What Apple needs to do to make FCPX useful? (Post Pro, not Home User)

[Paul Jay]

Its already there.
Called fcp7 and Premiere.
Premiere actually does native h264 editing.
In fcpx it still renders to prores( in the background )

But seriously
The most important thing is AJA,blackmagic, matrox I/o
I hope the current Aja fcpx beta driver isnt the final solution.
Come on. Its an extended desktop!! And your viewer is gone when you use it!

[Ron Pestes]

I have to be able to do multi camera editing. Countless other things have already been mentioned in numerous topics.

Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
Sony EX-3
MacBook Pro

[Hector Berrebi]

[Russell Lasson] “. Make projects actual projects instead of sequences. A project should contain events, folders, multiple sequences. When you close a project, all the events, folders, and sequences should close. Media management should be based on a project base, not globally.”

Russ,
this thread is a good and (might be) useful initiative

however, we have to be logical, and its a game that plays both ways. i can imagine apple fixing many things in next updates/versions of X but they won’t change the concept, and we will have to either learn to adapt or find new tools.

i like project based too, and after 15 years of editing and 8 of training i feel a bit lost in a timeline based project with global media, but i can definitely see my workflows change and adapt to it, knowing it makes little sense that apple will back up from it.

i won’t adapt to not sending out OMF, not working with XML and not having access to older project files

i would add to the list a more customizable interface

and i still hope i’m wrong about it, and i’ve made improvements since yesterday, but it feels that the new trim tools suffer from over simplicity.
i still didn’t figure out complex trimming on this thing (audio left, video right for example)

a “send to color” feature would be nice… at least as long its still around…
they had a “send to shake” option when shake was on its death bed…

i’ll have more when i’m done with the manual

this is a good thread

hector

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Russell Lasson] “Make projects actual projects instead of sequences”

Don’t disagree with points 2 and 3 but I wonder if you aren’t being a bit hasty in condemning the media management structure at this early stage? It might well turn out to be more powerful and flexible than it at first appears …

But I could be completely wrong!

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Russell Lasson]

Walter’s article sums it up. Thread closed.

Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net