Carrion Crow and Roadkill

[Alban Egger]

[David Roth Weiss] “Worst of all, it prioritizes clip collision avoidance at the expense of creative editing.”

Aha…..now that is a bold statement. Since when is creative editing a feature of a software? I need to find that filter that turns my work into something creative by default. It probably comes next to “applying in Magic Bullet Looks makes you a Colorist and your footage look like film”.

If there was something annoying and stopping when you did some creative work,but instead had to get back to fix limitations of FCP7, it was clip-collisions.

[Alban Egger]

Same here Mark.
The sad point is many have read FCPX has “auto-this” and “auto-that” and has “share-to-youtube” and “share-to-email” as menu options and therefore scream “AMATEUR SOFTWARE!”.

In reality you just turn them off and actually the share to youtube has been in compressor already and nobody screamed. Share to email is a great feature i use several times a week, because it is fast (uses the GPU and shoots out renders of 2 minutes 1080p-timelines as 2,5MB files in no time) and easy. Who says Pros need to have it hard? Who says these amateurish features are not helping in a pro-environment. Which PRO film is not teased on youtube? by major networks and studios?

As Craig said…..the flip-out screen came to the Pro-DSLRs via the consumer bridge-cams. And which pro is complaining? Actually which pro wasn´t asking for the feature? Not that he needed it every day, but there is the time when you want to make this overhead-groupshot and you only press once instead 10 times.

P.S.: I do use “optimize” and “copy into event” BTW. it is a automated backup-step and optimize actually only is done when the PC can´t handle the native format smoothly (which is usually only the case with h.264 files)