It’s time to get over this and move along

[Darren Kelly]

Craig,

You have had enough of the Kool-Aid OK.

No matter what I, or anyone else tells you, you are not able to see what we’re talking about.

Enjoy FCPX. Have your self a party. It’s fine with me.

I give up, Uncle, You’re 100% right and always will be.

Forget anything I might have said. It must have been the drugs or something in my food.

DBK

[Craig Seeman]

[Darren Kelly] “You have had enough of the Kool-Aid OK.”

Would this make you malnourished to have such a sour view?

My experience is first hand based on what kind of NLE best fits the way I think about organizing productive and creative work to meet my client’s needs. If that’s Kool-Aid I suspect your drinking the wrong substance.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’m over FCP7 and really want to move on. But I can’t quite yet.

I am naked without external video, I’ll need better interchange 3rd party or otherwise, developers will need more data in fcpxml, some more finesse and control needs to be added to certain features, we need more power in Roles and Effects in the timeline index, but all of those are solvable. We will also need to figure out what hardware will maximize our 4 seats, our SAN mostly works but there’s some weird anomalies sometimes (but no data loss or anything crazy), and then of course, everyone else in the office is going to need to catch up to my decent head start I will have had after tinkering around since July. There’s some real considerations there.

[Jamie Franklin] “The one thing this luddite doesn’t get is, even if it had a friendlier bridge, a contrived multicam effort, an advanced grader, better audio capabilities…do legacy NLE editors actually enjoy using this turkey?”

um, yeah. I do.

I was doing a lot of organizing today trying to break things, looking for multiple ways to do things, learn any apparent shortcomings, deciding if and when I liked list or thumbnail view, and why each one is important. What I realized is that in a surprisingly small amount of space (I was working with one screen today), the access to footage is very fluid, I’m still impressed with this. If you like something be sure to mark it, or set a favorite right away. My use of sequences as organizing seems archaic after X. Compound clips in the browser keeps things tidy, and it also allows more direct interaction between selects and my timeline better than 7. Versioning with auditions is sweet, kinda takes a minute to figure out, but I like it. It’s really easy when the different version is exactly the same length. This, again, cuts down on real estate and clutter. My one Project can serve multiple outputs, which is great for me and my workflow. I was also dorking around with my Wacom tablet and figured out how to make the touch ring a jog wheel and a trim wheel. That along with the 8 buttons, touching the keyboard is becoming less frequent, although I have remapped a bunch of functionality to the numeric keypad. Again, this is less buttons, less modifiers, more with less. Sure, some people don’t like this, but I’m open to it, and it’s working very well.

I also got some green screen test footage today, and even though its not perfect, the built in keyer will be so awesome and fast for rough cut composites. Maybe when FCPXML is a bit more complete, we will be able to get Motion keying which has more control.

I was also playing with DSLR footage shot with the Cinestyle technicolor LUT, and Pomfort just released a Log2Video color space transform that is real time, again, also good for client reviews in remarkable speed, for later finessing on my own. LUT Buddy is insanely slow in FCP7. (Pomfort has a version for Alexa and is also available for FCP7).

I see a future and so far it’s worth hanging around for, but I’ve spent some real effort checking it out and learning. I understand that everyone might not have that time. The next release will be crucial to see how serious Apple’s going to get, and then it’ll be the wait for NAB to see what everyone else is doing. Then, it might be decision time.

7 is dead, definitely time to move along.

[Alban Egger]

[Darren Kelly] “Fact: Apple has not promised to make FCPX into a full NLE .”

Uhm….what?
I have produced several shows (26-minute documentaries) for national television in 1080p in FCPX. Some of them with 8-designated audiotracks.
Not a full NLE? What is a full NLE to you?
It imports, it edits, it grades, it outputs sound, it outputs films. Pretty much all an NLE needs and does. Me thinks you are trolling here and nosedive with that attempt.

Did you actually use it (for more than one hour)?

[Alban Egger]

[Jeremy Garchow] “7 is dead, definitely time to move along”

Amen.