[Charlie Austin]

[Victor Vazquez] “I hear that one concern with FCP X is that it doesn’t export XML or OMF. But new Mac systems have issues with FCP 7”

Well.. yes and no. Also, 7 works fine on new systems FWIW.

Anyway, X does do XML, but it’s it’s own “flavor” There are some apps (Resolve. Smoke) that read native fcpxml files, and Xto7 ($50) can tranlate it to a format readable by FCP 7 and Pr. There may be others but that’s off the top of my head. If you need EDL’s, EDL-X ($100) does the trick really well.

AFAIK nobody does OMF for X yet, but X2Pro ($50 or $150) will create AAF’s for Protools, Nuendo, and uh… something else I think. It’s really nice and essentially makes nice clean split tracks for you – if you use Roles to their full effect.

If you need OMF, you can just open an X sequence in 7 (7 to X) and export from there. To be fair, you might need to clean things up a bit first depending on the complexity of your audio, but it’s not bad.

So, to “play nice” with traditional finishing workflows, you need to spend a couple hundred bucks more or less to get that stuff out. Cheaper than Automatic Duck used to be… 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Stephen Underwood] “Makes good sense… I’ll give both approaches a try in the next few days… Thanks!”

Also, this might make your life a lot easier…

https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/

Well worth it in cases where you have to rename hundreds/thousands of files. It’s one of those apps you don’t need, until you really do. In my case i had over 500 little FX audio files from the Classic OS days with no file extensions. When I moved them all into FCP X, I discovered that, unlike MC and fcp7 it (unsurprisingly really) didn’t see the old creator codes, and thus had no idea what they were. ABFR saved me a lot of time just adding “.aiff” to all of them. Definitely 20 dollars worth. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “I bought it when released, hated it. After the 10.0.3 update gave it Another chance.

Learned how to use it. Went from frustration to less frustration to loving the program. “

Same here. I think this is a pretty common progression. I also think a lot of people stop at “hated it”. Oh well. Obviously there are some folks whose workflow requires things not currently implemented in X, but that list of things is pretty small these days. Looking forward to the next version! 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Shane Ross]
“But that’s the realm of those of us in the “high end, 2% market” that FCX doesn’t really care about anymore. We are too demanding and not profitable enough. An yes, there are “3rd party solutions” to this. As there always are when NLEs are made lacking basic, COMMON features needed to get work done.

I hear ya. But I’ll also point out that those features are currently *not* common if they’re only needed by 2% of the market. 😉 I always found FCP 7’s Edit to tape function to be kind of fiddly anyway. I can’t imagine that using BM’s Media Express or something would be any more difficult, other than needing to export the cuts first.

[Shane Ross] Shared media/project workflows. I hear there is some workaround for this, but it isn’t solid. And Apple is mum about any future plans on this topic. Again, that’s in the realm of the high end 2%ers.

Using shared media, at least on NAS works just like FCP 7 or anything else. no workarounds at all. Media lives on the server for everyone to use, X references it. Project/Event sharing takes a couple steps more than it did in 7, but it’s easy. Not surprising that Apple is mum on exactly what they’re doing, but I know they’re doing something. Maybe it’ll be Cloud based. 😀

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “Really Charlie? Look back a few years.

Tim
“

I’m serious. 🙂 I assume you’re referring to the EOL of many of their “pro” products right? If so, I can see your point, I just happen to disagree that it means they don’t take the pro market seriously. I just think it means that they’re just gonna concentrate on “core” apps, incorporating as much of the functionality of EOL apps into them as possible, and let 3rd parties pick up any slack left behind.

I’m convinced they’re committed to FCP X, Logic, and Motion. Probably Compressor as well. For other stuff?

FC Server >> Cat DV etc
DVD Studio Pro >> Encore (or DVD Studio Pro… still works)
Color >> Resolve Etc
Shake >> Nuke etc.

On the hardware side? The new iMac runs circles around my Mac Pro, Our GFX guy is running AE and C4D with 3 monitors from a RMBP. He’s nuts, but that’s another story… 🙂 There’s a new Mac Pro coming out anyway.

Xserve/XRaid? There are a million server/raid vendors, why compete?

I don’t have any top secret knowledge, but I have spoken at length with folks involved with FCP X development and marketing at Apple and they’re taking it very seriously.

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “If Apple gets it together to support workflows other than those they perceive as valid. I don’t think this is gonna happen but, who knows?”

Just curious, what workflows do you believe Apple doesn’t find valid?

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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[Charlie Austin]

This is just an observation FWIW… but if you’re running FCP X on a Mac Pro, (mine had lots of Ram and a 4870 GPU), it doesn’t always perform well. Weird slowdowns, BBOD’s etc. I got a new iMac recently and X is like a different app in many ways. Performance blows away the mac pro. Honestly, X seems faster on my new MB Air than on the Mac pro. I also have a 2009 iMac on which cutting in X is painful. 🙁

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Victor Vazquez] “Does anyone use FCP X at work?”

yes. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Craig Seeman] “We Want a New Macpro has similar description on Facebook.”

My guess is that’s the origin of the rumor…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Marcus Moore] “So getting excited/upset about these rumours is folly.”

I’m starting a petition!

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~