Favourites Folder

[Julian Bowman]

Bill, I’m confused. you said I can create an event and simply put my plugins in it and use that as my very needed and not particularly antiquated favourites folder.

Well I just tried. It appears I cannot in fact drag my plugins into a new event and then open that event (favourites folder) and see them, let alone scrub through them to see how they may look as i can in the plugins section.

So how exactly is your workaround, which was offered up with your typically dismissive attitude of anyone wanting anything in X that you don’t want or need, a bona fide current replacement for a favourites folder?

I’m guessing what you mean is I can use some laborious workaround to collate examples of the plugins, probably on other clips, that will not allow me to visually see how they look or in fact visually present them as neatly as the plugins folder. if so, not quite sure how that is the future. Surely the future would be to have a great plugins area of the NLE (which we do) decluttered by enabling user management (which we don’t and was asked for in this post)

The other workaround listed below is also just a poor man’s workaround. I use it, but it is

a) fiddly
b) will break when you do an upgrade
c) won’t enable me to put everything I want in there
d) won’t enable me to close all the plugins I DON’T want cluttering up my plugins area (especially the totally hobbyist nonsense packaged with X). Even if I put my FX Factory plugins I want in there and delete the rest, FX Factory still reinstalls them when I boot back up, so decluttering is not possible. As for Apples plugins, that’s even more of a PITA arse to hide them, you have to hack the core folders.

Truly, the ability to manage your plugins as you see fit, including turning off in X those you don’t need or moving those you use to a series of ordered folders, is an enhancement of the ability to edit with expediency. It is not antiquated. It is not clinging to the past. It is not wanting using X as you want to use legacy, it is wanting to use X as a professional with organisational needs for the plethora of plugins Apple themselves have encouraged.

To argue otherwise, to suggest someone is somehow howling at the moon because they want a feature added that was valid, valuable and aided productivity in other NLE’s, is bordering on the deluded and makes that contributors opinions seem, er, nuts.

bill, one final question. Are you still editing on 10.0? I mean you were such a huge advocate of how perfect it was and how awesome it was and how everyone else was simply nowhere near the puck, therefore I am guessing you haven’t installed any of the upgrades because really you don’t need them because all they did was supply the features and changes that people were asking for that you said they didn’t need because, you know, they were harping on about the past and Apple had just delivered the future.

So how is it on 10.0?

[Sascha Engel]

Thank you Julian, you summed it up for me.
Since I am new in FCPX forum/ app, I did not wanna say something,
But I do get the feeling, Bill, that you are a bit fanatic in defending X.
It is great software, with great new innovations and very speedy, but after all it still has a lot of child sicknesses and does lack in my opinion a lot of features, that a Pro App needs and separates it from an iMovie amateur software.
A favourites folder is indeed not clinging onto the past, but an essential pro tool that should be implemented.
Because it’s a shame, that all the speed I gain by X’s architecture, I loose, cause I have to fiddle around with chunky work arounds to make up for missing features and functions.
Let’s hope, that a lot of those things will be fixed in the next upgrade.

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Neil Goodman]

again Bill speaks up without understanding the question at all and in a dismissive tone no less. I truly believe and this is not s dig, but that he wasn’t using FCP 7 like alot of power users were using it.

A favorites folder would be be mighty welcome and is not an OLD way of thinking, just a good one.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – The Esquire Network – NBC/Uni

[James Ewart]

what about humble traditions. I like to keep 6 frame 12 frame 25 frame dissolves etc as favourites??

[Richard Simmons]

I was looking for the solution to this and came across this thread. One thing led to another and I figured out a simple solution.

Go to the Final Cut Pro app, right click and select “Show Package Contents”.

The navigate to Contents–> Plugins–>MediaProviders–>MotionEffect.fxp–>Contents–>Resources–>Templates–>Effects.

There I made a new folder called ” Favorites” [notice the space before the F] and copied several effects into it.

I then relaunched FCP and there is it, a Favorites Effects folder. There is probably a bit more we can do using this method, this was just my first try.

Hope that helps.

[Sascha Engel]

Thanx, I will try that right away! But you can only ad FX on finder level?
You make copies of the FX you put in there?

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[James Ewart]

Why a space before the ‘F’ please?

[Sascha Engel]

I guess, so the Favourites Folder appears on top of the list in the FX Browser.

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Richard Simmons]

Yeah, I put copies of the different effects there, just in case it messes something up. Works fine so far though. When I search for an effect, I do see 2 copies come up, but that’s not a big deal to me. I haven’t tried to make a favorites folder for anything else yet. Seems worth trying.