10 Things Steve Martin wants in FCP X

[Marcus Moore]

it’s a good list- mostly nuts and bolts stuff about workflow within existing functionality.

My thoughts on timing and content of next update here-

https://disproportionatepictures.blogspot.ca/2014/09/final-cut-pro-x-whats-next-1014.html

[Mitch Ives]

Yep, agree with all of them. The really painful part? Most of them are things we USED to have!

Oh, but wait, that can’t be true because FCP X users universally agree that legacy sucked (sarcasm intentional).

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Rick Lang]

Steve, I don’t see a list; ! am reading your post on an iPad.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Steve Connor]

[Rick Lang] “Steve, I don’t see a list; ! am reading your post on an iPad.
“

It’s a link to a video

[Rick Lang]

Sorry, I don’t see a link on the iPad. I did see your text comment in your posts. I’ll see it later on the desktop. No worries.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[David Mathis]

[Steve Connor] ”
I’m sure David Mathis will agree with number 1″

I agree not just with number 1 but pretty much the entire list. 🙂

With that said, FCP X is very capable and no subscription required, that feature I really like!

camera operator | editor | production assistant

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[Shane Ross]

Wow…some of those are so basic, and are not only in other professional NLEs…but were also already doable in FCP 7. So they stepped back on functionality. Guess they didn’t realize that professional editors needed those things? Some seem like huge oversights…like audio crossfades and markers. So basic

Shane
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[David Mathis]

[Shane Ross] “Wow…some of those are so basic, and are not only in other professional NLEs…but were also already doable in FCP 7. So they stepped back on functionality. Guess they didn’t realize that professional editors needed those things? Some seem like huge oversights…like audio crossfades and markers. So basic”

My thoughts exactly. Some of what Steve talked about is available in Resolve 11 as well. I am seriously thinking about doing the edit in Resolve, grading in Resolve but use FCP X along side Motion 5 for finishing. Starting to have a flashback to the very beginning of this forum.

What what was Apple thinking when they pulled out the important tool set that once existed?

editor | camera operator | production assistant

[Bill Davis]

[Shane Ross] “Wow…some of those are so basic, and are not only in other professional NLEs…but were also already doable in FCP 7. So they stepped back on functionality. Guess they didn’t realize that professional editors needed those things? Some seem like huge oversights…like audio crossfades and markers. So basic

Shane
Little Frog Post”

Shane,

If you want to take the “glass half empty” traditional approach, then absolutely. All of these are accurate. On the other hand, if you realize that Apple poured a fully functioning database, range based key wording, magnetism for assembly speed, a planetary class multi-cam system, the ability to work in one rez, then swap pointers to other resolutions nearly instantly with a click – and the hundreds of other large and small advancements that Randy U built into X after rethinking things he perviously created for Premier and FCP Legacy before X – then YEP, these things are “missing” in X.

And many of us barely miss them.

If for the rest of time, I got NONE of the things on Steve’s list (valid as is surely is) back – I’d still fight tooth and nail anyone who wanted to take away the things that X does do for the speed and efficiency of my daily editing practice.

The “glass” in X might look half full to some. But I kinda see it as a glass that’s overflowed five or six times, and the fact that it’s not full to the brim right now simply allows Apple to add more juicy goodness from the pitcher later!

And so it goes.

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[Scott Shucher]

I guess I’ll just call this post: 10 reasons I am still not using FCPX.