Andy Neil
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[Jamie Franklin] “People defending it as a 1.0 comparing it to the 1.0 of the first Final Cut always seem to exclude the legacy and the truths inherent in a multi-track nle that is really the standard, and for a reason.”
And those who say it doesn’t compare seem to conveniently forget FCP’s history, and where NLEs were at the time. FCP was completely unusable for complex professional workflows.
Multi-cam editing existed in Avid for years before FCP was even in version 1. Why didn’t FCP v1 come with multi-cam?
FCP could only even injest 2 channels of audio at a time.
Just because it’s low on features now, doesn’t mean it won’t have features down the line. Sure, you may not want to wait for them, many people don’t; that’s fine. But you have no idea what will be standard in the years to come, especially if this new approach (and really, it’s not all that different in many respects) ends up being more efficient.
[Jamie Franklin] “Some people find it comfortable being in a timeline that won’t allow you to layer an audio file where you want, watching it snap back to it’s static track. I don’t get that.”
Sounds like you haven’t spent all that much time with FCPX (if any at all). You most certainly can layer an audio file where you want. Or a video file for that matter.
Andy
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Some of it you learn from your peers. I’ve been editing on Avid for 11 years now and I’m always learning some new shortcut or trick.
A little you learn from good books. I’m a fan of the Avid Handbook: Advanced Editing Techniques. Teaches everything you need to know about decomposing, multi-groups, etc.
Mostly, I just ended up cutting a ton of stuff on it. Best teacher there is.
My personality is such that when something doesn’t work quickly or easily, or efficiently enough, I’m willing to slow down and figure out if there’s a better/different approach. If there’s one piece of advice I could give about learning any NLE, it’s to NOT edit a certain way because it’s the way you’ve always done it.
Andy
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Avid, Premiere, and FCP are all really similar on a basic level. When you’re editing basic stuff, or off-lining without effects and such, there’s not much difference and you can pick one up quickly.
However, the real learning curve is when you go past the basics. Avid and FCP handle effects completely different and for some things, there isn’t really a correlation.
When you start dealing with promoting effects, advanced keyframing, painting, image handling, sequence to sequence editing, advance trimming and such, you start to grasp why it takes more than a couple of days/weeks/months to use it well.
Most ASLers (Avid as a Second Language) tend to try and make Avid work like FCP. Which is fine at a simple level, but terribly inefficient in more complex workflows. It’s like they’re driving a car in 2nd gear.
Andy
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Just to add a few addendums to Mark’s great comments:
Apply Roles to your titles so that you have an English and Japanese translation. They can be automatically turned on and off in the roles area of the timeline index. No need to select them in the timeline.
Option dragging works fine, but I prefer the simple copy/paste technique. Select your first title, CMD+C to copy, move the playhead, CMD+V to paste. Paste all the titles in your timeline and adjust length. Then just go through each one and change the text.
Andy
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[Jamie Franklin] “FCx will never be a standard.”
You must be from the future. Oh wait, you’re from the PAST. Because I seem to remember the same thing being said way back in 1999 about a little used program that I bought along with my first G4. I mean after all, the only way you could get video in or out was via a firewire cable. I mean really! Firewire? Are you kidding me?
Andy
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When I worked in news, the gfx were built in a variety of programs both 3D and other. Maya, Lightwave, Combustion, After Effects. Later, they were all replaced by a dedicated program that integrates the 3D gfx with the CG/Still Store and can be triggered by the switcher. All their gfx pkgs are now built solely in the new program (can’t remember the name, but not well known outside of broadcast news).
Andy
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Color solids are typically more processor intensive than the generator solid. A color still (png or jpg) is the least processor intensive, but of course you can’t change the color easily.
Andy
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Not enough edits.
And FCP X wouldn’t run on that PPC machine anyway.
Andy
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As a former news man, I don’t really see a problem with cameras in the hands of more people. Sure quality of picture goes down, but also more news actually gets captured on video because eye witnesses now can record what’s happening.
The current state of news is harmed more by the existence of 24 hour news channels (which work on a 15 minute news cycle), and the notion that breaking news is the only news which leads to stories being reported wholesale from unconfirmed sources.
Andy
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