[David Roth weiss]

The answer is almost definitely NO. That being said, just have them send the project file, without the media, and test it to see if you can even open it.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Resolve is always a consideration, however one always needs to keep in mind that the “fidelity” of exporting and importing XMLs can be imperfect and thus time consuming.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Good one Jeremy…

And, quite appropriate, as I did the color correction on the “making of” video on the Menace II Society bluray. Check it out here: https://www.drwfilms.com/gangstavision.html.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Wrong forum… Post this on the FCP X forum.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Don’t forget to thank your mom for giving birth to you Jeremy, because your trailer would certainly not be as good without her contribution.

And yes, editors today do have many more tools built-in to our NLEs today and at our disposal than ever before, and that trend will continue. On the other hand, on average most editors still use just 2% of the tools available in their NLEs.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

The trailer is terrific because the people who cut the trailer are expert at crafting trailers. If anyone thinks FCPX gets credit for making the trailer better, we should probably mention the cleaning crew and the company who roasted the coffee the editors drank too, because they also contributed to the final product.

Now, if the context of this thread was really about the making of the movie, and the making most movies today, NOT the trailer, I would agree that even those films we don’t think of as using “visual effects,” do in fact use many more processed shots and VFX than similar films of the past. However, since I’m the person who first brought up the cuts and dissolves part of the discussion in the first place, I can say definitively, I was referring to the trailer ONLY, period end of story. Is that clear enough?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

[Tim Wilson] “And they really aren’t cuts-only movies. :-)”

No one ever said the movie was cuts only Tim – I said “the trailer” was cuts and dissolves.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

The trailer is in fact just cuts and dissolves – the movie itself is a whole different kettle of fish. For that matter, do we even know who cut the trailer? For all we know, it may have been cut by Trailer Park on an Avid.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

It’s a very good trailer… And the movie is a terrific idea, and looks like excellent execution as well. It’s simple cuts and dissolves, and could have been cut on any editing system.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

What is your prior experience with keying?

Are you trying to do everything, including the hair with a single instance of the plugin?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.