: You just run out of time and you stop working on it.
00:05.520: And when you understand what it is going to do for you.
00:05.520: You could even select like clips two through seven or whatever and ripple cut those, and then take those down to the end of the town line, ripple paste.
00:05.520: And there are some really attractive and
00:05.600: Well, I'll tell you one really specific reason.
00:05.600: Stabilization, rolling shutter repair work, all that stuff is inside the inspector.
00:05.600: Okay, so when you open up the preferences, you have a grand total of only five little buttons.
00:05.600: So please, Apple, change that.
00:05.600: One of the things that I learned from John Davidson recently on the show
00:05.600: And I got to say, it's one of my favorite tricks that I use all day, every day.
00:05.600: They're great guys, and I'm very appreciative of the dedication that they have had.
00:05.680: Okay, that's a mouthful.
00:05.680: Here we go.
00:05.760: To the right of the library sorter tool thing, you have your event browser.
00:05.760: So all of a sudden, I have a lot more power.
00:05.840: And we logged on and within a couple of minutes, you know, we nailed it.
00:05.840: What it's going to do is it's going to keep everything that you need for your project in that one library file.
00:05.840: And you click on that thinking it opens up the inspector.
00:05.840: Okay, so that's the effects browser.
00:05.840: And that drives me crazy that you can't do this in, you know, like
00:05.840: 0 to 10.
00:05.840: We're out.
00:05.920: If you were going to sit down with somebody who'd never used Final Cut, or maybe you are that person.
00:05.920: Okay?
00:05.920: And now they even have additional stuff on 10.
00:06.000: But please, I think that this is going to be an interesting chat, monologue, if you will.
00:06.000: Now that may be the way you want to work, and certainly if you're just getting started, you might want to try to work that way.
00:06.080: And you know what?
00:06.080: Okay, search cell phone, boom, here's your cell phone.
00:06.080: I think a lot of people don't know that you can ripple cut and ripple paste in Final Cut 7.
00:06.080: And for example, I used one, I don't see it actually here, but it's called any
00:06.080: But by shunning the entire app, just because there are things that are easier
00:06.080: co, the website.
00:06.160: And we're not going to get into that, it's a little bit more advanced.
00:06.160: I could call it anything.
00:06.160: And it's a folder.
00:06.160: Final Kat 10 is a referential app.
00:06.320: And it's very handy when you have the ability to
00:06.320: Before we get into that, because we have to get into the preference screen, I want to take you on a quick
00:06.320: Close this.
00:06.320: You also may want to take a look at some of the training materials.
00:06.320: We'll be back Friday with another episode.
00:06.400: I've been too busy.
00:06.400: And that is a bit controversial, but I don't
00:06.400: Well, much to my dismay, they used kind of what I would consider sort of a consumer word, but they call it the share menu.
00:06.400: It just doesn't work for me, mainly because quite often we have to go back and make additional and more copies of something.
00:06.480: Okay, well, here's your cell phone.
00:06.560: They too have decided that they want to support the show, and we're going to slip their comments in.
00:06.560: I go put this away from me.
00:06.560: Now, again, there is sort of the
00:06.560: So you can move it beyond the end of the time line.
00:06.560: I don't like reading for things.
00:06.560: 1, there was a little bit of cha-cha-cha you had to pay attention to.
00:06.640: And they just I can't thank them enough.
00:06.640: Okay, we were talking about the user interface.
00:06.640: If I have a smart collection that finds all of my
00:06.720: Maybe this would be a better video podcast, but today we're doing audio.
00:06.720: I always put my cell phone there.
00:06.800: They have been very generous to step forward and support this show and what we're doing.
00:06.960: What do I mean by that?
00:06.960: And I have to remember: oh, this thing is on the shelf on the top shelf on the right side.
00:06.960: Directly below the inspector is the effects browser.
00:06.960: I set the duration for what I want the default
00:06.960: Okay, so if I had ten clips laid out, and I want to move clip, I don't know, two to number nine, let's say.
00:06.960: So
00:06.960: So as you start opening up the referential app,
00:06.960: com.
00:07.040: And again, if you're wildly advanced, maybe you don't need to listen to this.
00:07.040: So anyway, FX Factory lets you try every feature of the plugin.
00:07.040: However,
00:07.040: And if you allow Final Cut to import that into the library,
00:07.040: And so, knowing that, every time I saw a picture of a pet, I keyworded it with, you know, pet or dog, I can't remember what I did.
00:07.040: And that is actually really handy.
00:07.040: So anyway, that's the job folder strategy that I've practiced for good grief.
00:07.040: And that's why I came up with the method.
00:07.040: And if you haven't figured out by now, after 69 of these one-hour talks.
00:07.120: And you can try every plugin that they sell with a fully
00:07.120: Hi walkie color through FX Factory.
00:07.120: Of course, you have your timeline.
00:07.120: I just drag it into there and I remove the keyword collection of current from older versions.
00:07.120: It's like, really?
00:07.120: You can also find stuff on my website.
00:07.200: 1.
00:07.200: All right, um next thing I want to talk about is um
00:07.200: And that's my view on exporting.
00:07.200: And that one library file
00:07.280: In other words, and I'll use browser just like I would have in FileFit 7, where all my files are stored and how they're organized.
00:07.280: And although I can't put things in the folder, the only thing I can put in the folder is a keyword collection or a smart collection in there.
00:07.280: So it's kind of a piece of media, but it's generated by me.
00:07.280: And it's basically like working in Funnel Cut 7.
00:07.280: I use Adobe Media Encoder all the time.
00:07.280: Hard drives are cheaper now.
00:07.280: Anyway, great stuff from Ripple Training, and I personally
00:07.360: And I like to think of it, I've used it in the past, I think, maybe not on the air, but
00:07.360: Generators is a little weird, but actually, come to think of it, it actually is exactly like it was in Final Cut.
00:07.360: 264 footage.
00:07.360: And then I have a thing called Zero Two Graphics, and in there I have two things.
00:07.360: And you have this is like a, I don't know, it's like a $5 app, $4 app, a $6 app.
00:07.440: And although as of yet, we cannot put two cursors in the same time line and say, I'm going to work the front half and you're going to work the back half,
00:07.440: But in there, I have four folders.
00:07.440: Magnetic timeline's dumb.
00:07.520: The editing tab
00:07.520: Now, most importantly, here is at the top of the import window is the files
00:07.600: I will say my workflow requires me to
00:07.680: And imagine I was sitting down with somebody who was brand new to the app.
00:07.680: 2, the library method
00:07.680: That was kind of an advanced way of working, but the magnetic timeline actually works that way for me now.
00:07.680: If you keep them alphabetical
00:07.760: And yes, we know these names are ridiculous, and it's just what it is.
00:07.760: 1.
00:07.760: I always put my cash in my left pocket.
00:07.760: There's a high there's a light gray bar
00:07.760: And that means you want to build a template project.
00:07.760: Okay, let's go to my little notepad here.
00:07.760: It is 13 folders.
00:07.760: And so obviously, they are committed to this.
00:07.840: Now, granted, there are ways that you can do many of those things right inside of Final Cut.
00:07.840: Now, in our office, we have a media folder that is outside of the library.
00:07.840: It's ridiculous.
00:07.840: It has all of the sound effects, all of the and you know, it might sound counterintuitive.
00:08.000: Okay, so imagine instead of being
00:08.000: So I'm making it a thing.
00:08.000: I like looking at
00:08.080: I decided for multiple reasons, and you'll read through, you'll see through my scam here pretty quick.
00:08.080: 2 calls the cache.
00:08.160: Decide your frame size, decide your frame rate, transcode everything, then import it.
00:08.160: He said, I got back from my family vacation and setting up a project was too difficult.
00:08.160: People like Philip Hodgetts has been saying from the beginning, it's metadata, man, it's all about the metadata, metadata, metadata.
00:08.240: I want to show you or walk you as walk through some of the um
00:08.240: So it would cut, it would lift the clip out of the space between one and three.
00:08.240: And I will also say, I believe they have a whole new
00:08.320: I'm going to give you two.
00:08.320: Now this is where you're going to, you know, do your color correction.
00:08.320: Okay, that's the way I used to work, but it took more keystrokes
00:08.400: 1.
00:08.480: And I've said this many times, but the timeline index
00:08.560: I just haven't had the same problems.
00:08.640: He'd go, Hold on, let me get you those 30 shots.
00:08.640: In the playback window, I will tell you that the one thing that I change all the time.
00:08.640: And you know, there are many things that people do to organize their media.
00:08.640: They have great content.
00:08.720: To the right of that is the viewer.
00:08.720: My stuff is not so much, you know, hey, let's get started.
00:08.800: Compound clips
00:08.800: The files don't
00:08.800: 2.
00:08.800: Later, later.
00:08.880: My laptop would be keyworded with the
00:08.880: It infuriates me.
00:08.880: And when I moved it out of the time line, it left it automatically left a little slug there for you.
00:08.880: I would highly recommend if you like me and you love your After Effects
00:08.960: And if I don't have to, and with H.
00:09.040: Well, in Final Cut X, inside the library, we can
00:09.120: I will also say that when Final Cut 10.
00:09.120: And again, a lot of these things are free.
00:09.200: In Funnel Cut 7, we would have.
00:09.200: And then I have a thing called a folder called zero three noise.
00:09.200: And because of that, we need to have everything in that job folder.
00:09.360: Give it some thoughts.
00:09.440: But in the old Final Cut 7 days, we had a thing called a project file.
00:09.520: Now, first of all, in Final Cut, you're not going to find an export.
00:09.520: And that job folder has literally everything in it.
00:09.520: It's a sound file, it's not that big.
00:09.600: I put my keys in my right pocket.
00:09.680: Okay.
00:09.680: Now let's talk about the time line for a little bit.
00:09.760: Now let me see if I can find I'm kind of surprised my
00:09.920: Okay, so that's probably one of the key things that most people
00:10.000: And so if I try to quote unquote recreate it
00:10.160: Because I'll be able to take that apart and use bits of it.
00:10.240: Sit down and think about it for a while.
00:10.240: And I'm not seeing it, and I hope I'm not talking out of
00:10.480: You know, I was like, come on, Philip.
00:10.560: Basically, not a whole lot to say there.
00:10.560: So it is a great way.
00:10.560: It's very reasonably priced.
00:10.720: Now this is kind of spawned from a conversation that I had with
00:10.720: I have a thing called Anim Renders.
00:10.720: And it might seem like
00:10.880: I only have to come to the doorway.
00:11.040: My wallets in my right rear pocket.
00:11.040: Now, my personal favorite
00:11.280: How do you get over the initial
00:11.360: So when I click on current, I can always find the most current timeline.
00:11.440: A lot of t times people, you know, in a
00:11.440: Step one, step two, step three.
00:11.520: And it's kind of embarrassing.
00:11.600: We'll talk about that a little more in a bit.
00:11.680: 264, I have found you don't have to.
00:11.760: Show me all my communication devices.
00:11.760: It's where you do a lot of audio work.
00:11.760: And two,
00:11.840: You can't really change it.
00:11.840: It's basically a little database of everything that's in your timeline.
00:11.840: That's my exporting logic.
00:11.920: I can't remember what it's called.
00:11.920: I just have to hit shift delete.
00:11.920: You know, how many times are you going to preach that sermon?
00:12.240: But there was a keyboard shortcut for
00:12.320: A lot has been talked about
00:12.480: And
00:12.480: And if you haven't noticed,
00:12.560: And I think
00:12.640: So I really
00:12.880: Okay.
00:12.880: Like let's say I do a bunch of
00:12.960: So once I have
00:13.200: And inside the share menu,
00:13.440: Anyway.