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[Aindreas Gallagher]

It’s everything I ever personally dreamed of. They chose to lead with nineties 3D brass glint photoshop titles four years in. You can’t buy that stuff.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Timothy Auld]

Live Type.

Tim

[David Mathis]

Bingo! Looks like Live Type is being brought back to life. 😉

[Bill Davis]

Apple Presentation in the FCPWorks Suite:

After talking about their recent customer surveys my notes show the Apple rep saying
“65% of FCPX users make titles.”

So they make significant improvements to the titling functions – a function that the majority of their customers say they use – and somehow this means Apple is still not listening to their customers.

Denver Riddle said something similar in the Color Finale Presentation. More than 60% of X users do their grading IN THE APP – so Color Finale was created to serve that market.

I just don’t get it.

Is the problem that while they’re clearly listening to their customers, including Hollywood and large scale national operations – those customers just aren’t YOU?

And sorry, but by you, I kinda mean folks who can look at all the graphics power harnessed in the new 3D Title engine and see that as a sign that the core plumbing of X continues to evolve with the ability to do more real-time screen manipulation much, MUCH faster. Can nobody here extrapolate anything? We’re all supposed to be creative thinkers. Is it really so hard for us not to get bogged down in strictly literal thinking?

“I don’t need shiny extruded 3D titles, so it all sucks.”

Honestly. I sat in session after session. How TED Talks is re-calibrating their huge harshly deadline driven workflow. How Lumberjack Systems is driving effort savings onto sets with real time shot logging that has a very real potential to revolutionize Reality and Sports and other workflows, how Indy Producers on panel from Suburban Cowboys saved days on set, and traditional Media Giants like Direct TV are happily reinventing their production processes via X – and here in the Forum it’s the same old, same old.

Well. Keep on keeping on.

Nothing here has changed in 4 years, clearly.

Out there, seems to me that everything else pretty much continues to.

If you still want FCP 8 – Premier is waiting. I’m still extremely glad Apple let me skip directly over 8 and 9.

Actully, one big “buzz phrase” at NAB this year was OTT “over the top” – vaguely how content is going from producers to the audience without the need for all the distribution stages.

Seems like an initialism I may need to remember.

FWIW.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Robin S. kurz]

Aaaaaah yes. The obligatory, trollish loaded question. *sigh*

[Bill Davis] “Is the problem that while they’re clearly listening to their customers, including Hollywood and large scale national operations – those customers just aren’t YOU? “

I’d say that pretty much sums it up, yes.

And yet, you’ll oddly be seeing 3D titles and elements popping up all over the place in the next few months, wanna bet? Even though others have had it for so long: Hmmm… what does that tell you? 😉

Never mind that that is only one of many new features and improvements… that of course no one needs. Probably because no one else has anything like it to begin with… so how could it possibly be useful, right? 😀

Is X the perfect NLE for every and anyone, with or without updates? Um… nope. Spoiler: there isn’t one elsewhere on the market either and never will be.

– RK

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[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “They chose to lead with nineties 3D brass glint photoshop titles”

90% of titles I do use 3D text. Not the ridiculous, over the top stuff, but subtle, like this:

done in AE/C4D fwiw…

If you’re in Pr, 7, MC etc, to do this stuff you have to leave the app and go to another program. Now, if I need something like this (which I do) I just make it in app. Focus on the ridiculous use case all you like. The reality is, this is a very useful feature.

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Charlie Austin] “Not the ridiculous, over the top stuff, but subtle, like this:”

Exactly! Same here.

What some clearly don’t seem to grasp, is that it doesn’t even have to have DEPTH! It can just as well be flat or just have an ever so slight extrusion with a tiny bevel that makes for a few highlights, maybe a little bump map, and the title ups in value exponentially. Of course the mere fact that FCP has it surely doesn’t contribute constructively to some people’s objectivity, let alone unbiased take on matters. 😉

Never mind the endless titles I’ve seen over the years (and still do) where people actually scale their title WAAAY up and back down for the classic “come from behind” effect… *facepalm*… which looks so utterly cheesy. I’m sure they’re totally bummed that they now can have it in fact come from behind…

But I guess some are also just accustomed to using everything as-is in a lazy push-button fashion, ignoring the endless creative possibilities that a “90’s” feature like that gives you, if you’re clever and creative enough to use it and not just jump on prefab templates?

Strikes me as one of those “Aaaah dang them whipper-snappers and their fancy-shmancy three-dee gizmos! I ‘member when we’z had to walk 58 miles through the snow to our titles and…” moments. ;-D

– RK

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[Ronny Courtens]

– I don’t care about 3D titles too much, but I’m sure other people will be very happy with this feature (which is in fact quite deep and produces very high quality results). So Apple seems to listen to all of its customers, and not only you or me. Check.

– What I care about most is stability and speed, and those have been improved even more with this update. My friends at Metronome produce 290 hours of on-air television content each year, with 30 editors on FCP X, so you can imagine they are absolutely thrilled with the speed gains. Check.

– FCPX XML has gotten yet another update and when you look inside it you can see a lot of hidden gems that will further improve the already excellent roundtripping with Resolve and with other apps. Seeing how hard they are working on this, FCP X and Resolve are growing up to become perfect partners. Check.

– Being able to save an unlimited combination of settings and filters as one single preset that can still be modified, both for video and for audio effects, is something I have requested for a long time. Now it’s there. Check.

– The new GPU accelerated debayering (with the new RED plugin) is much faster now for people with hefty new Macros and iMacs. Check.

– But also people working on lower specced machines with Intel GPUs will be happy to see improved performance and rendering speed since the new version supports Intel GPU rendering and exporting. Check.

– The combined scopes were long overdue. But they’re here now and at least they are accurate. Check.

– The full bezier Draw Mask, the fact that every filter has now built-in masking and color masking plus the ability to convert simple masks to points that can be modified is major for anyone working with color correction or compositing. Check.

– Most users are happy with the color correction as it is, but when you combine the new masking features with specialized add-ons for FCP X like Color Finale (RGB curves) and SliceX/Mocha (tracking) you now get a really powerful combination. Check.

– Optical Flow and Rate Conform have further been improved. Slow Motion has never looked that good. Check.

– Smart Collections for Libraries finally allow us to search for any clips across multiple Events. Perfect for complex productions that are shot over long periods. Check.

– Some hidden little updates like the fact that you now get a Notification on any of your devices when importing from a camera card is done, and you can eject the card from within the Notification. Check

– And of course there are the traditional bug fixes and further improved camera support. Check.

The update has been smooth for us. Most systems were updated mid-project without any hiccups aside from a few minor annoyances related to 2 older machines, which we solved the same day.

So yes, I’m fairly satisfied with this update. Check.

– Ronny

[Georg P. mueller]

Hi Ronny

Check on all of your counts, too.
You mentioned combining the new masks with the mocha tracker from slicex . Would love to make this work – how can you track the built-in masks?

Georg

[Ronny Courtens]

Hi Georg,

Make sure you have the latest version of SliceX/Mocha. This includes a SliceX Extras folder in which you can select the “Color Finale with Shape Mask” preset with which you can mask and track Color Finale corrections.

– Ronny