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Interesting email
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So that means plug-in? Or something he’ll introduce in the next FCPX version?
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[Bret Williams] “He says it’s a feature that’s missing in X, and that feature is coming to X, implying it won’t be missing anymore.”
Color wheels?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Erik Lindahl] “So that means plug-in?”
If it is a plug-in, then he’s got a long way to go to make it better than Hawaiki Color. The real issue with all complex plug-ins is performance due to the architecture. Only Apple can solve that.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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The plug-in architecture really sounds like Apple should over-haul. Somewhat odd it is the way it is with an entirely new engine backing everything.
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Tracks?
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[Erik Lindahl] “with an entirely new engine backing everything.”
Well, that’s not really the case. There is no unique plug-in architecture for FCP X that is available to developers. The architecture is a tweaked FxPlug that only works for Motion. Then plug-ins are published as Motion templates to FCP X. Some developers find ways to enhance this, so it’s less obvious that these are Motion effects, but everyone has to go through that overhead. This is different than FCP X’s own native effects, like the Color Board. It doesn’t appear to use the same methods; therefore, it is less encumbered and so operates with better real-time performance.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Nooooooo!!!!!!!
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[Bret Williams] “Tracks?”
Count me in! That magnetic timeline can be a real pain at times. Would also like to see the color wheels brought back. Apple did re-invent the wheel only it became a square. Curves would also be very much welcome. Something that Motion is lacking as well.
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[Marcus Moore] “Nooooooo!!!!!!!”
I suspect there might well be “old” features in the next release that Apple puts back, in response to customer feedback. They’ve certainly had plenty of time to re-assess missing features that some of us might consider to be design flaws. I doubt tracks will be one of these. Doing so would be admitting they made a drastic mistake. I’m NOT saying it is a mistake, but regardless, that’s very un-Apple-like.
Adding back tracks would be equivalent to putting extrusions back on the iOS7 icons 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Indeed. And I don’t think they’ll do it. The issue is that putting tracks back means dropping the magnetic timeline AND connected clips. They’re all interconnected. And I DO NOT see going back to tracks as an improvement.
The only thing that bothers me about the timeline as it stands is it’s lack of a hierarchical/organizational visual structure. And as I’ve said many times before, I think that can be managed quite handily with Roles.
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