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Wish list for 10.0.9
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[Krzysztof Szychowski] “Hello
You might want to have a look at this thread….though it does relate to the browser section, it also affects the window layout problem. At least it did for me.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22418816?ac_cid=tw123456#22418816“
Thank you for your help, I’ll see if any AUs are causing problems.
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This isn’t true. A mini-time line could be the default in each viewer. It wouldn’t change anything except a much better overview of your media. I don’t see why adding a mini-timeline has to add more steps in “loading” media. It’s a much requested feature from my end for sure.
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[Bill Davis] “[Craig Seeman] “preferably with x264 codec.”
Wouldn’t hold your breath for that one Craig,”
I don’t expect to get what I want at all. This is my own MAJOR peeve at Apple Pro Apps. Apple should have the R&D wherewithal to develop their own quality H.264 encoder. For a company that dumped tape and dumped authored disk, touting file delivery, they have what must be the weakest H.264 encoder in the professional (and even amateur) market. Even the current iPhone and iPad can play High Profile H.264 files but you can’t use Apple software to encode it.
[Bill Davis] “If I had Apple’s money, I’d prefer to OWN the technologies in my products as well. “
But they don’t seem the least bit interested in “owning” a decent H.264 encoder.
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The only way I can read what you’re saying is that it’s purely there for show, and not an interactive UI element.
If that’s the case then it seems pretty pointless. You’d still be scrubbing on the Event Browser thumbnail to scrub thru the clip- you’d just have an extra long thumbnail version underneath the Event Viewer, which I don’t see the point of. The extended filmstrip in the list view is only useful because it’s an actionable item- it gives you a longer scrubbing area- making marking more precise in and out points easier.
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I’m not sure how you can’t set up a pretty persistent favourites folder using a Smart Collection.
Any clip or clip selection you tag as a “Favourite” automatically goes into that “folder”. If you need to be more specific, name the favourites as “Global” or “Amazing”, and add that text as an additional condition in the Smart Collection settings.
Is there something I’m missing here?
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I would like to be able to scrub the actual Viewer window.
I often have viewers on one side, Browser on the other, this would allow me to scrub from either screen.
I don’t really need a thumbnail.
Being able to skim the Viewer, I guess, is what I’m talking about, or some sort of scratch pad in the viewer, as there’s a disconnect from scrubbing on one screen and looking at the other.
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[Marcus Moore] “Any clip or clip selection you tag as a “Favourite” automatically goes into that “folder”. If you need to be more specific, name the favourites as “Global” or “Amazing”, and add that text as an additional condition in the Smart Collection settings.
Is there something I’m missing here?”
I wasn’t referring to clips or clip sections, I was referring to transitions, effects, etc. In short I want what we had way back in FCP Studio…
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
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Scrubbing the actual Event Viewer window seems more logical- I guess accessed thru the list view, where you have to click on one clip at a time to make it “active”.
Actually, selecting clips from the “list view” would make the clip filmstrip underneath the Viewer work as well- it just won’t work with the thumbnail view, since the moment your mouse moves over another clip it replaces whatever was in the Event Browser.
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Gotcha. Yes, favorite FX and transitions needed.
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Well it’d be an “active” control and not just a HUD / info-strip. This is something really bad with FCPX today. You’re not “synced” with your media. You scrub on screen 1 and see the result on screen 2. Not very intuitive. Perhaps they’d need to add a “load” function like we have today. I’d prefer to have a “load” feature from the browser and then have the “scrub” feature active. This would probably help a lot with performance as well.
The above could keep the current form as well but I think the above would make a lot of FCP7-editors feel much more at home. Add back some proper timecode windows / data as well.
They should also rethink the secondary viewer. It’s now called the “event viewer” which really limits it’s function. I could be used for all kinds of “secondary viewer needs” – comparing frames during color correction for example or comparing edit A vs edit B (this would require us to be able to load sequences to either viewer A or B.
Like someone mentioned before the ability to lock a sequence to a given length is also good to have. It’s a bit to “floating” as is now given one can work with it. It’s great for edits that aren’t so strict but for 15 / 30 / 45 TC’s…
Visual roles or role lanes would be a great way to bring back flexible and yet more powerful tracks. We need them. Fine, a bunch of slacking editors will still have edits that are a mess but for us you like order it’s virtually impossible to get now. And I’m just doing short-form TVC’s.
The handling of sequences needs an overhaul. As stated I work with TVC’s. A given project can have 100+ final edits in various versions, languages etc. Either make it more manageable with loads of folders / sequences. That’s the easy way out. Moving the project-browser to the event browser might sort of do the trick. One less click at least to swap between different edits.
A better way would be to actually try to deal with “versions” in a clever way. Much like how we have “versions” in Aperture we could have “versions” and “masters” in FCPX. With metadata they can be tagged as “work in progress”, “edit OK, audio NOT mixed” etc. This would make the “project browser” more powerful. Today it’s just more limited than FCP7 for the most part.
To be honest – dealing with projects on the system-level is quite poor at the moment. It has a bunch of “requirements” (i.e. use FCPX to move or copy a project to another drive and / or system). which is very un-Appleistic). I think some have suggested the introduction of disc images and that FCPX should automatically create these as it’s “project file”. I guess there has to be some kind of negative side effect to that but as it stands FCPX is quite a mess on this part.
Batch Export. Please, this is needed. I’d really hate doing the 24 versions of a given project and then export them. PrPro has the same issue. FCP7 has not. Here it really doesn’t matter if FCPX is 5X faster than FCP7 in the rendering since the user-intraction part it 24X worse.
Other things that would be nice is image sequence support and improved color correction features. FCPX is quite good on the later but adding white-balance and curves would be two very welcome features. Sort out the scopes would also make the app very nice for online work (i.e. the ability to view 2-4 scopes for a given viewer).
GUI customization was and is a huge feature of FCP7. Give us back that flexibility please, we all have different setups and needs!
Video out over the video card still feels iffy and needs work. PrPro is way better here. Even if better responsiveness here means less realtime effects it’s quite poor at the moment. Again, FCP7 (and PrPro) doesn’t have the lag FCPX has.
I’ve heard a lot of people vocing Motion-support and / or AE to motion capabilities. I’d rather see an “open FCPX project in app X” capability. In my case FCPX to After Effects is what I’d like a better work-flow for. Today I can do what I do in FCP7 but it’s time-consuming and quite inflexible exporting each cut of each edit like I do.
There is probably more but that’s a few things I’ve noticed while evaluating FCPX. We’re still primarily running FCP7 still but testing FCPX and PrPro.
Much needed features.
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