Andy Patterson
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[Bill Davis] “Maybe so much constant X hostility in the forum – and constant billboard posts featuring anything but X – has sunk into the markets consciousness and come home to roost.”
Many of the threads talk about X but this is not an X exclusive forum. We have told you this several times already. Not to mention the fact that two Cow users constantly post video links about minor bugs in Premiere Pro (fixed bugs) in threads that have nothing to do about bugs. Their posts do not add anything to the conversation and it certainly does not bother you if people bad mouth Premiere Pro relentlessly. I could post YouTube videos of FCXP crashing because of bugs but what would be the point? There is a lot of hatred towards Avid and Premiere Pro but that certainly does not bother you. If anyone talks negatively about FCPX with honest criticism that bothers you but if someone out of ignorance bad mouths Premiere Pro or Avid you are OK with it. Once again this is the FCPX Debate forum not the Glorification of FCPX forum. Please learn to deal with it. As other have said there is a forum at the Cow dedicated to FCPX. You have no one to blame but yourself if you keep posting in the wrong forum or expect the FCPX Debate forum to change into the Glorification Of FCPX forum.
https://forums.creativecow.net/fcpx
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[Steve Brame] “I personally always found the Title Tool to be a bit clunky and archaic, so if I ever needed that type of functionality I used PhotoShop or Illustrator. But again, to each his own. So, if the Title Tool worked for you, then by all means, continue to use it.”
You used to be able to dock the titling tool and all the panels of the titling tool. The last couple of versions make docking panels harder. They just don’t want to dock as easy as before. We will see where the essential graphic panel is in another six months. Perhaps Adobe should have waited until NAB 2018 to release the Essential Graphic Panel. The titles just don’t look as crisp with the new titling system although I think that may have changed with the new update.
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[Steve Brame] “Not trying to be a jerk, but I really don’t see how much easier they could make it.”
Maybe you could replicate what is in this video below : )
[Steve Brame] “I’m wondering, are you in the Essential Graphics Workspace such as shown in the clip?”
I’m wondering how you create beveled edges and set the transparency of the fill and inner and outer strokes? Premiere had Problems with the transparency so I’m thinking Adobe figured lets get rid of the separate transparency levels for the fill and inner and outer stroke Just like they got rid of so many filters and transitions. We pay more and get less.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Trust me, I cut a bunch on Avid products in my career. Having been a freelancer for so long, I can thank Avid for allowing me that career. Hell, I still own a little stock in the company (yeah, THAT was a great investment!). It is still the gold standard for Hollywood and broadcast, but you must agree it is struggling outside those niche environments.”
I don’t consider Hollywood (the movie industry) or broadcast facilities a niche environment for video production. 25 years ago that was about the only market with a few niche markets here and there. With the internet gaining bandwidth over that last 25 years there is more media outlets but broadcasting facilities and movie studios are still the standard as far as I can tell. People would prefer to have their work on TV stations throughout the world or in theaters throughout the world as opposed to being on YouTube or a closed circuit system at the local high school or the local mega church. Having said that a lot of A/V facilities could probably benefit form a collaborative workflow.
There are a lot of media outlets in the year 2017 all with different work environments but I don’t think the broadcast facilities and the movie industry are a niche environments in the year 2017. Maybe in the 2025 they will be.
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I think VR has merit for training proposes. I also imagine other avenues for VR will start to emerge but I don’t know if VR content will ever be more than 10% of all the media produced in a given year. The numbers will probably be small but the results of VR will be very effective for certain projects. I have seen some VR media that does look.
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[Scott Witthaus] “It’s like the creeping bloat of the CC as a whole. I want a good editor. I don’t need a “social panel” nor VR. Nor do I need 75% of the rest of the cloud. I want a solid, fast editing platform where I decide how to expand, not paying Adobe to decide for me.”
Apple does decides what is best for you and you pay them. There is not really any difference between Apple and Adobe in that respect.
[Scott Witthaus] “I care because they are spending subscription dollars developing them. Selfish, yes, but I don’t want to pay a monthly for sh** I don’t use.”
Apple develops Apple TV, The iPad Pro, Garage Band, Numbers, Pages, iMovie etc.
I am not a fan of the monthly subscription paradigm but having said that you seem very angry and upset with Adobe. Why? Are you letting us know that if Adobe sold Premiere Pro for $299.99 with a free upgrade path for life that you would dump FCPX for Premiere Pro?
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[John Mayer] “Essential is a terrible train wreck in the making. You can however use the legacy titler, or use alternatively After effects on dynamic link. I prefer the second option.”
Adobe spent a lot of time and money on a worse titling system. Let Adobe know not to get rid of the old Legacy Titling system.
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I am not a fan of the new Essential Graphics Panel. Having said that you have to send Adobe a feature request for Adobe not to get rid of the legacy titling system. I have.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “Andy, didn’t you just have a long discussion telling us about using the right editing tool. In FCP X, Selection tool = no gaps. AKA using the magnetic timeline. Position tool = gaps likely. You know, like in PP.”
Thanks for proving my point for the tenth time Brian. I appreciate it : )
First: Don’t confuse my comment with my actual editing process. I simply pointed out that anybody new to FCPX could get gaps. I can also purposely create gaps and I admit it would be user error but gaps can happen. FCPX is not foolproof.
Second: I did not create a video for the world to see of myself using the wrong editing tool with FCPX and then blame my errors on FCPX repeatedly. Jesus did suffer from user error but he repeatedly blamed Premiere Pro. That is why I stated in the other thread if someone gets gaps using FCPX you are quick to blame the user. To prove my point you tried to blame me of user error when I simply made a comment. On the other hand if someone gets gaps using Premiere Pro you are quick to blame the NLE. My point has always been you must use the correct tools in all the NLE to get the desired result.
Third: I hope from now on you can spot user error on any NLE and not just FCPX. I also hope you will not confuse a comment with the actual editing process.
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Since FCPX has a different naming structure than Premiere Pro I thought I would clarify something.
Even with Premiere Pro CS 4.0 you could always import entire projects. You could import the whole project or just certain sequences. With CS 4.0 and even the Creative Cloud you can opt to just grab video files, images or sequences form other projects but all those assets just became part of the project you imported them into. You have been able to do many of the same things shown in the posted video since CS 4 (if not longer). The only thing new is that the original project it’s self is imported and not just the assets of that project. It is not a big deal for me but I think it will help with collaboration based workflows.
To clarify we have been able to bring assets from other projects like sequences, images and video clips into other projects for a long long time even if the project did not import.