Well, I like it…

[Duncan Craig]

I jumped straight on this new feature to see how it compared to Motion VFX’s mMorphCut.
Simple answer, it’s horrible, as it freeze frames the outgoing and incoming and morphs between them.

mMorphCut keeps the footage moving and works instantly with seemingly no processing or rendering.
You can trim a frame here or there to try different morph points and it just works.

FS100, EX1, GoPro, 2x Hacks, FCPX etc

[Scott Witthaus]

[Mike Warmels] “One day FCPX might actually turn out to be a proper, professional NLE”

Yawn. Damn, once again I realize after 35 years, I am not a professional. ?

Crissakes, Mike. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. You’re not convincing anyone here.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Charlie Austin]

[Scott Witthaus] “If you don’t like it, don’t use it. You’re not convincing anyone here.”

Well, he is providing confirmation bias for some… 😉

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[Mike Warmels]

Here we go again… did I step on anyone toes again?

Of course you’re a professional. But just you being a professional doesn’t do away with the fact that FCPX still has issues. And honestly, after 35 years you to must have seen that stuff goes away for new ideas and then after while it comes back again. Some ‘old stuff’ wasn’t so bad after all. The whole Audio Lanes thing kinda proves that ‘this pesky tracks’ did have some benefits.

Don’t take this all so personal! Every time I address issues on FCPX, I get responses like this: “O, so I am not a professional…”. I just don’t get why people get so overexcited for stuff we have so dearly needed for many years. The feeling I have is: “finally!”

And yeah, I wouldn’t mind not working with FCPX. But, my major client works on it, so I have to. I can make beautiful stuff on it, some features of FCPX are quite great, I don’t mind the UI or the editing features. I do mind the more technical elements, like the lack of AAF export from FCPX, the way the audio is mapped (the automatic assignment of mono-stereo-surround etc – which we can now FINALLY turn off!), how excruciatingly long it takes to relink projects, the sluggishness in larger projects… And no, these are not personal experiences. Every editor I know on FCPX experiences these issues, though I know many of you have perfect performance on every level. So to me FCPX still has quite a long way to go. 10.3 is a very good step in the right direction, although I do find it late. But better late than never.

[Mike Warmels]

It would certainly help directors who forget to shoot coverage! 😉

[Steve Connor]

[Mike Warmels] “like the lack of AAF export from FCPX”

Handled very well by a low cost third party plugin, it’s never going to have it natively and nitpicking about it NOT having it makes no sense at all.

[Dean Neal]

[Mike Warmels] “It would certainly help directors who forget to shoot coverage! ;-)”

Liking the update so far…particularly the development of Roles and Lanes.

It isn’t just pseudo-tracks – imagine on content import in PPro or MC you can assign audio track numbers (eg. A5 and A6)…on IMPORT.

Thats what this version of X offers when importing media.

It keeps the enjoyment and fluidity of the magnetic timeline paradigm intact.

I like a lot of things about PPro… but after undertaking work in it this week, it confirms to me FCP X’s strongest suit – Media Management.

Simply being able to have the same Media Files in multiple ‘soft’ bins (Keyword Collections) is brilliant.

As for the lack of B-Roll (coverage) – people can also re-zoom shots on the cut… particularly if shooting in 4K… gives a nice Camera reposition effect without the need of any morph-cuts etc.

Dean Neal…

[Mike Warmels]

Hmm.. You’ve got media management and the organisation of your footage IN FCPX app confused, if you ask me.

I think the management of the ACTUAL media one of the weakest points of FCPX. And I’m talking about the location of the mediafiles.

You basically have two choices:
1. Import all media into the Libray, making it a HUUUUGE file. Which makes it hard for exchange with other editors.
2. Storing it yourself where you have to do the media management yourself, which makes it very vulnerable when working with others on a series or big project.

It’s nice to organise it with folders an keywords, I agree. But the rest of the media management, or should I say the REAL media management is not so great. Try relinking a big project: it takes ages!