2005-fcp 5, 2012-fcpX

[Jeremy Garchow]

Wait, I thought fcpx was the only imperfect piece of software?

this

changes

everything

😀

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I’d rather have X than 7 when it comes to audio. I use filters a lot more than the mixer in 7 and the filters in X are much better, much easier to use and manipulate., and now with audio component tools in 10.0.6, I can even see all my audio at once without weird side stepping workflows.”

yep, I pretty much completely agree with this – I’m hammering the waveforms because I think they could be better, and deserve some hammering. but I’d kill to have the rest of the plugin architecture, live feedback, etc. The overall package is really powerful.

I’m basically making a deal about hammering the audiograph/waveforms things because they deserve to take a public hit I think.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Aindreas Gallagher]

excellent. boorish hammering of the point does deliver results. who knew?

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Chris Harlan]

[jon smitherton] “Just wait to you try Avid. “

Oh, I agree. The limited number of audio tracks is one of Avid’s biggest drawbacks. And the time it can take for waveforms to redrawn on long timelines can be very annoying unless you have “Show Marked Waveforms” enabled. I don’t know if you know about that option, since you left it out of your discussion above, but its a very useful option that I’d like to se on other NLEs. When its enabled you only see waveforms between the in and out points. It doesn’t completely make up for the sluggish redraw, but its nice to have selective waveforms on both individual tracks (as you mentioned above) and for limited time (Show Marked Waveforms.)

[Jon Smitherton]

[Chris Harlan] “it can take for waveforms to redrawn on long timelines can be very annoying unless you have “Show Marked Waveforms” enabled. I don’t know if you know about that option, since you left it out of your discussion above, but its a very useful option that I’d like to se on other NLEs”

Thanks Chris didn’t know about this one.
Takes a while on Avid to work out all the idiosyncrasies as a lot are hidden in menus and settings, like changing to drop-frame tc and making audio tracks stereo.

Jon