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6 months in with FCPX… my feature requests (FWIW)…
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[David Mathis] “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.”
And how about an audio only transition (crossfade)? Missing that big time…
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[Michael Carter] “We spent thousands on legacy software and it’s just dead? (I know, ranted about for years now).”
It’s not dead, it still works. Amazingly, it still works well enough to open and get a translatable file out of it.
[Michael Carter] “The 3rd part solutions are inelegant.
“ClipExporter 2 does exactly what you want and is about as elegant as it needs to be. There are other programs as well that use xml or fcpxml and import right in to Ae, but don’t provide the trim feature.
[Michael Carter] “Let me keep stuff on tracks when needed. I’m really hating cutting up music to fit an edit and having pieces fly up into spaces in my voiceover and effects tracks.
“Secondary storylines will help with this. I think secondaries are the hardest thing to really truly grasp in fcpx. They are easy to use, harder to master.
[Michael Carter] “Give us back the viewer with timecode from 7. I should be able to double click a clip on the timeline and see where it came from in the clip, WITH TIMECODE for in & out points.
“Shift-f will match frame. If you have “skimmer info” turned on a popup will display over the skimmer in to browser and you can navigate to in and out to find tc. A tc overlay would be a nice feature, though.
[Michael Carter] “Give us keyframable speed ramping with beziers. FCPX retiming often keeps me from needing AE, but it’s crude.”
Remap the “blade speed” command. Double click the edit point o change the cut point, use the transitions built in to the remap bar. Take some time to play around with it and perhaps keyframes will be unnecessary. Time remapping in fcpx is extremely visual and easy.
[Michael Carter] “Let me use my finder structure to import. I may have a dozen folders in the finder sidebar to speed up my access to media. When I want to import, that’s all gone and I have to dig through everything.”
You can drag and drop from finder in to the browser and preserve folders as keywords (as long as you have that option turned on in prefs), also works in import window.
Yes, the UI isn’t very customizable.
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It’s much more accurate and powerful. From the visual controls and plugs adopted from logic to the fact that you can edit down to the sample. The rubber banding / keyframing has been improved as well with range controls and multi-Keyframe selections and Keyframe copy paste. Not much to dislike. Improvements across the board.
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You can export clips within a range.
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Precise audio editing in FCP X.
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[Gary Huff] “This is such a huge deal, especially after working in Premiere where it doesn’t care what you relink to.
“Hmm I wouldnt go that far.
Relink in Premiere is not exactly flawless.
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X’s best relinker is Resolve.
It’s also not perfect, but at this point, it works be best and allows for other operations such as trim and transcode.
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Wow. What a wonderful, textbook example of “Jump in and use, ask questions and learn basics later”. 😀
[Michael Carter] “example of Apple’s “We know better than you and you’ll come around eventually”. “
Oh the irony.
[Michael Carter] “We REALLY need a function or separate app to import FCP6/7 projects.”
I guess you REALLY need to check out 7toX. Only been around since December of 2011. Maybe January 2012. Either way, I guess not long enough to get noticed.
[Michael Carter] “Give us a way to round trip, even semi-manually.”
Been there since day one. Just not for AE, but for Motion. So you’ll either want to jump ship to Motion if that is such a dire need, or jump ship to Premiere. Your choice. But that’s like begging ADOBE for better MOTION support. Wanna guess what their answer would be?
Or get “Clip Exporter” which is even FREE, if you insist on doing it the hard way. But I’ll bet that the vast majority (if not in fact 100%) of what you do in AE in the context of an edit (titles? simple to average mograph stuff?) could not only be done 1:1, but with actual speed to speak of. Meaning realtime, not slide-show.
[Michael Carter] “I’m really hating cutting up music to fit an edit and having pieces fly up into spaces in my voiceover and effects tracks. “
So you’ve actually never heard of secondary Storylines. Okay.
[Michael Carter] “I should be able to double click a clip on the timeline and see where it came from in the clip”
So you’ve also never heard of “Match Framing“? Or the “Event Viewer“? Let alone the various other shortcuts for that task…
[Michael Carter] “I can’t do precise markers or trims on the timeline.”
Wow. So ONE-EIGHTIETH OF A FRAME (that’s 1/80!) in the timeline is not “precise” enough for you?? Okay, then I guess there’s no solution for that.
[Michael Carter] “Give us keyframable speed ramping with beziers.”
Again, if the (imho) absolutely brilliantly simple but effective retiming options in X (which are plentiful) aren’t enough: Motion. Keyframe and bezier to your heart’s content, publish to FCP. With or without XSend.
[Michael Carter] “Let me use my finder structure to import.”
I’m sorry? How exactly is that not possible?
[Michael Carter] “I may have a dozen folders in the finder sidebar to speed up my access to media.”
Ever notice the “Favorites” section in the import window? Guess what happens if you drag folders—be it from within the import window or from the Finder—into it…
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[Robin S. Kurz] “I guess you REALLY need to check out 7toX. Only been around since December of 2011. Maybe January 2012. Either way, I guess not long enough to get noticed.”
Aaw, sarcasm is just so precious!!! Especially when you just scan the first post on a thread and ignore all the comments?
FCP7 won’t run on my current setup. Tried the install twice. So I need to keep a machine running for at least the next several years with something like 10.7. (We already discussed all this above, while you were sleeping in).
I just opened a Photoshop file that I archived in nineteen ninety five. I didn’t need to open it on a IIfx running OS7. I didn’t need a third party app. I can open legacy AE projects in CC with no issues. All of your “I’m smarter than this guy posturing” doesn’t change my opinion that Apple releasing X with no path to work or modify or import legacy projects was, at the least, arrogance. That they’re not addressing the millions of projects that exist out there and may need to be accessed – unless we keep legacy machines going – seems the same. yes, I know you guys all bitched about this years ago and have gotten used to it. Pardon me while I’m still in my “WHAT THE LIVING F*CK?!?!?” stage. My first Mac was a little beige box with a 9″ B&W screen. Other than manufacturers just disappearing, this is the first time I recall that “professional” software abandoned legacy users.
So my opinion remains: Apple should address the fact that 7 will be a dead system before long and a simple app to generate XMLs from 7 files – without needing 7 – seems like a good product to make when you consider how much work has been done in 7, for years.
[Robin S. Kurz] Or get “Clip Exporter” which is even FREE, if you insist on doing it the hard way. But I’ll bet that the vast majority (if not in fact 100%) of what you do in AE in the context of an edit (titles? simple to average mograph stuff?) could not only be done 1:1, but with actual speed to speak of. Meaning realtime, not slide-show.
I have to admit, FCPX’s 3D camera tracker and integration with C4D is really impressive, and in no way slideshow like at all. (Cough). I have about 30 aerial clips shot at 60p, I need to replace the flat blue skies with some animated stills with curved geometry (cough, choke), reduce the flicker, get the frame rates to 24p, retime and speed ramp and get some motion blur on them, and a few will need lens flares that track with the footage (cough). I’ll get right on that, just let me find that in the manual (cough).
And I can see my edits in real-time in AE, even tracked and flared and effected, so not sure about slideshows.
I could go on but I just got sarcastic. But thanks for all the constructive help (and please point me to this unicorn-like free copy of clip exporter – I’ve only seen a $110 version). Sorry my feature request post set you off so badly. Someday my brainz be bigsmarty like you!
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[Michael Carter] “FCP7 won’t run on my current setup.”
Fascinating. Considering that I installed and am running it under macOS Sierra. So I guess your setup is too old?? Okay. However that is even possible. Oh right… everything’s Apple’s fault, never yours or somehow due to your lack of expertise. Please no! Silly me.
[Michael Carter] “Apple releasing X with no path to work or modify or import legacy projects”
Only they did. Oops. Even if it came (omg! a whopping!!) six months later, since the pieces (FCPXML) weren’t completely in place from the get go. Horrible, since FCP 7 stopped functioning the day X was released and everyone was forced to upgrade the next day, right? Oh wait…
<_< Feel free to ask Intelligent Assistance if they did it all by themselves or if Apple in fact worked extremely close with them to get it made. But somehow developing v1(0).0 software continuously is only something Apple does I guess, instead of releasing a full-featured, be-all end-all product right out of the gate, like, say Adobe? So unusual. Never mind that giving that task to a 3rd party made eons more sense and made for better support and development times i.e. shorter update cycles, for those that actually needed it.
[Michael Carter] “Apple should address the fact that 7 will be a dead system before long and a simple app to generate XMLs from 7 files – without needing 7 “
Yeah. Be sure to hold your breath.
Because hey, if you haven’t managed to translate needed project files in over five years, that is TOTALLY on Apple! :-)))[Michael Carter] “3D camera tracker and integration with C4D”
I see you completely understood my “titles? simple to average mograph stuff?” question perfectly. Kudos.
[Michael Carter] “I have about 30 aerial clips shot at 60p, I need to replace the flat blue skies with some animated stills with curved geometry (cough, choke), reduce the flicker, get the frame rates to 24p, retime and speed ramp and get some motion blur on them, and a few will need lens flares that track with the footage”
Your point being? That you know even less about what Motion can and can’t do? That those tasks are somehow “Only with AE!” jobs? Okay. Everyone is entitled to their belief.
And with “hard way” I meant your apparent insistence on teaming AE with FCP X of all things, where, if AE is in fact such a pivotal, full-time element of your work *cough*, Premiere would clearly be the much more logical and efficient choice. Especially seeing how horribly inferior FCP is.[Michael Carter] “I’ve only seen a $110 version”
Then I guess that can be the only version.
*cough* (https://www.clipexporter.com/clipexpor… oh never mind…) *cough*
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