[Aindreas Gallagher]

I should add, bar the ludicrous ranting –

I am not in any sense referring to Randy Ubillos the individual, I am only referring to Randy Ubillos the Hal9000 progenitor of FCPX, and in that fashion alone.

The man himself is palpably a dude who bashes out to antarctica and merrily throws himself into water penguins might well be scared of.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

the essential apple statement is taste: that they are their own weather vane?
Jobs said it for years – we make the stuff we would want to use.
ipod, iphone, ipad – god knows that was thunder and lightning.

but as an insular credo applied to the complexities of professional craft? it is a mess.

Colour coded Roles? Really? What?

Why stop there? Ye have only begun to remake editing in your own vision.
what’s next? Spines? Red light GUI T-junctions for non-intersecting vertically connected edits?

Apple have only begun to re-make editing in their image.

FCPX is not a professional application, simply because it came out of a very weird room with five guys in it who never edited – and it is loaded with ridiculous metaphors that have no broader context or meaning.

And its colour corrector is square.

FCPX is a dead, internal, Apple vanity project.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I was not here. Until I actually shagging learn Avid – and gentlepeople – this is free and rather good –

https://www.promax.com/s-130-edit-to-the-future.aspx

Until I do that and, say, properly take in FCPX, I am bidden by God to shut up –

Still… one thing, and Bill I am begging you on this.

Stop, please jesus I beg you, stop saying simple as that.

your overall judicial end quote is, I realise, your own mount rushmore.
but you actually do need to stop saying ‘simple as that.’

that genuinely has to happen.

I am willing to take this as far as the UN.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

true and all, thought it was notable that the best charlie sheen bit in that crazy time was his skit for funny or die.

https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bfb12aea47/charlie-sheen-s-winning-recipes

its hard to argue with him threatening his kitchen knife with his pocket knife.

still and all – funny or die do apparently edit on avid….

https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f1fb270652/whoosh

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I’d say that last post wasn’t a rant really – and if it was, it was largely marks. I’m curious – what do you say to his observations though?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

maybe a little bit – all you’re really saying there is that you can make an attached clip, I’m talking about editing into something other than the primary.

mark morache says this better than I can – and I reckon he’s putting in at least as much effort into this as you are:

I’ve tried putting audio as the primary storyline, then adding b-roll as a secondary storyline. It feels awkward to me. I really like using I and O on the timeline, and even if I have the secondary storyline selected, it still sets the region on the primary storyline.

After I set my points, I can hit the Q key to make a new connected clip, the hit P and drag the connected clip into the secondary storyline. #awkward

If I set my points THEN select the secondary storyline, my range disappears. The only way I can select a range in the secondary storyline is with the range tool and the mouse. #awkward

the point I’m trying to make here is that it really is in a sense a single track editor. everything after that is a mess of poor metaphors and stupid workflow. I find it ludicrous. It feels cumbersome and stupid.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

you’re right – that is trolling, but sometimes when one says FCPX conventions out loud they really do sound tortured and ludicrous.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

that was really classy, some grinning guy in a baseball cap.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

honestly jeremy? that is just a mess of stupid weirdness that nobody will remember in three years. I cant operate consistently outside of the primary, I cant edit consistently outside of the primary, I can’t .. ara god, look it doesn’t matter.


Just because the i and o is visually marked on the primary doesn’t mean the incoming media has to go on to the primary.

It can go above/below as connected clips using the range you marked.

You can also select a connected clip above the primary and edit with a browser based clip as well.

nobody cares about all the weird stupid conventions jeremy – no wait, we do – it actually is fully stupid forgettable software.

ech.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

oh steve.

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