10.0.6 a significant turning point.

[Walter Soyka]

[craig slattery] “Apologies in advance, I won’t bore the creative cows on this thread every time I cut broadcast TV in X.”

Nonsense — please don’t be shy. Speaking for myself, I’ve really enjoyed reading your posts and hope you continue!

[craig slattery] “I think personally with 10.0.6 we’ve reached a significant turning point.”

What would you say are the most important changes with 10.0.6 that make it a turning point for your team?

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[Morten]

Yes, indeed it has improved – but it’s still pretty much unusable in collaborative workflows across multiple suites : (

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[Michael Sanders]

I’ve got a feeling that’s high on Apple’s agenda!

Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor

[Michael Gissing]

Turning point depends on where you sit in the workflow. As someone who does grade & sound post, the significant moments have been third party software like X2Pro, Xto7 and da Vinci accepting FCPX XMLs.

I can see for editors this might be a significant release but a thread the other day said the RED workflow broke X2Pro audio export so until third parties can catch up it is actually not yet of such significance. Although Jeremy Garchow and I disagree about the relative strengths and weaknesses of relying on third parties to do core functionality, each FCPX release will often have a black period immediately after whilst third party software does public bug fixing.

Apple does deserve kudos for managing this release with regard to many third parties like AJA & Blackmagic, even if Matrox seems to have been caught out.

[Craig Slattery]

[Michael Gissing] “As someone who does grade & sound post, the significant moments have been third party software like X2Pro, Xto7 and da Vinci accepting FCPX XMLs. “

X2Pro working brilliantly for us. I had a meeting with our dubbing mixer last week and he is loving audio coming out of X as apposed to the mess our OMFs presented him. Our tests with da Vinci, create no more issues than color, none as far as Im aware.

[Bret Williams]

I thought Color didn’t offer anywhere near the true roundtrip that DaVinci does?

[Craig Slattery]

[Bret Williams] “I thought Color didn’t offer anywhere near the true roundtrip that DaVinci does?”

Sorry, I meant no more issues than going from FCP7 to Color, Ie X to DaVinci, 7 to color, no difference

[Jim Giberti]

I wish I could weigh in. We’re in the midst of too many projects to update, hopefully next week.

Looking forward to progress.

[Craig Slattery]

[Walter Soyka] “What would you say are the most important changes with 10.0.6 that make it a turning point for your team?”

I think its a turning point because there is no real reason anymore not to use the software. It feels faster, more solid and it has a huge amount of depth. Working with Multicam clips is second to none. I mean they are seriously brilliant. The 3rd partys for finishing seem to work seamlessly. Apple appear to be serious about the future. What more do you need?
The thing is, FCP 7 is dead. Yes, I still use FCP7 and will do for a little while yet. But is gone and its not coming back, and while I recognise and admit, every time I go back to 7, I feel comfortable and perhaps a little safe, in reality Ive moved on.
Funnily, an unexpected bonus, is that Ive found that the directors and Series Producers seem to be able to read the timeline almost immediately in a way they never really connected with Legacy FCP. The Series Producer on our show loves it and has said “lets get others up to speed”.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Morten Ranmar] “Yes, indeed it has improved – but it’s still pretty much unusable in collaborative workflows across multiple suites : (“

How so?