FCP 5 coming to LA. Got questions?

[Pol]

Great!! Lot’s of little things to ask.

Larger font size for clips? Those tiny fonts are driving me crazy.
Seperate timecode window for different timecodes?
Will it be possible to do a swap edit in the timeline with several clips at once?
Timecode visible when capturing?
It would also be nice if you could name a clip during capturing, not before or after.
Mixed resolutions in timeline (I guess not…)?
Improved media management?
Possible to hide video track without losing render files?
An elegant solution for video transitions on multiple clips?

I have many more questions, but I forgot some.

Thanks,
Pol

[Todd George]

Hello

I have always been a big fan of the “how to upgrade to Final Cut Pro ver x the proper way” with this release and the new OS I think this is a process that will need detailed instructions

it would be nice if we could get a how to on systems with other software already installed and a method for those who choose a clean install of everything

thanks

Todd George

G5 1.8ghz with 1.5gigs o ram
G4 powerbook with 1.5ghz and 1gig o ram

both on os 10.3x
both running fcp4.5
motion
dvdsp3
combustion 3
lightwave8

[Jeremy Garchow]

-What is being done about the RGB to YUV luma shifts that occur when playing movies rendered out of After Effects/Motion?

-Multiple resolutions in one timeline?

-Interface enhancements? (such as the ones mentioned by Pol)

[Guy]

Mixed resolutions in timeline (I guess not…)?

-Multiple resolutions in one timeline?

WHY can’t we do this in FCP 5? Lot’s of people would be happy even if the minimum requirement for the feature was a dual G5.

[Dvdman]

This concerns the multicamera part of the application:
According to the apple site it can sync on camera’s internal clock… If I understand that correctly is there a 24hr. gate?

[Misha Aranyshev]

More Multicamera details. Is it a linear live-switching thing – make a pass and if you don’t like it start from the beginning? Will match frame from the timeline take me to the Merged clip or to the separate cameras? Does split screen go to the client monitor? What about keyboard shortcuts? What if my cameras recorded FREE RUN TC?

Multithreading. Was it improved? Does the app still stop when I switch windows? Is Capture Preview still an ugly useless pseudo-overlay?

Are the scopes live during playback? Does CoreWhatever help with the app responsiveness when Range Check and other overlays in the Viewer and Canvas are turned on?

Xsan integration is mentioned but the wording is very vague. Does it mean the improvements are under the hood and we will see the real multi-seat stuff in FCP 5.5?

12+1 field padding for 24 fps on 50 Hz (PAL) monitor? I don’t think so but maybe. They did another thing I wanted since FCP 1 – Feet+Frames Timeline.

Does FCP 5 read TC from BWF files?

Can we finally do something useful with Aux TC?

4 hrs. limit? Is it gone?

Keyboard shortcut to switch tabs?

Is FCP 5 Snappy

[Erik Lindahl]

1. HDV and MPEG2 editing… Will I in FCP 5 be able to edit native MPEG2 > MPEG2 “lossless”? That is if I stay to straight cuts and such. What MPEG2 formats would be supported? (VOB, .m2v etc).

2. Media Management – what has happend here? I thought we’d see a HUGE update here but can’t seem to find any info on this… iTunes style media-management would be appreciated.

3. Performance… The system requirments have more than doubled (350Mhz G4 to 867Mhz G4), does that mean perfomance on the same hardware might decrease? Or is the hight requirments just to represent the new features, and that Quartz Extreme-ready machines by apple I reckon started at 867mhz G4?

4. Multiple codecs in the same timeline… Can this be done in software now, or is Cinewave the only path to go?

[Tom Wolsky]

1. HDV long GOP is handled natively. There is no loss. There is no audio handling for muxed MPEG formats.

2. Not sure what you mean by iTunes media management, but work was done on the media manager to improve handling of speed changed content.

3. Read about dynamic RT. Substantial work under the good to improve real-time performance.

4. No.

[Erik Lindahl]

MEDIA MANAGEMENT
What I mean about “iTunes-style media managment” is that FCP manages my media for me, if I want, on a per project or per bin setup. That is, everything I do in FCP is atomagically done in the Finder as well. In some cases you DON’T want this (i.e. clips are shared amongst different systems), but for many this is what you should have an option to do.

For instance, you might had an AIFF file off a CD, a DV clip off a FW-drive and a few pics off your local network. All you main media that you’ve captured to the FCP project is stored in the capture scratch for that project. This is good on one way – very flexible. This is terrible in another – media can easily got lost.

FCP should ask we how it should handle my media. “Exuse me sir, you’re adding a clip off a removable drive, would you like me to transfer it to your media folder?”. Also, I’d very much like renaming of items in FCP be represented in the Finder, now I have to do a lot of double work.

This is what I mean about “iTunes-style media management”. Since different users have different needs I reckon this should be a “per project” or “per bin” option. I.e. itmes stored in my “shared media” bin is NOT dynamically fiddled with. However, items in my “project media” bin IS dynamically fiddled with. Alot of AVID-editors would like this, it would bring FCP closer to AVID yet stay open “as-is” today.

PERFORMANCE
Well… The Dynamic RT thing sounds great, but what does it actually mean in real life? Will I see a greater number of RT effects on the same machine as today? Is the interface/workflow “snapier”? For instance, scrubbing a clip in the view today is a lot faster than in the canvas. Sertain overview items slow down performance quite much today, is it still that way? Being the higher requirments, will a machine (say a Dual 500 or Dual 1Ghz G4) perform as good, better or worse in FCP5 compared to 4.5? Why the higher requirments if performance has been tuned up?

[Bill]

does anyone else ever find the need to import an omf back into fcp?

I often find myself wishing this could be done. I cut a promo export the omf to the sound designer and he has to lay it back to tape. Why couldn’t I import the omf and have it back in my system mixed…..this way I could export the mixed spot out for the web or whatever without capturing it back form tape.