Wish list for 10.0.9

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bill Davis] “Yeah, it wojuld have sucked if Apple had actually made a dumb or non-functional product, but they certainly did not – I’ve NEVER failed of complete of deliver a project with it on-time.

I truly appreciate the guys like Jeremy who are still pushing for it’s still developing capabilities to meet the needs of the complex and connected “shop” workflows that the commercial style users need – but unlike him, I haven’t had a crash or slowup or lost keystroke in literally MONTHS.”

I really really love a lot of what FCPX has to offer. I do not mind the concepts even though there is some limited capability, I do like where it seems to be heading. I don’t mind not having tracks, I actually enjoy the magnetism, and of course it could all stand to use some fine tuning.

I also understand that even in this small shop, we push things around differently than some setups. That is to say, perhaps our setup is more “complex” than most, but it certainly isn’t as complex as the big operations, hence the quotes. Our workflow setup was born out of necessity, so we need to operate in some sort of similar fashion. I’m not saying we have to work exactly like we do in FCP7, I am completely welcome to change, but the change needs to work reliably and so far, it’s not quite reliable enough.

I haven’t missed a delivery, but that is not necessarily a qualifier I use to judge an NLE, I expect that to be a given. If it’s a professional NLE, of course you aren’t going to miss a delivery, or maybe that’s just my requirement.

I have lost exactly four Events since the beginning of FCPX. Most of the Events are lost have a decent amount of media, and they most almost often include synced clips. Synced clips seem to cause lots of slow downs and hang ups, but that is just my observation, perhaps that doesn’t happen to everyone. I just want an update that inspires more confidence in stability.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Davidson] “31. the ability to assign roles within iTunes (sfx vs all being called music).”

I would take this functionality in the import window at least. Why can’t we assign Roles in the import window?

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

My experience with FCPX has been almost flawless about stability issues or bug. Not that I haven’t stepped into one or two weird behaviors any now and then, but nothing really boring. So what I’d like to see is:
– an option for trimming clips when duplicating a project for archive
– an option for selecting “original media only” when duplicating a project for archive so that I don’t have to delete the transcoded ones from the current project or to delete them after the duplication.
– an option to name the clips on import with a name that is somehow meaningful. It’s true that the actual naming discourages actions from the finder, but I wish I could name them so that I can easily recognize clips for use in other applications, so that the name stays with the original media, not only within the event browser.
– ability to fill notes and comments fields to multiple clips in the inspector that will be retained in the events browser.
– a “select forward” command, so that I can use the position tool to slide all the timeline forward without having to change the timeline zoom and select all the clips with the mouse.
– change the “scale” indication so that it reflects the actual size. If I put a large graphic onto a 1080 timeline, it will be adapted to fit and be shown as 100%, while it isn’t. I’d rather have it shown as it really is, so that I know how much I’m pushing a zoom in.
– ability of disconnecting drives containing events from within FCPX
Maybe some of the features are already there and I just missed them, but some aren’t for sure.

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
early 2008 MacPro, BM Intensity Pro, early 2008 iMac, 2011 MacBook Pro, FCP7, FCPX, OSX 10.8.3

[Mitch Ives]

These are some impressive lists for features. I’ll lower the bar for my top three:

1) Fix the bugs.

2) Give me back the Favorites folder! I want a single global one that appears all the time or at the top of the list regardless of which tab is selected. I want to be able to put something from any category in this folder. I bet this would save me upwards of an hour every day…

3) Give me an option where the playhead stays in view and the timeline scrolls to keep up. The time I’d save zooming in and output would be epic.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Bill Davis]

[Herb Sevush] “FCPX was created solely for Bill Davis, Apple made it especially for him, and the fact that the launch alienated so many has only allowed Bill to get the jump on all those poor saps, which was Apple’s intention all along.”

And you have no CLUE how much I appreciate Randy, Brian and the rest of the development team doing that for me… even tho they had absolutely no clue that they were!

I think I fed a stray kitten about that time. Maybe the kitten was MAGIC and subtly granted me my deepest wish!

Which must have been: “Please, oh great Cat Spirit, let very, very few of us see the potential value in this so that our competitors continue to squabble and piss and moan while I get my butt to work trying my best to learn it.”

It’s a Cat Goddess thing. I’m sure of it.

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[Matt Trubac]

Roles and Keywords

[Matt Trubac]

Stabilization and Rolling Shutter on Multicam and/or the option to collapse and uncollapse multicam clips, and match frame to the original clip.

[Nicholas Zimmerman]

“Shift+F” works for Match Framing.

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Avid MC, PPro CS6, FCP7 – wasting away on my SSD.
I just can’t quit X.
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[Matt Trubac]

Not to the original clip of a multiclip. I believe in legacy I could collapse the multiclip and match frame back to the original clip. In X you have to hunt it down in the angle editor.

[Herb Sevush]

[Matt Trubac] “Not to the original clip of a multiclip. I believe in legacy I could collapse the multiclip and match frame back to the original clip.”

Yes, but you didn’t have to collapse the multiclip to do it. F to match back to the original clip, option-apple F to match back to a new instance of the same multiclip, and Sync-On to keep sync with the multiclip.

If you can’t perform these 3 functions your dealing with a sub standard multicam tool.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf