The further up the capture chain you can apply metadata, the more time will be saved in post, and the more valuable your data is for future uses. This is really helpful if you have a reality TV shoot with a bunch of microphones or if you just want to take care of SubRoles on set instead of in post. You can identify each of the channels on the device and FCPX will use iXML to automatically label the channels for you with SubRoles. Roles and iXMLĪudio recorders like the Sound Devices SD633 or the Zoom F8 and F4 offer a cool trick. So the takeaway is to give some thought to assigning Roles before using clips. So if you’ve used a clip in a project or multicam, that role needs to be applied within that project. But the idea is that you can assign a new role to a clip that is only reflected in future uses of that clip because you wouldn’t want to mess up projects that were completed in the past. What if you already used it in the timeline? This is important, because changes to a role in the browser don’t populate down into previous uses of a clip in a timeline. Just select your clips and change the role in the Inspector. What if you forgot to assign a role on import? No worries. This is the power of metadata-if you assign it early, it will work for you in every place you ever use that clip.Īssigning Roles in the Browser and Inspector This way, the assigned role will populate in every project that you use that clip, in every multicam sequence or synced clip. But if you want, you can switch it right in the import dialogue. It automatically tags audio attached to video clips as Dialogue. Right off the bat, FCP X wants to help make applying Roles as easy as possible. You could apply a SubRole to a specific kind of footage, or apply one to all the footage shot with a particular camera in the browser. Give them a SubRole so they’ll stand out in the timeline. Maybe you’ve added motion graphics from After Effects. Now you can add SubRoles to define the kind of video footage. SubRoles give you the opportunity to refine the kind of video or audio Role you’re working with. I find this more helpful than traditional video and audio tracks because the type of file is directly associated with the clip, instead of indirectly associated with it via a track. This makes it really easy to see what you are working with at a glance. Your dialogue, sound effects and music clips all get distinct colors. Normal clips get the video Role (blue) and titles get the title Role (purple). The first advantage of Roles is visually distinguishing between different types of video clips. The need to say, “dialog is on track 1-4 and sfx are on 5-8” disappears. Roles simply identify elements as what the are. These standard Roles get you started, but you can take the feature much further. By default, Roles let you identify video clips as titles or normal video, and for audio, dialogue effects or music.
Video Roles are helpful to visually organize your timeline but audio Roles are where the feature truly shines.
Is it a title? A sound effect? The audio from a certain interviewee? There are both video Roles and audio Roles. I think of Roles as “tracks without limitations.” Basically you are just telling Final Cut Pro X what role a particular clip plays in your film. They ultimately help streamline our entire post-production process and give us access to a cleaner, tighter editing environment. We want an efficient workspace so we can focus on telling our story. We all want to streamline our work as much as possible. Let’s dig in and see how Roles can help you focus on your work, and keep you organized. Last year Apple made big strides toward their goal and delivered an expansion of the “Roles” feature. Apple has been refining FCPX in each of these areas. Final Cut Pro X launched with an ambitious goal: put video editing, sound editing and color grading in the same app.
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