FCP-X “Lightroom for video”

[Aindreas Gallagher]

my irritation resides with FCPX.

the upper left of the FCPX GUI is an editors bomb site of exposed mounted drives, tags, favourites, keyword collections and filmstrips.

The point is however – that the above use scenario can be, in a consumer use case, an utterly simple paradigm – and yet still horribly reductive for us.

Apple are simultaneously introducing useless complexities (roles), and still busily bleeding in stupidity, such that they can see uniform behaviour across all of those using their editing paradigm under their sun. Editing may as well be as proprietary as maps.

Apple are the very very worst here. the arts and technology crossroads they are looking to straddle is a devils crossroad.

we need to walk away from this. quickly.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

and the adobe ink –

https://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2012/09/20/smaller-premiere-pro-cs6-trim-tool-icons/

Honestly – it’s a lovely link, it shows true confidence in the audience, fallon style but – to any old editor at all – why not really, really read this.

and have a hard think through about apple as an editing software vendor going forward. as they say.

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

[David Lawrence]

Thank you kindly. I downloaded and installed the patch but unfortunately the recent 6.0.2 update seems to have broken it. Only the right facing cursors display. Phillip Bloom says they’re working on it so I’ll try again with the next release. It looks promising.

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Honestly – it’s a lovely link, it shows true confidence in the audience, fallon style but – to any old editor at all – why not really, really read this.

and have a hard think through about apple as an editing software vendor going forward. as they say.”

Oh you know I have. For me, Adobe is a breath of fresh air.

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[David Lawrence]

[David Lawrence] “unfortunately the recent 6.0.2 update seems to have broken it. Only the right facing cursors display. Phillip Bloom says they’re working on it so I’ll try again with the next release. “

Well, whaddya know — turns out the 6.0.2 update included new retina graphics. The reason the patch is broken is because some of the cursor file names have changed.

Also, there are now two versions of each cursor – normal and x2 for retina display. And get this, the cursors are just .png files. You can open, edit and save them in Photoshop. If I get some spare time, I may fix this myself!

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

no way really? its the one tiny gui gripe i have – I find them a little too harshly red and yellow, and a little too big.

I can tweak these to my hearts content in PS? oh be still my beating heart.

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[David Lawrence]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “no way really? its the one tiny gui gripe i have – I find them a little too harshly red and yellow, and a little too big.

I can tweak these to my hearts content in PS? oh be still my beating heart.”

Really. It’s easy! Here’s what you do —

1) Navigate to the Premiere Pro application in the finder.
2) Control-click on the application and select “Show package contents”
3) In the window that opens, navigate to Contents/Settings/Cursor
4) The Cursor directory contains all the cursor image files. Note how they are all .pngs
5) Save a backup copy of the Cursor directory
6) Edit the cursor image files in Photoshop any way you like!!!

That’s it. For extra credit you can edit the x2 versions for the retina display as well.

On thing I noticed is that the cursors have translucent edges. If that’s important to you, make a green layer behind the image layer in Photoshop so you can see the edge while you’re editing, then delete the layer before you save.

Be sure to back up the originals before you start tweaking.

Let me know how it goes. Have fun!

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[Walter Soyka]

The instructions seem to be about the same for Windows — the default path is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6\Settings\Cursor

As best I can tell from looking, the anchor point for the cursors is denoted in the filename (i.e., Cur_AreaSample_3_20.png’s pointer is centered 3 pixels to the right and 20 pixels down from the raster’s [0,0] upper-left origin). Whether those numbers actually drive the application or merely reflect what’s pre-programmed into the app, I couldn’t say without testing.

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