FCPX Is Now A Universal Logging and Organizing Tool For Any NLE

[David Lawrence]

[TImothy Auld] “But are we only talking x to 7? What else?”

This new version of Xto7 is the key.

Also, a big piece of this probably comes from how Apple changed the Library/Event structure in FCPX version 10.1.1 to more closely reflect how other NLEs work.

But yeah, all you need is FCPX 10.1.1, the latest version of Xto7 and FCP7.

Import some footage into FCPX, make some keyword collections with log notes, export your event as FCPXML, convert with Xto7, and import into FCP7.

From there you can either start editing if you still use Legacy or export a FCP7 XML and use that somewhere else. It seems like a lot of steps but in my opinion, it’s easy and worth it.

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[David Lawrence]

[TImothy Auld] “I guess more specifically I’m asking how (and if) keyword collections fit into Premiere, Vegas, Edius, et al? Are we just talking translation to FCP&?”

Xto7 turns keyword collections into named bins containing subclips. See my original post for pictures. It’s rad!

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[Richard Herd]

[David Lawrence] “bins containing subclips”

Are you in CC or CS6?

I’m having a terrible time using subclips in CS6 because they do not slip and roll. How do you solve that?

Thanks!

[Timothy Auld]

I went back and read your original post and it does not come within yard of answering my last question. If it works for you, then dandy. To promote as some sort of UNIVERSAL logging and organizing tool is absolute nonsense.

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

Among a million other unanswered questions posed by this new “universal logging and organizing tool.”

Tim

[Mitch Ives]

[Tim Wilson] “[Shane Ross] “How would you translate full project organization and media to Avid Media Composer? Edius? Lightwave?”

Resolve?

:-)”

Oh now you’ve done it! I’m with you BTW…

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

[Walter Soyka]

[Walter Soyka] “I have seen a big shift in “conventional wisdom” in the last year or so… I can’t think of any editors I know who would outright dismiss FCP X anymore.”

[TImothy Auld] “I have seen that shift exactly nowhere. Where have you seen it?”

New York in-house agency and corporate editorial.

Again, I’m not saying everyone I’ve been working with is switching to FCP X, just that there seems to be a lot less uninformed and baseless criticism.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka]

[TImothy Auld] “And just for emphasis I will ask one more time: Why would anyone in their right mind start a complex project in FCPX?”

Dear FCP X Internet,

Yesterday, I suggested that you had persecutory delusions.

Today, I apologize. It was I who was delusional.

Best,
Walter

Walter Soyka
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[Timothy Auld]

And here I was referring to a magical workflow that now enables “FCPX” to be “a Universal Logging and Organizing Tool.” I’m sure that every rational person believes this.

Tim

[Timothy Auld]

Just curious, Walter. Are you saying I am delusional?

Tim