More news from Apple at a meeting with “professionals” in London

[Rafael Amador]

[Craig Seeman] “You only need to keyword one clip to start the Collection and you can dump other clips on the collection and they take on the keyword. You can put the same clips in multiple collections. For example, you can have a bunch of clips as Outdoors, Interviews, 2 shots, Daytime and any given number of clips may be in more that one. You don’t have to keyword each one by hand unless you’re doing a lot of range keyboarding.”
FCXP won’t make better video editors from us, but will make professional Archivists/Documentarists.
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[Craig Seeman]

[Rafael Amador] “FCXP won’t make better video editors from us, but will make professional Archivists/Documentarists.”

No NLE really makes one a better editor but better organized projects can make us faster. I often think of a single clip in multiple contexts and FCPX organizes that way. I like that.

It really needs to handle XDCAM EX much better though.
I should be able to use Camera Import and point to BPAV, bring in clips joined and include ALL the camera metadata. Given where Sony is with XDCAM Browser features, I honestly don’t expect these capabilities any time soon though. Sony software development seems very very very slow.

For F3 (or even FS100) I’d like the lens metadata (lens type and settings) to be imported, logable, searchable. Since Apple designed an NLE which focuses on metadata both Apple and Sony should work together to take advantage of that.