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What would really make you excited …
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There’s already stellar lists on here, but here’s my rehashed short list of day to day operations.
– Tabbed (or whatever) Projects. When working on campaigns that share elements it would be nice to be able to more easily copy/paste from Project to Project, and when making different versions (for different /channels/outlets/languages/regions) sometimes it’s not practical to make compounds.
– Batch Export. Let me select 12 Projects and export them all at once. One by one is tedious and prone to error.
– Ability to slip audio out of sync from video. Again, creating compounds for this is too much hassle, and adding another instance of audio to the timeline is fine, but it could be better if we could just slip some audio.
– Some sort of TC HUD. Copy and paste timecode is a very welcome addition, but a birds eye view of tc would help a lot.
– More keyboard editing with secondaries, or at least the ability to select the “shelf” of secondaries.
– 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 format.
– Keyboard selection of inspector tabs (Video, Audio, Info). The cycle tab command is pretty unreliable, and I’d love to be able to have the cursor anywhere and then hit a button for info our audio tab, and if the inspector is not open, open it.
– A keyboard shortcut to mute/disable audio in the inspector, not just by turning the clip down to zero.
– A way to mute/disable video in a clip without turning the opacity down.
– Drag and drop Role assignment on import (not using import window)
– If that’s not possible, then let me leave MXF files in place within the Import window without rewrap to .mov
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Yes I would love to see FCP X improve. Don’t get me wrong. Some of the things on the lists that have been going around are great. I guess I have run into just a few things that I think need added or improved.
I think a lot of the more advanced features should be developed by third parties and here is why. When those features need to be updated, they can be updated faster. When left to the company of the NLE it might not even be a priority. Some features are half baked and we get by but wish it was better.
I agree Simon that the loudness control should be left to third parties, with that being said if it was already there that might be a selling point when we ask permission to use it. I don’t have authority to make those decisions at work.
This looks like a good one:
https://www.klangfreund.com/lufsmeter/
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[Michael Hancock] “So……..tracks. ☺”
No, not tracks, but a form there of, just like audio lanes now, but without the Role reordering, but still keeping the magnetic qualities, and the ability to turn it off and on.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “This looks like a good one:
https://www.klangfreund.com/lufsmeter/“
LUFSMeter is certainly a very decent budget solution. The reason I go with the Izotope Loudness Control (which is very far from cheap) is that unlike LUFSMeter which simply analyses the loudness and then applies a global level correction, Izotope uses its own exceptionally high quality intelligent dynamic signal processing to optimise the result.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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Oliver,
I’m usually just confused about everything.
Most of my work is done in After Effects. I like to use FCPX to organize the output and marry the final audio track to the video. The share feature is great for getting stuff up to Vimeo for clients, but why-oh-why can you not select more than one to export. At least in Legacy you could export multiple sequences at once. Great for episodic bag-and-tag for a local station.Hope Apple is looking at your list.
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[Oliver Peters] “An “Applization” of Serif would destroy any innovation that they are headed in.
“Like DS and Symphony? 😉
Scott Witthaus
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To add to the list…
PuffinDesigns – Commotion
Aldus – Freehand
Denim Software – Paint and Effect
ASDG – Elastic Reality
AVID – Matador and Media Illusion
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[Scott Witthaus] “Like DS and Symphony? ;-)”
I realize you’re just being snarky, but when Apple buys a company, it’s usually to absorb the technology and the products often disappear afterwards. In some cases, the company survives as a unit or a product, but not at all in the same way. Avid buying DS is hardly the same thing. You can argue that it was neglected by Avid, but in reality it simply didn’t succeed in the marketplace.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Replace on Playhead.
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[Oliver Peters] “I don’t see one-man bands as the future of video. I see a lot of reformulation, though. Large facilities failing, but also smaller shops growing. It’s very different from market to market, making it hard to generalize.”
Of course given my signature you might know I would disagree with this assessment. I think it completely depends on the market you’re talking about. Will one-man bands take over production for episodic television – of course not. Quality demands are too high. High-dollar advertising – nope. Risk of failure is too high. But there is a whole bunch of things that one-man bands can deliver at a much, much, much more affordable rate than the typical producer, videographer, editor, facility can manage. Especially for social media, where there is a calculation between quantity and quality.
I personally stack up my work against things that have 10X the budget I do things for. As much as any task though it takes talent. And not everyone has the right mix of talents to do one-man band production. I would argue it’s actually a VERY rare combination to do it well.
While one-man bands are not the ONLY future for video. They are certainly a growing part of it and not going away anytime soon.
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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.
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