Chris Harlan
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[Greg Jones] “It’s small, but I like the fact you can match frame back to the ‘bin’ or whatever they call it now and your original clip has the in and out points from your edit.”
Not small at all. That’s good news.
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Looking forward to what you guys have to say about it!
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[Walter Soyka] “Why would they mention FCPX in the context of file-based workflows or merging IT with broadcast? FCPX (currently) does neither.
A file-based workflow is not the same as a tapeless workflow. FCPX thinks in terms of clips which are stored in events, not files which are stored in directories. Woe is he who manipulates FCPX’s referenced media files directly outside of FCPX — or tries to write a broadcast automation script which ties multiple tools together to do the same.
As for merging IT with broadcast, this will be impossible with FCPX as long as it remains a relatively closed system. FCPX’s success here will be dependent on the degree to which Apple opens it up, via improved XML, other interchange formats, or APIs.
“Totally agree. SMPTE has been working on IT-related sets of standards for metadata in file-based workflows for years, now. In fact it was one of the two tent poles (the other being developments in stereoscopic) of the Technical conference two years ago. FCPX’s approach flies in the face of almost everything SMPTE is trying to do. I can see how, from a great distance, the subjects might look like they relate with each other, but in reality it is like saying that cocaine and voting are the same thing because they both involve lines.
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[Jim Giberti] “[Chris Harlan] “I actually love Motion, and think it is an under-rated and wrongly ignored program by many of my colleagues.
”Me too Chris. But you’d hate the way they implemented it in X.
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Yeah, I’m still using v4, though I own a copy of v5. If they ever fix the implementation in X, owning X would be justifiable to me as a gateway to Motion, even if I couldn’t use it for anything else.
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[tony west] “It seems like people who like Motion are more willing to work with X than people who like AE.
“I actually love Motion, and think it is an under-rated and wrongly ignored program by many of my colleagues.
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[Paul Jay] “Mbp with thunderbolt isnt limiting at all with i/o or hi speed storage.
“Unfortunately, there’s no TBolt on a Mac Pro. And, we don’t really know if there ever will be. It’s great that smaller, more portable TBolt RAIDS are finally coming to market. But, Michael’s point is about the unavailability over the last several years.
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Dude, what ever floats your boat. This setup wouldn’t float mine, but if this floats yours and gets you down the river, paddle on.
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[Dennis Radeke] ” Adobe wants to make a buck too, just like you guys. Making a license cross platform would be a bad business decision for us and like it or not, we are a publicly traded company with a responsibility to our shareholders.”
Whoa! I was never suggesting that you make less money, or have less control. Adobe allows a single licensee to have their copy of the suite installed on two machines, as a general acknowledgment that a single power user is likely to have both a laptop and a workstation. Avid allows for this as well, by use of a dongle or online commission/decommission. Adobe’s procedure is less cumbersome, though Avid’s allows you to cross back and forth between programs. I easily recognize that reorganizing the mechanism that controls piracy or misuse would be far too complicated a project to embark on simply to fit the needs of the few single users who are interested in straddling platforms, so my question was really posed–I suppose–without much hope. Still, it would be nice.
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Pretty cool.
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[Lance Bachelder] “Well we’ll have to disagree on the “bad” thing. Bad is a serious term to me and speaks of moral and bad/harmful actions – not whether a person is a fanboy. I’ve never even hinted that someone here is bad.
“I can go with that.
[Lance Bachelder] “As far as my opinions of others – I regularly look at Leaders and contributors IMDB credits, websites, demo reels, type of work etc. etc. when available, and try to make my comments based on real world experience and whether it’s clear to me that they have ever given the software a true shakedown.
“I go out of the way NOT to post or link my reel/website here. For me, this place is about process, and not a place for my client/contact list. In my career, I have generally found discretion rewarding.
As to people mis-speaking about FCP X capabilities–I get that that can be annoying. I try not to. I was probably as vocal as you, back in June and July. Now I’m far more interested in how this whole scene will shake out, and I’m certainly willing to take anything from FCP X I can use. I’m not alone. I think you’ll find that the majority of people who hang around here feel that way.
[Lance Bachelder] “There are those that come to this forum regularly just to start trouble, I just wish it was a true discourse about FCPX, it’s features or lack thereof and what it’s future may hold. I started as a huge FCPX hater and now have joined Craig, Bill, Tony and others in the hopeful camp.”
Yeah, there are trolls everywhere. So, hey, I like following your FCP X adventures. I hope you get a chance to cut a film with X, because I’d be very interested in the blow-by-blow of how it goes. It is possible, as well, that the coming changes will make it possible for me to enjoy some of those things I really like about X, and to learn some more.