FCP7 after some time…

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Great news!
Thank you Mathieu.

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Neal Sickles]

Thanks guys. Also, I’m curious what the corporate industry is doing. What are shows like the Conan O’Brien show are doing? I know they made a hilarious mock video of FCP X when it first came out, but I wonder if shows like theirs are keeping FCP X or moving to something else. Any word on that?

Btw, here’s that Conan video in case you haven’t seen it. It just makes me crack up!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKYuF9pENQ

Neal

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[Fabrizio D’agnano]

The video is funny. Well made, it made me laugh. Of course you could do the same starring another NLE of your choice. I can’t tell about corporate industries, but the more I use FCPX, the more I think it’s almost perfect for my line of work. I am even liking audio editing with the new audio waveforms and the handles at both edges that stay there even when you trim the clip’s edge shorter or longer, the stereo channels that play on both right and left after you switch to double mono and turn off one of the two, the graphic show of the waveforms that is proving to be very accurate, I can add a background sound long clip while in a zoomed in view knowing I will be able to blade it later and cut to measure without other audio clips being overlapped and forgotten… Well, I think I can edit faster and better now, so I’m pretty happy with FCPX. Now they can even change the name to iMovie pro, I’ll keep it 🙂

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Eric Santiago]

[T. Payton] “I think we beat the “fcpx launch was bad” horse dead pretty well after the launch last year, so no reason to resurrect it. “

Wait it was two years ago wasn’t it?
Has it been that long that we all forget.
Or is everyone discounting the first year 😉

[T. Payton]

I’m counting on the basis of the FCP X calendar. Thusly:

June 2011-June 2012 — Year 1 of FCP X
June 2012-June 2013 — Year 2 of FCP X

Thusly, the launch was in the first year of FCP X or “last year” according to FCP X reckoning.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[David Lawrence]

[Neal Sickles] “What are shows like the Conan O’Brien show are doing?”

Here’s what the Conan guys like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FdrMnjqpe0

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[Chaim Mehlman]

This is not exactly FCP7 after some time, more like FCP X after one day. Hope it’s not too off the topic.
Having used iMovie once in an emergency and being utterly exasperated with its clumsiness and limitations, I couldn’t help being put off by X’s similar seeming interface. It took me at least 3 or 4 times as long to do a very simple 7-minute video in iMovie as it would have taken in FCP 7. Especially the sound! That and FCP X’s absence of round-tripping with Motion, which I use every day. I’ve become very comfortable with FCP 7, nothing unique there. But…
I do occasional multi-camera shoots and have had to struggle through them with FCP 7. I’m playing the timeline and clicking on the camera angle choices, and suddenly the playback stops dead and the playhead jumps backwards several seconds. At times this happens every few seconds or so! Especially with music concerts, this is maddening. Forget about flow and rhythm, just slog through bit by bit and get the thing done. I’ve consulted the forums etc, and nobody knows what to do. No response from Apple, let alone action. I’m thinking, how about Premiere…
Yesterday I downloaded the X trial version and read up on multiclip editing in X. Then plunged in, imported 4 hour-long angles from my most recent concert video and did a test multiclip edit in X. Same computer, same clips, same everything. I couldn’t believe it — not a glitch. Talk about fast. Felt like I was doing a live switch again. Had to stop myself talking to the camera operators on talkback.
Another unexpected time-saver was the default roll-edit function of the trimmer. If your “live” cuts are a fraction too early or late (happens often), adjusting them is very quick. In 7 you have to reselect the roll edit function if you’ve done anything else in the meantime. That’s a lot of key presses.
I’m still bewildered by the X interface, but it’s early days I suppose.