[Bill Davis]

[Tom Sefton] “Just 1080p prores 422HQ – admittedly it’s a large library, and although each source clip can be up to 40 mins long, the selection in the project window is usually less than 3 minutes per clip.”

A clip in X is just a metadata extraction. It’s not a “real” standalone thing that resides someplace as a discrete item in your finder.

That said, I’ve seen the same behavior – but not for a couple of years.

It’s a real thing – and I have seen it – but it’s not how the program typically works – and the good news, is that it’s not something you’ll face constantly in X editing.

I’d try the usual resets: preferences, reset the P-ram, etc.

This type of stuff is super frustrating.

If you DO track down what’s causing it before it stops happening – PLEASE share the solution here.

And definitely send Apple a bug report – it won’t be the first, but the more who do – the more attention the issue will have.

Intermittent, situational bugs like this are a bear for any software team to exterminate.

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Bill Davis]

As you well know, Oliver – LUT is just – look up table.

Substituting new values for an old ones.

That process could care less whether the original data represents RAW, Rec. 709 or SD footage from a security camera.

A LUT is a LUT is a LUT.

Type, purpose, goals, all float.

But the thing itself is what it is.

That’s all I’m saying.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Andrew Kimery] “I don’t understand why you keep saying it’s a bad thing that is forum isn’t the same as every other NLE forum out there.”

But I’m not at all saying that.

I’m saying a Forum designed and marketed (by title) to focus on a particular topic, is weakened by having nothing on that topic showing in all the discussions on its front page.

Particularly in today’s environment – where people clicking in, often have shortened attend spans and the ability to click away if they don’t find something satisfying that causes them to stay – less “on-topic” content won’t build the brand very efficiently.

That’s all.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “William Goldenberg: “Michael [Kahn] would say to me all the time, ‘If you want to go faster, slow down. If you slow down and you’re patient everything will happen faster.’ You learn a thousand things and maybe ten of them will stick in your head and never go away. That was one of those… take a Zen approach and go slow… be methodical. “”

Reminds me of some threads about famous successful contemporary songwriters I’ve read over the past few months.

One artist describing how it took them two full years of constant revision and focus to craft the perfect chart topping music and lyrics.

And then Lady Gaga comes along noting that “Million Reasons” took her about 15 minutes – start to finish.

Creativity is a damn funny thing.

One director (nominally batting 500) with a HUGE budget struggles to get EVERY DETAIL PERFECT – and maybe bats 500 at the Box Office and in Syndication.

A different director (also batting 500) with pennies in comparison – tosses off a film merely to fulfill a contract – maybe with a decent if silly and pedestrian script – (paging George Bailey?) and the genie pops out of the bottle and the society embraces it and comes to LOVE it for a million reasons that were never expected.

This business is just SO weird that way.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Maybe all it would take is for FCP X itself to start being novel and newsworthy again? I’m sure I’m not alone in starting to find it just a little bit stale and in need of refreshment.

It’s up to Apple to give us something new to talk about – manufactured excitement about something that’s not terribly exciting any more is hard to sustain.

Meanwhile over in Blackmagic World and elsewhere quite a lot is happening that is genuinely newsworthy.

Perhaps it’s not altogether surprising that conversation gravitates more towards the new and exciting …”

SO, your argument is that even tho FCP X is currently LESS newsworthy than, say, BlackMagic – the communities of discussion about THEM are so ill-attended, boring and moribund that people have to come to the FCP X forum for lively discussions?

Wow. Talk about damming the competition with astonishingly faint praise.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “But don’t posts like your rant against Adobe (below) undermine this argument?

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/97154
“

For every hundred posts that are ON topic, I might post ONE (typically on a Sunday) that’s not – AND I try to clearly OT it in the header. PLUS if it wasn’t a topic that I had discussed at length AND as part of other on-topic threads (the Apple sales model verses the Adobe Sales model of VIDEO NLE PROGRAMS) I might agree. But I think those are both mitigating situations that make the post germane.

I don’t think that’s the same thing as coming here and seeing EVERY SINGLE POST about something OTHER than the software billboarded in the forum header.

But it’s interpretive, I suppose.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “Often, you do not want perfect white balance. And LUTs are often wrong. Most of what’s sold/given away on the internet as LUTs are someone’s subjective “look” and most look like crap. They typically only look good with the demo footage that company uses to market the product.
“

Not talking about “aesthetic LUTs”

Talking about a LUT to conform a RAW file out of a particular camera to an output that appears like base graded footage.

Two different things.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Steve Connor] “Perhaps FCPX users are reluctant to start discussions on the FCPX forum because it used to be the Technique forum. The old Final Cut Pro forum used to be fantastic, great user discussions and problem solving.”

Nah, it’s because we’re all OLD news here.

When was the last time we had any influx of significant new voices?

When we started debating here, FCP X users were in the hundreds.

Now there are at least 2 million.

Yet this forum has basically the same 25 voices arguing over the same stuff, endlessly.

That means we’ve abysmally FAILED to interest any really significant number of the 1,999,975 other X editors out there that might be actively participating if they found the discussions here truly useful and informative.

I know I find WAY more interesting discussions about FCP X elsewhere on the web. A large chunk of those 2 million folks are active and engaged. Just not here.

And how can they be blamed for that?

They use X, they want to LEARN about X. But when they get here – that do they see? A page is dominated by Premiere and Resolve posts.

Would YOU stay and post in that situation?

I doubt I would.

Oh well.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Simon Ubsdell] “As we know, all editing will in the near future be entirely automated and you won’t need the messy human element, but for now it’s a pleasure to revel in the creativity and sensitivity that great editors can still bring to the game.”

I share your hope that in 20 years, we’re not the new version of the old guys sitting around Steam Engine displays talking about the golden age of passenger trains.

Hope springs eternal.

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

[Bill Davis]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Are hordes of people driven away, as perhaps Bill would contend”

Nope.

People still will stop to watch a car crash no matter WHO’s involved. It’s just human nature to want to watch conflict, drama and strife. We’re wired that way.

My objection is that it just happens that the conflict here was centered around a dismissive proposition that fundamentally questioned the value of ONE specific tool. (or NOT!)

Now, that’s gone. But it IS still promoted as a specifically FCP X place. Titularly.

So filling it up with threads that have LITERALLY nothing to do with FCP X, but just trade on the long gone but vague “or not” thing for their justification – increasingly stretches things away from it’s brand promise, IMO.

Again, I’m pleased to add to the original environment of vigorous debate and verbal smackdowns – real or imagined. I just don’t want the SIGN on the building to say Oyster Bar – walk in and get a table and find that there’s not a single Oyster to be found anywhere.

I get that exactly that happens with neighborhood bars and the “community” comes to understand that the NATURE of the bar and it’s name are in conflict and nobody much cares. – And so the LOCALS still come.

BUT – EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO COMES LOOKING FOR OYSTERS has to decide to leave or stay if they don’t find what the SIGN promises.

PLUS – this isn’t JUST a “neighborhood” bar. It’s a global portal that IMO should be for literally millions seeking knowledge of the thing that all those FCP X the metadata tags are directing them towards.

And at some point, it can become “bait and switch” to say it’s an FCP X place – just one that’s morphed into one with a minority of FCP X content because ALL the threads (like a few weeks back) are about Anything and Everything except FCP X.

My 2 cents.

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