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er, is that it?
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[Oliver Peters] “It does seem odd that this is the direction 10.1 took. The change to Libraries is about as clear of an admission by Apple that the original direction was wrong.
There are very few apps that I’ve seen, which were designed from scratch, that have gone through such changes, especially under the hood. Clearly an indication that ProApps is just as much at the mercy of Apple engineering as outsiders. To some extent, they appear to be winging it.”
Doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in spending $6-10K on a new MacPro does it? I really thought they would hit one out of the park and make us all want to buy MacPro’s. Shows what I know…
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
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It’s hard to say at this point if Apple will be motivated to charge for an X update.
If FCPX is getting people to buy a Mac, THAT’S where their profit centre is.
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One update that’s not on that list that surprises me is the save/versioning enhancements- which was addressed.
Along with FCPX’s automatic saving, the autosave vault has returned. While “Snapshots” allows you to do multiple named “saved states” of the same project file, pretty much eliminates the need for endless duplication of projects.
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And I’ve been screaming for copy and pasting Keyframes since FCP 1.x in 2000, and today they added a half assed “oops, did we forget this line of code?” version. It’s lame, but it’s something. Keyframing sucks in X and even more so in legacy.
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[Oliver Peters] “No tracks, non-functional audio mixing, an island when it comes to the rest of the pro world. “
I think you are right, but if you think about it, audio tracks are not directly compatible with FCPX metadata system. For example, roles and tracks could send the same clip to different output buses.
I think the only way this would work is if tracks would override the roles where the parameters cannot be combined, just like groups override some track parameters. It still could be a potential mess.
What I would really want is a solid AAF export to Pro Tools and Nuendo, just like the old OMF in FCP 7 was.
Audio in any video app (except Vegas) is a crap. I wouldn’t mix the simplest project in any of them, so I don’t really care about it. And I know I can’t expect them to be perfect and they will never be. But you should at least have the direct connection to the outside world.
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The fallacy of thinking we video folks are what drive anything. Saw a report quoted two hours ago from Cult of Mac (I think) that said orders seeking actual shipped Mac Pros already slipped from delivery in Dec to delivery in February.
Methinks the robots in Austin will be very busy for a long time to come.
If the machine/software combo lands and actually chews through video like a rabid beaver – the details won’t much matter. Most actual video editing isn’t all that complex. Just painstaking and tedious. If the combo makes it less so, that’s the big win.
We tend to argue the sizzle here.
The steak is what banishes the hunger.
FWIW.
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I regularly export AAFs from FCPX to Protools and now there’s XML to Logic Pro. FCPX might be an island, but there’s a bridge and a ferry to get you off of it!
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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I concur – underwhelming to say the least. Performance is much better but that was really a fix, not a new feature.
Premiere CC it is – even with the much loved subscription…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Lance Bachelder] “Premiere CC it is – even with the much loved subscription…
“What were you hoping FCPX would add that would tempt you away from CC?
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Steve Connor] “I regularly export AAFs from FCPX to Protools and now there’s XML to Logic Pro. FCPX might be an island, but there’s a bridge and a ferry to get you off of it!”
Yes you can export AAF with X2Pro or Automatic Duck (not sure if it still works), but it should be part to the program like in Premiere or Avid. But yeah, X2Pro is the solution for the time being.
XML to Logic is fine, but you don’t see Logic in post or film studio that often.
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