[Derek Andonian]

I don’t have experience with monitoring hardware like you’re using, but I can suggest a couple things:

– Did you download the 6.0.1 Premiere Pro update that just came out?

– Do you have cs6-specific drivers installed for your monitoring hardware? They changed the way this is set up in cs6, so you don’t need a sequence specific to your hardware.

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

alban egger So far the updates of FCPX were not at all trying to patch a broken product but they simply brought new features. The RE-LINK wash´t broken, it wasn´t even there.

If Apple had named this program something other than Final Cut Pro, it would be easier for me to agree with that. A lot of the features that were missing from X did exist in previous versions of FCP, and that’s why their addition is seen as a patch or repair…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Andrew Richards If Adobe starts adding in major features in minor updates to CS6, then sod it, the whole App Store advantage trope is bollocks.

There have actually been quite a few noteworthy updates to Premiere Pro over the years. HDV, DVCproHD, XDCAM, and AVC-Intra all became usable in Premiere Pro thanks to point updates. It was also a point update that brought OMF export and FCP 7 import. “Smart rendering” didn’t exist before this latest update. Neither did the ability to turn off the generation of PEK files…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

David Cherniack I imagine Acer and Ass are probably also doing well.

I hope so. It would be sad to see Ass take a dive. 😉

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

My opinion of it HAS changed since it first came out.

When FCPX was first released I thought, “This program is an unstable mess, and on top of that it’s basically a souped-up version of iMovie”

Now, my opinion has changed to, “The stability issues have gotten much better and a few new professional features have been added, but it’s basically a souped-up version of iMovie.”

Even if X becomes rock-solid, without a beach ball in sight, there’s still the issue of the hassles created by the “features” of the magnetic, trackless timeline.

Last year at the SuperMeet, Apple trumpeted FCPX like it was brand new and revolutionary, and it wasn’t. Most of the core functionality in X already existed in iMovie before FCPX came out.

The paradigm of FCPX, which originated in Apple’s consumer-friendly free editing app, was NOT DESIGNED to tackle the complex needs of professional editors who have deadlines looming, and that’s why so many pros feel frustrated with it.

I remember seeing a post by someone in another thread who said, “You just have to think a few steps ahead of it.” Then another poster responded with a line that sums up my feelings about X really well:

“I want to edit, not play a game of chess with my NLE.”

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

David Cherniack In Premiere 6.0 one needs to be trained to trim. The trimming is that powerful 🙂

I dunno- just because you need to be trained on how to use something doesn’t necessarily make it more powerful- I mean, if Apple released a souped-up version of iMovie to replace Final cut, switching to it from FCP7 would definitely require a lot of re-training. But that alone wouldn’t make it an improvement over its predecessor… 😉

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Steve Connor [Bill Davis] “Mobile device “auto correct” – chief blessing or chief curse of the modern age….
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It has an “off” switch 🙂

It’s nice to be able to turn things like this off, for sure- although, there are also times when they’re nice to have, especially when you’re typing something that’s going to be up for a while or displayed repeatedly.

For example- you wouldn’t want to unknowingly misspell the last word of a sentence that’s going to be displayed every time you post on a forum. 🙂

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

iPhone auto-correct- from the company that brought you the magnetic timeline.
😉

I think what Shane was trying to say is Adobe likes the idea of people making training material, because more people will learn how to use their software.

The issue here is, do you need permission from Adobe to SELL the training material?

(Sent from my HTC Resound )

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Bret Williams How about the “FCP 7 is dead, NOW WHAT?” forum.

I like this idea!

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Is there ANY WAY to turn off that “filmstrip” look that all the clips have in FCPX? Because having to look at that mad jumble of images you have there along with 12 clips playing in the monitor would drive me bananas…

In the normal timeline, it even plays the frame you’re on while you skim over it. I sure hope it isn’t doing that here too.

This is one of the things that really turns me off from wanting to use FCPX- there’s too much animation and stimulation going on all over the place. Every time I try it I feel like I’m in a casino or something. It just doesn’t feel like a professional environment.

I’ve heard that a lot of that stuff can be disabled if you don’t want it, but I’d rather not have to deal with that. In Premiere I can sit down and get to work right away without having to turn off a bunch of saturday morning kid stuff first…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”