One of a thousand posts with some 10.2 info….

[Mark Suszko]

(I mentioned in another thread, you can extend this functionality a bit yourself: create a font with your logo, vector shape, etc., then extrude and treat your “text” in Motion.)

Walter Soyka

How exactly does one DO that, Walter? Sounds like a fun hack.

Meanwhile, in the column designated “not sexy but useful every day”, I am sorry they did not move the ball forward on closed captioning. There is a lot of programming and commercials being made, that by law needs to be captioned, and most methods used to do it are horrible kludges that take agonizing amounts of time to implement. One company holds a huge monopoly on the way captioning is done, and I don’t think that’s fair to the hearing-impaired community or to us folks trying to serve them.

But there’s another side of easy and cheap captioning that should make it something on everyone’s wish list; when you have good captioning that’s easy to do, all the spoken words in your programming become easy to keyword search, not just on your own NLE, as a workflow improvement tool, but out in the world, when the programming is released; those cc files become a searchable transcript available to the world thru google and yahoo. Finding quotes and finding shots will advance exponentially.

So I beg those fine developers in Cupertino and elsewhere, please get cracking on a native closed captioning functionality within FCPX, and you’ll find a lot of institutional users will start specifying purchase of this NLE by name.

[Helmut Kobler]

I noticed the faster performance as well, Tony, but find it hard to be thrilled about it because it should have been there much earlier. It’s 2015 and I’ve been running on a near-top-of-the-line system and X was laggy when working on 3 min projects with a couple of prores layers. Just inexcusable.

That Apple finally fixed it doesn’t take away from the shamefulness of Apple releasing the last crippled version and leaving users with it for months. I really wonder if Apple can be trusted. Where are the high standards Apple used to have?

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[David Mathis]

I hear you. At least the voice inside my head would quit saying, “Hey now! There is always Resolve after all, deal with it!” Apple, please add support for Cinema DNG raw, don’t feel like seeing the psychiatrist or going to the nut house.

[David Mathis]

Tracks?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3rjQGc6lA

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[Jim Giberti]

Yeah, I use Resolve to convert and do basic color temp and exposure, transcode to ProRes and export for FCPX editing.

With Apple’s focus on evolving the color board, masks etc., all the more reason why I’m sure many of us would like the option of the simplified workflow, staying within X for a lot/most work.
With that in mind it would be nice to add temp control to the color board if they decide to support DNG.

I’m thinking maybe more of us produce in Cinema DNG than, say, Red at this point?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jim Giberti] “I’m thinking maybe more of us produce in Cinema DNG than, say, Red at this point?”

I don’t know anyone that shoots CinemaDNG. There’s like a thousand more things I’d liked worked on more than CinemaDNG support, but that’s the way that goes.

I suppose if you own a camera that shoots CinemaDNG, there’s nothing you’d like more supported in FCPX, but that’s the way that goes. 🙂

Having said this, someone will call tomorrow and say they are bringing over a CinemaDNG project.

Thanks, Obama.

https://vine.co/v/OPq02dpidBM

[Jim Giberti]

But much of Apple’s FCPX market shoots with Black Magic Cameras (we do) and much of their market aren’t dedicated editors but people that do full production (we do.)

I’d bet that day to day, more people using FCPX are working in footage from BM cameras than Red. It’s become a more affordable and common means of capture, like the democratization of X and Motion for a few bucks at the App store.

Again maybe not for editing facilities but definitely for independents and small shops, and that’s the core of their demo.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jim Giberti] “But much of Apple’s FCPX market shoots with Black Magic Cameras (we do) and much of their market aren’t dedicated editors but people that do full production (we do.)

I’d bet that day to day, more people using FCPX are working in footage from BM cameras than Red. It’s become a more affordable and common means of capture, like the democratization of X and Motion for a few bucks at the App store.

Again maybe not for editing facilities but definitely for independents and small shops, and that’s the core of their demo.”

Perhaps. I really have no idea what the bulk of FCPX users, dedicated editors or not, shoot or edit with. My guess would be some sort of Canon or Panasonic Gh4/DSLR varietal, and ProRes.

I haven’t seen a BM camera in the wild. We are full service production, and hire a smattering of DPs, I don’t know anyone that uses it is all I’m saying. I don’t know how high on the list CinemaDNG is. It seems like Blackmagic could be able to write their own import plugin and codec, just like Red does, but who knows?

Jeremy

[Timothy Auld]

I went to a demo at NAB today and I could easily see FCPX becoming very popular with ad agencies and even in the TV promo world. The big question is, as it always is in a business environment, will Apple all of the sudden decide to bail?

Tim

[David Mathis]

Fair point.