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I’m so surprised this was no where to be seen in the demo…
What the heck happened to numbered or designated video and audio tracks. Right now a lot of my workflow is based on putting certain audio and video elements on the certain numbered tracks and I look to that as a short cut (for example, I know I can just delete video track 6 to get rid of ALL my temp titles as I prep for finalizing). I mean the magnetic timeline seems like a novel ideal and crushing various elements into one clip might look pretty but isn’t it also now that much easier to have a stray sound or temp title in the final with this set up? I know off the bat that it’s going to be weird (for me, at least) cutting without designated tracks.
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Not a demo…a SNEAK PEEK. For answers…see you in June. 😉
Tom Daigon
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strong rumour that that functionality can be activated – its highly likely that FCPX is presented in its default state in its simplest, most easily grasped presentation, I wouldn’t call that dumbing down per se – more like photoshop opening up without every single palette on display.
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Andreas, I find it very curious that so many people think there is going to be a hidden UI that looks like a conventional editor – there really is no evidence at all for this that I have seen. What makes you think this is likely?
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not hidden as such – more simply that you can request numbered tracks – thats not too crazy – apple have officially unofficially confirmed that XML OMF export has been maintained – in order for that to be so – you need numbered tracks. there have been a few “it was confirmed to me after the meet” blog quotes at this point –
I’m comfortable saying the following based on a neurotically exhaustive reading of every single blog and forum post associated with the FCPX launch:
you can invoke a clip viewer, and you can export XML, EDL and OMF. The UI itself is the UI, I don’t think that’s going to change – I’m kind of OK with it myselfhttp://www.ogallchoir.net
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Fingers crossed! Can you imagine the workflows that would fall to the floor like a deck of cards without these!
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yes – all of them, I can’t think of a serious post house in london that wouldn’t throw FCP out the window and curse apple’s name for eternity if they did something that destructive to existing workflows.
It would like, go down in infamy. That’s why I’m pretty sure apple can’t be that crazy – for the sake of a few features, it doesn’t make sense.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ” apple have officially unofficially confirmed that XML OMF export has been maintained”
I’d be very interested to learn your source for that. Also do we believe that it will be fully functional? For example, iMovie has XML export support but it will only handle export of the linked audio tracks, and nothing else that you lay up comes through. Don’t get me wrong, I’d be very happy to know that your scenario was correct!
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man I have read waaay to many blogs at this point – it really is.. a guy told a guy, with the exception of the conversation at kenstone, that seems quite firm. The other references to XML are coming from conference participants who are saying, on their blogs, that they received certain assurances after the event, the XML thing has come up twice..
If you want to harvest the same – I would RSS feed https://www.artoftheguillotine.com/ : there are about 20 or 30 separate blog posting links referenced there at this point – its satisfying going through them – at the end of it you’ll have read about everything written about FCPX, then there’s the kenstone forums, then there’s here.
I take the point on XML – I don’t see how an intelligible XML or OMF file can incorporate compound clips, but then for master output it doesn’t break my brain to consider exploding the compound clip and then flattening it to V1 A1 A2 – or indeed, pre-rendering it – apple may have been good enough to offer that functionality. Either way I nearly always have to clean up my timeline considerably for OMF export as a matter of neatness. Ditto XML to get it into AE, dealing with compound clips would just become a part of the clean up no?
(in all this I am presuming that I can invoke numbered tracks, that the controls just pop out from timeline left much like the solo audio controls do at the moment – only in this case I get paste assignment locking etc)http://www.ogallchoir.net
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Aren’t compound clips a nest? Nests work in almost every other app but fcs. It’s just a container that points to other clips, which means it can be defined in XML.
I’m just not worried about this stuff being in fcpx. Otherwise, truly, there would be nothing separating it from iMovie 11, except for some format/codec support. That’s not a joke
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no absolutely – and besides, I’d be very curious to see the kind of habits I develop with b-roll having compound clips (which looks like nesting that just works) and auditioning – i think apple have thought very hard there. the timeline definitely needs to be fragile and responsive at times, but having a muscular linked timeline as a keystroke on/off could work out very nicely.
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