Craig Shamwell
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OS 10.7.2, GDrives via F800
I read all posts in their entirety…even yours!! (LOL)
Yeah I’ve gotten to the point where I will give it up till they make major changes. Eventhough I’ll delete it, I’ll still have access to it via the App Store. -
My main footage does match the timeline. I usually allow FCPX to set it auto based on first clip(video). And then I add photos and other elements based on the project. At the start of any project it renders very fast. As the timeline area gets more and more complicated, simply moving and re-timing a text element can take many minutes to render, which in turn slows down other operations.
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For the record, my passion is directed at no one. I am very passionate in make-up, but I find it insulting for anyone to assume that I am need of tutoring with regard to something like a compound clip being moved and the timeline area starts flying all over the place. Seriously, if you try to move a compound clip in a rather involved timeline, elements fly and move wherever they find a “comfortable” spot. This has nothing to do with simply wanting to do something simple like re-position a clip!
Which is why I believe, and want to share the opinion that with out the boundaries of tracks, the control you had in a complicated timeline area by having defined boundaries is gone. And that, most unfortunately is the Achilles heel of FCPX. Why should moving something linearly along its own “line” (I won’t say track, because its not supposed to have any, even though it does have one main track) have such an effect on the entire space?
What I have noticed from several of the posts here is that those who really like FCPX are doing films and Documentaries. Which may be the best application for FCPX as it stands. Complicated projects seem to slow FCPX down to a crawl in my 4 months working with it. -
Whats even more amazing is that iMovie really does work..very well!! In FCPX, things just don;t always work…simple things!
I imagine most of Apple’s efforts will be re-focused to maturing the iPad. Pro Apps may just be a thing of the past! -
I could not agree more…there are many great tutorials about FCPX…a lot for free too!!! But it still does not make it work without the unpredictability involved. Output is pristine, while choices are limited. Marking clips and media management is also very intuitive, except for the lack of being able to create your own folders, as many a tutorial has noted. But there are still many anomalies that are beyond the comprehension of not calling this what it really is and that’s a BETA program. I gave this program a fair chance, 3 months in fact. I had it 2 days after it came out. Even waited to see if the first update would make a performance difference, but it did not.
In my opinion…like it or not…its the single worst major program I have ever used. -
Yes just as I assumed. Your projects in the timeline are not that complicated. Shooting and Preparation are the toughest part of your process. Do you have any projects where in the time-span of 30sec you have 60+ elements involved? Its in the stacking that boggs FCPX down.
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First..don’t care how much interest my post generates. Could care less. I always write with emotion…sorry! I have been editing for almost 10 years and “know” what I am doing. The question was simple…”Has anyone else experienced what I have?” Not too hard to understand is it? Ok!
I am new to CC and looked back into archives and did not see all the posts you spoke of…sorry! Doing a short film is nothing compared to a 30 or 60 second spot with 60+ elements involved. The work in a short film is the shooting and prep. If story-boarded well, the edits are mostly straight cuts with some coloring, opening and end credits…easy stuff!! You obviously are vested in FCPX and/or Apple and like the other post, suggest that I somehow have not done my homework. I went as far as going to my local Apple Store and doing a test there. Same things happened when things got complicated. And had you read my reply, you would know that I have taken many tutorials. When things work…it is fast…but when its not, you lose all the time you gained before.
I still in fact use FCP7, more than FCPX in fact. Did you tell all the other people who you said have already posted about all the things I am talking about that they too need to take some tutorials so they can know what they are doing? Is this the standard response from editors who love Apple more than anything??… Take tutorials?
I find it hard to believe as you suggest, that FCPX works just fine for you and not everyone else.
The bottom line is FCPX does not work as advertised…not even close. And while it has some real cool stuff in theory, a trackless timeline, as I have used this editor for 3 months now, makes no sense and handicaps the editor instead of freeing him/her. Sure for fairly simple projects its ok…but so is iMovie, which by the way has no rendering at all!! One case in point…I have some Plug-Ins by Idustrial (ParticleMetrix). I dragged a Transition on a “custom” text element and changed the destination and what happened???…. the text after all was rendered, jumped to the middle (from the top where it was)during the transition and also changed size…got really big, and then went back to where it started. It was ugly to say the least. No tutorial had a fix for it.
As I said before, my knowledge or lack there of has nothing to do with something I have never seen NLE do! -
Seriously???…lots of resources!! I have several subscriptions and have engulfed myself in learning the program…”properly”!!
Funny how you did not comment on several other issues, like deleting elements in the timeline and how they are connected…not like Avid or Premiere. Or how about transitions getting grabbed and attached randomly??? Or how about the main “track” (even though its supposed to be trackless) being the only one you can use the shortcuts to edit????
And to suggest that taking a tutorial will make the editor render faster when Apple boasted big time as to how fast it renders…when it does not.
And when you do have background rendering, you really can’t do much else…playback is anything but smooth and adding transitions or working on other parts of the project will often times cause a crash.
Think about this, why would a trackless video editor be better than one with tracks?? While the track is self contained..unaffected by anything else, in FCPX everything can be affected by what you do somewhere else in the timeline?! The power of being able to activate only one portion of your project, and not have what you do there only affect that part is gone in FCPX!!! And how about moving compounded clips around???? The program goes haywire!!! This has absolutely nothing to do with my know-how about FCPX. I don’t know how much you edit, and how involved your projects are. But I can tell you that when I have 30 sec project with video, pictures, transitions, filters, text, music and voice-over and the project is 10+ stories high, This program gets winded quick and simply does not work, and my know how or lack there of has nothing to with the things I am talking about. I would love to know what you are editing!!! -
The file contained images and some other file with no directions for getting it into FCPX, can you please advise?