Most people I know working don't have degrees. You need to find the small free jobs, and build on those to larger paid jobs. A demo reel goes further than anything else.
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You can, during export, specify to include or not include specific roles, too.

If you use the "V" shortcut to mute a clip in a Timeline, a standard export will not include it, it is muted in the export.
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I'd seriously look at Cantemo, also.
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1 - Show lens flares that in real life would indicate the natural lighting will BLIND people, realistically. So do it for effect, not realism, and not for any reason that adds (but subtracts from) the story.

2- Rip off every single line of dialog from previous films in the series, so that no character shows any growth or development, but rather de-volution.

3 - Make the ending titles interesting, but as monotonous as hell so your audience can't stand it.

4 - Disenfranchise true Trekies so we lose all respect for you.

5 - Disenfranchise all true filmmakers so we can see you for the no talent POS rip off artist you really are.
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Those developers now work for Adobe, trying to mimic FCPX.
AutoDuck is dead, period.
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Can you detail where you get this title clip from, and how you apply it to new timeilnes?
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That is not an echo, it is a reverb with a long release, but same thing as I described for an audio echo, just go to the "Spaces" collection and use PlatinumVerb. Place a Gap Clip to the end of the audio, make it a Compound Clip, apply the PlatinumVerb to the Compound. Or create a Hold frame (shift-h) from the last frame of the clip, and the reverb will last through the Hold frame.
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2 solid minutes, 400 words, that's some heavy titling. That could actually be some pretty fast reading for that specific title. But 24 hours, that's odd. I'm testing it now, and it is not taking that long to "render". I'd be sure I wasn't doing this off the system drive.
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I like using Disk Warrior, too.
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"I do hope Pixelmator improves PS import compatibility."

In what manner, specifically?
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Are you running 10.0.8?
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And read up, there are some things to watch for. I've got a blog post going up about it, that has some gotchas to watch for. But yes, it is really incredible.
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Those "Corrupted..." folders are supposed to be temporary and hidden while FCP X restores from the backup database copies. Something interrupted that machine mid-process.
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FCPX makes a backup of every project/event every time it saves. On launch it checks for file integrity on all mounted Projects or Events. Any corrupted ones get moved into corrupted folders, and the backup version is automatically loaded. Corruption generally happens only when there's a system freeze or power interruption at the moment of an autosave and even then it's exceedingly rare.

You should still have backups in the original Project and Event folders. Copy the backup (select, Command-D, in the Finder) and rename it CurrentVersion.fcpevent or CurrentVersion.fcpproject as appropriate. Then place into the corresponding Project or Event folder.

Thanks to a fellow trainer who gave me this info, BTW.
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I'll say it again. I've used Pixelmator and Sketch instead of Adobe products for going on 2 years now. Haven't looked back.

So it seems all three of the big A's have ticked off everyone and their cousin. How funny is that? LMAO!
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Compound Clip?
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Yes, common mistakes about an old, old, old method. I'm honored enough to have actually spoken to master Dale himself, who created it.

Point is, rehears that escalator speech.
Memorize it.
Know it.
Been there, know that, from longer ago than most of you can remember, can attest it works 100 percent of the time when you do it RIGHT.

Very similar technique taught by many of my colleges teaching directors in higher education. Sum up the film in 3 or less sentences, then each scene as such, then each shot as such, on paper, before you ever even storyboard.

Not only will you know your whole film before touching a camera, but when something goes wrong, and you need to cut a scene, you can do it in a few minutes, rather than hours discussing it with the crew. And if you're and editor who does this, the edit is completed before you ever see the first media import.

Been there, done that.
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Just a technical note. My late father was a regional sales manager for Motorola's emergency services division, and was required to take and give hundreds of sales trainings. Used to drive me nuts growing up with all that crap. Anyway, it was a Dale Carnagie thing from way back. The correct original term was "Escalator Speech" and it stated you only had 20 seconds. The time it took to ride an escalator on floor, then when you reached the top, your captive audience was free to escape. He said it was a powerful sales technique, I said it was a form of inhuman torture. I never was good at sales...
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It is a function, not a template.

"Modify" menu, "Retime" sub-menu.
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"... and even more burned by Apples refusal to engage them in dialogue."

Actually, Apple has been, and currently is. Just FYI. But its another one of their big secret project thingies.
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I converted your Scoreboard to an actual FCP X generator.


[File Attachment: Scoreboard.zip]
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It was insinuated to me the Mac Pro replacements won't be until "late in the year".

In the mean time, I'm following this review, with will publish Motion 5 and FCP X specific tests soon. If it goes as I hope, it will be THE card to squeeze more life out of my early 2008 Mac Pro before the new replacements come out.
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If you're not delivering 4K, there's no real reason to shoot 4K. Shoot HD, deliver HD. Why create unnecessary headaches?

But if you really wanted to, you can simply drop a 4K into a 1080 timeline and edit away. It just eats up more horsepower. I've done it with RED 4K, mixing it with DSLR HD. Nothing special to do, just edit.

For multicam, I'd make everything HD, though. You're talking about major horsepower throwing 4K at that. If I were to do a 4K multicam, I'd make proxies and do the original rough edit and trims with proxy. Switch to 4K for color grading and output only.

I'd wait to see real world reviews of how the BMD Production Camera does in low light before buying one for event work.
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I do know for a fact Apple FCP folks are deeply imbedded in Hollywood working on things at the moment. But that is all I know.

What about the Detective Dee movie switching from FCP 7 to FCP X mid production? To me that settles the issue. And if folks want to bash in FCO X, I don't give a rat's ass.

Adobe is actively encouraging FCPX bashing in the most ugliest forms. I personal witnessed at the official Adobe press briefing at NAB Show 2013 Adobe doing some very ugly FCPX bashing. They let the guys from The Annoying Orange do a bit that was pure, way out of bound, extremely ugly, super childish FCP X bashing. They literally bashed an Apple with a hammer. I left very early cause I was disgusted they couldn't just talk about PPro's attributes.

I wrote a post in my blog about it.
Shortly after I was contacted on Facebook by an Adobe exec about my blog. I told him the "facts" of my case, and he still denied it ever happened. I said, "I was there, I personally witnessed it." He called me a liar flat out. So, Adobe bashes Apple, and when someone points that out, they lie about it, and call you the liar. Great marketing Adobe!
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Slower frame rates with fast pans will do that. Pan slower, and/or speed up the frame rate. But in general, that is typical of you panning a shot too fast in the first place, it seems.
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Try asking here.
forums.adobe.com/community/premiere
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Drop me an email (address is in my profile) and I'll contact folks I know there.
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Very impressive update. Check out the tutorials, about a minute each, showing them off. The Paint Bucket tool is so much easier to use than in PS. Such a true Mac like experience and interface. Loving it!

Pixelmator 2.2 "Blueberry" has over 100 new features and improvements.
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Here is an old tutorial video I did from FCP 7. Skip the FCP part, jump to the compressor part. It is very easy.
Download here.

You are creating two separate files, one video, one audio, that you then take into your DVD authoring application.
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muddygun, there is a template section.
www.fcp.co/forum/9-free-fcpx-plugins-and-templates
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Remember that you probably got the original version for only $49.
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Like Tom said, an Adobe forum is where you need to ask this.

If it were FCP X, you's simply Share as a Master File, done.
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First, verify you have 10-15% free space on all drives.
Run Disk Utility on all drives.
Run Disk Warrior.

I do these once a month, haven't had any serious issues in years.
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Make the Most of Motion 5's Text Edit Markers

Imagine this if you can. You just created a wild, wicked, outrageous text title in Motion, for use in FCP X. It looks awesome for some extreme sports or reality show use. But there’s one tiny problem. The text is in several text boxes, they criss cross a lot, twist, spin, curl, flip, rotate, just all over the frame. Which means you can’t really get to that one or two frames where the text is clear and you can easily edit it all in the FCP X Viewer. Motion 5.0.5 gives us a tool that makes this situation a non-issue.
Full tutorial here.
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Run Disk Warrior on that drive, AND your system drive, and make sure all your drives have at least 10-15% of their total capacity as free space.
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Check your Applications folder, make sure there is no "Final Cut Pro Trial" application in there.
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FCP only reads Quicktime files, not the original MXF. You need to convert them all to QT ProRes 422, then re-link them.
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You only have access to the Analyze controls when the clip is dropped into a timeline, not from the Browser. Fill out the feedback form.
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Resolve can read the FCPXML metadata, and store it associated with those clips. Not a problem.

Optimizing will carry over the metadata.
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Sequence Text in Motion could do that easily, I'd think.
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What specific attributes do you want to keep? If it is only effects and color grading, try applying filters with an Adjustment Layer.
Free one here to download.
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Did I mention this article about slo-mo in FCP X?
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Compressor 4 do a search for DVD.
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An effect's folder MUST be put inside of:
[User Home Folder] > Movies > Motion Templates > Effects

I wrote "the effect's folder." It should have all of the files and stuff that Motion originally created.
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