[Charlie Austin]

[Shawn Miller] “I don’t have any objections to the way Apple chooses to provide functionality to FCPX users; third party, native support, either way works. My statement was in response to Jerry Hofmann’s acertion that FCPX is the “fastest NLE in the world”. I just don’t believe you can dismiss the impact of workflow or technical requirements so easily. Can you ingest, tag/log, edit and output projects in FCPX faster than any NLE? Maybe… doesn’t it depend on what else is involved in your workflow? Just asking.”

No argument there… I do know that the clip exporter app is much better at getting sequence info into AE from FCPX than trying to do it from FCP7. But sure, premier probably is a better choice if you need to roundtrip to AE.

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[Charlie Austin]

Don’t know if this helps, but standard 12-bit audio on DV has a 32 kHz sample rate. This may be the problem, but I don’t know where in X you’d compensate for this. I Know in 7 you’d just modify the capture setting but in X? Anyone? I doubt you need a new computer. lol 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Andy Field] “I cant grasp how NOT having an automated audio mixer is a plus in FCP X…..

we use it every single day to make subtle on the fly music dialogue and sound effects mixes in FCP 7 as well as AVID and PP….X simply doesn’t have this —

Rubber banding. double clicking and opening audio – is that really faster and more efficient?”

It isn’t a plus, and I’m pretty sure that X will be able to do this and more… Hopefully soon. That said, clip based soloing, and soloing/editing without stopping playback in X is awesome. Like… amazingly awesome

[Andy Field] “we often layer 10 tracks of sfx, music dialogue that does NOT connect to the video – it’s independent of the video ..so the statement “audio should always connect to video” simply doesn’t exist in real life editing for documentaries and features.”

Only 10? Piker… LOL 😉 I agree with ya there, I think people try to justify features in X that don’t need justification, or could honestly work better. But… it’s really a non-issue if you edit with connected clips, creating secondary storylines if you need to add a custom transition or something. Works just like any other NLE on the planet if you want it to. X is very flexible despite the fact that everyone who hasn’t used it thinks it’s not. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Shawn Miller] “What if most of your work involves bouncing to and from After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator? Would FCPX still be faster than every other NLE on the planet? Perhaps workflow and function should be taken into consideration here. :-)”

This: https://clipexporter.mindtransplant.com works really nicely.

Yes, you need to go to 3rd parties to do some stuff in X (Xto7, 7toX, EDL-X, XtoPro, ClipExporter etc) But I’d honestly rather have Apple spend all their time on the actual editing software, and provide hooks and let others spend their time on the “niche” workflow stuff. I too need this “niche” stuff, but I don’t care if it it’s built in to the app, as long as it works easily, which in my experience all these apps do.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Shane Ross] “an AAF/OMF to an audio mixer (with tracks organized in a way that makes it easier on them, not mixed dialog and SFX and music…audio mixers DO work in tracks), “

FWIW, The upcoming revision to X2Pro does this amazingly well. Groups Roles (tracks) in whatever order you define, translates volume and all keyframe fades etc. Really really nice. I expect you’ll be able to do the same in the X timeline soon. Also, not necessarily on topic… A little bird told me there may be an FCPX API available to developers soon. This is strictly here-say and I have no actual knowledge of this at all, but if true it will create some interesting possibilities… 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Jerry Hofmann] “And this is why a lot of pros are scared to death of it. If any one can use it, they believe their jobs are at risk. “

While I agree with much of what you’re saying, I’d take issue with that last statement. I don’t think pro’s are *scared* of X. There are some legit concerns, mostly related to not being able to just quickly switch in mid-project without slowing down. There *is* a significant learning curve, and X does many things differently that people on tight deadlines, with clients foaming at the mouth behind them, need. However, the more time one spends with it, well… it sort of grows on you… 😉

That said, I am starting as many projects as I can in X. And I don’t miss tracks at all… FWIW I come from an audio background and have a *minimum* of 16 “tracks” of audio in a spot. It took a while to get used to it, but when I cut in an NLE with fixed tracks now it drives me crazy. Once they add the ability to group /mix roles, and maybe assign video layer priority (like photoshop) We’ll wonder why we ever cared about tracks imho…

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[Charlie Austin]

I love it. It’s got some issues for sure, but nothing that some updates won’t fix. The more I use it, the more I like it. Xto7 and 7toX have gotten really good, so it’s fairly easy to move back and forth and/or hand stuff off to editors who are still on 7. EDL and AAF export are pretty much there, Roles will get better, you *can* edit “legacy style” by just ignoring the primary storyline if you want. The benefits of the new stuff far outweigh the remaining issues for me. Now I just have to switch the rest of the editors at work… that’ll be fun. 😮

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[Charlie Austin]

[Anders Haavie] “Sorry if people felt that the posting was inappropriate. It is just a bit frustrating to see that everyone is switching away from FCP, and nothing has changed the last year. The betas are too little too late.

Not sure that “everyone” is switching, and FWIW, a lot has changed in the last year. X has gone from a scarily buggy feature incomplete app, to a very cool and quite usable piece of software. Apple blew the launch, and a lot of people haven’t really tried X since it came out. It’s way better now.

[Anders Haavie] I agree that it is fanatastic that more people will be able to edit and it is democratizising the tool… but on the other hand. This was just what FCP 1.0 did, and it managed to get all the pros on board as well.
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FCP 1.0 didn’t get the pro’s on board, most of ’em were making similar comments to what we’re hearing now. “Pros” didn’t really get on board ’til version 2 or 3. Let’s see where X is in 2 years. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “Have we entered a time warp, is it last year again?
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LOL. These kinds of posts are just laughable at this point…

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[Charlie Austin]

[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “$100. Joker.

This guy should take a leaf out of 7 to X’s price point.
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He took a leaf out of X2Pro’s price point. It’s a niche product, but if you need to get EDL’s out of X, it’s worth every penny. I blew up up a couple beta versions of this, and V.1 is a really great app. Get it. And FWIW, the next version of X2Pro is gonna be very nice as well. Anyone who needs EDL/AAF export from X now has it. This is good. 🙂

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