[Andy Field]

Interesting that all the comments on Premiere Pro CS 6 are in the refuge FCP 7 Forum! (the Premiere Pro forum has one mention and one comment as of 1030am Eastern time) If this is a hit, Adobe may get the lions share of formally loyal, but now disaffected FCP 7 editors as new customers.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

FX Factory 3.0.2 also seems to crash 10.0.4..but had this problem in a previous update and per Idustrial Revolution tech support – went into FXFACTORY preferences and hit the clean up all Motion Templates button — did that again in this update and that seemed to fix the crashing – for now —

Still can’t export a section of the timeline
Audio controls are still a 10 year leap backward (no audio mixing? Keyframing every audio adjustment? in 2012?)

Bring on a low cost Smoke or PPro CS 6 Stat!

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

What no cage match????

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

F-Troop fans will remember that the Hakawi tribe was originally called the Fugawi tribe until network censors figured that out…of course when the F-Troopers ask the Indians who they were they replied “We’re the Fugawi” Which is appropriate and the question most FCP editors are asking a year after FCP X rode into town

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Tony – how are you dealing with Audio — isn’t it a time vampire rubber banding every single track of audio to get mixes just right – in FCP7 -AVID- Premiere and virtually every other NLE we’ve used in the last decade, there’s a dedicated real time – keyframe recording mixer built in – but not here….that’s a big missing feature.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

This is the ONLY reliable method we’ve found to work from FCP7 to AVID 5.5 —

We’ve tried BORIS AAF and Automatic Duck (free now) with AMA linking and it virtually never works — (the sequence carries over but can’t get the relink no matter what format – and then in some cases we get some of the files but not all of them – it’s maddening.

But here’s what seems to work every time

First Settings in FCP

In final cut Pro 7

Export with these settings (no matter how you’ve edited in Final Cut or what the original codec is) You can of course set your DNX quality settings higher or lower)

** the transcode will take some time depending on length of project so go get lunch or dinner or do it over night***

Then

Take the resulting DNX MXF Files and put them in a folder where AVID will see it (AVID MEDIAFILES FOLDER on the root of whatever hard drive you are using)

OPEN a new AVID Project and import the AAF file

Everything comes up except Graphics with motion effects and titles and whatever filters don’t’ carry over (and the graphics are there – but un-rendered because of the bad translation of motion effects —

ALSO ALPHA CHANNEL GRAPHICS seem to have a problem with the translations and probably need to be re-imported

But that’s it – very clean and simple

Worked like a charm on XDCAM and DVCPRO HD

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Monitor/Canvas isn’t a beef – it’s a necessity for much of the work we do. and the work around links you provided is actually an EXTRA step. You can make the match frame or action match with a Preview/Record two window set up….in one edit

With the “precision editor” (funny how even Apple acknowledges it’s new way isn’t all that precise) you must do two steps — make the edit – and then slip slide ripple or roll the edit to match the action you want to match.

Another upgrade that is a step backward

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Richard – it’s maddening having others try to discern what other editors are doing. (Did you just “play with it?”) It’s working for you? – great! —

But you make my point when you say you can’t have a client sitting next to you and say – sorry have to reboot or hide events or whatever else FCP X makes you do to get to where we were before X.

And no we didn’t “play” with it. We actually cut real projects on it …and it’s lacking in so many ways with the flexibility, mixing etc we need (eyeline matching and action matching with a preview and a record monitor that virtually every other editing set up on the planet offers)

The skimming thumbnails (more like pinky nails on some machines) just doesn’t cut it. And no tracks is a deal breaker – period. the kludge work around to get audio in and out is just that – a kludge… Apple could and can fix all of this and grab back the base it lost. In the meantime – the rest of us have work to accomplish with tools that do what we need.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

yes – we’ve all tried cutting with FCPX —

we WANTED it to be great and move forward with what it does well. The point is – the no tracks no preview monitor – no mixer – no drop shadow? Really …this was in Premier version.0000 more than a decade ago (yes there are ad ons..but why is this necessary?)

Folks who must deliver deadline broadcast and film aren’t sitting around playing with something only to make their work more difficult.

Jim Giberti’s statement above is spot on —

Listen to your users…and you’ll see the folks in broadcast and film back on board

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

[CRAIG SEEMAN) “I believe there is one broadcaster in the Netherlands that moved to FCPX (so he’s told me)”

Who are we kidding?

I know a guy, who knows a guy who thinks he knows another guy who’s using it for broadcast?

Seriously?

FCP7 had hundreds of broadcast and film facilities – documented (maybe 1000’s….I know a guy who thinks that’s true )

FCPX developers – nearly a year after release have exactly….hmm we don’t know for sure of anyone using it for broadcast full time.

People who edit full time need a rock solid and not “we think it will get there one day” editing system.

FCP 7 was it.

Avid is it.

Conan’s editors clearly think Premiere Pro 6 is it if ..even before it’s released…they’re already cutting with it for BROADCAST.

Yet FCP X can find no love in everyday Hollywood or broadcast.

Still the folks who like it (and good for you…it works for you) continue to twist themselves into pretzels cheer leading a product that high end broadcast and film editors still can’t trust to do what they need. No mixer, no tracks, third party vendors forced to risk their businesses filling in gaping holes that weren’t there in the previous version of the software.

I admire the endless optimism of folks who have no problem paying for the privilege to continue this, now nearly year long, beta testing program for Apple.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852