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This one feature alone may be worth the price of admission
If round-tripping to Color is indeed seamless, as the excerpt below from page 43 of the FCP Product Overview states, I think FCS3 is undeniably worth every single penny, even if you need a new computer to run it.
And to those who might say they don’t give a flying fish about Color, save your breath, because if you don’t use Color, you’re simply missing the boat. There might have been reasons not to use it before, but seamless round-tripping, if it works, should put all those worries to rest for everyone.
Seamless round-tripping with Final Cut Pro 7
You can now send most long, complex sequences—including scenes with still graphics, speed effects, multicam clips, and other advanced functions—directly to Color from Final Cut Pro, with no preparation required. Speed changes render faster when you send your graded sequence back to Final Cut Pro.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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SInce I do multicam work, I totally agree.
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I totally agree. Well worth $300, or even $1000. And the new flavors of ProRes look to be worth the price of admission, as well. And the improvements of Motion, too.
Color coding tabs? Cute, but I wouldn’t have paid for it.
Now, where’s my nodal compositing system in Motion?
Arnie
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for $300 it’s what has been desperately needed. Color is such a touchy little fellow with big jobs. Just happen to be starting a 2 hour project that I’d love to shoot to Color in one fell swoop.
now… lets add some bigger and easier to use buttons in FCP’s Motion tab. Maybe some nudging with the arrow keys? And make working with keyframes feel sexy – not like working in MS Word. 🙂
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You can with the arrow keys if you hold down the option key. One of the shortcuts I use the most.
Best,
EliP.S.
I am excited about the new release, I don’t care what others are saying. I feel like it’s christmas day and I’m six years old everytime a new version of fcp comes out.Eli Mavros
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What I can’t believe is that they continue to drop the price.
The value is incredible.I’ve been on Adobe for the past couple of years.
Although I have freelanced using the FC Studio on occasion, I’m seriously considering finally migrating to this platform.
Maybe if I wait for FC Studio 10 they’ll have it $5. 🙂
Alex
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
Younversity TV
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[Alex Udell] “Maybe if I wait for FC Studio 10 they’ll have it $5. 🙂 “
Alex,
You can’t have FCS for $5, but you can have your own $25,000 Da Vinci-like color corrector for free.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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[Eli Mavros] “You can with the arrow keys if you hold down the option key. One of the shortcuts I use the most.”
wait a sec, you can nudge motion tab items? I’m pressing the option key…. not seeing anything react.
it would be a timesaver x4500 if this were true
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They are more than just color coated. They are movable, exportable(text) and they can follow the edit.
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Definitely a big improvement although I don’t think mixed frame rates or mixed frame sizes was addressed and the ‘interlace bug’ still seems to be around too. Oh well, I guess they had to save something for v2.0. 😉
-Andrew
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If you mean can you move the image in the canvas with arrow keys, then yes you can. Make sure the canvas is on Image + Wireframe, then click in a non-image area of the canvas and option-arrow nudges the image right,left, up, down.
Further, if you choose to alter the image with the mouse and the corner handles, then shift-drag lets you change the horiz-vert scaling, and cmd-frag lets you scale and rotate freely.
By the way, this is in FCP6/FCS2. Don’t know if this will be changed in FCP7.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India
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