10.3.2 Is out – WOW review from a huge X facility in Europe.

[Erik Lindahl]

Great to hear progress for FCPX but I’ve lost hope that Apple will ever fix proper, delay-free video output over SDI. This omission renders the app hard to or even impossible for us to use in an online / finishing senario.

[Bill Davis]

[Walter Soyka] “Bill Davis] “How does the Adobe ecosystem manage which clips are embedded in the projects? Is it this handled by the “panels” thing?”

I’m afraid I don’t understand the question. Premiere Pro (like all NLEs) uses a relational database under the hood, but I don’t really understand what you’re asking here. If you can re-state the question a different way, maybe I’ll understand better and then I could answer.”

Sorry for being unclear, Walter.

At the core, one of the things I enjoy most about working with X is how I can access assets across my storylines – basically letting me “reach into” my editing constructions to search out and identify the specific assets I might be interested in manipulating.

This is implemented both via keyword search, smart collections – and how markers are expressed in the timeline index.

It seems “well connected” to me – allowing me to make a decision easily.

One example would be “change all the clips in this CLASS to a duration of 20 frames” – and globally execute this even after I’ve constructed a storyline where all the clips in that class are all currently 30 frames.

This is what I was referring to as “clips embedded in projects.”

Again, sorry to have written it so poorly.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “Funny. Also from Nielsen: “Now we are actually ABLE to work in the timeline.” This pertains to large projects (sequences) and is something many of us have been complaining about for a long, long time. Yet many would argue that the issue doesn’t exist. ☺
“

A few days ago (I’ve been on a client deadline since and mentally pushed it aside) I got a personal note from Mads about this.

He was sorta apologizing for the “in-artful” phrasing of his post. (Remember, English is NOT his first language – tho you certainly wouldn’t know it from chatting with him in person!)

Why in heaven’s sake he’d think he had ANY reason to apologize to me for anything is WAY beyond me – but I think he felt that his comment “in that form” caused me problems in this thread he didn’t wish to cause.

I just noted that’s how language interpretation works. (and this forum has ALWAYS been pretty crappy at language interpretation, truth be told – and I’m as guilty of it as the next guy!)

We say or write what we mean. Others hear what they FEEL we were trying to say. And there’s often a gap in between those two realities.

Just for the record, Mads was NOT trying to imply he “couldn’t use” X before 10.3.2 or that the operational experience was “bad” before the update.

Quite the opposite. Their team has been churning out deadline oriented broadcast content quite handily (and winning awards for it) for quite some time now.

But like everyone who edits – a significant boost in daily productivity with the software flowing smoother and working faster than it did before – is ALWAYS cause for celebration.

Simple as that.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “At the core, one of the things I enjoy most about working with X is how I can access assets across my storylines – basically letting me “reach into” my editing constructions to search out and identify the specific assets I might be interested in manipulating.”

This is no different than any other NLE. FCPX does it in a very elegant way, but it’s not a unique or new concept. The novel twist is keyword and smart collections. The unique aspect is multiple range selections within the same clip.

[Bill Davis] “One example would be “change all the clips in this CLASS to a duration of 20 frames” – and globally execute this even after I’ve constructed a storyline where all the clips in that class are all currently 30 frames.”

Premiere Pro enables similar editing solutions.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bill Davis]

Thanks for the clarification, Oliver.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Robin S. Kurz] “and to date not once actually gotten an answer that didn’t simply describe the above. Or I just simply got the ol’ “Because I need them. Period.” response as their only logical justification (much like it seems to be the case here once again?). Or no response at all. “

So I guess we now know which one we can settle on. ????

Gee, wonder why.