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FCPX is Ready for prime time
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[Ty Vann] “The guy who wrote that obviously doesn’t like and use FCPX, but it’s no excuse for such a misinformed and biased piece.”
Exactly how is it misinformed? I don’t see it.
And biased? Its an opinion piece. Its supposed to be biased; that’s what opinions are. I’m guessing you only think its misinformed and biased because you don’t like his opinion, which you are, of course, welcome not to like, but I have to tell you:
Kevin Mcauliffe (“The guy”) has been around a long time, offering a lot of insight (and free tutorials) about his NLE experience, so his opinion interests me quite a bit more than your vague dismissal. Now if you can point out exactly where he is misinformed, I might be interested in listening.
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[Oliver Peters] “Beats me. Hasn’t worked right from day one on this project. These are master clips with embedded double-system sound. The embedding is done either manually (open in timeline) or via Sync-N-Link X. When I detach the audio on a connected clip and try to match frame it just makes an error noise.”
That’s an odd one. As I said, it always works for me… just for giggles I just synched a clip, cut it in as connected, detached audio, and it matched back just fine. Apples to oranges probably, but it seems like somethings f-ed up in your how your event(s)/project is tracking media. I can imagine what a giant PITA that must be…
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[Bill Davis] “Yes, I get that. Walter is notorious for his process. Those zillion clips remind me of the zillion 3×5 cards he used before he went NLE. But that’s just a particular style”
BTW – he still uses that method and so do many other feature editors. It has nothing to do with an NLE and in fact augments the process. The scene card idea wasn’t created by Murch, but he does get very detailed about it. It’s a great way to get the 30,000-ft view of how the story is shaping up. For example, if you look at the wall of cards and change the order from Sc 50, 51, 52 to Sc 51, 50, 52 – or drop Sc 51 entirely – you know right away what the impact will be on the audience’s understanding and interpretation of the story. In the end, it is ONLY about story and the software either helps or hinders in putting it together.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Charlie Austin] ” just for giggles I just synched a clip, cut it in as connected, detached audio, and it matched back just fine.”
I don’t doubt that the particular Event might be at fault. BUT… If that’s the case, it re-enforces the concern about trusting FCP X to a large, long form production. And yes, there are people I can bug. Although I’m waiting to see what X.1 brings upon us. 😉
One other thought is that this issue could be directly related to Sync-N-Link X. Something wonky under the hood for all we know. That’s another danger of X – relying on third party developers. IA is great and very responsive, but in the end, it allows Apple to avoid responsibility for certain workflows.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I’m cutting a 1 hour docudrama special in Premiere CC and loving it. We just added the GTX 680 to the Mac Pro and so nice to see everything at 100% with zero renders. Weird I was just cutting in a clip the other day and I thought why wold I ever use an Avid again, CC is so much better than I imagined it could ever be after years of early beta team disasters with Adobe. Only thing I that isn’t great is audio finessing but it’s going to a mix anyway…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Lance Bachelder] “I’m cutting a 1 hour docudrama special in Premiere CC and loving it.”
Now you’re just rubbing it in 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Question to happy FCPX users – do you really care if FCPX is used to make Hollywood movies?
I don’t.
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Oliver Peters] “I don’t doubt that the particular Event might be at fault. BUT… If that’s the case, it re-enforces the concern about trusting FCP X to a large, long form production. And yes, there are people I can bug. Although I’m waiting to see what X.1 brings upon us. ;-)”
Still, it seems that there’s something unusual going wrong with your event. I haven’t heard of anyone experiencing your symptoms, and I’m sure it’s be posted everywhere if it was a common problem, so I’m pretty sure they’d like to know. It might be worth at least running it by them.
[Oliver Peters] “One other thought is that this issue could be directly related to Sync-N-Link X. Something wonky under the hood for all we know. That’s another danger of X – relying on third party developers. IA is great and very responsive, but in the end, it allows Apple to avoid responsibility for certain workflows.”
Sure, but to be fair, X does a good job internally synching clips. IA just adds more bells and whistles (in a good way). Not to say X does everything in the app, it doesn’t. But that not just X really… If every NLE did everything perfectly, apps like PluralEyes would never have come into existence.
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[Charlie Austin] “Sure, but to be fair, X does a good job internally synching clips. IA just adds more bells and whistles (in a good way). “
Actually it doesn’t. It creates Synchronized clips with timecode reset to 0. Not useable.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Steve Connor] “do you really care if FCPX is used to make Hollywood movies?”
I do, because it means there’s a viable toolkit that affects some of the types of projects I work on.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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