Craig Alan
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David,
This is the first cliffhanger post I have ever read.
Well done!
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What’s wrong with output to blue ray? https://www.rippletraining.com/provideoapps.html
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https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/capture_hdv_prores_fw_balis.html
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Sorry Tom. Let me ask this in a different way. My work flow over the last year or so in FCP 6 and 7 is to either capture HDV footage in FCP as prores 422 or use a Ki Pro to create a Prores file and then import that into FCP. When I am done, I usually export the timeline as a self-contained QT movie (original settings). So I have exports of all my projects on an external drive as self-contained QT movies. I gather those cannot be used in FCP X? So if I reopen a project in FCP 6 or 7 I have a prores 422 timeline. What should I export this as so that FCP X can use the media as a single clip? Or better, I read here:
that, “My understanding is that there will be an Apple-provided utility for importing XML from older projects to Final Cut Pro X.”
Are we still expecting this to happen?
Do you have any other suggestions for being able to use footage from prores 422 previous projects other than recapturing the original footage?
Before these I had DV timelines with standard def 4:3 footge and 16:9 footage. DV in DV out.
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what about prores 422 files or any flavor of QT?
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[Craig Alan] “FCP along with firewire, the DV codec and the Sony vx2000 helped democratize multimedia creation in a very big way”
sorry make that Sony DCR-VX1000
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Exactly. This is a worthwhile discussion because people have been using this software for years and the workflow is part of their life. FCP along with firewire, the DV codec and the Sony vx2000 helped democratize multimedia creation in a very big way. To have Apple pull the plug on it feels less democratic. Democracy means being allowed to protest decisions you feel are wrong or counter productive. Maybe bitching will even create some change in Apple’s development of NLE. Bitching about bitching is hypocritical.
I remember when Apple rewrote the interface for Imovie HD. Many hobbyists and educators were loudly disappointed. Imovie HD was a very good beginner’s program that was one version (I thought) away from being a great app and a great stepping-stone towards FCP. Get the bugs out (too many crashes), debug quartz effects, add a second /third track of video, add two or three extra tracks of audio, add QT’s J/K/L and I/O keyboard commands, add support for more codec-s including prores and you’d have a great beginners app. I stopped teaching it to the beginning students at that point because it no longer resembled the profession apps, in particular FCP. In the old Imovie app, I had students editing in two days – sequencing on a timeline, adding transitions, adjusting audio levels, adding titles and sub-titles, unlinking the audio from the visual, adding a sound track. The new Imovie felt to me like students were not editing but rather the program was.
Little did I know that the tail (new Imovie) was going to wag the dog (FCP). And here we are. All that said, I think the new FC interface looks promising as long as Apple is willing to borrow from the past when needed and certainly add the missing functions. Not being able to open old projects – it’s like the people serve the program rather than the other way around.
There are some advantages to maturing. Having to start all over again every few years may be good for business but it is not good for mastering a craft or creating artistic works. It is not good for any business other than the computer business. All the best things about FCPX could have been brought into FCP 8: 64 bit, Magnetic behavior in the timeline, rendering in the background, increased efficiency of end user created meta data.
Getting rid of Color? Big step backwards. I really think that the reason more people did not use Color was because it requires expensive gear – an output card or breakout box and a broadcast monitor. My guess is these will come down in price and people will start color correcting/playing/painting.
“Sometimes you have to go a long way out of your way to come back a short way correctly.” (https://www.npsd.k12.nj.us/20212069133133600/lib/20212069133133600/The_Zoo_Story.pdf).
If you keep starting over you’re never going to get there.
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I’m still using 2004 version. Have no need AFAIK for ribbons and a 1001 icons.
But MS did screw end users a couple of years back. “Pro” users. They got rid of the macros that had been built in to all previous versions. So goodbye all that formatting.
For spec scripts, I preferred WORD with a template and macros to Final Draft. No longer.
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[Scott Sheriff] ” you ask me, auto color correction on ingest is an example of an X ‘dumb-down’ feature. Don’t most normal people wait until the picture is locked to do the grade?”
Both/And Not Either/or
auto color correct can come in handy. In FCP 7 they have an auto color correct feature. Not being able to use Color anymore is the problem. If you could not turn off auto mode it would be a problem.
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I’m reading very few objections to the new interface. If FCPX was ready for prime time then no doubt people would be arguing over the new vs. the old way of doing things. AVID vs. FC type dialog. And then you might have a valid point. But that’s not what is happening.
What is happening is Apple is pulling the plug on FCP 7 before FCPX is ready to handle multicam and interact with other professional programs.
What is happening is Apple is telling folks that FCP 1-7 projects will never be opened in FCPX. I’m guessing that the “pros” will create a workaround. At what cost?
Imagine if MS came out with a new version of Word that was unable to open any previous documents created in MS Word. And your old word program will not be supported or work with the next gen of OS. The new WORD is simpler to learn, less bloated, has a more modern interface, look, and feel. It’s fun to use. Everything about it is better. Forget your old documents. The computer interface is more important than your ideas and work. Move on. There is no past and the present form of literacy is owned by MS.
Apple, Google, Adobe, and lesser knowns would all increase their market share of word document creation apps that could import and read the old word documents.
I completely agree with Apple that tape is old tech and a pain in the ass compared to file based storage. But until file based storage becomes more secure, more economical, and replaces tape distribution to a greater extent than it has, the real world is not ready for a “pro” editing program that cannot export to tape. Nor is it needed. Both/AND not Either/OR.
When Apple is at its best, it creates products and workflows that improve on existing form and function – MAC OS, Ipod, Iphone, Macbook Pro are four examples. But they have become a company that plain and simple abuses power. The Internet is providing a very cost effective way to distribute media and ideas. Apple wants a disproportional share of the profit generated by this distribution.
“The New York times has added in-app subscription options to its iPad app, just one day after the deadline for apps to comply with Apple’s new subscription rules, reports MacStories. The rules, although modified from their original form, still specify that Apple will receive 30% of the revenue from any new subscriptions signed up for from within the app.”
Apple is not the first to abuse the power of distribution. The old record companies, the old publishing houses, the old TV networks all abused their power, taking advantage of their control of distribution.
Apple invents the best interface for a music player in history (IMO the best interface of any digital device ever) and yet people are growing up listening to music through crappy speakers and in inferior codec’s than the previous generation.I know these are three seemingly unrelated subjects but for me (and I’m a long time fan/customer of Apple ‘computer’) they are related. I love Jobs/Apple’s attention to detail; they take product design to an artistic level. But the devil too is in those details. Not using customer surveys to determine product development is enlightened. Not caring what is vital to creative professionals is hubris.
I agree the FCPX feature set will grow. Apple is in the business of selling software and hardware so they will make it evolve. I believe that multicam will come soon. But not being able to access old projects? Really?
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