10.0.4 Feature Requests

[Michael Gissing]

So do you guys want audio tracks or not. We seem to go around in circles about the best way to visualise and control elements in a timeline.

Not surprisingly audio seems to demand a good old fashioned timeline over the magnetic timeline and Roles. Why not cut through all the dancing around motherhood statements about paradigm shifts and just demand that Apple give us an option to work and switch between a conventional track based view, magnetic timeline whilst editing if you want and roles as a way of dynamically patching.

Everyone would then be happy. (not sure about Bill:)

[Andy Neil]

[Mark Morache] “That’s not a bad idea. I use “open in timeline” as a step-in feature, and it mostly works.”

Except with a multiclip, you have to open the clip in the angle editor and then open the angle in timeline mode. By the time you get there, you are no longer at the spot where the clip you wanted to affect is; you have the entire clip to deal with. This makes things like adjusting independent tracks at certain points all but impossible.

[Mark Morache] “Would you still be able to make changes to audio tracks as one? For example if I expanded the audio to create a J-cut, would I need to make adjustments to all the tracks separately?”

In my version of this feature, OPT+double clicking would give you the behavior we have now by double-clicking. The single embedded audio clip still has uses, I just don’t think it should be default.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Michael Gissing] “So do you guys want audio tracks or not. We seem to go around in circles about the best way to visualise and control elements in a timeline.”

I not interested in traditional audio tracks in FCPX. The majority of the time the current paradigm works for me. However, that isn’t to say that it can’t be improved upon. It’s especially important considering multicam workflows.

Andy

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[David Lawrence]

[Michael Gissing] “Not surprisingly audio seems to demand a good old fashioned timeline over the magnetic timeline and Roles. Why not cut through all the dancing around motherhood statements about paradigm shifts and just demand that Apple give us an option to work and switch between a conventional track based view, magnetic timeline whilst editing if you want and roles as a way of dynamically patching.”

Well said.

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[Lance Bachelder]

I don’t think wanting to export a region (in to out) from a work in progress is asking too much Bill. Vegas Pro (which is so much like a cousin to X its silly) has had the region style editing for over a decade and I can simply drag a region and render or export that region – it works exactly like FCPX but there’s a simple checkbox in the rendering window that says “Render Loop Regoin” – simple! It will only render that area and render everything in the stack that is enabled. This would be the easy to ad.

Lance Bachelder
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[Morten]

REAL collaborative workflow on any kind of Shared storage solution.

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[Matt Killmon]

This is the biggest one for me: I have a Facilis Terrablock and briefly played with the FCPX 10.0.1 trial version. It wouldn’t work on any Multi-user Write volumes, only on Single-user Write ones. And that means that no two editors could have the same Project open to access all the same source media for different “events” at the same time. That’s a big lose for me. It seems like there’s a need for some sort of light “server” app that could administer the database-like structures of the Projects (with keyword collections and other clip metadata that’s not actually attached to clip files themselves) so that multiple people could access them at the same time.

In general it seems like FCPX is targeted towards islands of individual editors working on separate projects (or just single editors with direct-attached storage). I’d love to see FCPX expand to allow for more easy collaborative editing.

That said, I’m glad that important features are coming back. It seems that perhaps sometime in the next year, it’s possible that FCPX will have “grown up” enough to accommodate my needs. Until then, I’ll be sticking with the workflows I’ve gotten used to on 7. Unfortunately this means that I’ll be 18 months behind people who’ve been using FCPX from day one. I suppose I should consider buying a personal copy at home and futzing around with it in my off-hours to get familiar with the program.

EDIT: My unfamiliarity with FCPX is clear, as I’m not even using the correct terms (Projects/Events). Sigh!

[James Mortner]

[Bill Davis] “a program designed to re-think video creation workflows – rather than just keep doing things as we always have in the past “

Seems to me that you are FORCED to re-think and re-build thanks to no built-in FCP7 import. Which has now been magically fixed by a third party app

[Bill Davis]

Lance. I get what your saying. And even agree at first blush,

But I’m wondering if Share is a bit like Versions in modern word processing.

At first the shock of losing “save as” was kinda traumatic – it was so very ingrained in my thinking.

Now I’m starting to understand that the whole “versioning” paradigm has actual advantages over “freeze and dump all previous iterations” which is kinda what “save as” was.

Share isn’t “Export this range of the timeline” either. Since implementing that would likely have been trivial, I’m trying to see why.

And the best I can come up with at this point is that maybe there’s a larger plan (kinda like the versioning thing) that isn’t fully evident to me at this stage?

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[Braden Storrs]

A pretty quick way to do this is to command A to select all clips in your timeline, create a compound clip, set markers at your in and out points, drag to ends of the comp. clip to the markers and export. Then just either undo those steps or drag the the ends back out and break apart the clips and you’re back to normal.