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What would really make you excited …
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[Oliver Peters] “Batch exports of clips or timelines”
This is the main one I scratch my head over.
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Yeah! What he said!!!
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[Bill Davis] “Over and over I see these same types of lists.
95% are “I had this feature in something else – now please give it to me again, just inside X.”
It’s tiresome. “
Dang, Bill! Cranky and dismissive as ever! Who says there’s nothing constant in the Universe!
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[Brian Seegmiller] “Bill I agree. There are some features/fixes that I want but not that many.”
I hope you don’t mind my saying so but this to me seems like a curious phenomenon.
In common with I think most people, the more I like a piece of software the more I engage with thinking about ways that I’d like to see it improved. My interest in its future direction correlates directly with my interest in it in the first place.
FCP X seems to show an inverse correlation. The more you like it, the less you have an opinion about how you’d like to see it move forward.
I hope that’s not unfair but on the evidence of this discussion it does seem to have some truth.
[Brian Seegmiller] “Loudness control to meet broadcast standards.”
I can’t help feeling that this is the kind of solution that is far better left to specialist third parties:
https://www.izotope.com/en/products/master-and-deliver/rx-loudness-control.html
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Scott Thomas] “[Oliver Peters] “Batch exports of clips or timelines”
This is the main one I scratch my head over.”
Do you mean my request is confusing or you don’t understand why it’s not there already?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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1. Sort out AV-output. It’s useless in it’s current state and renders the app useless for us in many regards.
2. Sort out external file support including. Media Managment has been a pain in the neck when dealing with VFX-work reliant on external apps, batch export is a major lack luster and more. If an external app alters a file FCPX start crying like crazy.
3. Editing / media control. Yes I know FCPX is doing its own thing but they should try to adapt things for other systems so it’s not like taking vacation on Mars. It’s really hard to get and overview of things like media time code. It’s virtually impossible to work with video tracks. Lanes for audio sorted a lot of things there – give video something similar.
4. More native formats support. We view a lot of masters going to broadcast on reference monitors which means playback of MPEG2 (.m2v and .ts) are a must for example.
My point of view is more using FCPX as an online / finishing system. In it’s current state that hard or impossible – given – there are a lot of impressive things there. The video engine is crazy good (except AV-output) and a lot of “how things work” are simpler / smarter made.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Because you would then have to come up with a system for compositing, like nodes or some sort of layer order descriptor that wouldn’t necessarily follow the lanes (and would have to reorder when not in lane mode).”
You could do it with compound clips, or Apple could implement a “composite clip” that would act like a container where you can stack clips and control the layer order, but only the container receives the video role. Ideally you would be able to collapse the composite down so it looks like one clip in the timeline, but double clicking it (or some other command) expands it open in the timeline so you can make changes to it in context, then collapse it back down to keep your timeline tidy.
If you’re familiar with Collapse Tracks in Avid – like that, but with a video role assigned to the collapsed submaster.
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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock] “You could do it with compound clips, or Apple could implement a “composite clip” that would act like a container where you can stack clips and control the layer order, but only the container receives the video role. “
Maybe. But what happens if you are in video lane mode when you open the compound clip, and the layer order is wrong? The nice thing about audio lanes is that you can reorder at will and doesn’t effect playback. This would be much more tricky for video because stacking order is obviously much more dependent on the composite.
With video, you may need interaction between different Roles at different points that would not apply to the entire Role, so compound clips would work sometimes but not others. I think there could be video lanes, but perhaps they aren’t Role dependent, just spatially dependent.
What I would like to see is simple kb shortcuts to move a clip up or down in stacking order (move to top, or move to bottom, or move up/down) so that it would make adjusting the stack a little more precise and quick and still fit within the magnetic timeline paradi …. format.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What I would like to see is simple kb shortcuts to move a clip up or down in stacking order (move to top, or move to bottom, or move up/down) so that it would make adjusting the stack a little more precise and quick and still fit within the magnetic timeline paradi …. format.”
^ This.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Maybe. But what happens if you are in video lane mode when you open the compound clip, and the layer order is wrong? “
Video lanes wouldn’t be in effect inside the composite/compound clip. It would have to have special status. If you broke it completely apart then the clips event roles would dictate where they end up, but inside the collapsed clip Video Lanes wouldn’t be able to exist.
[Jeremy Garchow] ” I think there could be video lanes, but perhaps they aren’t Role dependent, just spatially dependent. “
So……..tracks. ☺
[Jeremy Garchow] “What I would like to see is simple kb shortcuts to move a clip up or down in stacking order (move to top, or move to bottom, or move up/down) so that it would make adjusting the stack a little more precise and quick and still fit within the magnetic timeline paradi …. format.”
YES! +1 to this!
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Michael Hancock
Editor
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