-
The exponential greatness of multicam in FCPX
-
[Scott Witthaus] “…and you’ll stick with Premiere, I am reckoning? ;-)”
For the moment.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
—————————
nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
“I agree with you James. I like the term “elegant” over simple. Others mileage may vary.”
I like the term “simplistic” over both so you’re right Mileage Does Vary. I’m not being confrontational here. I really disliked the interface. It felt designed for simplicity at the expense of functionality. I’m sure that’s only intended not to scare off new editors but it pushed all my “inelegance” buttons.
-
I would suggest watching a demo of how clips can be synced in the angle editor to any angle of your choosing after the fact, after an edit and the sync will be updated in the nest. Didn’t get to read all the posts in this thread but I think the ease in which you can do this in FCPX is pretty awesome. That being said, once I get to the timeline, I’m sorely missing an Avid/PP style extend edit among all the other trim features.
-
[David Cherniack] ”
I like the term “simplistic” over both so you’re right Mileage Does Vary. I’m not being confrontational here. I really disliked the interface. It felt designed for simplicity at the expense of functionality. I’m sure that’s only intended not to scare off new editors but it pushed all my “inelegance” buttons.”At first, I agreed with you too. But once I dug into the software and realized that all the power I was used to and more was in there, simplicity became elegance. And being a teacher of new editors, you are right there as well. They learn so damn quickly it’s amazing. Apple did something very right with this software.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[David Powell] “That being said, once I get to the timeline, I’m sorely missing an Avid/PP style extend edit among all the other trim features.”
Out of interest what are those trim features over and above the ones I use which are option left and right bracket for extending cuts either way?
-
[Scott Witthaus] “But once I dug into the software and realized that all the power I was used to and more was in there, simplicity became elegance. And being a teacher of new editors, you are right there as well. They learn so damn quickly it’s amazing. Apple did something very right with this software.”
Couldn’t agree more. A truly brilliant interface imho is one where you DON’T see absolutely everything all the time. For what? Just to look “professional“? You see and have access to any and everything you need the most, and everything else is tucked away and is easily accessed when you need it. To say (superficial) simplicity is somehow the hallmark of inadequacy or to consider that simplicity—without in fact sacrificing any functionality whatsoever, but in fact gaining more, but without it being in your face all the time— to be some sort of disadvantage, strikes me as rather short-sighted. I’d say the classic book-and-cover scenario. That simplicity, for me, is in fact the first and foremost standout feature of X.
No, I don’t in fact need a button or tab or panel or whatever for every last little function or task, thank you. 🙂
And the shortcut that is analog to 7’s Extend Edit is ⇧X btw.
– RK
____________________________________________________
Deutsch? Hier gibt es ein umfassendes FCP X Training für dich! -
[Robin S. Kurz] “A truly brilliant interface imho is one where you DON’T see absolutely everything all the time.”
An even more brilliant interface lets the user customize workspaces that fit their needs with the tools they pick to use within the application.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
[David Powell] “I would suggest watching a demo of how clips can be synced in the angle editor to any angle of your choosing after the fact, after an edit and the sync will be updated in the nest. Didn’t get to read all the posts in this thread but I think the ease in which you can do this in FCPX is pretty awesome.”
Just watched a demo and that is a nice feature, especially being able to re-sync from within the angle editor using audio waveforms. In Ppro you have 2 options for this sort of start stop work – sync via waveforms internally and then manually consolidate angles, or use Plural Eyes to create a sync timeline and then make that timeline a multicam. Definitely a point in FCPX’s favor, which I gave it when I talked about handling camera angle metadata.
in my case, most of my work is studio multicam where we sync to time code with virtually no start-stops of individual cameras, so this feature is of only minor interest. In my workflow I’m not looking for one long multicam with everything, I want each camera stop, where all 5 cameras start and stop together, to be a separate multiclip. What Ppro can do is take a browser full of multicam clips, lets say 100 clips of 5 camera multicam, ingest them all at one time and spit out 20 finished multicam clips in one belch. How would FCPX handle that scenario?
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
—————————
nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
[Oliver Peters] “An even more brilliant interface lets the user customize workspaces that fit their needs with the tools they pick to use within the application.”
Or at the very least save different versions of the workspace they ‘allow” you.
-
[Oliver Peters] “An even more brilliant interface lets the user customize workspaces that fit their needs with the tools they pick to use within the application.”
+1
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
—————————
nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up