David Powell
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Any link to the job posting?
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If you’re interested shoot me an email, and I’ll send you my FCPX Keybord setup. I think its quite intuitive and crosses over extremely well for Avid Editors. I’m a keyboard Jockey so pretty much everything you’d use in Avid on the keyboard is mapped. Its a good baseline and you could switch a few commands that I left FCP (like I don’t use “\” for transitions in X) back to original Avid spots. Though I generally have a good reason why I didn’t cross it over to FCPX.
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Actually , I find that FCPX lines up like Avid better than Premiere of FCP7. I find it very easy to jump from MC to X than any of the others the way I have my Keyboard setup. For instance, in media composer “890” will patch Video 1 audio and audio 2. In FCPX 8 will patch Video/audio, 9 will give me video only and 0 will give me audio only.
I have “p, [, and ]” switch trim sides like MC, and U will give me a roll trim like MC. “V and B” insert and overwrite “E and R” for I/O…you get the idea. I Use “C” for connecting clips, “W” for range, “4” for disable, “esc” for clip animation “5” for match frame. My FCPX keyboard is exactly like my MC keyboard with a couple differences. But my MC keyboard is also customized and working with FCPX gave me better ideas on creating a better Keyboard for MC.
Also you’ll find that FCPX is extremely mouse reliant. For this reason I switched the transform to the left hand side ala Steve Cohen, but the JKL remained the same as well so when I went to using a Wacom Tablet (I pen with my left hand), nothing really changed on my keyboard. Of course I had to take quite a bit of time to program my Wacom to work seamlessly between MC, Premiere and FCPX. But now its a breeze.
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The ability to map nudge with trim, is huge to me. Having non-contextual mapping on the keboard is ridiculous. Now if they can just make markers target driven and make patching more friendly, I can move half of my FCPX work over to Premiere.
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Would I see a big jump in performance vs a 2011 imac? I found premier to be a dog on itit.
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FCPX has never been fantastic with syncing. If you edit start/stop multicam often, do yourself a favor and invest in Plural Eyes. It will pay for itself in 2 days of use. I just synced a 6 hour sequence of 5 cameras. FCX would have given me the finger for even trying. PE synced in under 3 minutes. Final Cut’s syncing is good for a music video or very long clips that you could easily find the sync points manually, or short sequences. Not great for any large undertakings.
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There’s plenty on Youtube. If the dude is blabbing too much, just skip in time. There really isn’t much to it.
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That would be basically the same as having the clips all in the same bin. It’s a matter of visual organization for me to have them separated. I miss there being several ways to skin a cat. That’s what I meant about restriction in the UI. The “messier” NLE’s allow the user to make a setup that fits his style. And over the years both Avid and PP work spaces have become more customisable not less. I have to assume this comes from user requests.
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I use it everyday. I didn’t say that users were amateurs. The IU is less customizable. That’s a fact. It takes away power from the experienced user and learning curve from new users imo. I’ve worked on trailers before in X (not on your level) and didn’t need the features I mentioned much. And for corporate vids I don’t need them either. But for other cuts, being confined to one bin at a time and one timeline really stinks, as does the lack of trim features which would not fly in the way of the design should they be implemented.