Chris Harlan
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Nice spots, dude.
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[Bill Davis] “We were doing fine until I got to your last line.
Which to my eye, seemed to imply “those who disagree with my perceptions are merely too dumb to understand what’s good for them.”
I can’t believe that’s what you meant to say.
So I’ll ignore it.
“Bill, you shouldn’t ignore it. You should actually listen to it. How do you possibly get the above bit of foulness from “I’ve got no problem with that as long as they know what they are actually getting.” If that is really what you eyes say, they need serious checking.
What I’m saying, Bill–just so you get it–is that there is so much bloviated misinformation floating around about the super zippy life-altering coolness of FCP X, that I think it is important that forums like this exist so that people can learn the short comings as well as the strengths of FCP X so that they can make an informed decision. Does that make it clearer for you?
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[Bill Davis] “he best tool benches feature a broad range of tool choices that the artist can pick and choose in order to scale their efforts to the scope of the tasks at hand. Something I suspect your grandfather would have understand perfectly.”
Oh, agreed. He also was pretty good at recognizing actual innovation, as opposed to gimmicks and poor design tarted up as “the future.”
[Bill Davis] “FCP-X represents a very different choice.
That can be nothing but good for editing in general, whether it’s adopted by millions, thousands, hundreds or dozens.”
I’ve got no problem with that as long as they know what they are actually getting.
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[Bill Davis] “Clearly, Chris, you’ve never needed to re-upholster a chair.
A magnetic tack hammer is PRECISELY the tool you want.
Runs circles around a traditional one and prevents time lost to thumb and finger injuries in the process.
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“Actually, Bill. As you often do, you make some pretty large assumptions on very little data. My grandfather was an upholsterer, and I spent many years in his shop helping out. My attitude to editorial detail probably comes from my days in his shop. My mother–as a hobby–continues to reupholster regularly. I’m probably far more familiar with a tack hammer than you will ever be, though I certainly cannot say that for certain, as you may have your own story about upholstery. One of the things I would have to say about tack hammers–and remember, this comes from years of experience–is that, despite their extreme usefulness in specific instances, they are fairly useless if not completely useless in most other applications.
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[Walter Soyka] “Like Michael, I am sincerely curious. You’ve said that FCPX is faster — but faster than what, and faster how? What specific features or design changes are speeding up your workflow?
“I’d like these questions answered too. I keep hearing broad statements about “old code” a “the future” and “old clunkers v. Ferraris” but few people seem to get past that to explain what they mean. I do really want to know. Please, tell.
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[Michael Hancock] “Or do you mean Apple are the first to throw everything away and present a new way to hammer the proverbial nail?”
Yeah, but it is a magnetic hammer.
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[TImothy Auld] “Bill Davis -“You simply can’t recast what has passed for the the FCP-X discussion to date as other than “emotion trumps reason.”
When you make a statement like that you are not just implying but saying outright that there is no room for disagreement with you on that particular subject. “
I second that. There have been many passionate, but well-resoned statements made about the program. I would say they far outweigh those of blind anger. I feel very comfortable, in fact, making the statement that, given the degree of change FCP has undergone between versions, what has passed on this forum over the last few months is actually a triumph of reason over emotion.
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[David Lawrence] “[Aindreas Gallagher] “From Larry jordan’s article: “Retaining In and Out points for clips in the Event Browser is undergoing a raging debate in Apple.”
It’s a raging debate?”
Seriously, what on earth could they possibly be debating?
“The only thing I can even vaguely imagine is that TC, like EDLs, is SO 20th century. That somehow it is as visually embarrassing as blue-stained pocket protector, or someone using a slide rule in a post-TI world.
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[Erik Lundberg] “Something that could be a REAL feature would be an patchable audio mixer where you could assign one or several roles to one channel.”
Agreed! And maybe roles does bring back the possibility of a mixer. I can see how that might work.
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[Craig Seeman] “In the Timeline index you can turn off specific Roles such as turning off Titles or Turning off music much as one might turn off a Track.
In the Inspector you can edit Roles (create new Roles for example).”Sounds like good news. Apparently, according to Larry Jordan’s column, you can color code them too. This goes a long way to dealing with my complaint about trackless. If I can see all of my SFX because they are orange, as opposed to being on tracks 7-10, that just might do, and help to mitigate the shapelessness of the magnetic timeline.
Do you know if you can select combinations, say music and sfx?
Also Craig–have you brought in multitrack Quicktime files–say 8-16 tracks–and how do the work witch FCP X?
Now that XML is here, I sure hope someone comes up with an .edl translator soon. With the combo of the two, I can see repurchasing FCP X just to mess with, as I could integrate it into a project or two for fun.