[Andy Field]

Actually I’ve gotten Auto Duck to work and reconnect complex XDCAM sequences in AVID — (with a client’s Autoduck license) have yet to be able to do that with the trial version of Boris Transfer – it will go as far as connecting AMA clips in a bin – but can not get it to connect to the sequence without reimporting all the material again – Autoduck didn’t have that issue

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

The good folks at Boris FX aren’t going to appreciate this — and I was just about to purchase Boris Transfer because I could no longer get Automatic Duck – this is a nice surprise

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Thanks – get what you are doing — but I do a lot of broadcast news and doc work and I am pretty sure most editors would love the mixing console back – it’s too much stop and start work to get a rough or even finished mix for broadcast doing it the way you’ve described. I haven’t rubberbanded or played with individual tracks but to smooth out an edit pop – or do CMD OPTION L to globally set a level on a clip in quite some time. We use the mixer all the time to automate mixes as we go along in an edit. Have an outboard control surface that makes it a breeze.

Final Cut X needs some of the tools (IE Mixer — copy and paste selected effects – not all or nothing) that it’s older sibling had to make it a tool we can use every day.

Thanks for sharing your techniques.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Hi Jim

You write:

“you don’t need to open a mixer – just select the Secondary labeled “Music Bed” and right there in the Inspector there’s a master volume and pan control for that buss.”

So are you saying that in the master volume for your SECONDARY Story Line — you can control this volume in real time while the track is playing and it records keyframes on the fly so you can “duck” music under narration etc and then bring it back just like the mixer in FCP 7?

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Sorry – I’ve ready your post a few times – but am not understanding how you are “mixing” on the fly – I’m assuming you are rubber banding and then grouping tracks as sub-mixes —

You also say you didn’t see the value of the mixer in FCP 7 – when in fact we use it every hour every day as a real time “lets listen – did we get this balance right?…let me bring the music up and down for dramatic impact at this point” mixes. In real time.

I can’t imagine you’ve found a way to do that in FCP X – or have you?

A video tutorial would be a tremendous help to all of us shying away from X for exactly that reason – no more real time mixes.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

if Resolve could do this – why couldn’t Apple have spent 10 minutes and created a sequence translation program? (instead of having to plunk down 900 dollars more for resolve making FCPX no longer the bargain Apple markets it to be)

How much bad press would they have avoided? – giving you best of all worlds — using Final Cut Pro X to do what it does well (speed – fewer transcodes – the magnetic timeline for anyone who needs or wants that) and Final Cut 7 for what it does well – broadcast monitor monitoring – tracks – easy export for audio mixes – 10 years of muscle memory for FCP editors etc…

If Apple’s team was as up front and as open as Adobe now appears to be (and Avid is becoming) Apple could have made everyone from pro-sumers to pros happy. Instead they’ve angered so many people they’ve undoubtedly lost a large percentage of them for good.

Textbook case of terrible marketing and customer service.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Is there a render manager similar to FCP 7 — where you can – from within FCPX – just delete selected – or all render files and if so where is it hiding?

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Craig,

You are the Yoda of FCPX!

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Can anyone explain why anyone is twisting themselves into a pretzel trying to make FCP X work for them? What’s the point?

We had a program that worked for virtually every professional need – we just wanted it faster with no transcoding — instead we got an Alpha release that doesn’t do…..well we all know what it doesn’t do.

And we’ve paid 300 for the privilege of working out the bugs for Apple for who knows how long?

This is absurd — speculating what Apple might do and when they might do it — folks who do this for a living don’t have time to learn a half baked program — we’re busy helping clients with programs that work as advertised

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Andy Field]

Craig, you seem well intentioned, but it’s baffling why you are such an apologist for this Half baked FCPX software. Your posts wax poetic on what the software might someday be while editors need something that works now. FCP7 works now but I for one won’t update another piece of system software or Quicktime component now fearing Lion 1 point something might break the editing system that powers and funds my business. FCPX doesn’t do half of what the previous version did professionally (we’ve detailed it ad nauseum) Yes it does some things faster (no transcoding….and…well that’s about it) And the – as one video reviewer graphically put it — “kick in the weiner” – not opening old timelines effectively killed FCP as a professional platform for 90 percent of the editors who loved the program from version 1 through 7.

Seriously Craig, is Apple hiring you to cheer lead this slap in the face to the professional community?

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852