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Re: What could be improved in FCP?
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[Fred Miller] “I’m sick of explaining to new users about this silly bug that makes a professional application come off as extremely unprofessional.”
I like looking at my desktop right after pressing thos butons 😉
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Some of these are already rumored to be in v.5 but I’ll say them anyway
– Ability to digitize more than 2 audio channels at a time.
– Ability to mix and match different video codecs (and maybe even HD and SD) in the same timeline without anything needing to be rendered.
– Ability to render effects to a codec different than the codec specified for that sequence. Example: You have a DV/DVCpro sequence with DV footage. You want to leave all the cuts-only footage as DV, but you want to render only footage with effects applied to it as Uncompressed. That way you don’t lose any quality due to recompression.
– A window that displays detailed timecode info, just like every single other pro NLE has. Media 100 has the best one. It has a list that can show source TC for specific tracks as well as the duration from in point to out point for specific tracks. Also, Premiere’s TC info windows shows the timecode of the cursor’s position, which is nice. FCP’s can only do source TC and it has to be on the overlay, which is kind of lame.
– Support editing and RT Extreme for HDV, Standard-def MPEG2, and some sort of lossless codec like Shear Video. Ideally, Final Cut could edit any codec that Quicktime understands. But if that’s asking too much, the three I mentioned are the most important.
– 3D hardware based RT Effects – like what Motion does.
– A render farm solution – like what Shake has.
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Two weeks today and we will have all the answers we need!
Steve Connor
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[Tae] “AH! I forgot about audio. Unless I’m mistaken (I’m still on FCP 4.1) Audio in and out is still only 2 tracks at a time. If I’m wrong, I’ll be very happy. “
This is a Quicktime issue and will be resolved with the release of Quicktime 7 and OS 10.4 (Tiger). If you go to apple.com and go into the Quicktime area, you can see a “sneak peek” of QT 7 which includes 4 channel capture.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[Uwe Klimmeck] “Media Management, Media Management and if there’s still time left: the Media Management could be more reliable.”
Uwe, you forgot Media Management, so let me add that to your post. 🙂
Media Management and re-capture are the worst parts of FCP. Especially when it comes to speed clips, that’s absolutely terrible. I did a Lamborghini project a few years ago and last year we needed to make some changes to it. About 40% of the clips have speed changes. Every single one of those clips had 100% reverse applied to them when they were recaptured. Took almost 3 days just to fix those speed changes.
FCP right now is still primarily an “On line” only product unless you’re doing short projects or projects that don’t have any special effects.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Big ones:
Media Management – System and Facility-wide. Media Manager should check all FCP projects on the system and LAN before deleting any footage.
Multi-seat editing – working on the same project on several FCP stations with live update of project status and smart privileges management.
Only the editor stops playback – timeline or viewer should keep playing when I switch windows, perform edits, whatever until I hit Stop or Pause.
Every frame at 2x FF and REW in the Viewer or Canvas – you think it is not a big deal, but it is. Quick Time 7 is finally capable of such a trick so we should get it.
Get rid of the stupid pseudo-overlay when capturing footage. Didn’t you tell us Mac OS X is good at multitasking?Smaller ones:
Live Scopes – that’s what we need Core Video for, not some cheesy spins and curls at 8-bit per channel.
Mackie HUI compatibility – hardware audio faders.
Edit to timeline from Log and Capture window. With all familiar shortcuts. Option to capture right away or later. Marker shortcuts should work in L&C too.Nit picks:
Option-Return should open Sequence from Browser in Viewer, not Timeline. There is Return for this already.
When multiple Viewers are open F9, F10, etc should work from any Viewer which happens to be on top. They look the same so the must work the same. -
[mishka] “Live Scopes – that’s what we need Core Video for, not some cheesy spins and curls at 8-bit per channel. “
Totally forgot about that one. Good call on the live scopes.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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LIVE scopes, live scopes and LIVE SCOPES
Capture time remaining – individual clip[s] indicator
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[Sean ONeil] “- A window that displays detailed timecode info, just like every single other pro NLE has. Media 100 has the best one. It has a list that can show source TC for specific tracks as well as the duration from in point to out point for specific tracks. Also, Premiere’s TC info windows shows the timecode of the cursor’s position, which is nice. FCP’s can only do source TC and it has to be on the overlay, which is kind of lame. “
Just like Avid’s 🙂
This is by far the best TC Window – any track, I/O, absolute TC, current, AUX TC, master TC in varying formats [29.97, 60p, 24, ,etc], resizeable, moveable, etc. -
[mishka] “Get rid of the stupid pseudo-overlay when capturing footage. Didn’t you tell us Mac OS X is good at multitasking? “
Or even more: option to edit simultaneously while capturing video.
Miha
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