are the any just simple improvements in FCP6?

[Alan Lacey]

background rendering would be wonderful. Jeez my Fast 601 did that a decade ago.

Alan

[Frank Pledge]

i really really agree with you.

i understand their push into the future of re-creating a new post production paradigm (all in one box soup to nuts) that has fully addressed HD, but what about us humps out here doing the day to day? those who are moving those keyframes around one at a time, doing the last minute font change on our titles done in title3d one at a time,etc etc. we ALL know the list.

I’m not saying sweeping unrealistic changes, but the ones we know can be done because the exist on other systems and have for a long time.

oh well. it’s still great.
fp

[Chris Poisson]

Thanks Frank,

Misery loves company.

[Nelson May]

I am hip. Other than color, I dont’ see too much in FCP studio. I am not a motion guru, but it looks like I can do a little more 3D work a little faster. My main concern is a good keyer. It looks like Premier has a good one built in. i wonder if they are using the Ultra algorithims. I wonder why Apple didn’t pick up on this. When I crew, 1 out of 5 shoots are green screen. My clients are starting to ask for green screen so I can drop them into anything. DVmatte Blast is great, but I would really be happy with a real time keyer in FCP. Roundtripping sometime crashes studio. I don’t think that would be brain surgery. I think I am going to wait a while before I upgrade. When I start getting projects that are already started in 2 then I will go over. I am fine with 5.1.

[Mark Maness]

[Alan Lacey] “background rendering would be wonderful. Jeez my Fast 601 did that a decade ago.”

And look how slow your computer was….

Apple’s thinking is that the computers are fast enough to view/edit in realtime then when you are done you need to render before outputting. Maybe not the best mode of thinking but its the one we have.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Mark Maness]

We have the best keyer in the world at our finger tips… Shake. Yeah, I know… its another program to learn and outside of FCP but if you really want to get the job done right, you need an outside program for just that thing. And besides…. You can port your video back an forth to Shake thru FCP without having to export clips, open Shake, do your operation and export from Shake to FCP.

Shake is a little daunting at first but I learn at a class at NAB, you have to look at shake as speaking naturally. If you can talk out what you want to do Shake has the operations setup in the manner in order to do what you want. Yeah, its a little more than that but that’s the basics in Shake. And for $500, you can’t beat it unless you use a DaVinci.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Nelson May]

I see both points. DVmatte blast works pretty well for me now. I have a G5 and roundtripping starts to slow my mac down. I may conisder shake.