Craig Slattery
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Very funny. That made me laugh out loud.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “those.
Waveforms.
Are.
Way.
Worse.
end of.”
You need to open up Aindreas, and tell us what you really think. Don’t be shy
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “they are worse. Anyone who is like – how dare you come the high and mighty just because they don’t meet your blah blah – forget that stuff. they’re worse. a lot worse.
“So are you saying, actually that might be worse?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I will not pretend to be an audio expert. For the most part, I send my audio out to be cleaned by a professional
That being said, audio tools in FCPX are vastly superior to fcp7, waveforms or not.
I would rather have the better tools than the better waveforms.
“Dito. At first I didn’t get on with the waveforms, but have really warmed to them. The audio capabilities in the new version, especially when using multiclips is awesome. If you need more tools/ flexibility/functions than available in X (which is much much superior than was ever available in 7) then perhaps you are in the wrong part of the post production process. I have no interest in becoming a sound engineer, I really can’t understand the gripes.
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Thanks Simon, school boy error. Thankfully only on this post.
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[Michael Gissing] “For example did editors do more grade and sound edit/organisation seven years ago.”
No. In my example, Grading and sound always done by dedicated professionals in sound studios and Grading suites. We are using FCPX in the same way we used FCP5 7 years ago.
[Michael Gissing] “Is there simply more time/budget pressure so less is expected of the edit as overtime and facility access has been squeezed by declining budgets typical in broadcast.”
Thats simple. The station wants, better, more clever, higher production value on screen, entertaining, slick, cool, shiny, ground breaking. And they want it for less money. We make the show for less than we did 7 years ago and it looks infinitely better today than it did even 7 months ago.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “you may actually be surprised on how long that one plays out I think”
Trust me!
[Aindreas Gallagher] “And fwiw Premiere is coming up on Mandy pretty regularly lately. FCPX still whistling past the graveyard in total silence job posting wise – a guy on here did a trawl through grapevine, Mandy, prod.base there a week or two ago – not a single FCPX bean. “
Big changes ahead in Broadcast. The penny has dropped. keep an eye out for in-house FCPX training
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[Walter Soyka] “I’m very curious — where are you seeing the biggest speed gains? Organization? Skimming? Transcoding/rendering avoidance? Timeline manipulation?
“Walter, its all of the above, but also weirdly something that is quite none tangible and hard to describe. I think I can read the edit visually right from the start. The viewer I guess plays a big part and then the speed at which one can create the smart collections. Overall, I can see the tone of the film, the colours, the frame sizes. How busy the footage is, how wide or tight the material, I know you can do this to an extent in Premier but it feels different in X. Using the smart collections you can mine the footage down very quickly, I can see the presenter travel from one PTC to another at a glance. Having no tracks to deal with. That is probably the biggest time saver. When you get in the groove, cutting in X is so fluid. When you see the shot you need you just drop it in. No need to edit in the viewer, no need to clear room in the time line or select or deselect tracks. Ive got to the stage now, that I don’t even care where the play head is. I see a shot and immediately hit ‘w’, It may land smack in a sequence that Ive just finessed. No worries, pick it up and move it. The clips just move back the way you had them. Ive found that even the directors and the Producers understand the timeline and therefore the collaboration process is profoundly different. So I don’t know exactly why its faster. Its just is.
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FCPX xml into Resolve. X2pro into pro tools. Seamless
No reason to fear, FCPX is a proper grown up piece of software it can play just as well with all the big boys. -
[James Ewart] ” I have heard that the rumours about the BBC adopting Premiere were more to do with Adobe kind of giving away the license with a number of workstations.”
None of the editors I know at the BBC think Premiere is a serious replacement for FCP7. People that don’t edit think it is, but not editors.