[David Mathis]

I bought Shake shortly prior to its demise. Will it was a great piece of software it was never given a chance to develop. Now that Fusion is available for Mac at a reasonable price there would be no point on keeping Shake around. Fusion is easy to transition over to for anyone with experience with a node based compositor or Resolve since it s node based. Even without exposure, Fusion is still easy to learn though a slight learning curve is involved.

With that said I doubt Fusion would disrupt After Effects or Nuke for that matter. Just my two cents.

[David Mathis]

Probably will not see a new version until later in the year. I cannot wait for NAB to get here. We will most likely see another update or so before a new version. I hope it will be something like Nuke Studio, will know soon enough.

[David Mathis]

I am leaning towards Hit Film for a couple of reasons. First, the price is reasonable. Second, the Pro 4 version includes Hit Film Ignite, a nice set of plug ins for all supported host applications. I hope to see a forum for Hit Film though I don’t know of anyone who uses it at the moment.

[David Mathis]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Something that I find extremely helpful (if not in fact essential) in that context and something I think most people don’t even know exists (or simply don’t use it), is the fact that you can group the content of your event BY ROLES. With that you can very quickly see what is assigned what i.e. quickly see if something has landed in the wrong category for a quick re-assignment.”

Something that I have glanced over and thanks for the tip!

[Robin S. Kurz] “And I’m actually hella glad that the assignments don’t ripple recursively in EITHER direction, since that would completely mess me up in the way I use roles for various types of media in different projects.
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I find it best to assign roles before editing, one of which you stated earlier. You are of one of the top contributors here!

[David Mathis]

I was also thinking it would be nice to assign roles based off finder tags.

[David Mathis]

I assume by keyword collections you are referring to smart collections. The reason I choose range over selection is so I don’t accidentally select clips above or below what I want to select, just a personal choice.

I do with you agree with the generic video role being assigned to graphics. Same goes for still images. Nothing wrong doing it manually just not very darn efficient. Looks like Final Cut is not always intelligent when assigning audio roles, something I always double check. How can foot steps sound like someone talking? I guess one too many beers or other sauced up beverage of choice at the bar can result in that scenario.

One other thing that bothers me is no choice in assigning a transition to video or audio only without expanding the two. Then using a transition out Motion for audio only is not great either. You choose to add a video transition of another kind and it changes the duration of the audio transition as well.

For all the great things that Final Cut does well there are those things that kind of piss me off. Still with all of its shortcomings I still like the software.

[David Mathis]

Thanks for this post! I now consider the debate over! 😉

In all seriousness this is a great read and learned much from it.

[David Mathis]

No comment. 😉

[David Mathis]

Nice tool for a rough cut for those that prefer tracks. A few things are missing but like Final Cut there will be improvements. Tracks are just painful to look at for me unless audio post is involved then that is no so bad.

[David Mathis]

Someone on You Tube had this to say: So cute to watch them try and pretend it’s actually a useful program. Those types of comments makes me wonder whether these people actually used the software or basing their “opinion” on what others have said without using the software, kind of like those talking points on your cable news network of choice.