10 Things Steve Martin wants in FCP X

[Marcus Moore]

You can’t say that with any certainty. Especially since the current iMovie was never even intended to be iMovie at all but “First Cut”, a sidecar app for Final Cut Pro. It’s entirely possible that everything that they eventually planned to bring to the eventual FCP rewrite would have been in there anyway.

[John Davidson]

I would like a preference check box to automatically apply broadcast safe limits on all exports.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I think the average editor would instinctively barf at the sight of fusion. It’s a bit of an unskinned pitbull really. not quite nuke horrors but still..

[David Mathis] “I wonder if this is partly a response to Blackmagic Design acquiring Fusion by any chance”

i think the adobe team we know are honest in their endeavours by their own lights. The nuclear advancement of ppro is a bit of a sight for the ages really.
They are looking to validate CC and the development model it affords.

Whether shantanyu cans 40% of them once he feels a plump subscription pillow under his arse is another matter.

Personally, this feels like war time effort. because if the PPro team keep going at this rate, they’re going to discover warp fusion by 2018.

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[Charlie Austin]

In the order he presents them:

# 10- Steve is wrong. If you insist on using crossfade effects on collapsed audio, you can expand it (as he does) and adjust each handle by a frame or more. Then when you delete the effect the handles remain. In any case, just cut with expanded audio and doing crossfades is easy… kinda like his screen flow example, but you need to drag the fade handles yourself.

#9-Video fade handles/opacity bar would be nice, though it’d make the clips kind of busy unless you work with a tall view. I just use the inspector unless I’m doing fades. Easy. Maybe inspector panels should be able to turn into HUD’s. That’d be cool.

#8-Agree

#7-Meh… I guess it’d be OK if you like dragging things around. I don’t, so Copy/Paste Attributes is my preference. Works great if you add a KB shortcut for pasting attributes. (I use SHIFT-CMD-V) Since individual effects/parameters are selectable I think it’s a better option…

#6-Agree

#7-Agree

#4-Agree. I’d like to see a lot more things useable as HUD’s. Love that in Motion.

#3-Agree

#2-Wrong again… kinda. If you open the canned title effect in Motion and just save it *before* you use it, you can modify it all you want after the fact and the changes will ripple to the sequence. The “kinda” part is because you need to close the project (by closing the Library or something) so the effect refreshes. Being able to close a project timeline is what’s needed here. 😉

#1- Agree. As noted above, it does work in a limited fashion now but should be way better.

The biggest “missing” feature for me would be match frame replace. Other improvements are needed, but there aren’t really any show stoppers.

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[Bill Davis]

Then game on, guys.

Which of the major practical functions which are baked into the DNA of X (that I mentioned by specific description) do YOU think is worth trading away to get “better key framing” or one of the other elements mentioned in this thread?

Honestly. Which one is more important as a speed enhancer than magnetism? Or the Event Browser. Or keyword collections?

I’ll listen in rapt anticipation.

Anyone?

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[Charlie Austin]

[John Davidson] “I would like a preference check box to automatically apply broadcast safe limits on all exports”

It’d be nice if Compressor had a Broadcast Safe filter available. Does it?

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[David Mathis]

Not sure where this fits in the list (if it does at all) is about fades on the video side of the equation. You could use the create an effect template in Motion, add a fade in / out behavior effect and publish all the parameters. Save that and use it in FCP X, not sure about this being redundant. Any thoughts?

[Tony West]

[Charlie Austin] ”
# 10- Steve is wrong. If you insist on using crossfade effects on collapsed audio, you can expand it (as he does) and adjust each handle by a frame or more. Then when you delete the effect the handles remain. In any case, just cut with expanded audio and doing crossfades is easy… kinda like his screen flow example, but you need to drag the fade handles yourself. “

I was going to respond to 10 but you beat me to it.

I don’t know why Steve used that example the way he did. He’s a much better X-man than me but I would never use the route he used to accomplish that.

[Charlie Austin]

[tony west] “He’s a much better X-man than me but I would never use the route he used to accomplish that.”

Me either. He’s basically saying you can’t put a crossfade effect on embedded audio, which there’s really no reason to do. Actually, there’s an Alex 4d audio only fade transition out there somewhere for anyone who wants it. https://blog.alex4d.com/2011/07/11/fcpx-transition-sound-only/ He reworked the fade effect so it doesn’t do anything to the video…

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[Helmut Kobler]

NUMBER 1 ON MY LIST:

1) More responsive UI!

I just finished cutting a 3.5 minute video and was annoyed at the laggy UI in general — the playhead stuttering when beginning playback, a .5 second delay when clicking a clip to seeing it selected, stuff like that.

This is on a 6 core 2013 Mac Pro with 32GB of ram, and a 8 drive Thunderbolt 2 RAID, so I know it’s not my hardware. Sometimes quitting and relaunching FCP X would help, but in general, the interface is not spry.

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