6 months in with FCPX… my feature requests (FWIW)…

[Charlie Austin]

[Michael Carter] ” I still don’t have a solid idea of why I can’t move chunks of things around (cut out a 5 second clip, select everything past it, deselect the big gap placeholder on the main track, but you can’t slide all that stuff to the left in one move. Have to do bits and pieces and realign everything). Getting used to that but it does make for creative profanity.”

Yeah, takes a bit to wrap your head around it… You ever use MC in Ripple mode? It’s kinda like that. As long as your connected clips are “connected” to the chunks in the primary they should move with, it’s pretty fluid..

[Michael Carter] “Would love to hear jumping tracks workarounds that keep everything on screen editable without ‘clicking in’ to subclip types of things.”

Secondary storylines all the way… 🙂

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[Noah Kadner]

7 to X is like learning a foreign language. Your brain will express concepts in terms of your more familiar tongue for a while as you get more comfortable and learn. Ultimately— you’ll simply think in the new language. (or not lol).

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[Neil Sadwelkar]

The new Resolve 12.5 and 12.5.1 has some really good features for editing, and compositing. It’s getting closer and closer to ‘FCP 8’ or maybe ‘FCP 9’. I tried Premiere Pro and found it to be less than a good FCP 7 replacement.

So, I’m now using FCP 7 where it is still useful, FCP X for most of the editing I do, and in the past few months, Resolve as a round-trip target for my FCP X projects for Colour Correction and some compositing. But if you’re so ‘attached’ to FCP 7, I think you may find Resolve 12.5.1 to be a worthy successor.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Michael Carter]

[Neil Sadwelkar] “So, I’m now using FCP 7 where it is still useful, FCP X for most of the editing I do, and in the past few months, Resolve as a round-trip target for my FCP X projects for Colour Correction and some compositing. But if you’re so ‘attached’ to FCP 7, I think you may find Resolve 12.5.1 to be a worthy successor.”

Wouldn’t say I’m attached to it – for years it felt like the most primitive software I used and I’m glad to be done with it. But I’m like many who agree that there are missing features in X that are head-scratchers.

[Gary Huff]

[Lance Bachelder] “about 10 to 15% of the files are offline because FCPX doesn’t like them – even from a media managed folder and I have no way to override and say please use them anyway”

This is such a huge deal, especially after working in Premiere where it doesn’t care what you relink to.

[Gary Huff]

[Neil Sadwelkar] “It’s getting closer and closer to ‘FCP 8’ or maybe ‘FCP 9’.”

I think it’s closer to 8.2.1 than to 9.4.2.

[Brian Seegmiller]

You can choose to link footage manually if you want even if the names don’t match. I have done that a couple of times in X. As I recall you have to do it one by one and it worked for me.

[Brian Seegmiller]

I zoom into the browser or storyline all the time to get precise edits with audio.

[Mark Smith]

[Michael Carter] “There’s nothing that will replace the precision of editing audio in 7, other than “just spend more time on the edit”. I”

Its funny. When I moved to X from 7 I finally felt Like I could edit audio quickly and with a degree of precision I always found lacking in 7. The combination of the waveform display and the granularity to which you can zoom into an audio track in X made audio editing a breeze for me.

[David Mathis]

I love working with X but there are a few things that would be nice. For starters sync indicators would be useful. As it stands now they don’t exist which means if you detach your audio and it goes out of sync it is a guessing game. I never known of any reason to detach audio but I am sure one exists.

Exporting individual clips from the timeline would be nice. Just select the range tool and export whatever you like. Of course there is the XML to Resolve or Clip Exporter to do handle that line of work.

One last item would be to add a video transition without adding an audio transition in the mix. Yes, expand audio and video does the trick just extra clicks. My two cents.