Charlie Austin
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[joe mordecai] “I heard the same thing: “I think you’ll be very happy this fall.” This coming from a friend in the know. I think it’s going to be big.”
If it’s got big changes, and things play out as they usually do, some people will be very happy, and others will whine and complain vigorously. 🙂 Maybe it will rekindle the “or not” debate!
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[Dave Jenkins] “It’s because the FCP team is working on the video Snapchat style project as stated in the article.”
Or maybe it’s a very significant update that takes lots of work? Nah… gotta be some other reason…
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[Robin S. Kurz] “For which task and/or which app?
“lol… doesn’t matter, Post houses here in LA want what they want, and still have a kind of monopoly hold over us all. Hollywood isn’t well known for embracing technical innovation on the post side very quickly. We were still getting material on tape until fairly recently. 😮
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[Robin S. Kurz] “so why would I use an EDL.”
Because the client, who is paying you, requires it.
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[Bret Williams] “When you mention the thumbnail issue, are you talking about thumbnails (one single frame to represent the entire clip) or filmstrips? I don’t see any bog down in thumbnails, but I only use a single thumbnail, never filmstrips”
I use filmstrip view all the time, sometimes zooming in to the 1/2 second view. It does take a bit to draw stuff when you do that. I just take a couple minutes when I import new clips to scroll through them at all zoom levels so it draws them all. Saves a ton of time down the road, but is a bit of a PITA…
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They need to invent something to replace faders. Too old fashioned!
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[Michael Carter] ” I still don’t have a solid idea of why I can’t move chunks of things around (cut out a 5 second clip, select everything past it, deselect the big gap placeholder on the main track, but you can’t slide all that stuff to the left in one move. Have to do bits and pieces and realign everything). Getting used to that but it does make for creative profanity.”
Yeah, takes a bit to wrap your head around it… You ever use MC in Ripple mode? It’s kinda like that. As long as your connected clips are “connected” to the chunks in the primary they should move with, it’s pretty fluid..
[Michael Carter] “Would love to hear jumping tracks workarounds that keep everything on screen editable without ‘clicking in’ to subclip types of things.”
Secondary storylines all the way… 🙂
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[Michael Carter] “We REALLY need a function or separate app to import FCP6/7 projects. I have to keep a legacy machine running to export EDLs for X, and use a separate app? “
I dunno.. 7toX is 10 bucks an works perfectly most of the time. Yes, it’ll sometimes get a little screwy but it’s not bad. Ever try to save and FCP 7 sequence to Pr? MC? NLE’s don’t like talking to each other very much. 😉
And EDL-X makes arguably the best most versatile eels ever. I’ve moved sequences from other NLE’s to X just to use it. The amount of info you can include in a 40 year old format is incredible. And it gets updated much faster than the old FCP 7 tool which, when it was broken (which happened a couple times) you just need to wait for the whole suite to update.
[Michael Carter] “Give us a way to round trip, even semi-manually. If I have a 5 minute clip and I’m using 9 seconds of it, and those 9 seconds need to go to AE – let me export the trim with my choice of head & tail times.”
Could you ever RT to AE “elegantly” in FCP 7? Xsend to Motion is quite amazing if you use Motion… Maybe adobe should support fcpxml instead of the crappy old FCP 6 XML format. Don’t hold your breath…
[Michael Carter] “Let me keep stuff on tracks when needed. I’m really hating cutting up music to fit an edit and having pieces fly up into spaces in my voiceover and effects tracks. “
Yeah, lots of people have been asking for a way to have Roles “stick” together for ages… Hopefully Apple is listening… I just use secondaries and it’s fine. I’ve used DAW’s since before ProTools existed, and most major NLE’s made in the last 20+ years and I actually prefer editing audio in X despite the fact that things move around. Just my prefs though, and it could definitely be better…
[Michael Carter] “I should be able to double click a clip on the timeline and see where it came from in the clip, WITH TIMECODE for in & out points.”
he I/O timecode for a selected clip will show in the Inspector, and if you really wanna see it in context without leaving the timeline just right click and open it. Different, but the same.
[Michael Carter] “Free up the windows so we can put them where we want across multiple screens.”
Yeah, being able to save window layouts would be great. here’s hoping…
[Michael Carter] “Give us keyframable speed ramping with beziers. FCPX retiming often keeps me from needing AE, but it’s crude.”
Yeah, I kinda like the simplicity, but I can see room for improvement.
[Michael Carter] “Let me use my finder structure to import. I may have a dozen folders in the finder sidebar to speed up my access to media. When I want to import, that’s all gone and I have to dig through everything.”
Are you importing media to the Library? I always leave media in place and just drag folders in from the finder. they get converts to KW collections and it’a all the same as my Finder organization. Works just like any other NLE in that regard.
All that said, there are a lot of things about X that could be improved.Hopefully the next version of X will do just that… Some people may think X is perfect, but I’d bet that people at Apple don’t 🙂
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[Phil Lowe] ” realize leaving a real audio mixer out of the X workflow is probably less threatening to kids editing cat videos for youtube, but an honest-to-goodness mixer doesn’t threaten me in the least.”
Prior to my wearing my editor hat, I was a Mixer here in LA. Trailers, indie features, tv spots etc. Full time for maybe 5-6 years. I’m not threatened by a mixer either. At all. Thing is, in about 20 years of editing on MC, FCP old, on to X and Pr, I’ve used an NLE mixer to “mix” maybe… 4 times. Seriously. Might be nice to have, but don’t miss it at all.
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[Walter Soyka] “Personally, I find trying to remap keys identically in similar apps to be frustrating — they never work quite the same, and they never have exactly the same feature sets, so they may as well be different.”
I’m with ya there, I jump between NLE’s and I always learn the defaults. The only thing I do is make additions. You miss way too much functionality. Big X updates usually add new features, with new KB shortcuts, so I start over from defaults when that happens. All NLE’s let you play, and choose a source I/O the same way, after that, nothing is the same. 😉
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~\”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.\”~
~I still need to play Track Tetris sometimes. An old game that you can never win~
~\”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented\”~