Carsten Orlt
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Sorry Herb, you’re absolutely right. I will go back to many hours of track assigning, setting up complicated asymmetric trims, rearranging music or fx so they don’t overlap because of this one slightly more involved workflow compared to what you have with tracks..
Not so happy editing for me now
Carsten -
[Herb Sevush] “How would you handle that with FCPX?”
Apply the FX to the clip not the track. Even easier now that one can save whole plugin setups.
Or wait with mixing & EQ’ing until the picture is locked and compound elements and apply FX to that.Happy editing
Carsten -
David et all,
Not taking away from the compliments for this groundbreaking work at the time, but why do most of you so desperately cling to the past, trying everything to find justification why tracks are better or nicer or more ‘you’.
The only reason FCP X got rid of ‘rigid’ tracks (because when you think of it it still uses the same basic horizontal layout) is because it tries to save you work that a ‘rigid’ track NLE has to do: Track assignment, Maintain Sync, keep Video-Audio pairs together. Relatively easy of course when you know how, but such a waste of time where you should be rather thinking about how to tell a story! If none of that bothers you than of course a ‘rigid’ track system suits ‘you’ better.
Here is my experience: Learned on Avid right at the start of its invention, switched to FCP because of cost right from the go but appreciated the many improvements in handling, Learned FCP X over a longer period and start to really like it a lot. Then I did a job recently on Avid after 10 years not using it and it showed me how truly amazing FCP X really is and how useless tracks are. They do not add anything to telling a story but only justify the inner nerd to look organised. There is nothing in the FCP X timeline that you can’t do because of not having ‘rigid’ tracks but so much more exactly because you don’t have them.
You can still edit a beautiful movie on the Moviola but I’m really glad that the development of editing tools hasn’t stopped with just one clever system wether it is Moviola, Steenbeck, MSP, Avid or FCP Legacy or FCP X (I do not count Premiere because it doesn’t break ground but just adopts 100% of the basic old NLE philosophy).
I for one don’t subscribe to the apologetic notion of ‘Well they are all good NLE’s and all have their place’. I think it’s a cop out for people who like FCP X and can’t say the rest of the NLE’s are not working and a cop out for people who don’t like FCP X because they can’t say that it is not working or non-professional.
FCP X is a genius piece of software that shows that you don’t need ‘rigid’ tracks to work comfortably and in actual fact gain functionality that wasn’t there before.
Happy editing
Carsten -
If any of what you say is true than how come that I’m happily editing on a 7 year old Mac Pro (early 2008) updated to Yosemite and FCPX 10.2 without any problems??