Cutting a major Hollywood Feature on FCPX

[Misha Aranyshev]

I cut a few in FCP. All I needed was Cinema Tools to make cut lists. As for Sync-N-Link X, it is to make FCPX to use track names in BWF–poly as subroles.

[Ronny Courtens]

Mike is finishing a book about his experience with FCP X on this 100 million dollar movie. I’m sure we will find out much more about his workflow when it gets published. Should be an interesting read.

From the conversations we had he would like to see a better visual representation for audio stems based on Roles, something we agree upon. Tracks is something he has not missed at all, also something we agree upon.

– Ronny

[Oliver Peters]

That’s the inherent nature of FCP X. The app is cheaper and more streamlined, so you have to augment it as needed, based on your workflows.

For most feature film jobs, you’d need Sync-N-Link X, EDL-X and X2Pro. Sync-N-Link X isn’t essential, but speeds up syncing of double-system audio jobs, however, only if camera and sound have common TC. EDL-X is needed if your DI/grading house requires EDLs, which is nearly all of the top ones.

If you look at Avid, there are helper apps made by Avid that are included with Media Composer, such as EDL Manager and Film Scribe. A lot of editors and assistants also make great use of Filemaker Pro databases.

So you are never going to get away from needing some extra software, besides the core NLE.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Scott Witthaus]

[Bill Davis] “As much as I love the debate here,, this forum has a bit of a reputation for trashing X, so the eyeballs of the active FCP X user community have largely moved elsewhere. “

To a certain point, I agree. The “debate” is over and this forum has become more about entertainment than about real usable information.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “It’s been all over the major FCP X sites for the past week.

As much as I love the debate here,, this forum has a bit of a reputation for trashing X, so the eyeballs of the active FCP X user community have largely moved elsewhere. “

Ouch! So I guess this isn’t a major FCP X site, then?

I don’t believe the second part… I think the eyeballs are looking in all the same places that they have since day one…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Marcus Moore]

Sync-N-Linc’s own Philip Hodgetts recently revealed that his Change List tool was used as part of the post process on the PremierPro edited GONE GIRL.

[Charlie Austin]

[Gary Huff] “The film in question is apparently Focus, which is an R-rated Romantic Comedy being dumped out to theaters in February.”

Ah… so it doesn’t matter then? :-/

FD… I think it matters about as much as it does that GG was cut in Pr. Which is to say, you can cut a feature using (insert NLE here) if you want to.

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[Tim Wilson]

[Scott Witthaus] “The “debate” is over and this forum has become more about entertainment than about real usable information.”

This forum was NEVER about usable information. I was always shocked at the amount of usable information here. LOL Entirely by accident, and never our intent. This is a DEBATE forum.

For getting actual work done, we have the FCPX Techniques forum, and it is indeed one of our most popular. We also have a tremendous amount of FCPX-related discussion in other forums that touch on FCPX for other parts of workflow, including Resolve, After Effects, camera forums and others.

[Gary Huff] “Hey Bill, 2011 called, it wants its putdowns back.”

Thank you. I couldn’t have put it better. LOL

Just for grins, I thought I’d check our numbers for this summer, vs. the summer of 2011.

I know that you geezers will remember the chaos of those days. It was overwhelming. On Day Zero, June 21 2011, we had 12-15 posts going up every MINUTE. Absolutely staggering. Over 500,000 page views on that single day.

I haven’t counted today, but I believe that the pace of posting in this forum is now somewhat less than one every 4 seconds.

But the argument is that PEOPLE have abandoned us. So, what’s the number of PEOPLE in the summer of 2014, vs. the summer of 2011?

The number of PEOPLE coming here is UP by 37%!

Now, when I say “up 37%,” what am I talking about?

Over 1.8 million unique people every month.

A number of individuals have obviously, and in some cases, quite loudly, shifted their online energies elsewhere. Not a debate.

But I don’t want to hear for a single second that “people” “no longer” views us as a — if not the single biggest — center of gravity for FCPX information and conversation. Likewise, not a debate.

Not that we’ve ever needed even vaguely debatable topics to have a debate. LOL

[David Mathis]

[Tim Wilson] ”
This forum was NEVER about usable information. I was always shocked at the amount of usable information here. LOL Entirely by accident, and never our intent. This is a DEBATE forum.

For getting actual work done, we have the FCPX Techniques forum, and it is indeed one of our most popular. We also have a tremendous amount of FCPX-related discussion in other forums that touch on FCPX for other parts of workflow, including Resolve, After Effects, camera forums and others.”

Useful information? What is that? LOL I have always felt this forum was more about entertainment value then anything else. 😉

I probably visit this forum the most, followed by the “FCP X Techniques”, and, yes, the “Adobe CC Debate”. That one seems to have slowed down a bit as well. Another forum of interest is Blackmagic Design and Resolve. Just waiting for a Fusion forum to make its way back into the mix.

Now, for the serious side of me, I do find these forums informative.
Sure, there are a few jokes and laughs involved. I probably visit the COW at least 3 times a day looking for entertainment but really stuff that is informative. Stuff that will allow me to have a better workflow strategy along with useful little tidbits never considered before.

Tim, you really need to make more posts. 🙂 I find great value in them.

[Marcus Moore]

Sorry Charlie, it doesn’t matter if people are cutting features in X, it only matters if they’re NOT.

Wait… what?!