FCP has never had Tape Based Output!!!

[Michael Hancock]

Media 100 works natively with 2K and 4K Red files – something FCPX can’t do. And, your AJA card works with Media 100 – something it doesn’t do with FCPx.

So yeah – Media 100. Why not?

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Lou Borella]

So Media100 is now a viable alternative to FCPX.
A piece of software that is 7 hours old for a program that has been on life support for years.
A piece of software that developers have barely gotten a chance to play with yet. To write drivers for.

You are joking right?

[Michael Hancock]

[Lou Borella] “So Media100 is now a viable alternative to FCPX.”
Yeah. It runs on a Mac, has the features people need, works with the third party hardware they own. Why wouldn’t it be an alternative?

[Lou Borella] “A piece of software that developers have barely gotten a chance to play with yet. To write drivers for.”
Apple could have given a beta version to developers to work with. Apparently they didn’t. So yeah, the software may be 7 hours old but that’s hardly Blackmagic or AJA or any plugin manufacturer’s fault for not having drivers or new plugins, if they’ve only had it for 7 hours too.

[Lou Borella] “You are joking right?”
Nope.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Kris Anderson]

5 hours and counting…?

So when I buy my new car they can deliver the engine next week?

FCPX is a joke. Can’t connect to SAN storage, no edl export, no xml import unless you buy a $495 plug, no R3D support?

Have fun selling your toy software to any major client or any facility that uses multiple suites.

[Tyler Granlund]

FCP has since day 1 included the edit to tape function. I didn’t buy FCPX, but if it doesnt have edit to tape function you obviously lost something. Maybe I can just upload my masters to youtube?

[Paul Buhl]

“You people are complaining about a missing feature that was never included.”

Not quite true. The complaint is that FCP X doesn’t support output through third party HD SDI cards like AJA, which is how we output to pro decks. FCP 7 has this support, and a deck control interface that works great for output to tape using pro decks.

This is also how we send video to professional monitors, and that is also a major problem.

Paul Buhl
Feature Film Editor
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Staff Editor
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