FCP X Professional Opinions

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Yes we do.

I bought it when released, hated it. After the 10.0.3 update gave it Another chance.

Learned how to use it. Went from frustration to less frustration to loving the program.

Now, because of my experience, the company where i do freelance work switched from 7 to X, i am their Main editor. My friend/collegue now learned it from me after I said I was planning to do à full switch.

No NLE is perfect, but generally we have been VERY HAPPY with X So far.
My collegue now also for his private projects and other clients only uses X and Says that he could never go back to 7 because X is much faster once you get used to it.

[Charlie Austin]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “I bought it when released, hated it. After the 10.0.3 update gave it Another chance.

Learned how to use it. Went from frustration to less frustration to loving the program. “

Same here. I think this is a pretty common progression. I also think a lot of people stop at “hated it”. Oh well. Obviously there are some folks whose workflow requires things not currently implemented in X, but that list of things is pretty small these days. Looking forward to the next version! 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Andrew Kimery]

Not using X in LA though if it looks like places I work/want to work might start using it I’ll pick it up.

[Victor Vazquez]

Thanks for the insight!

Victor Vazquez

[Victor Vazquez]

I hear that one concern with FCP X is that it doesn’t export XML or OMF. But new Mac systems have issues with FCP 7.

Victor Vazquez

[Charlie Austin]

[Victor Vazquez] “I hear that one concern with FCP X is that it doesn’t export XML or OMF. But new Mac systems have issues with FCP 7”

Well.. yes and no. Also, 7 works fine on new systems FWIW.

Anyway, X does do XML, but it’s it’s own “flavor” There are some apps (Resolve. Smoke) that read native fcpxml files, and Xto7 ($50) can tranlate it to a format readable by FCP 7 and Pr. There may be others but that’s off the top of my head. If you need EDL’s, EDL-X ($100) does the trick really well.

AFAIK nobody does OMF for X yet, but X2Pro ($50 or $150) will create AAF’s for Protools, Nuendo, and uh… something else I think. It’s really nice and essentially makes nice clean split tracks for you – if you use Roles to their full effect.

If you need OMF, you can just open an X sequence in 7 (7 to X) and export from there. To be fair, you might need to clean things up a bit first depending on the complexity of your audio, but it’s not bad.

So, to “play nice” with traditional finishing workflows, you need to spend a couple hundred bucks more or less to get that stuff out. Cheaper than Automatic Duck used to be… 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Nikolas Bäurle]

FCP X has always exported XML its just not compatible with other NLEs. 3rd party solutions are out there. The big scandal was that it could not read XML from FCP 7, 7toX solved that.

As far as I know Resolve reads Xs XML.

For OMF you can use Automatic Duck.

A lot of negativity you hear is from people not really having used it, at least thats my experience. There is very little you can’t do with, except for certain workflows that editors have gotten used to.

“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python

[Herb Sevush]

[Charlie Austin] “If you need OMF, you can just open an X sequence in 7 (7 to X) and export from there. To be fair, you might need to clean things up a bit first depending on the complexity of your audio, but it’s not bad.

So, to “play nice” with traditional finishing workflows, you need to spend a couple hundred bucks more or less to get that stuff out.”

A couple of hundred plus the cost of owning FCP7. So if you are a new editor, your cost is what – $300 for X, $100 for compressor and Motion, $50 for Xto7, $50 to 7toX, $100 EDL-X, $50 for XtoPro, and $900 for FCP7 – That’s $1550 for a system that requires going in and out of multiple programs to get any kind of finishing done. Yep, a bargain and a workflow that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Steve Connor]

Is OMF still the only option in a lot of workflows?

Every time I’ve been asked for an OMF by a Post House, I’ve offered an AAF instead and it’s been fine.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “Is OMF still the only option in a lot of workflows?

Every time I’ve been asked for an OMF by a Post House, I’ve offered an AAF instead and it’s been fine.”

Nope, AAF’s work. I just added that to be fair. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~