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The NLE that keeps moving forward?
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Now that is poetry! But I think you cribbed it. I think its the famous lost “Portrait of an Editor as a Young Man.” Pretty soon you’ll be all “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to FCP X.”
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there you go.
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ha!
I’m a Flann O’Brien man myself. no better novel than swimtwobirds.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “ha!
I’m a Flann O’Brien man myself. no better novel than swimtwobirds.”
From what I just read about it, that may well be the case. I’ll have to give it a try. That and The 3rd Policeman.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Its not so much that I don’t want FCPX to succeed, it’s that I don’t think it should. Its bad candy.”
I hated FCP7. Used Premiere Pro and AVID Media Composer. All NLEs (B4 FCPx) IMO had one thing in common. They were all “hiding’ the media from the visual editor. Aside from that, I thought that the NLEs were flawed in that their timeline reminded me of that of a DAW… FCPx was the first NLE that actually made a timeline dedicated to Video and NOT utilizing a DAW-Style timeline.
I can cut in any NLE out there and while I cut I care about one thing only, finding the clip I have in mind, immediately. And getting it inside the sequence.
admittedly – this process differs greatly based on which kind of project you are doing; Music Video Style, Documentary or Feature Film… Be that as it may, there is nothing out there which offers better tagging or “Media Transparency” than FCPx. And getting it into the timeline is simply put faster than anything around..
Mind you, that I have been editing on NLE since a long time and first time I got my hands on FCPx I was totally thrown off…. However, me not being ignorant thought to myself, give it a chance… And i started fooling about with it after work…. And the more I delved in, the more I saw the opportunity of speeding up my workflow significantly… Today after many months of getting to know it, I can say that I am able to finish an identical project about 10 times faster in FCPx than any of the other NLEs i had been working with prior…One huge part of FCPx’s speed is the ability of compositing and color correcting inside of FCPx… Motion X is basically a plug-in for FCPx.. You can save your whole workflow of grading in motion and load it up inside FCPx as a plug-in.. That made FCPx my new best friend.. I’ve been grading in everything ;tween AMC, Resolve, AE, Speedgrade, colour etc…. Typically my grading involves loads of compositing. All which is totally undoable in any other NLE… FCPx makes it 100% possible.. FCPx is a color grader’s dream come true.. Surely, there are things for which I render a prores 4444 and go to AE…
And one thing that should NOT be forgotten is the Optical Flow of retiming in FCPx… It is the best out there, bar none… Works true wonders and easily outperforms AE’s Time Warp for generic tasks…
In my humble opinion which is not so humble at all…. FCPx is the most misunderstood app to ever surface a computer.. If folks would give it a real shot, they would be dropping jaws… Been using it 18 MOnths… And I cannot remember with any other NLE that me or my partner ever bursting out with “Man, I just love this app” so many times per day…. And I’ve been editing many years…
Be that as it may, what ever gets the job done.. It is “just” a software……
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Nice post Morten, sums up how I feel about FCPX.
Steve Connor
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honest to god, they’re just pleasure reading – its like Joyce with a truly mad sense of humour.
at swimtwobirds is the only book alive where I know you can say that – it is a book, within a book, within a book, where the characters rebel.
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[Steve Connor] “post Morten”
Read this twice as “postmortem.”
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[Morten Carlsen] “FCPx is the most misunderstood app to ever surface a computer.. If folks would give it a real shot, they would be dropping jaws… Been using it 18 MOnths…”
… what he said. While there certainly are some quirks, and incomplete features, and limited (but improving) support for a “traditional” offline->finish workflow… When it comes to editing, X is a joy to use. Well, once you wrap your head around it is… 😉
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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[Richard Herd] “Read this twice as “postmortem.””
LOL
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