Aindreas Gallagher
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[Sean Thomas] “FCP X is what editing is going to be like for the next 10 years.”
Not in its current form, and its arguable if apple are inclined, or are actually able, to get it into a usable state. FCPX might well be irretrievable, it might be structurally unsound in basic editing terms. they made presumptions about simplified workflows that were very under researched and break quite a lot in practise.
I bookmarked this post because it says a lot of things better than I can manage.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/3878
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yeah but that gets to the heart of the issue – how do you resolve this? they’ve wedged something directly into the ribcage of editing there, and while its cool, it is physically taking up space. I don’t feel that there is enough space in this environment for all the stuff they’ve wedged in in the top left. I’m not being fancy, but as a monoloithic single window app running down to, and designed for a 15″ laptop, in order to get the kind of asset management approach they wanted in, they had to kill the source monitor, they didn’t just kill the source monitor because they thought it could be expressed directly in the canvas as an alternate – they needed the space to insert the asset management scheme they feel is more broadly appropriate across their applications. And even then – the environment up there is incredibly cramped, split filmstrips, tiny twirl downs, half unusable scrubbing, it looks ok in stasis on a page grab, but as a place to go and deal with footage its not good at all. Its very poor.
I think it is anyway.http://www.ogallchoir.net
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heaven forbid, God knows I’ve done enough incitement on this forum, i just thought bill’s reply had wandered quite a ways off beam there.
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I don’t really think that answers the question?
isn’t the point to take a section of the timeline, send it to motion, do a whack of post and effects on it and roundtrip back to FCPX?
having sections of motion lite present in the main app isn’t really the same thing?
you want a PPRO to AE and back workflow. isn’t that what’s missing here?
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righto. figured it had to be summit like that, he said vaguely. that does seem impressively hard core in clean thought execution said the poor mathematician.
its in moments like that that you go – blimee, mucho thought gone in. but then I go crazy on the basic compromises in source viewing and go a little mad again.
going wildly off topic –
did you see Andy Neil’s piece on best practises for sorting footage that got put up there on FCPX techniques? the gist is that your best practise should be to put the event viewer into list, at least initially, so you get the wide lozenge at top because that allows you realistic width to scrub accurately? that that is the closest facsimile to a usable source viewer?
but then all your keyword collections are in twirl downs below the blank originating file name, the mv_0069 stuff.
that drives me a bit mad. the keyword master stuff is stored to the right in the library, but when you click to view the collection, you are presented with the master file name, you’re twirling down after that.It just feels cramped intellectually, its tons of tiny rooms: tiny lozenge, cramped twirl down, tiny yellow boxes…
I still feel that they have compromised the limited real estate to insert iphoto/aperture like collection browsing. I really still think there are true, deep structural cracks throughout this application. literally onscreen, i think 10-15 percent of the thought space in perceiving footage is being wrecked to adhere to arbitrary non-editing, very apple rules, mostly because they insisted on it being monolithic single window app.
Apple thought that exposing the keywords into a limited twirl down, (without the ability to fully expand the list columns!) was enough, because they saw it as a file finder issue.
very off topic all this , but I’ve been jiggering around with it, and have been thinking about it since watching the tutorial – am still not properly using FCPX in anger on a system not meant for it and am saving up to buy an FCPX ready box, but I think there are problems of basic approach, that are near insurmountable.
I really think the rabbit hole they’re down is too big. I swear to god I do not think the software is recoverable as an editing platform, I think the minute the vast number of us see premiere 6 it’s just about over and done.
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too right. cat dv is savage. that’s an interesting read. I really started thinking about the amount of assets I have floating around on my home gig in the nether reaches of the external as I read the capabilities.
funny thing on the exposed FCPXML they show there in the link – it exposes to seconds not down to frames? or am I mad there?
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From Larry jordan’s article: “Retaining In and Out points for clips in the Event Browser is undergoing a raging debate in Apple.”
It’s a raging debate?
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[Dwight Cenac] “I didn’t see any forum for FCPX support anywhere,”
well sure,
the programme may be a horrible, chrome heavy, incoherent, sluggish, buggy mess of hubristic we know better FUBAR gifted from the apple death star to editing over the corpse of a usable editing system, but, still and all, there actually is a techniques forum, wearing heavy iron gloves, set to deal with the hideous dayglo offal carbunkle apple barfed onto the world of editing.
https://forums.creativecow.net/fcpxtechnique
yesss potentially great system, databases or something, av foundation is the antimatter warp drive, node view linking relational compositor bull, meta data, scrubbing blew my mind, meta data, meta data, meta data, blarg, blarg, blarg, blarg, blarg.
oh little troll me, I do not like this software.
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[Bill Davis] “The world is clamoring for choice and access and personal vision empowerment via images in motion that often (but not always) include a video component. “
Bill, with the greatest respect, what in the holy hell at all does that statement mean?
seriously – who are you arguing for and what exactly does it mean?
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