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Am I the only one who hates this filmstrip view idea?
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I HAVE to use this moment to share “The Rough Cut Lady Song.” Any editor that hasn’t heard it – enjoy.
“No Duh we need graphics…. gee I hadn’t thought of that…”
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Well, you can try it out now in iMovie and I don’t like it either.
I’m not on the iMovie Pro bandwagon, but it’s hard to avoid the similarities. I do not like iMovie, at all. I don’t care how much power it has in the background. The GUI is a toy!
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Gentlemen, has it ocurred to anyone who’s losing sleep about this that just maybe the filmstrip will display on a video monitor via I/O devices (AJA, BM, Matrox) exactly like the viewer does now? Don’t know about y’all, but I tend to think that’s not gonna change, and I tend to use my video monitor a whole more than either my viewer or the canvas, both of which seem pretty useless to me most of the time.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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I’m confused. Is that a beer commercial? Why is there no video? Are you talking about me behind my back?
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It was only a rough cut!
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Hey David,
I sure hope you’re right about that (for your sake) and I’m reasonably sure that it will prove true in time. However, the lack of any third party hw manufacturer jumping up and saying we’ll be supporting FCP X leads one to think that it’s not going to be so coming out of the gate.
BTW I think the ‘X’- for unknown – at the end is highly appropriate, if surprisingly unintentional for a company that likes to control every detail of its products. ‘Unknown’ is the rather bowel loosening state of things and again, surprising for Apple. My best guess is the whole thing was a hurried decision triggered by their getting wind that Avid was about to make a highly attractive cross grade offer right in their own backyard. They got scared and tried to stop the anticipated bleed but have uncharacteristically shot themselves in one foot….the high end pro one…while, not surprisingly, energizing their fan boy one that believes it always walks on sainted ground.
Personally I think it’s great they’re trying to improve a UI that’s 20 years old, though I can see that is really aimed at attracting the single screen wows of the consumer and low-end prosumers where they’ve found the real money is to be made. It may be that it’s a one size fits all solution, including high end professionals, with options to turn off the stuff that will just get in the way but that’s another thing left unsaid. Probably true, but likely to take a few years before the pro solutions get up to speed.
All in all, it’s undoubtedly better for those who weren’t up and cheering things like a magnetic timeline to take a deep breath, resist both the urge to panic and the one to indulge in wishful thinking, have a plan B at hand (like continuing to use FFCP 7 or trying out CS5.5) and waiting for the shoe to drop while hoping it doesn’t bust a toe.
David
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Nah – I am lately strongly inclined to agree with chris kenny on this – we are all reading the sum of all fears into this announcement – I still am, periodically. Apple had begun a process of previews with iOS and the like – I think they decided to take the stage at the meet and hoover up a good harvest of coverage – god knows that job was done.
what I don’t think they fully realised was how much everyone would react. or .. perhaps they did. Either way – 8-10 weeks and we see the full software.
unlike iOS sadly.. there’s no developer pack to pore over, and the beta testers are wearing shades and a cap…http://www.ogallchoir.net
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I’m sure the coverage they knew they’d get it was part of it, but the hurried nature of the decision is not their usual behaviour. I think it would have looked bad if Avid had come in with their offer on their own UG stage. As much as they denigrate the competition they very well know that Avid rules the high end and after all the rumblings since last years meet they, Apple fergodsake, made a rash decision.
David
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I was thinking the same thing- it does seem very busy. I think it would be better if there was a way to make the one you’re working with stand out more- maybe have the one that’s highlighted be in color and change the others to black and white.
Although, if the project you’re working on was shot in black and white, that wouldn’t help much…
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As with any interface, give yourself a week or two and you’ll completely forget you ever worked on anything else.
The interface is the least of my worries. I’m more concerned with locking tracks in place, turning off the magnetic timeline when warranted, Import / Export to / from other apps, other facilities, Edit to Tape / Log and Capture, etc…
If you can’t learn a new interface, you’re doomed in this industry. All applications re-invent their interfaces from time to time. The only problems come when the app developer doesn’t continue to support features needed by many in the industry. Fortunately when that happens, we have other NLE’s to choose from.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media
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