X2Pro FAQ

[James Mortner]

To think, all those years I thought my work “meant something”…

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “All the signs are that X2Pro is going to be an excellent product and one that finally plugs one of the biggest gaps in FCPX from a (high-end) professional user’s point of view.”

I hope you’re right, I’m cutting a feature that’s going to need it to work!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Chris Steele]

Thanks for your interest Lemur, X2Pro has been submitted to the Mac App Store for review by Apple. We can’t be sure how long that will take but I hope it will be available next week.

Chris Steele
Product Manager
Marquis Broadcast

[Chris Steele]

Hi James. Yes, we had to leave levels out of the first release in order to get it out as soon as possible. Without it there was no way to go from FCPX 10.0.3 to ProTools, so we were under a lot of pressure from folks using FCPX on productions now to release something which would at least translate the edits.

The good news is that we are working on this right now and hope to have first efforts in the hands of one or two beta testers next week. It will deal with levels, automation gain and fade handles. Because these can be applied in several ways in FCPX using compound clips, we have to concatenate them all into a series of keyframes on each track in ProTools. Fade handles will initially be translated into a straight linear fade.

We’ve not included panning in this work. Feedback from the market is that the audio guys don’t want panning information from the edit, so we’ve set this to a lower priority. Happy to hear counter views!

Chris Steele
Product Manager
Marquis Broadcast

[Chris Steele]

Thanks Steve, thanks Simon!

We are certainly keen to make sure the X2Pro plugs this gap, and plugs it well.

This all takes time as the two applications are very different in their approaches. Our engineers have a lot of experience of this type of work, but understanding FCPX’s infinitely nestable clips took some effort!

I’m not being critical here. Having been a little sceptical at first, I have to say that the more I see of FCPX and of its rapid development direction, the more impressed I am. I’ve been creating tools in this industry for a long time, but I really think the FCPX team have done a great job, and have seen the future of editing.

So we are really keen to hear about the features you guys need most, so that we can prioritise those first. Or perhaps you need other tools to blue FCPX back into your professional workflows? Let us know!

Chris Steele
Product Manager
Marquis Broadcast

[Tom Hassall]

Marquis Broadcast are running a survey competition on the X2Pro website to win one of 5 copies.

The competition runs until the end of June 2012.

https://www.x2pro.net/competition.html