FCPX or Not…

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “OK, and do you sit with the audio guys or are they offsite?”

Offsite. I get where you’re going 😉

My point is that I layout my audio tracks intentionally to make life easier for the audio guys. Or for me when I’m in STP. There’s more to it than just labeling, track order is important too and right now there’s no way to control that. Compound clips and controls hidden in the inspector add further complication.

I like seeing the exact same audio layout as my sound guys. It makes it easy to communicate and reduces potential for error.

[Jeremy Garchow] “Come on, dude. FCPX is perfect.”

So true! Luddite features like audio sync markers, persistent in/outs, and range export may damage the potential of FCP-X irreparably! 😉

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[David Lawrence] “My point is that I layout my audio tracks intentionally to make life easier for the audio guys. Or for me when I’m in STP. There’s more to it than just labeling, track order is important too and right now there’s no way to control that. Compound clips and controls hidden in the inspector add further complication.”

Interestingly the makers of x2pro have started to address this very elegantly with their implementation of roles in the AAF.

Not that I’m disagreeing with your basic argument about layout which I think is very important.

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[David Lawrence]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Interestingly the makers of x2pro have started to address this very elegantly with their implementation of roles in the AAF.”

Agreed. Looks like they’re doing some great work. Now let’s see if Apple can bring some of that elegance to FCPX. 😉

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[Chris Harlan]

Did anyone notice that Randy Ubillos’ title has changed? His title was “Chief Architect for Video Applications” but on iPad keynote video he is now “Chief Architect for Photo and Video Applications.”

Do you suppose that is up a tier for Randy or down a tier for Video?

[David Lawrence]

[Chris Harlan] “Did anyone notice that Randy Ubillos’ title has changed? His title was “Chief Architect for Video Applications” but on iPad keynote video he is now “Chief Architect for Photo and Video Applications.””

Yup. As a matter of fact, he was the one giving the iOS iPhoto demo during the new iPad launch.

[Chris Harlan] “Do you suppose that is up a tier for Randy or down a tier for Video?”

Maybe both?

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[Craig Seeman]

Hmm so maybe next will be an Apple Photoshop competitor . . . without layers?

[Chris Harlan]

[David Lawrence] “[Chris Harlan] “Did anyone notice that Randy Ubillos’ title has changed? His title was “Chief Architect for Video Applications” but on iPad keynote video he is now “Chief Architect for Photo and Video Applications.””

Yup. As a matter of fact, he was the one giving the iOS iPhoto demo during the new iPad launch.

[Chris Harlan] “Do you suppose that is up a tier for Randy or down a tier for Video?”

Maybe both?
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That would be my thought. Just one more little thing.

[David Lawrence]

[Chris Harlan] “That would be my thought. Just one more little thing.”

Also interesting reading reviews of the UI:

iPhoto for iPad Hands On: Pretty and a Little Stupid?

iPhoto’s Mystery Meat Gestures

Not that it matters. They’ve already sold over a million copies.

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[Christian Schumacher]

[Richard Herd] “but I think it had to do with ganging and matching between shots. If that’s the beef, here, you can do that in the precision editor.”

I’m afraid there isn’t a way to gang different sequences – or shots – using this precision thing. Care to elaborate on that? Oh, wait…You’re gonna say that you never use this, so why bother to explain it? it doesn’t have a completely different name, it just won’t allow you to perform some of the tasks that every other professional editing software has already built in for years. If it looks like a pig, it’s a pig. You can try to put lipstick on it, name it what you will, but…

[Richard Herd]

here was this dude does:
https://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final-cut/gang-sync-in-fcp-x