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What is the first thing you will check when u first get ur hand on FCP X?
When I first install the X , the keyboard shortcuts are the first things I’m gonna check, J /K/ L , I / O,shift I/O , alt I/O , and the settings commands (shift+q , alt+q , cmd+alt+q and cmd+0)
What about guys?
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I will see whether there’s any way to have anything like a “Viewer” window. My biggest concern with FCPX is not the software, it’s my ability to adapt. I can learn keystrokes or mouse shortcuts quickly (though when I’m tired I do accidentally hit old Avid and Edit* keys). But I don’t think I can adapt to a single viewer for timeline and source.
A few years ago I gave Sony Vegas a real try — it’s got a lot of great features and it certainly outshone the old version of Premiere on windows. But I couldn’t get used to the chop-suey approach of editing on the timeline. Throw a bunch of clips on the timeline and trim, adjust, and filter them there. It worked for certain kinds of projects (short promos etc.) But for anything long it drove me crazy. I like to use the source Viewer as a sandbox, where I can try things – duration, filters, etc. – without having to “undo” them. There are times where I like to gang the timeline and source. I found I just couldn’t take the single window.
So I’m less worried about the features of FCPX, and more worried about whether I can force my brain to accept one viewer.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
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Blade tool, ripple delete, then Multicam. Also looking forward to how the new Text Tools work.
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I’m going to make a large sequence, filled with a ton of clips and plugins in the hopes of making an obnoxiously large project file. I’m interested to see how large, in a 64-bit environment, a project file can get before it gets unstable.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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First check to see if I can turn off all the auto rippling (magnetic timeline) and and auto skimming.
Go try iMovie and see if you don’t go crazy with the skimming bs. I’m sorry but I kinda leave my playhead in a certain spot for a reason. Just mousing around in iMovie will drive you nuts.
Then, yeah, need a viewer. Mark in/out, and real tracks/designations.
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Plugins?
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First thing I’ll check is the manual, and then perhaps Steve Martin’s tutorial from Ripple Training. If it’s good enough for the hackers to bother hacking, it’s probably the best training available.
For the record, there isn’t one so-called expert who’s too smart to read the manual.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[samir kassab] “When I first install the X , the keyboard shortcuts are the first things I’m gonna check, J /K/ L , I / O,shift I/O , alt I/O , and the settings commands (shift+q , alt+q , cmd+alt+q and cmd+0)
What about guys?”
Look for the ‘all stop’ key.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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Let me rephrase “filters”
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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[samir kassab] “J /K/ L , I / O,shift I/O , alt I/O “
Sure. Then Shift-X, Shift-V, how match frame works and whether it is there at all. Overwrite (it seems FCPX always in Insert mode) and Replace. Media Management. Native DPX support.
[Chris Walsh] “So I’m less worried about the features of FCPX, and more worried about whether I can force my brain to accept one viewer.”
Steenbeck had one Viewer. My editing rig has one Viewer too — Sony PVM-14L5 straight in front of me with computer displays at either side. I use FCP Viewer a lot when cutting with F-JKL-F11 routine. Also I gang Viewer and Canvas a lot because half of the time in edit room I’m conforming “digital negative” (R3D, ARRIRAW, DPX) to “digital workprint”. Still I don’t really look at the Viewer or Canvas, just glance occasionally. External monitor shows whatever footage is active. FCPX Canvas seems a lot like this. Could work.
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First thing will be the grading tools followed by trying to find if all the other apps have been rewritten as well…
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