Chris Harlan
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[Brett Sherman] “Yes, that’s true. But, at the time I got the most grief about suggested improvements from Avid’s selected forum moderators. Quite frankly, I was astounded. “
Yup. I’ve got no problem seconding that, man. Fighting that weird, smug Avid wall was a real PITA. Remembering that, in fact, is one of the things that has tempered my criticisms of FCP X. It also probably took me longer to get back onto an Avid then it actually should have because of a few blistery resentments of my own. But, that is history now, and many, many of the folks who formed that wall have also had changes of heart. So two steps forward, one step back.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s best to treat Pr as a new NLE otherwise you will never learn its true strengths and weaknesses and expect it to work just like fcp7, when it doesn’t.”
Highly agree. The thing with Pr is that it is enough like FCP7 that, if you come from 7, you get lulled into thinking it is just like 7, and then, because it does some fundamental things differently, you can get trapped in a none-to-pretty way. With X or Avid, it is clear immediately that it is not the same beast, and that you have to relearn your approach. With Pr, you can just wander in and pretty much start working, without realizing that you didn’t understand, for instance, how to properly configure your timeline’s audio, and just assumed that you could easily monkey with the channel assignments down the road. Or you learn too late that you really SHOULD have set up a native timeline before you began cutting. I don’t know what happened with Lance, and I, certainly, have found the current version of Pr to be officially bitchin’, but when I do hear complaints about what a cluster fork Pr is, it usually has to do with people getting nailed by thinking they were in known territory and then finding that they were not.
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[Bill Davis] “n certainly understand any editor feeling that a single window design means that something is “missing” – but I have to say that feeling left me pretty quickly. Now my opinion can be summed up as I want two windows when there’s a reason to have them. And when I don’t need them – I’m much happier with just one really smart window.”
I’m okay with a single contextual monitor window. Montage had to work that way, and Speed Razor could work that way. FWIW, there is a history of NLEs with a single monitoring window. It wasn’t new in X, though it was new to many people. I don’t have to do a lot of ganging, though. Maybe if I did I would miss it.
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[Charlie Austin] “i had to start a project in FCP 7 last week because I need to be able to bounce it back and forth with other editors who are still on 7. It’s painful. Honestly, the only things “missing” from the X timeline, for me, are the ability to group roles, and minimize storylines. Any other stuff is icing on the cake.
“Oddly enough, the pain you are referring to is what I feel, these days, when I move from Symphony back to FCP. It was actually sort of a shock; I’ve been cutting promos in Symphony for a while now, and I had to move back to FCP to cut a couple of big Sizzles. What actually shocked me was the level I resented being back in the program. I’ve gotten very used to the Avid approach, have a tight system down, and found myself very frustrated to be back in FCP. And, it struck me–this is what the X folks are talking about. And a lot of it is the little details: color-coding tracks, the snappiness of the trimming keys, trimming while looping, sharing/exporting bins, the source timeline, the ease of using timelines as as source material, easily collapsable/hide tracks (I LOVE this feature) , waveforms in selection only. Once you get used to the little niceties, you begin to resent their absence in other platforms.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Hi, Chris. It started this thread.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “…post production masking for dodge and burn, and effects handling all in realtime at 1080P and above on near consumer hardware – are actually outweighing his ability to work in apple’s defined core editing workspace, the primary. ”
“I apparently don’t read that line the same way you do. Aindreas is talking about the plus side of FCP X, and how well it performs on even near-consumer hardware. He’s not attacking the top of Apple’s product line; he’s complimenting the code and the efficiency with which it runs. He’s not saying that John’s new iMac is “near-consumer level;” he’s saying that FCP X will even run well at 1080p on something quite a bit less than what John is currently using. I mean that’s the way I read it.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Or that, quad core i7s on any other platform but the Mac OS, are professional, but are somehow bandaged ‘near consumer’ when put in an iMac.
“Jeremy, I don’t know a single person who thinks of a quad core i7 as “near consumer” on OS X or anything else. That’s a discussion I’ve never had with anybody. And, if it were a discussion I were to have with somebody, it is something I would vigorously disagree with.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Apparently, my career as a comedian is still in the fledgling phase.
“Hey, I laughed. Those two monitors you posted in the other thread, btw, look terrific.
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They still have their New Years Sale going, but sadly Vocal Rider is not or is no longer a part of it.
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I checked out the monitor the other day, and it IS better. Much less glare than on the current TBolt monitor, which is actually what I was shopping for. In fact, I looked at the two side by side, and the Tbolt was just reflectively hideous. So, no TBolt monitor for me. I found the reflection on the iMac acceptable, though I’d still rather have matte. I can see a possibility of one for me down the road. As for a monitor, I’ll probably get the comparable Dell or an Asus, since both come with matte finish, though, sadly, niether come with TBolt.
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[Charlie Austin] “[Andy Field] “does it work inside FCPX?”
Tech specs say it does. The current price of $300, however, says i’ll be using key framing for a while yet. 😉
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It looks wild, though. I was chopping up a bunch of dia when the post came in last night, which doubled my appreciation of how lovely such a thing would be. If it really works.