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It’s your COW, What do you want/need to know/see in FCPX
Hey Community,
I’m hard at work producing tutorials on FCPX for the faithful herd, and I thought I should ask the most important question. What do you, the community, want to see? If you haven’t picked up FCPX, Motion 5 or Compressor, what are you dying to see? What questions about the application itself do you want answered. Drop me a line, or post a response here, and I’ll answer try to answer all your questions as a tutorial. Let’s make this launch a learning experience for everyone (especially Apple).
Kevin P McAuliffe
Creative COW Trainer
ke*************@***il.com
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I want to see how to make SD DVD’s and Blu Ray disks from an FCPX timeline. How fancy can you get in “authoring” them, within the existing X application?
I want to see the process of importing DVCpro25 and DVCProHD tape, (which is all we shoot, and 80 percent of our tape vault).
I want to see what kind of titling and graphics you can do within the application, without resorting to Motion.
I want to see how to play out live, to feed a live program, and how to capture a live source.
I want to see how three suites can work collaboratively with centrally stored footage, simultaneously, where one guy edits, another tweaks audio, and the third adds graphics.These are things I need the software to be able to do on day one of implementation in our shop.
(The other things I want to see, you can’t show me, because Apple hasn’t put them in yet.)
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Uh… multi-clip??????
mark
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I know, Mark, we use multiclip, or stacking and razoring synched camera tracks, maybe once a month or more, for multi-cam training videos or news events that need a quick turn-around. But to be fair, he can’t train you on things that aren’t there yet.
Just the other day I looked over at my Grass 141 linear edit controller in our main control room, with some sense of nostalgia. It has been a couple years since I last did an A/B roll linear edit on it, and it is scary how much you forget about a system like that unless you constantly practice. When I looked at it, I was thinking it was probably time to dismantle it since we do multicam in FCP-6 in my office now.
Today, I’m not so sure.:-)
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An organisational tutorial…What you can and can’t do with Events…Where you can (and should?) put them on your computer…And maybe an example of a workflow (Import settings, Metadata etc)
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AV Foundation explained. Until people understand some basic things about it, they won’t understand why FCPX is different. Yes it’s a geeky subject and it needs to be explained in lay terms but even just a few minutes and people may understand why some things are so alien.
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What basic things? Like the one they never thought to include any provision for Video I/O hardware into the thing?
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Hi Kevin
Your first tutorial was very helpful and cleared up some of the ‘misinformation’ that is floating around. I would like to see what is new with the titler and how the new version of the ‘motion’ tab (transform, distort, keyframing etc.) works. Also, is there a way to share projects between edit systems like if I want to start something on my Mac Pro and then finish it on the road with my laptop. What is the workflow? Thank you.
NT
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Whilst not exactly standard tutorial stuff, I think what we all need is some concrete…
How much control do I have over where and how I keep my assets? Is FCPX going to pressurise me like a car salesman to keep them in my Movies folder on my OS drive?
Can I select a series of folders to populate my Events? I’m as interested in excluding as in including.
Is there any alternative to ‘storylines’?
Can I arrange audio into dialogue, SFX, music tracks?
How do we move projects between machines?
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How do I import all my P2 and XDCam footage into FCPX?
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