Chris Harlan
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[Craig Seeman] “r it may be that Apple hired their programers from this project to work on FCPX grading”
Is there anything that supports these notions other than a discontinued app?
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I’m bummed because I have no upgrade yet. Something clunky in the Avid online store. Or I was clunky. That can happen, too. Hopefully someone there will answer my email this weekend, and I’ll get to play with it some.
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[Justin Crowell] “do you mean you’d like the timeline to show the contents of the source monitor when that has received focus in the application? Does Avid offer this”
Yes. It is a very useful part of MC. You can flip back and forth between your timeline and anything loaded in the source monitor, which has its own timeline. This is how you see source audio waveforms, for instance. This allows MC to excel at sequence to sequence editing. Say that you are slimming down a sellects reel–you load the sequence into the source monitor and then work from the source timeline, choosing your ins and out as you go along. Or, say you are selecting audio tracks from an eight channel source file, and you only want Dia and SFX, which you need to locate because you are not sure which channels they are on, and you probably want them patched to different tracks; that’s very fast to do by simply flipping over to the source timeline, seeing what’s what, and patching.
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[Oliver Peters] “The easiest way to deal with modes and workspaces is simply map these to keyboard shortcuts. MC switches so quickly between them that it’s inconsequential. In fact in my experience, MC jumps into the trim mode faster than FCP X takes to let you latch onto the edge of a clip to engage trimming.
“Oh, yes. Agreed! Its one of the joys of Media Composer. I was just pointing out how easy the Smart Tools have become.
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Yes! I’m looking forward to it. Audio improvements, especially. The mode to mode thing used to bug me, too; but when I got a little more simpatico with the software, it disappeared as an issue. You begin to understand that it is there so that you can operate more efficiently in the mode you happen to be in. It also has become so easy to cross between them, mouse-wise, that I don’t think about it much.
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[Walter Soyka] “That’s not to say it won’t be a good machine overall, or that it won’t be competitive in terms of performance/cost — especially on price competitiveness, that remains to be seen.”
This is what I really wonder about this machine and its ultimate viability. I find it attractive, and for the right price I’d buy one. It strikes me, though, that its design might put it in a no man’s land of not quite enough power but a little too expensive to be of any interest to anyone other than an FCPX user. I really am curious about how they’ll price it. It will be quite the balancing act.
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[Andy Edwards] “improve project managing to deal with Long GOP media properly, we will “
Sorry, Andy. I won’t be able to help. I go fervently out of my way not to work in long GOP. I always transcode, whatever NLE I’m using.
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I don’t know about clips or bins yet, but you can certainly transcode a section of the timeline by rendering it out. Or do you mean transcode the individual clips within the timeline? I can’t open it up right this second, but I’m guessing you could do that with the media manager tool. If I get a chance, I’ll check later today.
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[Bret Williams] “Well then perhaps they need to quit mentioning that you can bring your Final Cut Sequences across. I wonder how many FCP editors were turned off by issues such as mine. I mean, if you’re looking to switch over, what better way to get a handle on it then to port over a completed project? But every one I’ve ever tried over the last 3 years, across multiple systems and devices ends up with issues. I especially love the “A serious error has occurred and must shut down.” It so polite. The first 20 times you hear it. “
I’m not having these issues. I bring in FCP files without conversion problems other than are detailed in the notes. It works really well. You’ve got something else happening. I wish I could tell you what.
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[Ronny Courtens] “Behaviors in Motion are actually quite powerful. You can apply a Behavior to quickly create a complex animation and then (for most Behaviors) you can convert the Behavior into physical keyframes (CMD+K) to further tweak the animation.”
Agreed! One of the terrific things about Motion.
[Ronny Courtens] “All of these should be grouped into one powerful keyframe animation editor like in Motion, or we should get a fully seamless integration with Motion straight from the FCPX timeline. Now wouldn’t that be “awesome”.”
It would, indeed. But I agree with Oliver’s assessment. Tighter integration would be wonderful, but Motion is still very much the program it was three years ago, while X is a completely different beast. I suspect that if true integration were easy, it would have been accomplished by now. Still, it would be nice. Awesome, even.