Interesting little series…

[Jeremy Garchow]

Without the Red workflow, I literally just wrote that same thing up a few weeks ago.

Weird: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/48396

[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Without the Red workflow, I literally just wrote that same thing up a few weeks ago.”

Great minds think alike. Or something like that… 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

I have no affiliation with Sam, but I found his tutorials on RED and FCPX to be among the best out there, beating a lot of tutorials that are paying. They are not too simple, and focus on some professional workflows.

His article here is indeed very interesting, I look forward to reading the next entries.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

the footage organisation possibilities presented by X’s tagging pool are inarguably rather seriously sexy. I had OCD thrill moments reading through there.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “the footage organisation possibilities presented by X’s tagging pool are inarguably rather seriously sexy. I had OCD thrill moments reading through there.”

I’m tellin’ ya Aindreas, That alone makes X so much more… productive for me than anything else. I know you hate the timeline, but it’s really way closer to the “legacy” timeline than Avid or Pr. If they get Roles worked out for better visual organization I’ll be a happy camper.

If nobody for whom you freelance uses it, so be it. You know how to use other tools. At the very least I think you’d enjoy cutting personal stuff on it though if you’d just grit your teeth and dive in. Let the magnetic TL do its thing. After a while, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it.

I’ll use whatever I get paid to use. I still cut a lot on 7, and have been diving back in to MC and Pr just for giggles. When I open up X, warts and all, I feel like I’ve come home. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Gary Huff]

I highly recommend a recent iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, or the latest version of the Mac Mini. For feature films, you should have at least 16 gigs of RAM and the best graphics card that’s available to you.

Then why suggest the latest version of the Mac Mini with it’s Intel 4000 GPU?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “the footage organisation possibilities presented by X’s tagging pool are inarguably rather seriously sexy. I had OCD thrill moments reading through there.”

I have never been able to have every single select and scene available at one time on a timeline as I had with my first spots I edited for broadcast with fcpx.

FCPX allows this.

It is fast, it is highly creative, it is flexible. A director over my shoulder was amazed at how many options we could crank through in very little time.

You could not do this type of editing very well without the magnetic timeline, just sayin’.

Also, this:

Turns in to this:

And what I can’t show you is all of the Auditions splayed out. What is very cool to me, as editor, is the sheer amount of creative edit options at my fingertips.

I know you say Apple is destroying the art, I would beg to differ.

But, I am also weird.

I am also constantly writing these posts with an overly conversational tone so I constantly have to come back and edit for posterity. Apologies.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I know you say Apple is destroying the art, I would beg to differ.”

just think of me as an extremely over the top devils advocate. there are a lot of things I like about X, (sans the ludicrous auto connect timeline),
but its a grunt climb to get on board, and when you do – there are no jobs posted for it. And no houses are running it in production.

that is an existential problem.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Charlie Austin] ” I know you hate the timeline, but it’s really way closer to the “legacy” timeline than Avid or Pr.”

Dear sweet god – Charlie man, with the best will in the world… how do you keep a straight face on that one?

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Jordan Mena]

I think you’ll change your mind in the next year and a half as FCPX starts adding more features and editors have more time with it. A couple of weeks ago FCPX finally just clicked for me. Know FCP7 and Avid seem like such Dinosaurs. In the next couple of months I’ll be asking the house I work for to invest in FCPX because I know I can already do %90 percent of their workflow on X. For broadcast!