Mixer? How would it work anyway?

[Marcus Moore]

I’m aware of that. I’m just not sure we can rule out that kind of behaviour at this stage. Every version of FCPX is adding new windows (multicam viewing, event viewer), HUDs, etc. It seems to me the the platform is much more flexible than FCP Legacy ever was.

Let’s not forget that FCPX already runs some Logic based plug-ins. Who’s to say that they can’t pull some of the non-clip based processors over as well.

You may be right, FCP Legacy survived for 10 years with it’s audio toolset. If people needed more, export OMF/AAF to ProTools.

I’m just saying IF there’s going to have a mixer, that’s what will need to happen.

[Olof Ekbergh]

It would be cool if roles were color coded and could be displayed/expanded/collapsed/sorted in the the project timeline.

Now the next step may be to also be able to assign roles and individual clips as well to a bus (also color coded). And then have buses at the bottom of the timeline with option to display or not. M100 does something like this and then there is a virtual mixer with individual tracks and buses that can be manipulated in real time or with keyframes.

I hope something like this or something with the same control, and possible better GUI will be implemented soon.

Olof Ekbergh

[Marcus Moore]

All good ideas.

“Soon” is a relative term, though. Since we’ve just had a big feature update, I’d suspect 10.0.7 will be a maintenance and bugs release (maybe January?). That puts 10.0.8 well into March/April territory.

[Michael Gissing]

I doubt that FCPX can be structured that way easily or that Apple ever intend to have bus like behaviours and a proper mixing console. They never managed to have track or bus based processing in over a decade of NLE development so why do you even think it might happen in X and if so why soon?

You might be lucky to get some sort of rudimentary mixer interface to control clip based levels. All the rest seems highly unlikely.

[Andy Field]

You can already change a track volume on the fly while the timeline plays.

why not just add an “automation keyframe mode” to that that records the keyframes as you change it?

It would be one track at a time (just like FCP 7..unless you are using an outboard control surface mixer) but that would save hours of rubber banding

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Michael Gissing]

“You can already change a track volume on the fly while the timeline plays.”

Track level Andy? How is that so. Surely it is changing clip level not track or roles level.

[Andy Field]

Meant clip not track

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852