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I need to vent
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I’ve been cutting with FCP X since it came out and initially I was in the same throw the baby out with the bath water camp.
A couple of months down the line, I’m loving the new way of editing despite having to learn a new way of editing. I also tried CS5.5 for one project recently but I found that I was missing FCPX’s media management tools, the fantastic way of displaying your footage so that it’s all there and skimmable giving you faster access to what you want, not to mention the very useful new publishing tool with Motion 5, which is just huge!!
My complaints (and I see that most if not all of your points came up during my own experience) were mostly to do with the fact that I was trying to superimpose my tried and tested ways of editing in FCP7 onto FCPX and I quickly learnt that that does not work.
Most if not all of your points are problems that can be worked around easily and that are to do with not fully understanding the new way of working in FCPX. And while I think of it, dragging from the centre circle in the transform mode will lock along an axis. All the answers to your points are ont Tinternet. Oh yes, another one is that you can create disc images for archiving projects so that FCPX doesn’t load it on startup. Etc, etc.
When it finally clicks and you find the solutions to those annoying little quirks I think this new FCP will put a smile on your face.
Many thanks,
Boris J.
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[Mark Morache] “When I say that FCX brings the files in flat, I meant that it brings in the layered file, and treats it as a flat file.”
Yes, I understand. That’s what I mean as well.
[Mark Morache] “And I could never get a thumbnail in FC7 of a psd file. It always gave me the sequence icon”
Aah, yes. Because it’s a sequence. You are correct.
[Mark Morache] ” but FCX treats it like a flattened file, gives me full WYSIWYG, and if I go back and tweak the psd file,”
That’s not really the same thing. For example, I do a number of retail spots that are price & item grocery commercials. The agency sends me PSDs for each product insert with the product graphic, price supers and logos on separate layers. These are to be keyed over a background image in FCP. Since these stay as layers in FCP, I can adjust scale and position of each layer if needed, once I see them against the background image. This is different than doing it in Photoshop, where I don’t have the background video to refer to.
[Mark Morache] “I will certainly use the PNG files when I’m creating overlays in FC7 from now on, but I’m still making two files.”
Correct. OTOH, this does give you an extra layer of protection 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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The program will end Sept. 30, 2011.
https://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201107/070111AdobeSwitcherProgram.html
Offer ends October 31, 2011.
https://www.adobe.com/special/offers.html
So somewhat muddy then!
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I use TIFF as my main still format as well. Very useful.
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As I said earlier, Layered TIFF is a very useful format.
Andreas
Spherico
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Quite muddy. I think they extended the deal recently. Maybe to coincide with Apple’s promised first follow-on release to FCP X (capture some more disgruntled FCP users who were holding out hope for a decent update).
Anyway, I just pulled the trigger on the Adobe deal as a hedge against Apple’s apparent apathy in the editor space. I’ve got the Adobe trial running along side FCP X with no problems so I plan to use both going forward.
Hopefully, Adobe will add Radeon/OpenCL support in the future. Right now, in terms of performance, I have to say that on a new iMac, Premiere cannot hold a candle to Final Cut Pro X. I literally never have to render anything in FCP X. It’s actually pretty amazing but the software is so limited in other ways. In the end, if Adobe doesn’t go all-in on Mac support in the future and the FCP X feature set doesn’t improve, I may be forced to crossgrade my Adobe license and switch back to a Windows PC (ewwwww!!!) with CUDA.
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[Andreas Kiel] “As I said earlier, Layered TIFF is a very useful format.
“Yes, I know. I was agreeing with you, which is why I commented on your comment.
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[Mark Morache] “A higher-up at Adobe actually read one of my posts and emailed me, we had a chance to meet and show me what they want to be “the Photoshop of NLEs”.”
Are you saying you got a sneak peek at a new NLE from Adobe?
Jason Jenkins
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“I may be forced to crossgrade my Adobe license and switch back to a Windows PC (ewwwww!!!) with CUDA.”
It seems like you’re already anticipating a poor experience with Windows, why not just stay with OSX and switch to Avid, or something else that suits your needs? It’s doubtful that Adobe will support Open CL anytime soon, so why put yourself through the pain?
Shawn
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I wish.
We didn’t sign NDAs. They only showed us what is out, and teased us with the thought of what might come.
Somebody has to be the photoshop of NLE’s. Apple isn’t right now.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
blogging at https://fcpx.wordpress.com
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