What's new, fixed or different in FCP 10.3?

this may have bee mentioned before, but you can no longer range select audio to edit. When you select a range and hit delete, it merely mutes that section of the audio but doesn't cut it out. Which sucks, really, since that was a super helpful way to cut and pull up dialog and VO in a connected clip.

It works the old way with video clips, just not audio.

Unless there's a new command? Thoughts?

Just a follow-up--if you shift delete the range selected clip it leave a slug in which you can then delete by selecting and hitting return. But that's about 4 more steps than necessary.

Check out the answer on page 2 of the tread, message #81632, from editorguy

Yep, I thought I had seen a thread about this. Thanks Brian and Editorguy. BTW, I'm Mike Hadley--we worked together on a Cushman & Wakefield video a while back. Cheers!

After editing in 10.3 for the week, I feel like the "audio delete" behaviour is actually a bug. My reasoning is quite simple; when you have a range of audio highlighted in that manner, I can already press disable (v) and achieve the same things as pressing 'delete'; That seems oddly redundant to me. Also, when audio is in a secondary storyline, I would expect delete to behave as it would in a video only secondarily story line, otherwise, audio essentially is no longer "magnetic on the x axis" the only way I can have the audio "ripple delete" is by doing a 'cut' command, which is defiantly not what I want to do, if I already have something in my clipboard, nor is it what the cut command is for in principle.

Am I alone in this?

It's not a bug it's written in the manual

Well colour me surprised...

I guess I feel like if I wanted it disabled I would click 'v', If i wanted it to be a gap i would press 'delete', and If I wanted it to ripple delete, i would press "backspace".

oh well...

I do all of my exposure and color correction using the Color Board. One thing I noticed last night is that I can make incremental changes between the whole-number Shadows/Midtones/Highlights settings by slowly, gently moving the mouse. I typically like to set Shadows to +6 in the Exposure panel. Sometimes I like something a tad lower, but +5 is too dark. Incremental exposure changes are visible both in the playback pane and scopes like the Luna Waveform even though the number does not change in the Color Board panel. I like being able to make incrementally finer adjustments than whole-number values allow. I don't know if this was possible in previous versions, but I didn't notice it.

Skimming on a video clip in the timeline is not working, it is blue, so it should be working, but it is not, turn the blue icon off, skimming does not work, that is I cannot skim a clip on the primary storyline, when there are connected clips, all I see is the mix of all the video at that point..strange!!!

No sorry, it was me, grrrrh, there is no way to know if clip skimming is on or off, other than hunt it down in the tool-bar-view-clip skimming, really it should have been an icon, in blue for active/ grey for inactive...

Hopefully updated soon to have this as an icon, not holding my breath!!!

BTW, as for the Color board, you can double-click the numerical value and type something in, even a decimal place or two, or just click it and use up/down arrow keys, to be very precise. That's aways been there.

I'm working on a couple of reality TV shows (ugh) and the audio can get complicated. I'm finding the new audio shortcuts a big help. That's just me.

For Laptop users:
You can gain a little screen estate by opening your .fcpworkspace - file with the Property List Editor (Xcode) and setting the ‘TB Is Shown’ property to 0. Now the toolbar is hidden. If you don’t have Xcode installed you can use the free PlistEdit Pro.

If u’re here you can correct a bug: If you want to see just the Browser in your layout it always opens the Library Sidebar.
That is: the FFEventLibrarySidebarHidden - property is not respected. But if you set the Frame size of the PEMediaEventOrganizerContainerModule to 0 the sidebar is gone! ….and your Workspace is the way you want it to be:)
Happy editing!

Hi bcassin

Try ticking the option in the screen shot and then hover over the clip in the Browser.

You should see your Keywords in a little HUD.

best

Paul

Opppsss attempted to Reply to some thing on page 2 and landed here!!!

I've noticed that when adding keywords via a keyboard short cut I no longer get the little animation reassuring me that the keyword has been set. Only way to confirm it now is to open up the key word editor.

Has the "Open in Timeline" been replaced with "Open Clip". I think it has but just wanted to double check.

Yes it is now "Open Clip".

Jonathan Levin wrote: Has the "Open in Timeline" been replaced with "Open Clip". I think it has but just wanted to double check.

Yes it is, but it doesn't function the same. Nobody know at this moment if it is a bug or a wanted function.

Found this on the net regarding FCPX being the real NLE

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How does it not function the same?

After a while with FCPX 10.3 I just saw the video on the mainpage and was struck by just how much better FCPX looked before 10.3!
I really really don't like the new look. It's harder to see and quickly find buttons etc... everything just disappears in the flat monochrome interface... And it's boring-looking... feels very un-apple... I lost a bit of my joy using the app actually...

What defines a professional NLE? If you edit using 2 of the oldest betamax players, and someone buys the result of your efforts, you have a professional edit suite.

Professional is making money doing something, in our case, it is video and audio editing, taking many sources of video, audio, graphics, and merging them in a creative way to be viewed on a device capable of reproducing video and audio.

In the end, how we edit, on what we edit is meaningless, the average audience will not and really should not care on what NLE what they are enjoying was edited on.

Do I care if my favorite tv show was edited on an Avid, or FCP7, imovie? If it is good, then what is the problem?