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10.06 On Apple’s Website Now
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[John Heagy] “Steve, do you have QT file with an embedded Reel ID? If so can you tell me if FCPX 10.0.6 now populates the Reel field?”
Nothing with embedded reel ID on my system I’m afraid!
Steve Connor
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[Michael Sanders] “It only remembers the last points from that clip, so if you have an long I/V and use three bites – it will only remember the in and outs of the last bite.”
You can CMD-drag to get a second I/O range.
I have also set a modifier-command CTRL-I and CTRL-O to be more precise with additional ranges.
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I am looking forward to feedback on whether any XML compatibility to da Vinci etc has changed or 3rd party apps like X2Pro are OK with this update. Any news on external workflow changes would be appreciated, particularly with RED and Phantom.
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Top 3 “not so obvious” features of the update:
1. Export happens in the background. When you export, doesn´t´matter to what format, FCPX will not have an export dialogue, but it will start in the background. You can work on the project or open another one. FCPX just got faster again….
1a: Bundle export. You can create bundles for different clients! One wants youtube/XDcam and a DVD, the other one wants vimeo, BluRay and an e-mail for confirmation……all in one button.2. Dual viewers can have their own scopes
2b: While we are at the UI: the dividerlines between window-regions can be grabbed easier. I constantly had problems resizing the event library around…works MUCH better now3. Flexible anchoring keeps the connected clips in place no matter what. When go to “Position Mode” and take a clip from the primary away, the connected clips stay and are now connected to a gap-clip. This is very close to what traditional editing was like, for those who can´t get their head around ripple modes and connected clips.
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[Bret Williams] “Wait, I started with FCP 1.2 in January of 2000. You’re telling me in 1.0 and 1.1 (a mere 3-6 months earlier they didn’t have jkl? That would’ve been a deal breaker for me! You’re sure?”
Absolutely, Bret.
When FCP 1.0 was initially released at NAB 1999, the transport key assignments were NOT mapped to JKL. My first months in FCP were spent that way, then I had to change my keyboard habits.
(I *think* they used apostrophe and semi-colon for forward and back initially, but I could be wrong about that – it’s 12+ years ago after all!)
JKL came in an early update.
(UPDATE: I actually found my 1.0 manual hiding in plain sight – and YEP, V1.0 Manual Page 149: to shuttle playback forward, press the ‘ (apostrophe) key… to shuttle playback in reverse, press the ; (semicolon) key. – good to know my long term memory is still functioning OK!)
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OK, installed and all hunky-dory so far with 10.7.5. Good improvements. (See – they could do PIOP after all!!!) RED works natively about as well (or not) as in Adobe. And BTW – embedded Reel numbers are read. Now for a few glass-half-empty comments.
No mixer. Dual viewer is simply a pass-through for the events, by splitting the unified viewer. No gang function and no way to play a project in the event viewer without creating a separate compound clip. So, still not as functional as dual-viewers in a traditional NLE.
On the good side (or bad depending on your POV), the fact that the engineers made icon, menu and import changes means this is very much a “work in progress”. Hopefully that means they are listening/responding to users; because, by now they’ve shown that in some cases, their first instincts at “improvements” aren’t always right. A little more interaction with actual users and studying their behaviors will help make it a better product.
Relying on third parties to deliver MXF support doesn’t seem to adequately fulfill the NAB bullet-points, in my view. That gets them back to where “legacy” was, but it’s not MXF support in the sense that we understand it from Adobe or Avid.
Lastly, the App Store continues to be a rather poor vehicle for this size of a file, especially on launch day.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Bkg export is great. Tilda drag will help resistant editors.
Keith Koby
Sr. Director Post-Production Engineering
iNDEMAND NETWORKS
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[Oliver Peters] “And BTW – embedded Reel numbers are read.”
Oops. Still not those embedded in QT files, like Alexa media.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Rob McGreevy] “Subject says it all… many old favorites are back like copy/paste attributes, freeze frame and get this a drop shadow! :-)”
Kudos to Apple…this is a very nice update.
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[Oliver Peters] “Oops. Still not those embedded in QT files, like Alexa media.
“Not even via the new import window?
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