Audio editing in FCPX

[Bill Davis]

Relative to nothing…

Somebody once told me that in order to feel “comfortable” in any new environment – it takes a human brain between 90 and 120 days to acclimate.

I’ve stopped trying to “fix” people’s perceptions of X if they’re still inside that vague 120 day window. And its almost worse for a user who’s getting “contaminated” by going back and forth – reinforcing their Legacy expectations day after day – while simultaneously attempting to adapt to the new expectations.

The X way of things absolutely does feel foreign and troubling to anyone who hasn’t become accustomed to it. And the moment one DOES become accustomed to it – then (like MAGIC) it’s no longer an issue.

Remember magnetism in the early days of X? 90 days of yelling and screaming. And after a while, nobody actually using it thinks munch about it any more. It’s just the way things are.

And so it goes.

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[Timothy Auld]

You don’t know me. And while I know we’re not to post about the poster here (which I think you just did) I have to say:

Never had an original thought.

Never tried to.

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

Yes. And that’s how I find myself working with FCPX: Wrestling it to the ground. How hard would it be to have user enabled functions (of almost any kind?) How hard would it be to make it work for the folks who built it into what it became. How hard would it be to put back 4 or 5 functionalities (including ichat theater – I mean what the hell is going on there? Adobe has nothing approaching it. And it is lead pipe cinch gone in FCPX. And where did it go? AND WHY?

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

You have not stopped.

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

I don’t want ANY audio clip embedded in ANYTHING.

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

I never felt it foreign or troubling to me. Just inadequate to my needs in certain situations. Is that beyond your comprehension?

Tim

[Andy Field]

Amazing how willing some folks are to twist themselves into a pretzel to complete a task available in virtually every other NLE without connecting, un-connecting, opening in time line clips. Hey. They’re Apple. They know what’s best. I’m sure I’ll feel better about this in 90 to 100 days!

[Aindreas Gallagher]

yes at that – i just found and read that exchange above about copying and pasting audio back onto the VA clip as a connected clip and then ideally maybe embedding that connected audio into the main audio about the funniest/insane thing I’ve read on here in a long time.

It’s a seriously rich blend of kool aid and stockhom syndrome, all polished off with that one dude going: – mmmm – “I find audio editing more elegant in x”

sometimes – just sometimes – the exchanges between x proponents on here do actually boggle the mind.
It’s just the way they’re all happily doing these completely insane things, and thinking its all breezy.

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[Eric Santiago]

I just spent 8 hours in Avid.
Please tell me why my head hurts working with their audio tools.
Sure they have some proven options (RTAS for me) but dealing with the audio layout has always been annoying (Im talking 8 years here)and found myself running to Premiere and FCP legacy to feel sane again.
But now that Im working more and more in FCPX, Avid makes me feel so dumb at times 😛
I think everyone is right that its a choice and not everyone feels the way I/you do.
My main Avid editor will not let go and will die if Avid fizzles out.
He vows to never learn another NLE (even though its the only one he knows) again.

[Tony West]

[Andy Field] “NLE without connecting, un-connecting,”

I never really saw connected clips as that different from tracks from the beginning.

The basic rule is the same. You are stacking clips above and below. It’s not like all of the sudden to font somebody you are putting it below instead of on top.

I see those connected clips as “tracks” with more flexibility.

[Andy Field] “They’re Apple. They know what’s best.”

This part seems unrealistic to me. It seems to imply that people would be loyal to something (other than themselves and their direct family) over their own personal comfort.

I find that premise hard to believe.