Anybody HAPPY?

[Bernhard G.]

Hoped for a feature update;
e.g. the new pipette for white balance as alternative to automatic CC; or the slightly brighter GUI scheme from iMovie 😉

But I definitely understand that 10.1 is a big engineering overhaul,
so I would expect feature updates rolling in like in 10.0

Something I still don’t understand:

Why Projects still need to be assigned to Events?

Apple suggest in the White Paper to organize Projects into Events separated from the media.

Quotation:
“Tip: To prevent any confusion over current versions of a project, keep media and projects in separate events. This way, the primary editor can control versions of edited sequences in an event dedicated to that purpose. Meanwhile, assistants can transfer media (such as dailies) using media-only events that are separate from the editor’s working projects.”

Apple White Paper Managing Media with Final Cut Pro X Libraries, Page 16.

Wouldn’t it be easier in general (for all workflows) if Projects would reside directly at the Library-level?

[Gary Slickman]

The launch speed and significant performance increase alone makes this a valuable update. Running it on a circa 2009 MBP 2.66 Core 2 Duo 8 GB RAM and VERY happy.

[Andrew Burke]

Yeah, happy so far.
10.0.0 was a good (new) direction.
10.0.9 really had most of what we wanted for everyday use.
10.1 looks and feels nice so far. We’re moving from desktop RAIDs to shared storage soon, so that’ll be the real test.

Final Cut Pro X’s key feature for us has and still is “speed while editing”. We routinely shave off 1/3 or more time from our editing vs. FCP7/PPro. If you charge by the hour for editing, you may be bummed. For meeting crushing deadlines it’s awesome.

Happy editing,
AB

I’m here because I’m not all there.

[Steve Connor]

As long as it keeps moving forward, I’m happy. We’re shooting a lot of 4K so performance is my number 1 criteria and 10.1 is definitely a big improvement

Still doing some work on Premiere CC though, just to hedge my bets though!

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Herb Sevush]

[Keith Koby] “One of the first baseball games I watched on tv was tigers vs yanks with the bird fidrich pitching.”

I was at the stadium when the Bird beat the Yanks (i think it was two zip) in his big year. Amazing, even had the Yankee home crowd rooting for him. One of the saddest things in sports was his early demise.

It would be good to take in a game next year, hopefully when Verlander is pitching. I have a man crush on him.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tim Wilson] “I’m the product of a mixed marriage (dad: 4th generation of Yankees fans; mom: Brooklyn Dodgers 4ever, although as the NY NL team, the Mets’ll do), and grew up idolizing the whole 50s New York scene. All you need to know about my family dynamics, though, is that the Red Sox became my favorite team. “

Contrarian that I am, I grew up in Brooklyn in a household of Dodger fans. My first game was at Ebbets field, but somehow the glory that was Mickey Mantle moved my allegiances further north. It is a testament to my father’s love that I was not banished summarily from the house.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Tim Wilson]

[Herb Sevush] “somehow the glory that was Mickey Mantle moved my allegiances further north.”

Yeah, Mickey was something special. Not enough to turn my mother to a Yankees fan by any means, but a grudging admiration. Willy Mays, though — we all turned into Giants fans for those moments we saw him batting or fielding. I was just a hair too young to remember Jackie Robinson’s prime, but, history aside, it sounds to me like anybody who laid eyes on him felt that way about him as a ballplayer.

There may only be a couple of players like that in a lifetime, where the love of the game transcends the most passionate fandoms. Rivera was that guy. Maybe Ripken before that — another guy whose final year was a victory lap in every stadium he visited.

I’m surely missing someone, but between Mickey and Cal, off the top of my head, it was Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron for me, and that may be it — not as the GREATEST players, but the guys that made you stop and say, wow, I’m not going to see somebody like that DO something like that for the whole rest of my life.

Still, though, I’ve been watching the Ken Burns series Baseball again in the past couple of weeks. I think the game today is better on the whole, but New York in the 50s, man, THAT’s something we’re never going to see again.

[Herb Sevush]

[Tim Wilson] “I’m surely missing someone, but between Mickey and Cal, off the top of my head, it was Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron for me, and that may be it — not as the GREATEST players, but the guys that made you stop and say, wow, I’m not going to see somebody like that DO something like that for the whole rest of my life.”

Agreed on the names you named, but the one other guy that did it for me was Griffey Jr., in his Seattle days. He did everything, he made it look effortless, and then he made you smile as he ran around the bases.

In the ’95 playoffs between Seattle and NY he absolutely killed us. I took my 10 year old with me for game 2 and Griffey had another big hit in the middle innings. When Griffey came back out to centerfield The whole stadium was rocking with a chant, and my son and I were trying to make out what it was. Finally we got it, all the “bleacher creatures” were yelling in unison – “F*ck You, Junior” – more as a compliment than anything else. We could see Jr. looking around as he heard it swirling around the stadium and then he just started laughing. My son still has his Griffey uni hanging in his closet.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Lillian Young]

So far, I am.

I’ve been bored with editing lately, and this breathed life back into the craft for me.

I prefer 3D and motion graphics, and while the FCP X plugins are canned, they are fast and have their place. Sometimes people with low budgets want cool stuff, and instead of turning them down because it’ll mean having to use my AE/Maya/C4D skills for pennies, I can welcome it, use the canned stuff in X and make a side buck.

As long as I still have FCP 7, I’m good. It doesn’t hurt to have options and I am loving FCP X overall.

I can’t lie and say it’s not a little off-putting that amateurs and non editors use the same software as pros now by using X, BUT the entire industry is changing across all multimedia disciplines.

We now can use $4k composting applications at home that movie studios use due to ‘access’ to the tools, lessons, etc. We pros just have to stand out via our skillset. It’s like pro photographers must have felt when everyone became ‘photographers’ due to advancements in affordable cameras. I know so many point-n-shoot non-photographers with $2K+ DSLRs now.

And an advantage is being able to have a client work with you in the same application that’s not too daunting. The pros will know the shortcuts and work faster. We will know not to use every filter known to man. Our work will still stand out. It’s just that things are changing and I’m cool with it.

My only gripe has to do with 10.1 being for Mavericks users only. Huge slap in the face. Most pros have a ton of other software and don’t update our OS systems immediately. But I’m going to try it on my second Mac.

[Lillian Young]

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