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Emmy award winning editor at NBC blogs about FCPX
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[Jim Giberti] “Besides it’s kind of an odd question to ask given that the most popular genre of TV, that “everyone” wants to watch, is reality TV – which takes exactly how much skill to shoot and edit creatively?”
None to shoot, but from what I’ve hear (i don’t do it myself) actually quite a lot to edit.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
[Mike Fernanandes] ” Multi-cam is like running a switcher”
It is not in the slightest like running a switcher. That’s like saying a 747 is like a kite because they both use wind currents. A multicam feature does everything a switcher does just for starters, then it should do everything a standard single clip NLE can do as well. It does them both simultaneously.
[Mike Fernanandes] “I have more control and work faster with stacks. “
There is nothing, and I truly mean nothing that I can’t do with the Legacy multicam feature that you can do with stacks. Slip, slide, match back, trim, slip sync, re-find sync, change audio channels, — name me one thing you can do with stacked shots that I can’t do with the Legacy multicam? On the other hand lets see you change angles with one click even after you’ve moved a shot out of sync with the audio in stacks?
I don’t doubt you work faster with stacks but I think it’s because you don’t know how to work with the multicam feature. Unlike you I have extensive experience both ways and I know I can’t come close to the speed of working with the multicam feature when using stacks, and that’s not even going into the time it takes to set the stacks up.
Why do you think they bothered to invent the multicam feature in the first place?
[Mike Fernanandes] “Give any two editors the same material they all are going to give you different timelines. End of the day it all gets flattened.”
True that. End of the day we all get flattened.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
[Herb Sevush] “[Mike Fernanandes] “Give any two editors the same material they all are going to give you different timelines. End of the day it all gets flattened.”
True that. End of the day we all get flattened.”
Quotes of the week!
Steve Connor
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I totally hear you. I know its a good tool and it can do some awesome stuff. I just don’t love it. I hate using a mouse too and use a Wacom instead. You can make the same argument. Both are pointing devices different in execution but similar in results. These are all just tools everyone uses them differently. I’m not saying my way is better it just works better for me and I know other editors that enjoy it as well.
loudyeti.com
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They might not be replacements. But they are very good. And I very much miss the mixer. Timeline mixing is great but being able to fine tune a little more with out having to type in the levels would be awesome. I think they posted though that it was coming back. So here’s to hoping.
loudyeti.com
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[Tim Wilson] “People who like X are so adamant about how many other people “don’t get it” that they’ve missed that they’re not under seige. They’re now the majority. It’s almost like overreaction to perceived slights has become a form of self-validation. “
Well, perhaps.
But if I, particularly have a bit of a persecution complex in all of this, it’s not that there wasn’t the result of a long, long battle.
Tim, since you’re tracking stuff, I’d be interested in the radio of time’s I’ve posted anything complimentary about X and either Herb, Chris H, Aindreas, and a few others, either individually or together HAVENT popped up to argue with me not only to argue voiciferously about my view of the program’s essential worth – but often implying that I’m personally an idiot for my thinking.
Clearly since I’ve been here the whole time, I’m not particularly put off by that – and actually I’ve kind of enjoyed it since I like debate and I enjoy being pushed to defend my contentions. So I’ll ABSOLUTELY cop to wading into many of these fights and even escalating them…. but isn’t that exactly what’s made this forum so popular?
This place is ALL about dissent. Voicing it, AND having others call foul when they disagree.
And sorry, the “ratio” of haters to acceptors may have shifted significantly, but most weeks there’s still posts wildly mis-representing the software. Precisely from people who appear NOT understand it very well.
So I post help in Techniques (and a few other forums) – and I push back against what I perceive to be mis-information right here. Are you saying that because the “FCP-X is valuable” voices are starting to form a majority that it’s time to stop?
Jeez, dude, how the hell are Craig, Jeremy, and I supposed to build and grow our CULT in the face of a jury instruction like that!? ; )
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Herb Sevush] “I don’t doubt you work faster with stacks but I think it’s because you don’t know how to work with the multicam feature. Unlike you I have extensive experience both ways and I know …”
Uh, you don’t supposed that anyone could possibly read this as an attack on the PERSON rather than the idea?
Naw, couldn’t be.
We all know that when people write stuff like this – everyone in this forum “hears” an even, reasonable tone in their head, not a dismissive sneering put down…
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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For those interested I just got this comment on loud yeti from a gentleman named Dale.
“As an fcp, avid, adobe and now and fcpx editor I have to say, I love fcpx. Like you, I enjoy editing at a different level then in the past.
I know you mentioned you were wondering about other shows being cut on fcpx, so I’ll tell you about the show I’m almost finished……cut, mastered and delivered from fcpx and fcpx alone.
It’s call “Nova Scotia Revealed”. It’s for a Canadian broadcaster called EastLink TV. It’s 13 episodes 30 mins each.
It’s a fast show that follows two hosts as they make there way to 3 or 4 locations per episode. Anything from 300m in the earth in an old mine shaft to 3000m In the air in a glider.
Fcpx has opened a creative streak that I could not have gotten from any other nle….not that the ideas wouldn’t have existed, but they would have been crushed by deadlines and budgets that somehow fcpx has helped me get by. “
I hope there are more people like you out there Sir and look forward to seeing your show.
loudyeti.com
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I’ve pretty much written much of what’s in your blog 5 times and not hit the post button. In fact, I’ve written too many posts that I’ve never posted. I write alot to just to figure what I’m thinking. Then never post, email, or publish (ha!).
Someday I’ll actually write out a decent rant on how where X is going is great, and how where it is is good, and how connected clips and seondary storylines suck and are a necessary construct to make magnetism work, which is an unnecessary fix to a problem that doesn’t exist in the first place.
must resist urge and get back to work…
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