Dean Neal
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Surely you have more on your plate Timothy than generating flame bait? 😉
There are several production concerns in Australia that are using FCPX for TV broadcast delivery.
Including me.
I edit and produce national Post-produced sporting content that airs regularly on FOX Sports here and also on National Commercial, Free to air Networks.
Does that mean FCPX is taking over Australia post production? No.
Is its footprint emerging, however? Definitely, yes.
Dean Neal…
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Impressive software.
I have noticed that round-trip workflows between FCPX and this are now even tighter…particularly with ACVHD captures using hashtagged files (Clip#01 etc.) that Resolve didn’t like.
That now seems to be erm… ‘resolved’ (pardon the pun)!
Dean…
Dean Neal…
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“Avid is a confused, tailored, terrified, middle aged guild editor protection racket.”
Quote of the year for me…
In terms of FCP X…I can tell you in my areas of work (Broadcast Sport TV) it is slowly gathering acceptance now, where a few years ago it was frankly… laughed out of the room.
The new Library model and the awakenings to the file based digital world has seen FCP X gather some steam.
As for me, I have now delivered several Nationally-aired Motorsport shows and it is now officially my primary weapon of choice.
Things I would like to see is easier XDCAM Optical export, tighter integration with Logic Pro X, Customized User Layouts, Sync indicators (toggle options when we break sync between vision and audio) and an option to skim in the clip browser ONLY.
Dean Neal…
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You nailed it.
As a producer of TV content for many years, I used to chuckle at editor’s BIN naming structures with manual numbering and alphanumerics to try and find content and sort their media… manually.
Same with when I would ask for vision compiles of past content to be accessed for shot selections…
It’s those past frustrations with media management that I see what Apple is trying to head into with X… and I like it… integrated database collectives (Libraries) of content – cheesy nomenclatures or not.
Dean Neal…
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What News production houses are using is moot to me when it comes to NLE choices.
In fact, if you are frustrated with FCP X and it’s perceived limitations and you are in the TV News industry… you better take a deep breath.
It’s just the beginning… simplification is coming, across a broad spectrum in our industry.
Speaking of the BBC… I enjoyed this little GEM on Smartphone Video Journalism Tips:
It’s funny – a few years ago we were lacking a key 3-second overlay shot for a sponsorship promo… so… we shot it with an iPhone4s at the time.
This shot made it alongside our full XDCAM HD422 50mbit/s content that was a Nationally aired Commercial TV show that had 200,000 plus viewers!
Point is, just because telecine approaches fit our old heads snugly…doesn’t mean changes won’t come that may challenge our established thinking on how content will be shot, ingested, edited and then delivered.
I enjoyed this piece from an ABC shooter in Beijing a while ago:
An Australian News Shooter falls for FCP X
Major Australian Networks like the ABC are still using FCP 7… Network TEN (A company I have done a lot of work with over the years) are using AVID at the very high end in-house but News work is all done using Viz One’s EASYCUT software.
This is about ‘grab n’ go’ editing.
Even more interestingly, Australian newsrooms are going the way of many around the world…and that’s multi-skilling journos to edit their own news packages…’one stop shops’ as it were.
Senior editors are a threatened breed in major TV networks… and now often work as mentors to these news editors/journalists…or undertake high end creative/compositing work…or… go and work for a private production house.
It’s in these trends that I can see a big future for FCP X… whether you, or I – like it or not.
However, I can tell you with authority, that all major TV networks in Australia have received and aired Nationally aired TV content edited within FCP X.
Yes, I have used FCP X, delivered content with it… it still needs development but its metadata foundations and the way it handles media points to an interesting future.
Of course, products like PPro are gathering good steam here too… I am starting to sense more acceptance however for FCP X in these parts.
Do I like FCP X? Yes I do…I can see where it’s heading and does many things well already.
Things I don’t like about it? Yes… colour correction is a little Mickey Mouse, however the scopes are far better now than in FCP 7… I also did not like how Apple handles the product transition from 7 to X for the industry…to say the least.
Dean Neal…
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NEWS RELEASE
“Apple fired its entire Final Cut Pro X development team today, because instead of catering for the Television Production elite ONLY – some of which are still on DigiBeta, they saw the emerging Digital Age and social media as the next creative wave.”
….riiiight.
As a National Television Producer/Director myself, I understand the frustrations with how Apple managed the transition from FCP 7 to X (poorly) but underestimate what software like this will do to our industry in the future AT YOUR PERIL.
Look at Acquisition and Product delivery cycles these days.
DSLR vision, quick ingest, edited by NLEs that provide the technology to turn content around quickly and get it on the ‘net via YouTube or Vimeo or the myriad of HTML 5 enabled sites frothing up everywhere.
In every corner of my work, I see two schools of thinking either “This digital wave will undermine the way we have always worked” or “A bigger pool means to stand out, those who have the skills will be even more invaluable in this industry.”
I am firmly in the latter mindset.
It all reinforces what we learnt in the first place, to stand out in the creative crowd will mean:
– Well produced and presented content.
– Edits done with the right grammar and continuity.
– Engaging content.I see potentially a big future for FCP X. I see an even bigger future for the best talent to shine in a never more fragmented, burgeoning industry.
Dean Neal…
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I haven’t heard anything definitive but there are a couple of facts here.
The resolution of the new 15inch MBP is beyond good and could well justify that form factor as being big enough.
The former 17inch models with 1920 x 1200 and 1440 x 900 for the former 15inch pale in comparison to the new 2880 x 1800 res of the retina MBP 15inch.
I like you, always used a 17 inch because I needed the screen real estate but after checking out the new Retina model, I would buy a 15 inch for the less bulk in any case and the new resolution is fantastic.
Finally, if you need bigger screens, you can plug in SEVERAL with the new Graphics Architecture.
Dean Neal…
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I am toying with testing this update.
What I need to know is has anyone tested the VO tool in FCP 7 with Mountain Lion?
Also, I wonder what impact the new OSX Integrated Messenging app has with FCP 7’s iChat Theater function?
Dean Neal…
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I am definitely warming to it.
FCP X’s embracing of true Metadata foundations and better content management/control will be brilliant.
By housekeeping our content, this will provide efficiencies in editing.
I like the new timeline, and if we hadn’t already seen iMovie, many of us (not all I know) would call it revolutionary.
The ROLES feature is a good methodology to deal with workflows externally moving forward.
I like the integration of some of the components of color and SoundTrack Pro into FCP X.
I know these products were great on their own, however I know a lot of editors who loathed round-tripping and by bringing these products into FCP X – that’s a positive as far as I am concerned.
I will write up a full commentary on it when I have finished further exploration.
YES – there are some missing pieces for sure which is well documented on here (Multi-cam, Video Monitor etc.)
It’s also still a bit buggy but that is to be expected.
FCP X is a solid foundation with reasonable potential – but there is more needed before it will be accepted by the wider POST community for sure.
Dean Neal…
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With my work with XDCAM, we tend to work exclusively in the predominant type of content.
In a perfect world, yes – ProRes is a bit better, but because we often print to XDCAM disc anyway, we tend to work (hence render) to XDCAM on the timeline.
I think the key is here, decide which way you want to go – and you should be fine.
Dean Neal…