Charlie Austin
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[Christian Schumacher] ” Like you said, Charlie; FCPX could use more functionality. I know you don’t think it’s perfect. Should you and other users strive for perfection? Maybe not exactly that, but it wouldn’t hurt if we ask for some improvements. The thing is sometimes the inspiration it’s right next door, just saying!”
True. And you’ll just have to take this on faith, but believe me, I ask. Often. 🙂
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[Christian Schumacher] “I argue if wouldn’t it be even faster if you could go through the footage and then use a window layout for multiple keywords collections? And wouldn’t be faster if I could match frame back to one of those keywords collections windows? Does it make sense that some people could need frame dupes on timelines, ganging viewers, a/v lockings, tc readings, more options, modifiers?”
Those are all areas where X can definitely use more work/functionality. ganging I’m on the fence about, I had Pr lose sync when ganging a couple things the other day, (was kind of odd as the 2 were exactly the same) and you can’t play both in real time anyway. Comping/nesting the sequence (in any NLE) and sticking it the timeline at ~25% scale is, to me, a better way to do it.
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[Christian Schumacher] “How about the lack of windows layouts? Let me guess; never! The match frame throwing you away from your keywords? That one too? The frame buffer sticking in the viewer between the timeline and browser? C’mon that’s not existant.”
I didn’t say there were no issues, just that what you talked abut in the original post wasn’t a problem. It can always be better. Shall we talk about bugs in Premiere? Media Composer? Nothing is perfect. I could ask things like why do I have to Patch tracks in Premiere? Why is it so hard to do a split multichannel output in Media Composer? Answer? It’s not. It’s just how the apps work. And The Roles and Keyword Range settings are just how FCP X works. Neither of those things are bugs, that’s all I’m saying. As you point out, there are actual bugs too, as with anything. 🙂
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[Christian Schumacher] “Primary vs secondary with its constrains like lack of keyboard shortcuts and no locks whatsoever, it’s a mouse fest really and spotty connection points abound, at the end it’s all as clumsy as track patching can be “
All due respect, and while I in no way think fop x is perfection, I gotta disagree with you on this. I own FCP X and use it on professional projects. I rent Pr CC and use it on professional projects. I’ll agree that X could use some more KB shortcuts fro edit/clip selection etc. But connecting clips in X is in no way as clumsy as track patching. Different? Yep. Clumsy? Nope.
[Christian Schumacher] “But for me it sort of falls apart when one cannot set keywords on timelines. “
You can rename secondary storylines and easily find them in the index, is that what you mean? Or do you want the ability to add new KW ranges in a timeline? Why? Serious question.
[Christian Schumacher] ” Does Roles applied on timelines reflect back to the master clips? No, right? That’s half baked for apple’s capabilities in my opinion.”
No, and again, why would you want them to? It would be a nightmare. You set Roles on master clips, and if you need to change them, or reclassify them in a timeline, why would you want that to flow back to the master? If you decide that you’ve assigned the wrong role to a master, change the master.
The ability to assign finer grained roles, for lack of a better term, in the timeline without affecting the master is a feature IMO, not a bug. If I’m in Premiere and have a master multichannel audio file with DIA/FX/and MX, and I put an explosion from the comped effects channel on to another track, should that then change the channel configuration of the master? Absolutely not right? So if I assign the Role “explosion” to a bit of my master “Effects” audio channel , I do not want that channel in the master to suddenly change to “explosion”. Right?
Again, please don’t lump me in with the “FCP X is perfect and cannot be improved” crowd. I’m not a part of it. I actually use X and other NLE’s all the time, for the same types of projects. X has lots of room for improvement, but a lot of the stuff you brought up just isn’t an issue.
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[Neil Goodman] “this.” … is not an issue if you have a newer machine. (see Olivers test above) Not surprising, as Apple is in the business of selling computers. 🙂
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If you have access to Logic or ProTools it might open it properly, then maybe re-export and see if it works? Shot in the dark… Good luck, looks like a cool project. :-),
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Did you update a pre 10.1 project/event pair to a Library? If so, what you’re seeing is expected as everything is in the new Library. is all the media there? If so, you can just delete the projects from the Library if you want to. Also, and sorry if I’m misunderstanding and this isn’t the case, but read up on how Libraries work in newer versions of X. 🙂
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An AAF *into* FCP 7? From X? What’s the end game here? XoCC (on app store) will get your X project into 7… then what?
EDIT: sorry, thought this was the X forum. I might have it though, let me poke around… Nope, but I sent a message to Wes, one of the Auto Duck developers though. Maybe he can help… 🙂
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[Bret Williams] “‘ve definitely seen this off and on.”
Me too… send feedback if you haven’t. 🙂
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[Noah Kadner] “Done.”
Where’d it drop? I have way too many emails… try geekco at mac dot com 🙂
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