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10.0.6 a significant turning point.
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The main thing I lack in FCPX at the moment is solid timecode support. It’s hard to se things like:
– where am I in clip X
– how long is clip Y or Z on the timelineThis is a fundamental issue when one has to deal with time / timecode. The lack of “mini timelines” makes this a greater issue IMO.
That said, sometimes it’s not so important knowing this when editing so this issue might not be a problem for all. I’d however be interested to hear how other people cope with the problem of FCPX and time / timecode.
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[Erik Lindahl] “I’d however be interested to hear how other people cope with the problem of FCPX and time / timecode.”
It’s simply limited at the moment and needs a bit of help.
That said, there are some options.
In the Browser, there’s a “clip info” pop up that can be enabled that shows tc while scrubbing (control-y).
In the timeline, you can turn on “Clip skimming” and skim each clip (command-option-s). The clip’s tc shows up in the main tc window in the middle of the screen.
Control-d shows duration of selected clips in the main tc window.
Jeremy
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True, but a lot of these simple things are way to hidden.
The buggy film-strips are quite a source of irritation also. I fid the idea of them good, but it’s no good when they don’t show the correct frame of the clip. There should also be an option of only showing the first frame of each clip in the timeline.
But, with 10.0.6 like the thread starter I’m getting interested in FCPX I have to say.
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[Erik Lindahl] “True, but a lot of these simple things are way to hidden.”
I thought FCPX was easy? 😉
[Erik Lindahl] “The buggy film-strips are quite a source of irritation also. I fid the idea of them good, but it’s no good when they don’t show the correct frame of the clip. There should also be an option of only showing the first frame of each clip in the timeline.
But, with 10.0.6 like the thread starter I’m getting interested in FCPX I have to say.”
There’s a lot of “fit and finish” left to be done, there’s no question about that. It is a relatively young application.
With a bit more time it’ll get there.
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Haha, well I’d called FCPX “simple” in regards to they tried to go for a completely fresh start and fresh view at editing. In true Apple-faschion they try their best to slim things down to the bare minimum yet keeping it “just powerful enough”. Here I get that if you aren’t an experience editor or possibly an editor dealing with strict time in projects for example, well, that kind of info isn’t priority. And the legacy way of dealing with things was maybe (I can’t say just yet) “too much information”. It’s just a bit to little info at the moment for a lot of things.
If Apple keep the development-cycle up we should have a very impressive app by next year looking how far it’s come in the year and a half it’s been on the market.
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[Morten Ranmar] “Yes, indeed it has improved – but it’s still pretty much unusable in collaborative workflows across multiple suites : (
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So are you indicating that the team cutting the USA show Leverage on it are forgoing a “collaborative workflow across multiple suites?”
https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/in-action/electric/
Interesting opinion.
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Hi Bill – FCPX does offer basic collaboration through SAN locations – but for people like us who use NAS based workflows (we have a solution with Small Tree Network Server card) it is simply not useable, so for the moment we are still working on FCP7, and considering a move to CS6.
– No Parking Production –
2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x Prod. bundle CS6, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, Ethernet File Server w. X-Raid…. and FCPX on trial
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[Morten Ranmar] “Hi Bill – FCPX does offer basic collaboration through SAN locations – but for people like us who use NAS based workflows (we have a solution with Small Tree Network Server card) it is simply not useable, so for the moment we are still working on FCP7, and considering a move to CS6.”
Small Tree says this: https://www.small-tree.com/v/vspfiles/files/pdfs/NoMiracleToUsingFinalCutProX.pdf
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Small Tree says this: https://www.small-tree.com/v/vspfiles/files/pdfs/NoMiracleToUsingFinalCutPro...”
I do enjoy the fact that the extremely large illustrative photo for that X article is a guy sitting in front of FCP 7.
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Certainly not the best sales pitch.
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