Alex Gollner
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Remember that Apple uses its software to sell hardware.
They would have no problem with the next versions of Adobe Audition, Avid ScriptSync and Autodesk Smoke acting as collaborator applications with Final Cut Pro X.1 database projects. As long as the new versions of those apps with this ability could only be running on Apple hardware.*
Then the FCP X(as a media collaboration operating system)-compatible apps will sell more Apple hardware, and everyone gets rich…
*Windows, open source and Android versions of these tools would have to find a different core app to maintain the host project database. Of the As, only Adobe seems to have the resources to engineer such a new platform.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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That’s great news. If Apple do go in this direction we need the people at Adobe, Avid and Autodesk to keep them on their toes by following them (or leading the way)..
Despite the fact that Apple hardly acknowledge their competitors, X might go down in history as the time when competitors forced their hand. But Apple’s perversity sent the post world into confusion.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Given that Apple seem to want to avoid leaning on the old A/B roll editing metaphor used in established editing applications, there’s a good chance that editors will get the feature they want with a different user interface.
So there may be multiple skimmers (using different modifier keys) that can, in some cases, be locked together in various ways for trims, rolls and colour correction. These skimmers would then populate various viewers in preparation for a series of edits using mouse, trackpad, gesture or keyboard. This implies some more window control via retrievable layouts too.
It’s a matter of each FCP X update having a balance between two kinds of feature: features ‘as good as or a little better than FCP7/Premiere/Symphony’ and features ‘Adobe/Avid/Autodesk cannot implement because of internal application structure or UI metaphor’.
One concept of classic screenplay writing is the hero not getting what they want, but getting what they need. There is plenty of evidence that Apple don’t plan to give editors what they want or need, but I’m glad one of the ‘As’ is attempting to try something new.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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The catch of course is that you only get the full effect of the Retina display – full HD in a window with some application UI visible – if the screen is set to the equivalent of 1440 by 900.
That doesn’t give you enough room for enough of the UI for most apps – Smoke 2013 seems the only software designed for this kind of editing.
In Final Cut Pro X you can show both the Event browser and the inspector while viewing your 1080p video.
In practice many people will set their screen to ‘More Space’ which scales the UI so you get the equivalent of 1920×1200. See the comparison between the five screen settings at the bottom of the article at https://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-macbook-pro-handles-scaling
If 1920×1200 will used most often, Apple should offer the new 2xUSB3 2xThunderbolt 15″ MacBook Pro with a 1920×1200 screen! Then we could edit away with enough room around the video to control our apps, and switch to full-screen mode for pixel to pixel 1080p video preview.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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In the UK, rostrum moves would be known by a different Ken: Ken Morse.
His name appeared in the end credits of almost every TV show with any kind of pan and zoom effect on a picture from the 70s to the 90s.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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You could use a free effect to crop the picture before using the Ken Burns effect.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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If you use an effect that is designed to trim, you can apply it first before adding effects – such as a drop shadow to the outside of the cropped image.
This gives more direct control than the compound clip method.
You could use my free trim effect (which allows for different feather values for each edge)
If you use my free drop shadow effect, the shadow will appear outside the trim.
Alex
(PS my crop effect comes with bonus effects that trim single edges, which has animation curve controls)___________________________________________________
Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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I saw the invert.key control, I thought a way of inverting the mask defined by the four OSCs would be handy.
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Cool!
Can I suggest an ‘Invert Mask’ option?
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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It would have won if edited on the Windows version of Avid, but I imagine few films are.
Given that Final Cut Pro was and will be a technology for selling Apple hardware, it still works well for Apple if people switch away from 7 to Adobe or Avid – as long as they don’t switch to Windows…
Media Composer and Premiere sell Macs too.
The only thing Apple need worry about when it comes to losing big-budget editors is if the Windows 8 / Ivy Bridge workstation combination is more attractive than OS X Mountain Lion / iMac.
Alex
PS. The ‘In Memoriam’ section of the Oscars would more accurately have shown QuickTime (as a technology for developers) as having sadly left the scene in 2010…
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com