Don Scioli
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After editing for over 35 years, I took the Lynda FCPX essentials online curse and it did the job for me, Now i fly on the NLE.
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I’m editing a feature now which i shot on a Canon XF300 and the working is going smooth and very quickly, much faster than previous work on FCP 7 and Avid 6.
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Thank you all- deleting the project render files seemed to do the trick…for now.
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As I said in an earlier post, I switched to FCPX full time with version 10.0.5 last June and have not looked back to either 7, PP6 or Avid 6 sitting on my computer. This latest upgrade just adds icing on the cake as far as I’m concerned. I through everything at it, including a lot of crap from YouTube up-converted to 1080p @ 24 and it doesn’t even spit.
The future is here…now.
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10.8.2
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You know, I would have agreed with you on versions 1-4, but with version10.05, I jumped in with both feet, editing a promo video for a large medical company, 2 political spots for California state candidates with buy budgets over 200K, and our latest feature doc, with many hours of field footage….and it performed magnificently…and fast as hell and no crashes…all this on a early 2008 Mac Pro 3.2 GHZ.
I was blind but now I see.
I was an earlier disbeliever, a ridiculer, I dissed FCPX with the best, but now it is the future. Even ESPN uses it, and they are cutting edge.
As way of background, I have an MA from USC Cinema, won an Academy Award, learned to edit on a Moviola, then Steenbeck, then CMX, then Avid, then Cinestream, then FCP1-7 now X, and it is the best so far…. but you have to bite the bullet and learn it and use it for a paying project, no dicking around, as i did earlier. Is it weird, yes, in the beginning, but after doing an online course and plowing in, it’s now very familiar. There is no way I could have done a rough cut of a 60 minute doc in one week the old way…skimming though the footage in FCPX is fast, powerful and very useful for keeping track of scenes and talent.
Beware of the analogy but it is the Ginshu knife of editorial, I have FCP7, Premiere , Avid 6 and I prefer X to all of them. Sure there are a few rough edges like sound and titles, but one can work around these issues. I suppose if you are working in a traditional post house environment, there may be some pushback to new unproved products, but hey, I don’t have to, and for indy producers, this is a great way to go. Just give it a shot.
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You are the man! Turned into compound clip, dragged to the right, made title changes, and cut it back to original timeline and it works perfect!
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Hi- It’s in the title section, Bumper/opener, Overlay. When I “drag” the title to the right, it takes the underlying timeline video with it. If I could separate the title and underlying video, maybe I could drag it over right?
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Hi- I just have motion 4, and I can’t seem to send it there plus, I’m not too good with motion. Anything I can do in FCPX?
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I ran the YouTube setting @ 720 and went full screen on the MacBooks through YouTube.