Brett Sherman
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The problem is that even though I call it a “backup” drive. It really is a secondary drive that is often utilized. So to move it into another folder I think would be problematic. I’d always have to remember to put it back before syncing the drives again. And a backup system isn’t a backup system if you have to remember to do something.
I’m currently running backups with Versioner Pro. That can be my stop gap if anything goes really haywire. So far I’ve only had minor annoyances.
But I wish I had some more control over where FCP X puts the project/event and render files. My problem would be solved if I could store project/event files on my Mac HD and store render files on the media drive. Then there would be a single project/event file and I’d never run into conflicts. Not to mention I’d have a viewable library of projects without having to insert drives to figure out where I put something.
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ANDREW KIMMERY – “As far as user bases go… they all have their loud mouths”
Yes, that’s true. But, at the time I got the most grief about suggested improvements from Avid’s selected forum moderators. Quite frankly, I was astounded. There were other reasons for my switch to FCP, but this certainly didn’t help keep me with Avid.
I do sense there is a difference at Avid now. It took a long time coming, years after I left. And I do think Media Composer is a good, very effective product. For my workflow, it’s just not the best choice at this point.
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ANDREW KIMERY “You can place a folder inside a folder in Avid so I guess I don’t see why bins need to be folders.”
Sorry for being confusing here. I haven’t kept up with Avid’s product line since I left it. But at the time you could not do this with Avid Xpress Pro. My example was only trying to illustrate how even the most mundane, sensible idea was regarded as sacrilege by the many in the Avid user base. My feeling at the time was that Avid was listening to the wrong people. I don’t know if that has changed now or not. I know I’m not going back though.
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JKL works great when you are close to where you want to be. But if you have to move 10 minutes away, it takes forever with JKL.
Skimming is very fast and you can cover a lot of ground quickly. So I’d say for precision edits, JKL works well, maybe better than skimming. But for finding a shot in the midst of hours of material, skimming is where it is at. It simply can’t be done with JKL.
Of course you still have JKL with FCP X
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I remember a number of years ago before switching to FCP, being shouted down on an Avid forum for suggesting that the bins should actually be folders and thus allow folders within folders – I know radical, huh?
The problem is Avid can’t move forward because their user base will not tolerate even the slightest change no matter if it makes sense or not. I’ve put my money on FCP X. Into my second edit on it, I do find somethings about the timeline confusing, but it hasn’t been anything that has significantly slowed me down.
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I find the FCP X Color Correction more powerful than Colorista. The shapes with the built in Color Correction are much better and easier to adjust. And the color picker is awesome too. Just remember sometimes you want to add multiple renditions of the Color Correction to do what you want to do.
There are a few things I miss about Colorista, but I also found it slow to actually do the corrections. I plan to look at Nattress Levels for the times I need a little more control.
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If you say a year or two, it might be worth a wait to see if Apple puts out a new Mac Pro and revised pro computer. Tim Cook has said something is coming out in 2013 sometime. A lot of people think they know how to read the tea leaves. They don’t. Neither do I.
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[Herb Sevush] What other NLE needs another NLE as a plug-in?
If I had a tape project like that come in. Capturing would be the least of my concerns. I’m not confident that any of my DV decks work anymore. 🙂 I for one am glad that Apple’s not wasting time getting DV decks to work in FCP X.
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[Walter Soyka] “I’m curious what wishful thinking you see on the other side. I talk about theory here because that’s the way the conversations sometimes go, but I work in the real world and practicality matters a lot to me. If I’m being impractical about something, I would love to re-consider.”
I wouldn’t label any particular person as on one side or another. Neither am I the Apple fanboy that I seem to be labeled. I used PCs until about 5 years ago.
However, as a mostly outsider to this forum who rarely posts I do notice a tenor to the discussion. I think there is a lot of bitterness towards Apple because some people dislike FCP X. I think that translates into a some schadenfreude and negative speculation about Apple.
I only posited a differing theory about why Apple would not abandon the pro market and got called out for “wishful thinking”. Which was perhaps not the best phrasing, but was the phrasing that was thrown at me for some reason.
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I’m planning on moving our two person in-house production to FCP X starting January. I haven’t spent a lot of time with it yet. But my feeling from the time I have spent with it is that it will make a substantial difference in how fast and efficiently I can work. To me that makes it faults (there still are some) acceptable.