David Battistella
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[Hector berrebi] “I am curious… What avid trim options do you lack in FCP?”
I have always found going in and out of trim mode in FCP a bit, well, Clunky.
I liked the four image trim in AVID, something FCP never really had.
I’m as fast in FCP and I prefer it now because it has SO many advantages and the image quality is better.
The scrubbing tool is better in AVID as well.
David
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A few things to consider.
1. check your bitrate on the DVD’s.
2. Warn people that burned DVD’s DO NOT playback on every DVD player on earth (esp. PC DVD drives)
3. Do nothing else when you are burning a disk, if you interupt the data flow while the disk is writing you can create a poor quality disk.
4. Try a different type of DVD media.
5. Watch and test the disks before you send them out.David
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In order for FCP X to be really make an impact in editorial it needed a huge overhaul in trimming, where I always felt it was weak and forced a different style than editing with AVID (which was a very fast trimmer.
FCP is fast for breaking down the marble block but not as good at the detailed edits as AVID (was, and I mean was).
I think the magnetic timeline and the trimming features I saw in the demo are what makes it very exciting as an editing application.
If they have reinvented trimming the way I think they have, like being able to see either side of an edit, then we are talking about a VERY fast offline editorial tool.
To me, that is the kind of “new” i want to see.
Source/Record windows are dead to me, it represents linear thinking in a non linear spacious environment.
David
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They won’t need to Walter.
Final Cut Pro will be the pro app.
David
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I think this does mean that COlor is RIP.
They are showing primaries, secodaries, davinci style power windows and a slew of CC tools. It looks like FCP’s COLOR room, within the application itself.
I did predict this a while back, that they would eliminate SEND TO commands and go with ROOM strcutures within the app itself.
I think there will be:
An editing room.
An Graphics room.
An Color Room
An Audio roomOne set of media for everything.
They will keep the functionality of being able to (VIA XML) go to any app you want (including color) but with 64 bit processing and maybe (32 bit float in FCP, and unlimited secondaries), why would you want to go to Color. I hope they have built in a pretty wicked tracker into that color corrector.
They are responding to the increasing need for the ‘editor” to be the “athour” of their work.
The next generation of editors will have an expanded skill set and this software will speak to the desire to do things from one application with one set of media, to eliminate or reduce the need for round tripping. .
I think this is all fantastic. Even the interface looks great. I don’t care if it looks like imovie. I don’t need it to be complex to be professional, I just need it to make the task of pulling images and media from various sources into a timeline which becomes a film. mY software is not the professional, I am. I’m not that attached to software tools, I just have preferences.
I think that Color and soundtrack will be EOL and the “ROOMS” structure within the one app will be FAR more powerful than the suite is now. Motion might stay as it’s own app, but with better round tripping support.
People will still use AE, DAVINCI and a host of other specialized apps but Apple have obviously created a very powerful “MEDIA AUTHORING TOOL” not just a piece of editing only software.
I can’t wait for this to arrive.
Apple invented the suite of apps and it took ten years for Adobe to catch up.
Now they have invented the next great idea in post.
There will be embracers and rejectors.
What type of person do you want to be?David
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[Rafael Amador] ” but that’s the kind of jobs where video editors learn and show their skills.”
Or the kind of job where we discover the lack a lack of skill in the work of others. 🙂
Just one more reason production needs to communicate with post.
David
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It is for sure a multiple pas job, but I have had to create a seamless white background and that can be done. Once that is done, then you can try to pull a key from that but it is not a very effective way to try to pull a clean key.
As shane said, it will take a fair bit of time and effort just to get the whites, then keying that is another story.
DV Matte Pro might be a place to start for the keying partion as it is geared toward attempting to pull keys in the 4:1:1 color space which makes for very dirty mattes.
But hey, I can get a pretty good key off a white wall in my ichat chats these days.
David
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Send to Color.
or in FCP do a secondary color correction on the whites.
When you have the whites white and blown out then try to do the key again.
David
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[Jim Edds] ” can export the 40 sequences one time to compressor or do I have to do 40 exports one at a time into compressor (the only way I know how)?”
I am pretty certain you could just select all the sequences and send them to compressor. Apply the preset you want and let the machine do it’s thing after you submit the job.
David
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Jim,
THis is what I would do.
I would have a master sequence with audio and video with the fourty clips laid out with one second slugs in between.
Send the sequence to Color and do the color correction.
Send the sequnce back to FCP (the audio will automatically relink.create foury sequences.
001
002
003Etc.
Copy paste the clips from the color corrected timeline into their respective sequences.
Export the 40 sequences to Compressor and apply whatever compression/ delivery the client needs.
This would be the fastest way to do the correction and keep the audio in sync.
David
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