Confirm new feature in FCP 6

[David Roth weiss]

It’ll be interesting to see that in action. How will it know how you’re monitoring?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Chris Borjis]

[David Roth Weiss] “How will it know how you’re monitoring?”

The external monitoring of my multibridge extreme is always active, if thats what you mean. Usually the Plasma and Crt are both on when I work.

If fcp knows what the currently loaded sequence settings are, it should be able to make the output match…..I would hope. 🙂

[David Roth weiss]

I guess the reason I asked is because I’m often monitoring with settings that have little to do with what’s on the timeline. For instance, when I’m cutting DVCProHD at 23.98, I’m monitoring 1920×1080 at 29.97 so the motion is smooth and without artifacts on my Pany plasma. When I’m cutting DV I’m monitoring 525i29.97 10-bit. See what I mean?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Ben Insler]

I was thinking the same thing. Also, we frequently downconvert using Kona 3 from DVCPRO HD to 525. You have to tell FCP to do that manually. If this feature were real, I would assume FCP would always want my video playback settings to be HD. I’d be upset if I HAD to choose that.

It does seem, however, that Apple is trying to save people a lot of setup headaches in the new version….

-Ben

[Winston A. cely]

This is slightly off topic, but it’s a feature I hope they added….

Don’t laugh too hard, but I hope that Title 3D gets spell check. I’m a horrible speller, and I always have to go to Dictionary to check everything. It’d be nice if it were built in like it is in the rest of Apple’s software.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Borjis] “I read that when you run the easy setup now it conforms all the easy setup areas for what you set it at including the video preview….is that true? I really hope.”

What card are you running? The AJA Easy Setups do this automatically already. Set it to AJA Kona 3 720p60 DVCPro HD for example switches all the outputs to 720p/60 automatically. Switch to 525/8bit SD, it switches all the outputs to 525.

One feature Apple was showing with FCP 6 was the auto setup of a Sequence. If your first clip does not match your Sequence settings, FCP will ask you if you want to change the Sequence settings to the match the clip. That’s a really nice feature because how many questions have we been answering on these forums that begin with “why do I have to render every clip in my timeline……”

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[Martin Baker]

So true Walter.

If you need custom setups for output on specific hardware then you should create your own Easy Setup preset, that’s what the feature is there for, to make it easy!

You can read my post on the other improvements in FCP right here.

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[Chris Borjis]

I think some of you don’t understand what I’m saying.

If I just worked on something and monitoring as i always do at say 720P, when I launch final cut, i have it set to ask for the easy setup when it launches, so I change it to NTSC 10-bit, thats fine, but now when I click on easy setup, it says “custom” because its still retaining some of the 720p setup.

I then AGAIN change that custom setup and scroll through to load the NTSC 10-bit setting, THEN I have to go into the video preview output setting and change THAT to NTSC 10-bit as its still set for the 720 I did.

I could leave it at hd but then the NTSC monitoring would show a very small picture that would not fill the crt or plasma screen.

What I would like FCP 6 to do, is change EVERYTHING including the monitoring setting to whatever easy setup I choose (the first and only time) just once, so I don’t have to deal with it in 3 steps.

This should be very simple for the software to do and It doesn’t make much sense that it won’t do it already.

[Chris Borjis]

One last thing that would be great as well, that I am always changing is setting where files are captured.

If I specify a clients folder as the capture folder, when I save the project it SHOULD remember where the capture is for that project and change it for different projects when they are loaded.

[David Roth weiss]

[Borjis] “If I specify a clients folder as the capture folder, when I save the project it SHOULD remember where the capture is for that project and change it for different projects when they are loaded.”

Absolutely!!! That one is without a doubt one of the single sillyest “features” or “non-features” of FCP. In fact, each project should retain all of the various user setups for that particular project. Its a no brainer, and it couldn’t be that difficult to program.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles