[Bill Davis]

I haven’t heard of anyone burning up any machines en masse except that one instance of David Fincher’s team working on Gone Girl – and IIRC they had Adobe staff involved to “optimize” the Premiere Pro software performance – so who knows what they were doing under the hood.

Since those stories, I haven’t read of anyone running NLE operations on ANY software complaining of on-going “burn up” situations on MacPros.

Or have I missed something?

If not, it’s a bit of a stretch to blame a hardware design for a problem that may not actually be happening.

Are there legions of burnt up machines out there that nobody’s talking about?

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

In terms he might understand…

He’s thinking “I need to bring in a decent cook for a day” and then get him to plan out my next year of menus.

To get close to that, he doesn’t need a cook – he needs a highly skilled Chef – and to pay said Chef enough so that that he or she can map out and plan a YEAR of daily unique meals along with instructions on how to prep for, prepare and serve each one.

It’s beyond silly.

The reason you hire a top Chef is so that they can tell YOU how many unique Entrees your restaurant needs based on experience , market, and practice – the side dishes necessary to properly go with them – how often items on the menu must change to keep things fresh.

That the restaurant owner is trying to specify all this is a HUGE red flag.

Tell him you think he needs 365 different and unique entrees and deserts so that HIS contribution to your videos can change every day of the next year TOO! … and see what he thinks of that.

Same-same.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

After ten years on Legacy and now five years on X, it feels VERY different to me.

Knowing what is established as the default action in an NLE is a pretty clear indicator of the softwares design ethic.

I’ve got to imagine somebody learning X first, would see the modified-keystrokes needed to do something as basic as “ripple delete” as added complexity.

And that goes double for actions that can destroy prior decisions outside the area being currently viewed. That’s just poor design, in retrospect.

I say “in retrospect”, because like everyone else, I didn’t know it was missing until X showed me a different possibility.

It’s clear traditional NLEs did things in a somewhat simplistic fashion based on what was possible in the early days of NLE design and in later iterations those processes were adapted to work as the editors needed via modifier keys.

All software gets better over time. Nothing weird about that at all.

It’s called “software development” for a reason.

My 2 cents.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

You just need a small articulated grip arm with a 1/4-20 threaded stud to mount the monitor and a small clamp, grip head or similar stud that fits into the tripod. The Markertek, Matthews or similar catalogs or websites will have plenty. Just search “monitor arm.”

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

I just finished a point of sale signage gig in vertical orientation.
It’s no big deal with modern software.
I use FCP X, so the first step was to create a project with a 1080×1920 tall native raster.
Then just zoom, crop, shoot or otherwise custom create your content to fit that frame.
A sample:

It gets a bit tricky when it comes to output, cuz most screens are horizontal and if you just export as normal, you’ll get large pillar boxes of black framing your output as seen above. That might fit your display or not.
In my case, the playback was going to be on large LCD screens rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise in the field, so when my edit was done, I just applied a 90 degree clockwise rotation to the whole thing before I exported the master file.
The key is talking to the client so you know the delivery specs going in.
Hope that helps.

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Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

[Craig Seeman] “With FCPX there was some major innovation and, while there’s been feature updates, some have been on our wish list for years. Of course a big update is coming (just as one might anticipate with the MacPro) but the pattern is frustrating.”

I guess its a “glass half full” or “glass half empty” thing.

I’m using the same FCP X everyone else is, and I just keep delivering project after project and watching my billings grow without a hitch.

So patience, for me, has been remarkably easy.

Basically, what it “isn’t” pales in comparison to what it “is.”

My two cents.

YMMV.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “These simply don’t fit what most consumers buy. That tends to top out at a MacBook or bottom-of-the-line iMac.”

I agree totally.

But isn’t it curious that whether you are a proponent of FCP X or not, it’s hard to argue that they are at least trying to advance editing tools and techniques.

Maybe you all see other players doing research-based editorial ideas like the magnetic timeline or Roles as fresh ways to solve real-world editorial challenges (and yes, I know some believe they were solutions to problems perfectly and forever solved 20 years ago) but I still think it’s great that at least one team is still investing money into fresh NLE thinking.

Maybe we’all see more on that later this month at the Apple thing in Curpertino.

Hope springs eternal!

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

You don’t say where you’re located, but the intellectual property laws that govern this vary from country to country.
So depending on where you live, this might be different.
Generally in the US only – Title 17 of the US code governs copyrights. And it basically says that whoever creates unique intellectual property automatically becomes the rights holder to it – unless there is a formal, contractual transfer of those rights to another party.

To help you understand some of the specifics, you might want to do some research on two subjects that also touch on this concept. The first is “work for hire” which legally governs how copyrights might automatically transfer if you do creative work as an employee of a larger organization.

The other widely mis-understood concept is “fair use” which may allow someone who is not the primary copyright holder of a creative work to make VERY limited legal use of that work in VERY specific circumstances.

But the basic general answer is: If you hold a copyright to creative work, you would transfer your rights to someone else via a specific, written agreement that both parties negotiate and sign. It might be a part of a larger agreement like an employment contract or specific work for hire agreement – but without anything specifically written to the contrary, whoever actually creates the unique, new work automatically owns the copyright to it.

Hope that helps.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

In other news, your local Jiffy Lube probably isn’t the right place to get your Helicopter lubricated.

I’m teasing, of course.

I suspect the Apple Store plan-o-grams (or whatever Apple calls their flooring layouts) will change as products are refreshed and introduced. Right now, Watch 2 and Phone 7 get the prime table space cuz that’s what people want to touch in the stores.

Desktop computers and laptops will likely get more play when they’re “news.”

That’s how retail always works.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

What Jeremy Said.

“skips” in audio are usually a sign that the audio sample rate or codec settings on your original capture device were not at one of the more popular standards. Usually, X will auto-conform the audio to the correct sample rate and transcode on the fly – but there are some types of less common audio encodings it’s simply not able to parse.

Drop your original clips into something like MediaInfo – which will tell you the sample rate and codec involved. If it’s too weird – you might have to export your audio – conform it to a better standard – and re-import and re-connect it in X.

There are a LOT of capture “standards” out there. No program can handle them all flawlessly.

Good luck.

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.