The FCPX Sweet Spot?

[Jim Giberti]

[Mark Dobson] “I firmly believe that FCPX has more problems under Lion than SL””

Given our experience, I’d agree. I’ve been cutting one project after another for a couple of months now and have yet to have fcpX crash in SL 10.6.8

[Tony West]

[Steve Connor] “Also I am using Snow Leopard, I firmly believe that FCPX has more problems under Lion than SL
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I really think this is the key.

I recently went over to a friend’s house to show him and his son some short cuts for X on their new 27inch imac.

I could tell right off the bat that X was very buggy on their system with lion. I have been working on X since it came out on my 8 core mac pro with SL and have not really had any crashes since the first and second updates.

The only annoying problem I have is the skimmer goes away after a while. My work around is to hit the project folder icon to open the projects and then reopen the project that I’m working on.

That works every time (but a pain).

For folks that don’t like the skimmer they might not catch this and I think it leads to save problems if that skimmer stops working. It’s kind of a tipoff.

I turned off background rendering on their lion right off the bat and explained to them why, but even having that off I saw a couple of beach balls.

X runs crappy on Lion. I saw that first hand. Runs smoother on SL and I think that has a lot to do with why so many people have different views on the performance of the program.

If I had only seen this thing run on Lion I might have tossed it in the the trash myself.

The funny thing is I have not switched to lion under protest of the new look.
I know it sounds petty but I HATE the new grayed out folders.

I hated when they did it in itunes and now they have gone even farther with it.

The colors help me find the icons faster at a glance.

I refuse to use lion until they give me an option to change the icons and now, until it runs X better.

Get it together Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tony West]

[tony west] “X runs crappy on Lion”

Scratch this, they were running version 10.0 and had not updated yet.

[Mark Morache]

Mark… I’m with Steve. Why limit yourself to the quick edits?

Now I’m generally editing 4-6 minute tv stories, with up to 2 hours of raw tape, but I’d be anxious to try X for longer, more ambitious projects.

I was recently given a hard drive with 16 hours of P2 footage. I used FCP7 to create timecode files for the producer, but I took all of the footage and created my FCX event, keywording and identifying like crazy, and it’s brilliant. It is so easy to find specific clips, and I’m loving the filmstrip viewing more and more.

I’m still afraid of something becoming corrupted or going offline, and I’m creating frequent backups so I don’t lose all of my editing.

There are a buttload of improvements they need to make, and I’m still dealing with it’s buggy issues, but overall, I’m enjoying using it for everything, and when people watch me edit with it, their it’s so much fun to watch their eyes get big!

I’d love to change over our entire shop to X, and enjoy the ride as they add back much of what has been lost with the switch away from FCP7.

I’m gunshy about Apple however. Their unwillingness to “come clean” with their intentions keeps me very leary of their plans for the future. I believe they intended this to be a pro app, but they clearly let things get out of hand.

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com