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Final Cut Pro 6!!
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[Arniepix] “I’m sorry, but I’ve just never really understood the scrolling timeline thing. Maybe I just don’t need to watch the playhead scroll down the ti”
I wouldn’t be mad at a scrolling timeline…or at least a sequence option/preference for it. I was always use to it from other systems. Now that I’ve been using FCP for 5+ years I’ve gotten use to not having it. At the very least, I would like to see the playhead center when you stop a sequence.
Ron
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I doubt that this thread will ever be read by Apple but I think it’s a cool group therapy 🙂
The first four points are really high in my heart, the rest is pretty just my annoyances list.
so, what I miss in FCP:
– Extensive color correction.
We need a fuller, more integrated toolset. Something like there is on Media Composer/Symphony/DS.– Better time remap.
Why not integrate the Optical Flow technology they bought right inside of FCP?
Also, an option to time remap 24p footage correctly on a 29.97 timeline (i.e. doing a 3:2 contract first). Going to Cinematool is a huge loss of time and a very bad workflow.– Fix the damn bug with time remap and media recapturing/reconnection.
This bug has been there since V4 and made me pull my hair many times. It would probably fix the EDL exports problem too when using time remap…– Fix all the bugs with nesting.
On larger projects it happens often that nests aren’t updated or sometimes doesn’t get exported like you see/hear it on the timeline. Or at least, make it happen only when we’re not in a rush…– Real 10bit support. I have doubts that FCP renders all effects in 10-bits and some of them are just plain buggy in 10bit.
– A way to force importing of movies/images either as YUV levels or RGB levels.
In many situations it’s hard to know how FCP is doing it, and sometimes it’s doing it wrong.-Better/faster motion blur.
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[Le Coyote] “I doubt that this thread will ever be read by Apple but I think it’s a cool group therapy 🙂 “
Oh yes it will. I’m taking copius notes for this years lafcpug top 10 feature request ballot. Some of these requests will go on the ballot so keep them coming. We are scheduled to post the ballot Feb 1, 2006Michael Horton
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That’s great to hear. I love threads like these! 🙂
Usually when threads like this start, someone offers to make a condensed list to send to Apple….usually someone with a little “inside” leverage. 9 out of 10 times you will see features added. Multicam is a perfect example.Like I indicated in my original post, new machines usually lead to new OS’s which will undoubtedly lead to a new FCP. Now is a good time to sample the users. In 3 months we will see Pro app compatibility via Universal… I think by years-end we will see a new full Intel version of FCP.
Is there any mystery why they didn’t demo Final Cut Pro at MacWorld??? No….its simply not ready for Intel boxes.
At least that’s my theory. Usually with new machines you see benchmark comparisions using FCP.
Ron
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[Ron] “Is there any mystery why they didn’t demo Final Cut Pro at MacWorld??? No….its simply not ready for Intel boxes.”
They never demo FCP at Macworld. Its not that kind of show. FCP is a NAB app.
Michael Horton
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True…but they mentioned Aperture, which is basically now the “Pro” version of iPhoto.
He launched Adobe Photoshop to explain its slower yet functional speed under Universal…
And I seem to remember previous Expos where FCP was launched or demoed briefly, usually with a “pro” using it, not Steve Jobs. And they showed FCP Studio as a “ready in March” slide on the big screen.Hey, we’ll see.
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[Ron] “And I seem to remember previous Expos where FCP was launched or demoed briefly, usually with a “pro” using it, not Steve Jobs. And they showed FCP Studio as a “ready in March” slide on the big screen.”
Very early in FCP’s life, like Version 1 or 2 they showed FCP at Apple events, but once Apple got serious about NAB, FCP is now reserved for the big pre-show event on the Sunday before NAB opens. That’s the hottest ticket every year and it’s where Motion was debuted two years ago.
So it’s really no surprise that FCP was not shown at MacWorld. If they show it at MacWorld, there’s no surprise for NAB. Debut it at NAB and it’s on all the trade magazine covers for a few months.
Aperture? That’s a photographers app that they can debut at really any show. It’s really doesn’t compare with showing Final Cut Pro, it’s a new app.
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They will demo Pro Apps at the booth but that is about it. Notice this year all they demoed was Aperture at the booth.
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“- Real 10bit support. I have doubts that FCP renders all effects in 10-bits and some of them are just plain buggy in 10bit.”
They could do like Premiere 2 and support that via support for 16 bits AE compatible plugins (although I have not tested). So like Combustion which supports 10,12 and 16 and bump all to 16 bit for the effect. And before they put their head in the sand (never taking anything for granted here) – support for AE plugins on MacIntel. I stopped dreaming about improved support in that area and the Motion AE support is not of much help sometimes. There should be just two effects model supported, AE for CPU and FXPlugs for real-time effects and support made complete and any other ways to make effects deprecated so as to not dilute efforts.
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“-Better keyframes: Ability to select, move and copy multiple keyframes. Better keyframe window (why not a large animation graph as a new tab in the timeline or browser window?)”—-
Add ability to animate menus and checkbox booleans and possibility for an effect to run through a sequence (analyze) and write values as key-frames.
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“Going to Cinematool is a huge loss of time and a very bad workflow.”Maybe to embed that would allow then one to maintain different FPS (and hopefully even resolutions) gracefully in a timeline.
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Intelligent (not hidden) image sequences support.—-
Would probably be cool as the age where everyone has quad processors and huge amounts of memory, it will allow things like background processing of a section of a timeline on a part of the sequence while continuing editing. Of course that would work only with CPU effects.
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In recent years, the past four anyway, they have shown Final Cut Express, but not FCP. Express is run by pro apps, but it’s aimed at the consumer market.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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