Final Cut Pro 7 wishlist

[Jack Bibbo]

Maybe late to the game:

Better Trim tools. – More specifically better trim window.

Wait…also ALL my settings in one place. So that when I jump from machine to machine I don’t have to LOAD 5 different settings in 5 different folders.

[Jack Bibbo]

Oh and one more thing. (sorry)

I have to side with Walter on this pre/post locked cut grading issue.

There is a workflow that should be followed. At lease as best we can. Maybe old school but it is there for a reason.

NO DOUBT the client wants to see “finished” looks/fx before it is really finished. And it is AMAZING how some clients can no longer see pass ROUGH AUDIO or how polished we need to make it for approval. But at the end of the day it is my job to control the workflow and the room.

A friend of mine, who happens to be a great editor, taught me early on that it is all about room control. It is your suite and you may need to ‘educate’ some green producers on the proper way to do things. Gingerly and diplomatically of course. After all it will save them money and frustrations in the long run.

My two cents….now I have to run off and mix this cut so I can get approval.

bibbo

[Dan Rubottom]

Good list! Amazing how many of these were also on my top ten…

https://danrubottom.com/2009/06/top-10-things-id-like-to-see-in-final-cut-pro-7/

[Mark Cairns]

1) Guidelines / Rulers (just like LiveType 2, Photoshop CS4 and Quark Xpress have). If I’m setting manual Black bars for example, I’ve no idea where anything is on the screen and every clip is estimated to the next one, or any other estimation or exact placement of elements.

2) Full 64-bit integration to Snow Leopard

3) Background Rendering

4) Speed Change Rendering in the Background
5) Background Exporting
6) Full Round-trip integration with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended (Already excellent if Movie is Exported / Imported for frame-by-frame effects editing but has to be either Uncompressed or one of the Pro codecs to accomplish that without resolution loss)
To expand this further, I’d like to see Apple extend the absolutely BRILLIANT LiveType 2.1. It’s interface (with bespoke Typeface use / kerning etc.) is a bit clunky, but it can accomplish a lot of things that wouldn’t be worth starting up a Motion project for.

[Alan Okey]

I wouldn’t put too much hope into further LiveType development. I have a sneaking suspicion that in the next release of Final Cut Studio, LiveType will be dropped entirely and Apple will push Motion as its replacement.

[Richard Clark]

All I want for Xmas is a Media Management System that works, a standard SMPTE language for all things editing. Maybe a FCP for those who simply want to edit, just like a Moviola did or a Steenbeck or a KEM, but never, ever like those dreadful offline systems. We have made life so bloody complex that editing is not editing anymore, it’s postproduction. I don’t want to be a post producer, been there done that, I want to simply be the best film editor I can be. I want a rock solid software system to simply edit a film, all that other stuff, sure some of you are into all that windowdressing, eyecandy stuff but please, have it as separate sections.
Create the following
1. Edit
2. Audio
3. FX
4. Colour aka color
5. Seemless, read . . . SEEMLESS DVD output.
However, above and beyond all these elements, Media Management. Build from the base up.
Storytelling via film/TV/whatever, is basically simple, edit one scene against the next against the next . . .
K.I.S.S. my . . .

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[Mark Krichever]

Replace color with image