FCP 5.5

[Shane Ross]

Geeze. Let the dust settle.

But…a good solid Media Manager is my biggest wish. A nice reliable and easy way to take an offline cut to an online resolution. Avid’d is so elegant, and FCPs is co clumsey.

[Tom Wolsky]

4.5 was largely a bug-fix release with a few extras. I don’t see that happening for 5. I don’t they’d do a media manager overhaul for a point upgrade.

[_tormentor_]

Better filter management. After Effects style Adjustment Layers or a way to remove specific filters from a range of clips on a timeline. Ability to turn on or off selected filters. Redo Time-Mapping, support progressive renders of motion effects in an interlaced timeline… many more.

[Mark Raudonis]

I’d vote for getting rid of those pesky “auto select” buttons. Does anyone really like them?

mark

[Debe]

I use them grudgingly, because they do unlock some powerful timline management tools…

but I’d rather have keyboard shortcuts instead!

debe

[Morten]

Heard there will be an update at IBC adressing 720P25 compatibility

– No Parking Production –

FCP 4.5, Dual G5, X-Raid

[Itamar Kool]

[Morten Ranmar] “Heard there will be an update at IBC adressing 720P25 compatibility”

Know anything more about that??? Cause that’s exactly what I’m waiting for!!

Kool En De Anderen
dual 1.8 gig G5/Mac OS 10.3.9/Kona 2/Hugh 800 G diskarray, fibrechannel/FCP 5.02/AE 6.5 Pro
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl

[Misha Aranyshev]

I like AutoSelect. There are keyboard shortcuts. Actually that’s why I like AutoSelect.

[Oliver Peters]

[mishka] “I like AutoSelect. There are keyboard shortcuts. Actually that’s why I like AutoSelect.”

Sorry, but I think they suck. It’s the single biggest impedement I see to working as a power editor because it counteracts natural and intuitive ways of deleting and trimming in the timeline from the keyboard. It’s just an example of too much redundancy in the GUI that is handled far more elegantly in other apps (yes Avid, but others as well). It generally trips up experienced editors coming from other systems and it sets up new editors who learn on FCP to develop poorer and slower working styles, since they never question what these do or how to use them in a more powerful manner.

Sincerely,
Oliver

Oliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Aaron Neitz]

More features (on/off switch in User Prefs) for experienced editors working at an advanced level:

Clip collisions on A1 when you’re editing video over audio that has nothing to do with video. I get tired of locking down all my audio to trim a head frame. I assume this is to help some people not lose sync down the line with something, but experience editors know full well that clipping 3 frames here will slip something else 5 minutes down the road 3 frames.

And on that note, being able to see video on V1 if you’re trimming on V2 with black on either side.

And a slip feature in the trim window. Ala roll edit in Avid.

MEDIA MANGLER NEEDS A MASSIVE OVERHAUL!!!! What a piece of JUNK!

I would REALLY like to see a switch that allows you to see the timeline of a sequence loaded into the source monitor.

PRINT BINS feature!!!!!!

And I would dearly like to see some customizeable colors. Something easier on the eyes after 10 hours of editing.