[Ben Scott]

sorry people saying avid is dead on with black magic card for insert edits etc is wrong

its off by 1 frame

play in bitc feed off deck

then try playing out

its off

senior tech at my work has checked it for an afternoon

[Ben Scott]

would this not give a desaturated look and therefore change the chroma

could reapply more saturation to an append node I suppose

think davinci could really benefit from a luminosity mode

and the person that said davinci doesnt need doesnt luminosity modes understand what I am talking about

[Ben Scott]

not sure this is the same as a luminosity mode

add layer will change saturation, luminosity mode in photoshop is working in LAB and so shouldnt adjust chroma

also really not sure how you can convert RGB to keyer signal, especially since low or high range and softness cannot be full range

and combining a desaturated version of an image seems tricky as just a luminance adjustment

[Ben Scott]

nice to see Aindreas maintaining his top spot as snide fcpx naysayer

the stats they are talking about may be true though i could easily imagine fcp7 users that never paid for the software numbering very highly and then many of them then paid for version as they had no choice and it was cheap

dont really think the fcpx software is nearly as bad as being made out

i mean i spent 2 hours trying to get an aaf and mxf folder from a 60 sec ad to protools session today from avid and its meant to be stable. just to let you know i failed the protools crashed badly.

dont believe all the hype from any of the companies its all to be taken with a pinch of salt in my opinion

[Ben Scott]

be interesting to know which method is used to deinterlace the material e.g. can it do a high quality motion adaptive deinterlace like that in compressor

I would guess it might as the speed changes in FCPX seem to be higher quality

but cant be sure

[Ben Scott]

theres was a product i heard of called foolcut not sure if it works with 10.0.3 yet it does fcpx to after effects and from what I tried it did a good job of translating things

to get to shake I would say the xto7 product from https://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/Xto7/
would get you back to fcp7 and then from there you could probably do a send to shake

not sure if reselling any apple product is legal, check the agreement but most software isnt actually resellable

I would ask whats needed from shake

if its nodal compositing then look to nuke or even something like the updated blender if opensource and free is what you are after, heard good things about the updated version

if nodal compositing is needed you could also look at conduit plugin for motion

motion can do a lot of what is needed

its a shame at the moment that theres no export to motion from fcpx

[Ben Scott]

found the same thing myself

in fact try adding composite modes in with compound clips and you see similar mess.

earlier version of fcpx was doing transitions and rendering very odd

the transitions are poorly implemented

[Ben Scott]

its the only way to apply a working broadcast safe filter as I am aware, be nice if there was something similar with audio

[Ben Scott]

• ganging
• colour wheels
• copy paste effects that isnt useless
• avcintra MXF export and metadata exports for UK tapeless delivery
• template driven tapeless delivery e.g. clocks through templates
• outputs for M&E that work and more control over audio mixing
• Midi controllers
• hue curves
• on screen feedback for keyboard based trimming like mentioned above
• noise removal
• metadata driven auto colour correction and audio mixing/cleanup
• decent auto colour correction that can be modified
• storyboard editing like imovie (its got something that has a lot of promise that should be available e.g. metadata driven editing)
• subtitling workflow from STL files and improvements
• all fields searchable in the smart collections e.g. log notes
• metadata mapping from tapeless formats
• event metadata templates/stat points
• RED camera support
• decent tracker or support for mochapro
• default audio tracks as stereo not surround
• default keep in/out in event browser, not the dumb loose my in outs
• some more of the useful community filters e.g. FCP.co ones incorporated as core

not a lot to ask

[Ben Scott]

large projects need large amount of RAM
8gb is bare minimum, 16gb is recomended
fast storage helps if you arent working proxy from my experience with 10 hours plus of footage

also its probably a good idea once the footage is across to X to ask it to make proxies and work with that workflow

dont think the issue was with PAL on that software, it got fixed in 2st few days according to the authors

as the clips come across with log notes and comments and these can refined using smart collections I would say thats a good way to tame the project, if you havent been using log notes then I reckon that the bins to keywords will work OK

I would also make sure if there has been a lot of prior editing on FCP7 then look into where the software isnt able to work e.g. motion projects, freeze frames, generators, variable speed changes, codecs/file workflows yet to be supported e.g. red R3ds
On those sections of the timelines I would mark them and add notes and then get fcp7 to export a batch list which you can import into excel or openoffice and print out a list of where the errors are going to occur
then I would decide if they need an export of those sections of the timeline to get a better translation

also it always good to have a guide quicktime, in fact essential for a reconform like this. that there is no way to gang your guide quicktime to the project in FCPX is a major flaw, only way I can think to check is set project to correct timecode, cut guide in correct place and then do a scale on that guide to use as a pseudo guide

I would say for the Motion 4 projects I would try and get them across as fcpx effects/generators if this makes sense as you can then keep refining them in FCPX and motion 5

let us know how you get on, be interesting for lots of people to know I think

from ben