[Bernhard G.]

[Bernhard G.]

Hello,

the simple reasons are x264’s sovereigns quality and it’s speed within HandBrake.

Streamclip uses quicktime components to encode H.264:
means it either uses the same component as Compressor;
or it uses the available x264 component which is (due to Quicktime) not
that speed-optimized as the x264 implementation in HandBrake.

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard G.]

[Jeremy Garchow] ” It’s not cheap”

That’s the point. And FFmpeg is Open Source!

Nevertheless, an FCP-X interface-GUI making use of it
(means you would need to install FFmpeg separately yourself)
would be more than worth a fair shareware fee.

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard G.]

You’re welcome! 🙂

[Bernhard G.]

[Jeremy Garchow] “The only problem is that it’s not plugged in right to FCPX, so you have to essentially export twice, once out of fcpx and once out of handbrake.
“

Yes this is true. But as long as FCP-X consolidates everything to ProRes under the hood, the export at least is fast and causes no loss in quality.

I would really appreciate if Apple would integrate OpenCL accelerated x264 natively.
On the other hand, a ffmpeg-GUI like iffmpeg https://www.iffmpeg.com, but integrated directly into Compressor with some nice one-click presets for common tasks
(like rewrapping XDCamHD422 into MXF) would be really awesome!

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard G.]

Hello,

you should give HandBrake a try.

https://handbrake.fr

It is Open Source, reads all ProRes types, uses Lanczos for scaling,
does motion-compensated De-Interlacing (“slower” setting), has Noise-Filtering,
and codes with x264, the best H.264 encoder.

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Bernhard G.]

This is something I don’t understand because I don’t see the sense behind putting a Project into an Event, since Apple themselves suggest to create separate Events without media data for Projects (white paper).

Wouldn’t it had been easier to let the data structure as it was under the hood,
while hiding it inside a Library?

[Bernhard G.]

Hoped for a feature update;
e.g. the new pipette for white balance as alternative to automatic CC; or the slightly brighter GUI scheme from iMovie 😉

But I definitely understand that 10.1 is a big engineering overhaul,
so I would expect feature updates rolling in like in 10.0

Something I still don’t understand:

Why Projects still need to be assigned to Events?

Apple suggest in the White Paper to organize Projects into Events separated from the media.

Quotation:
“Tip: To prevent any confusion over current versions of a project, keep media and projects in separate events. This way, the primary editor can control versions of edited sequences in an event dedicated to that purpose. Meanwhile, assistants can transfer media (such as dailies) using media-only events that are separate from the editor’s working projects.”

Apple White Paper Managing Media with Final Cut Pro X Libraries, Page 16.

Wouldn’t it be easier in general (for all workflows) if Projects would reside directly at the Library-level?

[Bernhard G.]

[Shawn Miller] “I’m actually surprised at how robust the roto and composting tools have become in Blender.”

Blender is great under the hood.
But it would be a killer-app if someone would turn it into this here:
https://www.blenderguru.com/new-blender-ui-proposal/
🙂

Bernhard

[Bernhard G.]

[Shawn Miller] “I think those guys are doing some good work, and I’m really pulling for them.”

Absolutely agreed!
IMO, HitFilm (as like as Clarisse iFX) is a new generation of hybrid apps
that will replace compositing and 3D-packages on the long run.

[Shawn Miller] ” I’m much more interested in Mamba at the moment”

I’m on OSX, so have no chance to test Mamba.
How is the scaling? The typically silly Bicubic we get everywhere,
or an edge-adaptive Lanczos?

Bernhard