Oh Update Where Art Thou?

[Andy Field]

Key framing in Pr “too far removed from clip”

Doesn’t have to be – you can expand the video or audio track in the time timeline – pick your parameter with a control or right click – and do the key framing right on the clip – and not in the effects window – if you’d like

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Charlie Austin]

[Andy Field] “- and do the key framing right on the clip – and not in the effects window – if you’d like”

Of course, and I do that with retiming etc. But for fine tuning ya kinda gotta head to the panel. It’s like anything I guess, get used to doing it one way and doing it another way seems convoluted. Not saying KF’s in X are perfect of course, could always be better. 🙂

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[Scott Witthaus]

[John Young] ” I still use FCPX a lot for smaller personal projects, but for our “professional” work, we’ve settled on Premiere. “

Funny. I went exactly the opposite. Premiere only when a facility does not have X. Luckily, the shop where I have done most of my “out of office ” editing carries all three of the A’s and allows the editor to make his/her choice.

[John Young] “Timecode overlays with source timecode (and other metadata”

This would be nice, yes. But nothing on your list is a game-changer, IMHO. To each his/her own. For $600 bucks a year, I would sure as hell expect Premiere to be updated incrementally.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Oliver Peters]

[Charlie Austin] ” It’s like anything I guess, get used to doing it one way and doing it another way seems convoluted.”

Then this layout would drive you crazy. 🙂

https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/3560-going-ultrawide-with-devin-super-tram

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bill Davis]

[John Young] “Oh, Timecode overlays with source timecode (and other metadata), center timeline on zoom in/out, multiple browser windows, a simple way to use alpha channels in proxy mode, better keyframe gui. Just off the top of my head. There are lots of things that need polish. I gave them until the last underwhelming update to make a semi-final decision for our office. I still use FCPX a lot for smaller personal projects, but for our “professional” work, we’ve settled on Premiere. They are consistently making solid improvements while I twiddle my thumbs waiting blindly on updates to FCPX. Like I said, though, I use it a lot. I just wish improving it were a bigger priority.”

Tactics
Tactics
Tactics
Tactics…

I still yearn for refinements and updates in Strategy.

Those don’t just win battles, they win whole wars.

FWIW.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Mitch Ives]

[Douglas K. Dempsey] “Ha ha, that statement sounds like a flashback from 2011.”

LOL… my reaction as well…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

Bet we still won’t be able to keyframe the color corrector…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “Tactics…”

I’m not sure any of the NLEs is offering anything other than slight differences in tactics.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Daniel Ludwig]

.. still waiting for audio-mixer and mixing-automiations for external devices! oops – roles-based mixer 😉

[Bill Davis]

From what we learned at the WWDC, Apple is on the path to a pretty fundamental revamp of its core file handling system, one that has serious, system wide implications for every Application that runs on any of the 4 Apple OSs. On just MacOS, we also have new Skylake processors landing in mass, HFS+ going away, Sierra rolling out – so development happening on multiple fronts in the Apple ecosystem.
Revising something like FCP X in such an environmental stew must be … Interesting.

Time will reveal whether or not this stuff impacts how X developes for the future.

And away we go!

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.