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Wish List For Final Cut Pro X
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I understand it in X, but in apps like pages and numbers, they still have save and duplicate. Plus a hidden autosaves function. It was reason enough for us to buy MS Office. The duplicate really is just save as when you get down to it. But just twice as hard to wrap your brain around as save as.
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These are all good ideas. Honestly, though, I could work with X exactly the way it is if two things were fixed:
1. Improved and consistent system response – especial UI response.
2. No more stutter during video playback.– Oliver
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[Krzysztof Szychowski] “The ability to color code individual clips in the timeline. A function available in Logic Pro……brass tracks are light blue…..drums are red……. This would give one the ability to quickly view the locations of specific characters, scenes in relation to the overall timeline.”
I agree with you there.
One thing I do like about Final Cut Pro X and Motion is this:
The ability to create a generator, title, or transition in Motion and later use it inside of Final Cut Pro X without having to render out a Quicktime movie and import it into each project you work on. For example, I have a custom made lower third that has everything the way I like it and all I want to do is change the text. I can apply that lower third as many times as needed and change the text as needed. Of course I would like to see more of a dynamic link that Adobe uses, a powerful and useful feature.
With enough time I think Final Cut Pro X will become even better and create more competition.
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “- Being able to give color labels to projects in the Project Library”
Mathieu, I’m intrested in this.
Since the EB is essentially the front end of the X database – most of the ranging, tagging and keywording done there is for either Search or Sort purposes. Since you can’t actually do either search or sort by a COLOR (the NAME of the color, but not actual color itself) and since keyword grouping in X is so agile that you can easily add any keyword to instantly narrow your view to only the clips attached to that keyword tag – I’m confused as to the actual use of applying a color to stuff in the EB.
Is is just a “visual comfort” thing? Or is here something I’m missing about what visual color tags would provide that search/find text tags already do better and faster?
This is a topic I’m touching on in an upcoming seminar so I really like to hear about how having color tags would make something function better in X, or is it just a thing you’ve become accustomed to having and would like back for comfort’s sake?
Thanks.
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This didn’t seem like a big deal until I recently did a project that was for an eLearning web distribution thing. It consisted of about 20 video vignettes and maybe 60 audio pieces. Each item was a project. The project name was the file name. In FCP 1-7 I could have selected them all and done 2 batch exports, one for audio files one for QT files, with them all being named the same as their sequence. And I’d be done in a matter of seconds. In FCP X I had to export each for the project library one by one. It was brutally monotonous, and the chance of error was 100x greater.
They were all enclosed in a folder in the project library. It sure would be nice to be able to duplicate that folder in the library to version/backup. I can’t be versioning all that stuff one by one. That kind of project is a good argument for the legacy method of keeping sequences inside an overriding project! But just being able to highlight more than one item in the library (or a folder) and duplicate or batch export would solve that.
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This is already in X via Roles.
You can custom create as many Roles as you like – apply them as you like. Then when you view by Roles in the Timeline Index which are reflected via highlighting in your Storylines.
It’s the same thing, isn’t it? Just implemented differently and a bit more flexibly since because the role tags are text based – you can sort, search and highlight them in the timeline index – something you just cant do with an abstract idea like a visual color tag.
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[Bill Davis] “It’s the same thing, isn’t it? Just implemented differently and a bit more flexibly since because the role tags are text based – you can sort, search and highlight them in the timeline index – something you just cant do with an abstract idea like a visual color tag.”
Actually, words are far more abstract than color. Color is instant visual identification and recognition. Words are a jumble of similar letters that have to be unpacked for semantic meaning. For visually-oriented thinkers, it’s often much faster and easier to see color than to read words.
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i am surprised no one mentioned trimming yet.
Until it has Avid or even CS6/Next style trim tools, its never going to be a serious contender for me.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – The Esquire Network – NBC/Uni
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[alban egger] “1. import right into a keyword collection”
Yes – it used to work and was a great time saver.
Did it stop working with 10.0.6?
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Hi Bill,
yes, it’s about visual comfort. You could easily work out a system for yourself with color labels, so you know what’s finished, what’s in progress, what’s recently changed, etc. …
Yes, you can put them in folders, change the name, etc.
But a color could give an instant visual recognition.Anyhow, one of the least important things on my wish list 😉
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