Alban Egger
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For those mentioning and thinking of iMacs in comparison to the new MacPro: consider the new 15″ MacBOOK PRO has the same graphics as the best 21″ iMac. IMacs have mobile graphiccards!! They work fine nowadays in 1080 and in proxyres. But in 1,5 years you will get a 4K project or at least some 4K footage….and then you will think if €1000 additional investment on a machine that last 3-4 years wouldn’t have been better.
I have the same thoughts, mind you. 3k is a lot, especially if you have no monitors yet. 256 GB storage is hardly enough and 12 GB is definitely not enough. So it is a pricey machine. But honestly i expected worse. And not many years ago we would have killed for such specs below 5.000…….
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What do you mean? No option to force relink? You can relink files in FCPX. For example when I have stockclips or stockmusic with watermarks I always simply force FCPX to relink the files to the final media.
About the original idea of this thread: I think the game is still open. FCPX has regained a lot of ground when you compar its perception from a year ago. At the same time they are still fighting with the terrible launch of the product. I STILL get calls and mails from people who ask me about rumours they heard in summer 2011!! Many of those were even untrue (like you can´t have more than 1 stereotrack on export or that there is no J-K-L in FCPX) and seem still to be around. So Apple is not there yet.
At the same time Adobe Premiere seems not to be thatmuch of a killer-app itself, since so many who like tracks are still on FCP7.
I would expect the new Mac Pro bundled with FCPX 10.1 will be a different beast altogether and might win over many productionhouses again with its sheer power and speed in hardware and workflow.
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Sam thanks for clearing some things up in this thread. I never had doubt FCPX could be used to edit a major production. I know there are features especially in AVID that make sense for these guys, but the overall experience from dailies through the edit and all the way to XML-grading support is just unique in FCPX.
Having said that I understand there are a few details missing, but there are big chunks missing with the other NLEs just as well.
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[Erik Lindahl] “He however never touched FCPX’s major short-coming for many and that is actually editing in the application… :)”
Uhm…..he also didn´t mention the shortcomings of AVID and Premiere and Smoke. None of them are perfect. But FCPX at least has some upside to it.
And I wonder what “shortcomings” you mean that ALL the others don´t have? I guess we FCPX users can count just as many missing features on the others. In fact Larry Jordan listed a few tools that make a difference. But IMO it might be possible to create the same for other NLEs that have XML workflows….
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When FCP7 was used for a feature film the first time it was pretty much the same discussion. Some were confirmed in their believe others claimed it cannot be used for the actual edit.
I guess if they told Mr. Jordan they tested for 6 months then they did so. And I doubt they test software for dailies or BTS for 6 months even on a big budget production.
The good news is that we are actually discussing if FCPX is used or not. 2 years ago we early adopters got thrown under the bus for even considering “iMovie Pro” as a professional tool. And now we might see this $ 300 NLE getting its foot into the door of major studios with all that comes as a result of that development.
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Get an iMac instead of an old MacPro
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[Craig Seeman] “He seems to put the most stress on learning curve for those new to that part of the industry.”
Yeah, and that will probably scare many people here. The industry is changing very fast and the “new kids on the block” don´t care and don´t want to care about what workflow worked 6 years ago. And these “kids” are not only on our set, but actually the bosses in the agency/studio etc.
I have been to several meetings now where the person deciding on the budget was the youngest in the room. This is accelerating our use of new and better technology.
I am happy I jumped into FCPX early and in full….
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While my workflow is very different I understand your need for coloured clips. We all ask for that since the beginning.
One idea could be to use markers. If you set markers towards the beginning, end and in the middle, you can have three visual distinctions on the timeline.
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If you are low on RAM turn of audio waveforms in the eventbrowser.
IMO 16GB is the minimum to have fluent results with X.
USB2 is too slow. Use a Firewire800 or better a thunderbolt external drive. I use WesternDigitals.And Lance, my MacPro has that 4870 card and X does not fly with it and DaVinci doesn’t work either. It is an outdated card. Most Macbooks have better grafix than 2009 MacPros.
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[Herb Sevush] “For someone who cuts multicam all the time this, more than the hated subscription, is the deal breaker. “
Did you watch this multicam demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMF59xAmiI&feature=player_embedded#t=306
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