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The exponential greatness of multicam in FCPX
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[Oliver Peters] “What you have to remember is that PProCC’s interface (and MC) is highly customizable, which FCP X isn’t. Smoke, too, is cluttered, but with less user customization. You don’t have to have all of the panes open in PProCC if you don’t want and you can save various workspace layouts. It’s great with dual screens, because you can do things like have the timeline window completely take up one screen, if you like.
“The first time I cracked open PPro to really dig into it in 2013 I too was turned off by the interface (this is coming from a FCP 7 and Avid MC background) but once I learned what everything did and configured it how I want it (added some things here, took away some things there, etc.,) I didn’t feel that way anymore. If I was on a smallish single screen it would probably feel cramped but it’s rare that I’m not rocking two big monitors (one gets Preview, Record and timeline, the other gets everything else).
My PPro setup might look busy to some, but to me it has all the things I want to see at the ‘top level’ so it’s easily accessible at a glance. Definitely a thing of personal preference though.
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[Oliver Peters] “What you have to remember is that PProCC’s interface (and MC) is highly customizable, which FCP X isn’t. Smoke, too, is cluttered, but with less user customization. “
Yes I accept that but they are all messy in my view by comparison. FCPX is a “better” designed interface for my money. Radically different. Less tech looking. whether for Multicam or single cam. And I hated it for a year.
Less distraction. Of course this all depends on what you are doing and as you said on another thread maybe a better offline tool than online tool
Great for me. Maybe not for you.
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It’s very easy to make the PPro interface less “busy”
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[James Ewart] “Yes I accept that but they are all messy in my view by comparison. FCPX is a “better” designed interface for my money. Radically different. Less tech looking. whether for Multicam or single cam. And I hated it for a year.
“I think we’ll be getting a slight redesign soon, making things a bit more “flattened” like the new iMovie.
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[James Ewart] “Yes I accept that but they are all messy in my view by comparison. FCPX is a “better” designed interface for my money. Radically different. Less tech looking. whether for Multicam or single cam. And I hated it for a year.”
Remember that FCP X was designed before Apple’s current design trend towards flat interfaces. I wouldn’t be surprised if X got a facelift in the next version or two. Ironically, the new flatter look of Adobe’s CC apps is now more in keeping with Apple’s OS design than are Apple’s own applications.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “Ironically, the new flatter look of Adobe’s CC apps is now more in keeping with Apple’s OS design than are Apple’s own applications”
DS had it first. I am still pissed at Avid for killing that product! 😉
Scott Witthaus
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[Scott Witthaus] “DS had it first. I am still pissed at Avid for killing that product! ;-)”
Huh? I don’t recall the DS interface being anywhere near as flat as iOS8 or 10.10. Certain no vibrant blue folder icons. 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[James Ewart] “I had no idea you could not duplicate a Multicam project and not make changes without it affecting the original. “
You can, and should of course in a case like that, since you’re *always* working with the master when you make any changes to it. Mind you, within the angle editor. Changes to it in the project won’t of course effect any other instances of the MC elsewhere. But, yes, that’s what the “Reference New Parent Clip” command in the Clip menu is for, which essentially duplicates the selected MC in the Event and replaces it in the project. The exact same goes for compound clips btw.
Tip: notice the displayed path at the top of the project window when you open either a multicam or compound. It will always start in the EVENT, not the project.
– RK
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[Oliver Peters] “I don’t recall the DS interface being anywhere near as flat as iOS8 or 10.10.”
You should have been around the product in V1 and beta stages. Extremely subtle grey “bumps” on a similar grey background for icons. Print so small, even in those younger days I couldn’t read it. We expressed concern for our vision and sanity to Softimage and they did change it for the better. When Avid bought the company, they made it more blocky and MC-like. But DS had clip effects, track effects, container composite clips, node-based effects…lots of great stuff and a great product. So Avid killed it. Lovely.
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“You should have been around the product in V1 and beta stages. “
Actually I did see demos at that time. I also did several jobs on it around version 7 IIRC.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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