Wish list for 10.0.9

[Mark Dobson]

I’m pretty happy with the way 10.0.8 is working for me.

I’m getting really high quality edits out of the system now, limited only by my ability really.

Most of the bugs that used to totally frustrate me have disappeared and its very rare these days to have spinning ball freezes or have to revert to the ultimate sanction – Force Quit.

I would love to see improvements in the Color and Audio department – and I think these will be addressed. I would also like to be able to send selections direct to Motion and back without having to create exported movies.

The wish lists in this thread are really detailed, well thought out and mostly very desirable and I would just like to add a few simple visual organisational ideas.

1. Ability to copy / paste list view in events library so that it can be printed off – added to documents. You can copy and paste text into FCPX – be great to be able to do it the other way round to share with collaborators or clients.

2. Ability to organise Effects Browser within FCPX – could be a simple hierarchal list by adding numerals or letters to Fx within browser. Or maybe Artificial Intelligence could create an ‘Effects Manager’

3. Split Video and Audio Effects into two windows.

4. Ability to resize / split / arrange / save all windows in FCPX just like we used to be able to do and just how we still can do in Compressor.

5. Ability to view project library as a simple list – without the small viewer window – it all takes up too much screen estate and can be hard to navigate around.

6. Ability to change clip height with a keyboard command rather than opening the clip appearance box.

[Bill Davis]

Why not just temp rename your “favorite” Effects and Transitions with a space in front of the name?

That will sort them to the top of your Effects menus.

You need more than that?

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[Bret Williams]

10.0.8 has been the worst for me too. Many oddities. Especially crashing if I have the scopes open. Always if I’m playing back, and often if I’m adjusting something with scopes open. I’ve figured out that any plugin is the culprit. A stock install is solid as a rock. But add any plugin and the scopes cause a crash. WTH?

[Marcus Moore]

This is all so weird. I’m always working with the scopes but never have problems with plugins (the few that i have).

I seems like there needs to be a tighter control on plug-in stability.

[Bret Williams]

I have but a handful myself. I thought it was one particular one. Removed, trashed prefs. But then it started happening again. So I tried each one. After removal of pretty much any plugin, and trashing my prefs, the problem would come back. So really the problem seems to be that any plugin is corrupting something in my prefs when I use scopes. I guess. Who knows. I’m not a programmer. I’m guessing, that like Jeremy, a full reinstall of the system would fix it. But that’s ridiculous.

[Bret Williams]

The ability to “lock” a project. In legacy I would lock the tracks to avoid anyone (myself, assistant, producer, etc.) from accidentally screwing something up with the errant keystroke.

To lock it in X, I’d probably just add a little lock box field of some sort.

[Bret Williams]

Top of the list for me for substandard non professional editing tool would be the inability to edit multiple modern formats in the same timeline.

Or maybe the inability to apply interlaced pulldown to media.

Or the inability to edit subframe audio.

Or the inability to edit text directly over video.

Or the lack of motion blur and ease in/out on standard transitions.

Or the inability to sync multicam audio and video without an expensive plugin.

I could go on, but the point being that if we’re going to define substandard by the lack of some feature, then I can rag on just about any NLE.

Premiere Pro just came out with an update. They list about 25 new features. 22 of them I didn’t know it DIDN’t have. And I feel like any editor without those 22 would be substandard. But somehow Premiere is being heralded as the next great thing. 99% of the features added in the CC version are simply bringing it up to speed with Legacy and Avid AND in many aspects FCP X.

[David Mathis]

My wish list:

1. Send to Motion
2. Color wheel
3. Spinning beach ball on welcome screen

[Herb Sevush]

[Bret Williams] “Top of the list for me for substandard non professional editing tool would be the inability to edit multiple modern formats in the same timeline. “

Since nearly all of my work is in multicma mode, and nearly all of my source material is 1080P30 ProRes 422, I could give a rat’s ass about multiple formats but poor multicam performance is a deal breaker. Apparently we all have different needs.

My reference to substandard was strictly to the multicam feature being discussed. For instance Edius looks like a great NLE to me and I would have jumped to it a year ago but it’s multicam feature is substandard for complex work – ok for cutting a music video, or any other video that only requires simple angle switching, but not up to snuff for the kind of work I, and many other’s do. This does not make Edius substandard, it makes this one tool in Edius substandard.

So now that I haven’t mentioned your pet NLE and you don’t have to go all defensive, do you get the distinction?

I had been led to believe X’s multicam feature was very complete, so it surprised me that it didn’t allow for all the basic match-back options a multicam feature should have.

As far as PPro goes, one of the new 25 features listed is the ability in multicam to match back to both multicam source and original clip, so it looks like they are catching up.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Ronny Courtens]

Place your playhead over any clip on a multicam timeline and press SHIFT+F. The multiclip in the Event Browser will instantly show the original media of that clip inside it, matched exactly to where your playhead is on the timeline. So what’s the problem?