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10 Things Steve Martin wants in FCP X
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[Charlie Austin] “[Walter Soyka] “New Search Bins allow editors to build new bins automatically, based on metadata searches within a project, with results showing as aliases of the original project items.
An advanced Timeline Search makes it simple to find and select clips within a sequence based on specific criteria such as Clip Name or Marker comment.””
And everyone here wonders why Apple doesn’t announce features that are coming to FCP X. :-/”
Are you saying that Apple doesn’t announce features because they might show up in other applications? Isn’t that a good thing (for us)? I mean, one way or another all of these programs influence each other anyway, it usually seems to benefit “The Market”… do you disagree?
Shawn
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[Shawn Miller] “Are you saying that Apple doesn’t announce features because they might show up in other applications? Isn’t that a good thing (for us)? I mean, one way or another all of these programs influence each other anyway, it usually seems to benefit “The Market”… do you disagree?”
I have no idea really, though Apple does tend to sandbag sometimes when there are other companies trying to beat them to market. Whether hardware or software. I think they know that things will get copied, as do other vendors. I think Apple, like anyone else, would prefer to be first. 🙂
I don’t think it’s bad for us at all. As we’ve see, it all cross pollinates (at least anything that can) eventually… I think smart folders, uh… bins… will be a great addition to Pr. And, like hover scrub, not really like X at all.
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Just note that if Adobe was saddled with the same level of Kremlinology as Apple, the inclusion of Dennis’s “right now” in the above statement would generate a thousand people yammering about the impending death of the Lightroom standalone purchase model.
Just saying’
(Personally, I think it’s just him being appropriately careful in his public writing. Which I applaud.)
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[Bret Williams] “It’d be great it AE if you could just twirl down a pre comp and have everything available to edit right in the main comp.”
you can always padlock a second viewer for the pre-comp and pancake the two timelines. works pretty much perfectly..
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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I actually like the fact that FCPX encourages us to work more like audio editors with controlled cross fades as opposed to being a little bit lazy and just using a default. However Alex4D dos have an audio only dissolve plugin that I also use.
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[James Ewart] “I actually like the fact that FCPX encourages us to work more like audio editors with controlled cross fades as opposed to being a little bit lazy and just using a default.”
Totally agree. I use dissolve fx on audio all the time in 7 and Pr, but only because doing manual fades is a PITA. Easy as pie in X, more control, and about as quick. 😉
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[Bill Davis] “Surely some snarky spoilsport would show up with a list like…”
Yes, sadly that was a little snarky…
At the end of the day we seek to make the best NLE for the most people just like every other company aspires to. We have our own ideas and of course take our customer input into consideration as well. I’ve said for many (many!) years that “every NLE has some good feature that makes it great,” and I still believe that today.
As Walter has already pointed out a couple of bits on where we do address your feature requests, I will merely add that we take a look at a lot of feature requests and evaluate them on an ongoing basis. You see the results of that in our ongoing, constant improvement as reflected by our updates and version increases. This is a demonstrable benefit of the Creative Cloud membership though I understand why some people maintain their stance against it.
And under the category of ‘couldn’t resist‘ I will still be demure and say only that if Premiere Pro were being graded on Steve’s top 10 feature requests, Premiere Pro gets an “A”.
Out of respect for the community and the forum, I will not comment on this thread any further.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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[Dennis Radeke] “Out of respect for the community and the forum, I will not comment on this thread any further.”
No-one will mind if you continue commenting on this thread!
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[Steve Connor] “[Scott Witthaus] “Hey, let’s start a posting on the top ten things we want in Premiere and then Dennis can really get some info he can send back to corporate!
;-)”
#1 Send to Motion :)”
#2 An interface that doesn’t look like a 10 year old designed it.
#3 No tracks
Here ya go, Dennis. A start for your report!
😉
All in fun. I don’t do a lot of work in Premiere and try to avoid it if possible. I am sure I could get as fast on it as, say, Media Composer….
Scott Witthaus
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[Dennis Radeke] “And under the category of ‘couldn’t resist’ I will still be demure and say only that if Premiere Pro were being graded on Steve’s top 10 feature requests, Premiere Pro gets an “A”.”
Well that’s a bit ridiculous. It’s not like this is a list of the top 10 things any NLE should have. It’s a list of what he wants in FCP X, which incidentally few would have made it into MY top 10 list. I’m sure Steve or any one of us could come up with a top 10 list of things Premiere Pro should have also.
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