FCP-X for documentaries (with details)

[Mitch Ives]

Having edited a documentary in X, I can attest to the fact that it works for that.

I can also attest to the fact that it gets damn slow on a two-hour project with a lot of color correction, etc.

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

[Shane Ross]

Good friend of mine cut that series, and Patrick was his assist. He loved many aspects of it, like keyword searching. But did note lots of slowdowns, and then the workarounds they used to get around those. Also said that Lumberjack was of great help

Overall he dug it.

THIS article and workflow is making me start to look at FCX. Because this is precisely the work I do. Glad to see a producer, and old school producer, say “I hear that FCX is the wave of the future…let’s try to tackle this project with it.” And it worked. Still needed elbow grease, but hey, so did FCP Classic. Up to the day it was discontinued.

Shane
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[Mitch Ives]

[Shane Ross] “THIS article and workflow is making me start to look at FCX. “

I’m not sorry I moved over… I just retain my right to be vocal about what’s still missing and what still needs fixed. Od course, every program is the same…

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

[Aindreas Gallagher]

You mean FCPX works? Someone call the papers – although – quoting from the article:

However, using the Transform panel in the Inspector, you can ease Position animations, but not Scale. This would cause an odd serpentine motion to the animation, which could only be fixed by switching Position keyframes to “Linear”.

HAAAAAAaaaaaaa ha ha ha ah. oh tee hee.
how are you people not out front of cupertino holding pitchforks at this stage?

I’m not being mean but, guys, seriously:

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

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[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “I’m not being mean but, guys, seriously:”

But you have to rent that functionality 🙂

[Oliver Peters]

Slowdowns… Any idea what machines they were cutting with and formats used, aside from Sharestation? And were the slowdowns related to stills or in general?

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Steve Connor] “But you have to rent that functionality 🙂
“

But Steve, for type acceleration movement alone, say in mood film previz scenarios (never mind faking camera moves): if it’s a choice between the dreaded rent and X, we might as well have an adult conversation on the short comings. X can’t keyframe its way out of a paper bag. That’s an issue.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

I shoot and edit documentaries for a satellite TV channel here in Italy. My opinion is FCPX is just great at that. What I like best is the ability to use metadata to find, say, all the clips from my ten years archive containing a particular fish or a particular area once I’ve archived the clips with proper keywords and comments. Besides that, I also like FCPX as a fast and easy editor.

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini Monitor, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.9.4

[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “But Steve, for type acceleration movement alone, say in mood film previz scenarios (never mind faking camera moves): if it’s a choice between the dreaded rent and X, we might as well have an adult conversation on the short comings. X can’t keyframe its way out of a paper bag. That’s an issue.”

You don’t have to sell me, I’m with you on this!

[Andrew Kimery]

Haven’t had a chance to read the article, but looking forward to it.

Shane, surprised you haven’t thought about at least kicking the tires on X on some side work.