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[Oliver Peters] “The only negative I see, is that performance on older machines, like any Mac Pro tower, is pretty bad with FCP X. This is going to give people a bad impression if they are just now shifting over. A new iMac, MBP or MP “tube” is a completely different experience.”

Very true… Honestly, X performs better on my mid 2012 MacBook Air then it ever did on my old, pretty beefed up, Mac Pro tower.

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[Scott Clements] “Premiere’s implementation seems to be different.
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just select the clip, hit G, and set the peaks back to 0…

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[Charlie Austin]

That seems odd, but kinda beyond my pay grade, maybe Jeremy or someone who actually knows something will chime in. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Shane Ross] “Can you edit with FCX on it?”

Duh… of course you can. The taptic engine ticks out the frame rate for you as well… 🙂

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[Eric Santos] “When I import P2 cards I have “copy to library” unchecked but when I view package–>Original media I can see all the created .movs @full size.
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X won’t leave media in place if the originals are on camera cards, you’d need to to copy the media from the card to a drive or create camera archives on a drive from the cards…

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[Charlie Austin]

You can’t hide Ubsdell, I get email notifications! 😉 FWIW, I wasn’t commenting on the quality of the product no matter what they used, from razor blades and tape to todays fancy digital thingies, I just thought it was an interesting philosophical contrast. 🙂

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[Mark Raudonis] “”Don’t settle for a “default future”!”

Here’s an interesting Comparison… Both= Focus and Gone Girl cut on “unproven NLE’s. Bothe were chosen in some degree to suit workflow needs, Pr for AE integration, X for the ability to collaborate and cut with camera original media. However, I think these quotes give a good comparison of a big difference in why they chose a particular NLE…

Gone Girl Editor: “As an editing platform, it’s similar to the others I use,”

Focus Director: “We worked with Avid editors on our features and it struck us that things just hadn’t progressed. There was this huge reinvention of how you edit and then it stopped. We had shot a movie digitally, but it felt as if we were still cutting on a flatbed.”

Kind of interesting. The Focus director said he started using X because everyone hated it.. 🙂

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[Scott Witthaus] “And why this year was so happy?
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I dunno, I have his contact info so maybe I’ll ask him. 🙂

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[Lance Bachelder] “Yes and there’s a profile for his studio on the FCP site. Probably his next movie “Geostorm”? He wasn’t at the event but apparently its a Warners show so FCPX alive and well on the lot.
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Yep. and Ficarra and Requas next film, cutting in X with the same editor, is for Paramount, so clearly the “x isn’t for pros” stigma is wearing off…

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[Scott Witthaus] “Wait. FCPX and Hollywood? That just can’t be! I mean, really…”

lol, I know huh? Seriously though, while light iron was obviously interested in selling their services, and Apple was there with hardware and running demos, this really was about the process of using FCP X in the workflow of the film. And from the point of view of the folks involved (co-director, producer, editorial, color, DIT etc) it was nothing like the Cold Mountain Clusterf*ck. Not without hiccups, but they really enjoyed it. The editor described it as “the happiest year of my life”.

Anyway, pretty cool event, and there was free lunch as well. Very important! 🙂

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