Emmy award winning editor at NBC blogs about FCPX

[Craig Seeman]

[Andreas Kiel] “Finally the title of the topic was wrong:
“Emmy award winning editor at NBC blogs about FCPX ”
It’s emotional and divides people into emotional groups.”

Because there have been a good number of posts that insist FCPX is not suitable for broadcast work and/or that “no one” is using it for broadcast work and/or not used for series work, etc.

The heading is accurate. I don’t see it as divisive.
It’s a post from one individual, who has won an Emmy who is using FCPX and likes it.

[Craig Seeman]

. . . And you might qualify as one of the more courageous editors.
I appreciate your jumping in here.

[Craig Seeman]

There’s some irony in the comments about how you chose to do your multi-cam work which is, as some would note, one of the more successful features in FCPX even noted by some of its more general detractors.

One of the criticisms leveled against FCPX is its rigidity in how it “forces” one to work a certain way.
Yet, you show that you are free to use an “older” method to doing multi-cam that predates the inclusion of such in many NLEs. FCPX, in its “trackless” environment, still allows one to put clip above clip and razor blade.

I’d guess one can say that FCPX can fit into a “neo-traditionalist” workflow. As long as one understands how FCPX works, one can figure out how to get there and not find it an inconvenience at all.

You show that one can appreciate the new features you like using and mix that with older methods you still prefer using.

[Clint Wardlow]

[Richard Herd] ” I used “H.264 LAN streaming” and it worked pretty well after I added compression markers where necessary.”

I am going to have to try that. Do you get a good full screen image? The problem I get is the way it smashes down all files to 480×360. I just can’t get a screener that doesn’t look like total crap when viewed in full screen mode. (Which I find frustrating since all withoutabox online advice recommends that your screener play well at full screen.) I just don’t see how this is possible when their player uses such a dinky frame size.

I think I am going to just send DVD screeners. Online screeners is a great idea, it is just a shame withoutabox executes it in such a sucky fashion.