[Charlie Austin]

While people here (mostly) see this for what it is – nothing – there is a wider audience yukking it up about it. Your response is nicely worded. If you don’t mind, I’m stealing this. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Phil Lowe] “FCPX doesn’t even offer real-time marking. “

Do you mean when recording? Because it certainly does during playback.

[Phil Lowe] “As someone else noted, a large project in FCPX will also suffer from performance issues having to refresh all those thumbnails and waveforms in real-time,”

If you’re speaking about using filmstrip view in the timeline, i agree. But filmstrip view/skimming in the Browser is incredibly useful and, once the thumbs are generated, doesn’t affect performance at all. FWIW. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “An environment with different rules.”

It’s a ripple insert. The X timeline prevents unintentional overwrites, but you can do essentially the same thing in Ripple mode in other NLE’s

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[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Since it is rather obviously my civility that you are, no doubt rightly, calling into question, I thought I should try to excuse myself to some degree.”

Simon, I assure you that you were not even in my mind when I wrote that post. Not referring to you at all. I hate the contextless internet sometimes. 🙁

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[Charlie Austin]

[Michael Gissing] “Thanks for the condescending dismissal.”

Not directed at anyone in particular, just an observation but… I think if there were less condescending dismissal from everyone, no matter what their position in the “debate”, it would be much more productive here. Maybe not as much fun. lol There are some really great conversations here when the sniping is dialed back.

Full Disclosure: I’m also trying to heed my own advice. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Phil Lowe] “I’m reasonably sure the same would be true for someone using Premiere vs. X. Or Vegas vs. X. Basic editing is basic editing no matter what software one uses.”

True

[Phil Lowe] “Would X be faster on long form projects? I suppose that depends on whom you ask and what kind of project they’re doing.”

Also true.

[Phil Lowe] ” even in light of FCPX’s “world-beating” performance. O.o”

No need for air quotes, as that claim is also true. At least for folks who see that from X in their work. Eye of the beholder and all that, right? For those who don’t, there are plenty of other “modern” NLE’s from which to choose. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “What that shows me is the ugly Avid timeline hasn’t changed a bit since I first used it in the 90’s!”

Sure it has. See? (offline media looks the same though! lol)

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[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I made a gif of all the things stored in an FCPX timeline. It’s quite amazing when it’s exploded all out.
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Zoiks! Yeah, I forgot about that stuff. 🙂 I use secondary’s when I cut music to great effect as well. Make the cuts, expand audio and trim the spines a little, and then slam ’em all into a single, collapsible secondary. Expand to edit, collapse to clean up. Much more useful than compounds if you’re going to change timings etc. This is ludicrous example, but this:

contains this:

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[Charlie Austin]

[Joe Marler] “Have there been any behind-the-scenes accounts of FCPX being used in docs?”

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1723-final-cut-pro-x-cuts-the-major-a-e-documentary-o-j-speaks-the-hidden-tapes

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “For sure others don’t. But I’ll note that there are other X communities with 10s of thousands of active members and we both know lots of very experienced X editors who don’t EVER come around here. So it’s reasonable to wonder why. “

Honestly, I feel that in general things here are much more civil than in the past. The civil discourse still gets derailed by the same people who’ve always derailed it. I try to ignore them. 🙂

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